Patrick Murphy didn’t come back to construction quietly—he came back with fresh eyes, a stack of financials, and one big realization:

Estimating and Takeoffs were eating 50–60% of overhead.

In this episode of The ConTech Exec, Patrick breaks down how Togal.AI was built to solve that exact choke point.

We get into:

• Why takeoffs still look like they did 30 years ago—just with a mouse instead of a scale ruler
• How Togal trained millions of plans using 25 architects and engineers to label data with surgical precision
• Why mid-market contractors shouldn’t waste years trying to build AI workflows from scratch
• The real future: predictive assemblies, automated drywall takeoffs, and full plan sets generated from a prompt
• The danger of companies “pencil-whipping” data and expecting AI to magically fix it
• Why the firms who adopt AI will 10x output—and the ones who don’t will get left behind.

We also hit the bigger picture:

compute constraints,

data center pushback,

water and power fights,

workforce shortages,

and why AI is about to reshape every knowledge job in construction.

Listen in if you want the real story—not hype—on where AI is taking precon and what leaders should be prioritizing right now.

Want to be on the show or run your AI Readiness Score?

Email me r.zimmerman@contech-exec.com

To Contact Patrick:

Visit https://www.togal.ai/

or reach out on Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-e-murphy-79318832b/