Has your team adopted the use of AI as a part of its business development efforts? Many have. While it may offer some benefits, giving AI tools access to your valuable business data can pose real risks. We recommended treating AI as a system whose risks are managed, just like any other enterprise risk. So how can we be safe while using these tools? NIST and OWASP recommend the following to protect your valuable data while using AI tools. Classify your data.Users are the first

You may think it's a fairly simple task: writing a checklist. You want your team to be unified in how they look at verifying work completeness and quality. So, you'll write a checklist to give them a roadmap. Anyone can write a list of what they expect, right? Well, sort of. We all write task lists for groceries, chores, and reminders. But writing a checklist for construction is a bit different for several reasons:  It's more technical : You must communicate critical knowledg

Leaders across industries, including homebuilding, often find themselves searching for the next idea… only to realize they’re looking in the same places as everyone else. When your network is made up of peers facing similar challenges, it’s easy to fall into an echo chamber where innovation becomes incremental at best. Many companies unknowingly pull from the same playbook, limiting their ability to break through. One powerful alternative is to look beyond your industry. This

There’s a growing trend across cold-climate markets, places like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, where builders have started moving away from basements and toward slab-on-grade construction. This shift has accelerated over the past decade, driven largely by cost and cycle time pressures. On paper, it makes sense. Slabs are faster to build, less expensive, and simplify construction. For production builders, that’s hard to ignore. But from a building science perspective, this