The Preconstruction Podcast

Deepti Yenireddy, Founder and CEO of Boon, joins Gareth McGlynn to talk about building AI that can actually read construction drawings. A second-time founder, Deepti exited her first company, HR tech platform My Ally, and led product at IoT leader Samsara before turning her focus to preconstruction.

Key Topics Covered:

• What Boon Does: Helping preconstruction teams bid more, bid better, and bid more accurately, at 10x to 100x speed.
• The AI Estimator: Deepti announces Boon's first preconstruction AI employee, working the full lifecycle from project invite to final proposal.
• Hallucination and Human Control: How estimators stay in the loop with a visual review platform and links back to the agent's sources.
• Accuracy and F1 Scores: Why Boon publishes accuracy scores for every trade and scope, and why below 90 percent creates user friction.
• Boon vs Generic LLMs: Why ChatGPT and Gemini can read the text in your drawings but cannot tell where a line starts and stops.
• Implementation and ROI: A one-hour onboarding, and a GC customer who generated 430 extra hours in a year with one person using the agent.
• And much, much more.

You can connect with Deepti via her Linkedin.