EP #2 - Empowering Workers and Elevating Industry - Solving Construction Labor Competency Using AI

08/05/2024 31 min

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, Siddhant talks with Martin Kalamees, Co-Founder and CEO of Werk about the labor shortage, how to identify the competency of workers using AI, how to build a construction start-up, and future use case scenarios for AI. Some of the topics discussed are as below.

a) What is Werk
b) Martin's Journey with starting Werk
c) Labor Shortage
d) Werk's solution for the competency of skilled workers
e) What to expect while building a start-up
f) How to raise funding for start-ups
g) Future use case scenarios for AI
h) Construction in Europe, and the UK


Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:44 Martin's Introduction and Werk
1:14 Werk in one Sentence
1:35 Switch from Law to Construction Start-up
5:50 Labor Shortage
8:04 Stats on Labor Shortage
10:15 Werk's Solution on Competency
12:54 Push-backs on Solution
15:43 How to measure competency
17:14 How to build a Start-up
19:15 Raising funds for Start-up
20:22 Building team and Initial Hires
22:49 Landing first client
24:21 Future use case of AI
27:02 Construction in Europe and UK
28:40 If starting over again
29:55 Advice for Young Professionals

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Werk's Website - https://werk.eu/

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