The Preconstruction Podcast

Wyre AI Founder and CEO Sunil Dorairajan sat down with our host, Gareth McGlynn, at Advancing Preconstruction 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona. A construction project manager turned entrepreneur, Sunil brings a contractor's perspective to AI-powered preconstruction tools.

Key Topics Covered:

• From Field to Founder: His ten years in heavy commercial construction, the founding of Pipe in 2017, its acquisition by Autodesk, and what brought him back to the startup world with Wyre AI.
• Why Preconstruction, Why Now: The combination of team burnout and a generation of retiring estimators creating urgency for technology adoption in precon.
• WireScopes: How it takes a week-long scope production process and brings it down to a matter of hours, and what that means for precon teams under tight bid deadlines.
• WireCheck: How it catches conflicts between plans and specs before a bid goes out, and a real contractor example where a single discrepancy flagged pre-bid was worth $25,000.
• AI Without the Complexity: Why Wyre AI is model-agnostic, what that means for estimators, and why precon managers shouldn't need to be model mechanics.
• And much, much more.

You can connect with Sunil via his LinkedIn.

You can also reach Sunil directly at ⁠sd@wyreai.io⁠ or visit ⁠www.wyreai.io⁠ to request a demo.