Dirk van der Velde

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · When Your Systems Don’t Match Your Strategy with Dirk van der Velde · 28 May 2025 podcast

we tried we looked at different different things that you could do office 365 has you know you could self-automate things we just weren't quite there weren't quite able to make it happen there's a couple other technologies that claim to use ai properly but the problem with some of that ai stuff was a big claim with little execution right so like supposedly it's gonna help but then when you actually get into it the integration doesn't work properly you have to

rework everything it's just it's a big promise but the actual execution of the technology is really difficult and so we were very hesitant to that because we tried that a couple times then you're like this is taking more time like this is crazy and then finally when we found adaptive it was one of those things where the technology we'd seen that the technology was working for a lot of people

And then it just becomes a quick calculation.

Like me personally, it's a quick calculation.

I always ask, like, will this actually work for us?

And then what does it look like from a calculation side?

So if we're spending 10 hours a week, right, let's say we had our project engineer spending 10 hours a week at $28 an hour working on just doing these manual inputs, right?

If we can get those 10 hours back, it's a quick calculation.

You just do 10 times, you know, 10 times $28.

for the whole month.

And very quickly, you start to understand that leveraging this technology can add to a huge advantage, we can get those 10 hours back, I can have the project engineer working on something that is useful for the actual project that's billable.

And off we go.

Yeah.

And exactly.

It's really well said, Rhys.

And does it work properly?

And one thing I'll give Adaptive a lot of credit for is it's a really good AI software that focuses it, knows what it's good at, doesn't try to spread out too much.

I think that's probably why it's getting so much market share, in my opinion, is because it's

It's one pointed, it's focused, it knows exactly like it's solving a what I would believe is a big problem in the call it just the manual inputs.

It's solving a big problem there.

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