"WhatsApp's the most successful construction technology tool ever built."

Half a joke, but only half.

That's what Prakash Senghani, Co-Founder and CEO of Navatech, told us on the latest Bricks & Bytes.

His point: the workers who most need safety tech are the ones it never reaches.

So instead of forcing them onto another clunky app, Navatech put its AI inside the tool they already use, in their own language, by voice, or from a photo.

A few things that stuck with us:

Most "digital transformation" in safety is just paper on a screenYou can't prove a negative, which makes safety ROI brutally hard to show

The scariest competitor isn't Procore or Autodesk, it's customers building their own tools with AI

Full episode out now. 🎧

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Chapters0:00 Teaser

1:24 Intro – Why Safety Tech Matters in Construction

4:10 What Poor Safety Really Costs You

5:42 Sponsors

8:43 What Poor Safety Really Costs You (cont.)

10:04 Why Compliance-Only Safety Falls Short

13:16 How Construction Safety Training Is Changing

16:20 Using Technology to Manage Site Safety

19:19 Automating Safety Data Capture

22:17 Bringing Advanced Tech Into Safety

25:24 Getting Crews to Actually Use Safety Software

28:28 Inside the Safety Tech Market

31:08 How to Choose the Right Safety Software

34:08 The Future of Construction Safety Tech