054 - Building the Future: How AI is Reinventing Pre-Construction with Steve Dell’Orto, CEO, Concntric

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Pitch, Build, Scale - Startup Founder Stories in the Age of AI

Chris Fanchi

54 episodes

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That spark of innovation? It's just waiting for the perfect combination of tools and talent to bring it to life. This is "Pitch, Build, Scale": Each episode, we connect with the builders, the visionaries, and the problem-solvers who are redefining what's possible with today's technology - and pioneering the websites, apps, and software products of tomorrow. These are the conversations that transform how we build, how we sell, and how we scale technology businesses in a world where the tech evolves by the minute. Ready to stay ahead of the curve? This is "Pitch, Build, Scale".

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054 - Building the Future: How AI is Reinventing Pre-Construction with Steve Dell’Orto, CEO, Concntric

Pitch, Build, Scale - Startup Founder Stories in the Age of AI

34 minutes 57 seconds

1 month ago

054 - Building the Future: How AI is Reinventing Pre-Construction with Steve Dell’Orto, CEO, Concntric

What happens when a 26-year construction veteran decides to reinvent an entire industry?

In this episode of "Pitch, Build, Scale", host Chris Fanchi sits down with Steve Dell’Orto, Founder & CEO of Concntric, to explore how his company became the first AI-powered pre-construction platform, uniting data, workflows, and people into a single, intuitive system.

Steve shares what it means to “bear hug AI”, why simplicity is the hardest design challenge, and how the right UX can turn skeptics into advocates in one of the world’s most traditional industries.

From eliminating redundant workflows to building an agentic AI layer that helps teams do the work of ten people, this conversation reveals how Concntric is unlocking capacity and transforming how the built world gets built.

Chapters

00:00 Intro – Why Construction Needed a New Operating System

02:08 From Builder to Founder: Steve Dell’Orto’s Leap Into Tech

07:44 The Problem Hidden in Plain Sight

10:21 Building Concntric: From Stealth Mode to Scale

15:54 “Make Less Work, Not More” – The Simplicity Principle

17:42 How Concntric Is “Bear Hugging” AI

19:03 Agentic AI: The Future of Pre-Construction

25:14 Building Faster Through Human + AI Collaboration

26:40 The Moat: Domain Expertise as the True Differentiator

29:17 Hands-On Relationships in a High-Tech World

32:14 The Magic Wand Question – What’s Next for Concntric