M&A JDM Bought Another Construction Software Company and Promised to Change Nothing About It JDM Technology Group closed its acquisition of Dreeven on 23 October and announced it on 29 October. The Quebec platform keeps its name, brand, leadership and governance structure — which is the whole thesis of a roll-up that now says it owns more than 35 construction software companies. Hugo Pegley · Nov 2, 2026
Product A Tiling Robot Just Got a Three-Year Contract — and a Price Per Square Foot Human Friendly Robotics signed a deal worth up to $4 million with a New Jersey flooring subcontractor covering at least 15–40% of its luxury-vinyl work. The structure is the story: the customer says he pays per square foot installed rather than buying the machine. Hugo Pegley · Oct 7, 2026
Product OpenSpace's Pitch for the Agent Era: 'AI Agents Need Eyes' At Waypoint on 10 September, OpenSpace unveiled the next generation of its platform — live indoor positioning, a voice-driven field capture mode, a progress-tracking API and an open agent ecosystem. Most of it is announced rather than generally available, and the company says so. Hugo Pegley · Sep 23, 2026
Product Sitemetric puts AI agents on the turnstile with a jobsite-access launch The Houston construction-access company launched Sitemetric AI, an agentic layer that answers plain-language questions about who's on site and can autonomously reboot downed access hardware. Hugo Pegley · Jul 14, 2026
