Get Your Crew to Actually Use AI | Andrew Nuhfer, AKN Interiors

<p>Steal the Crew AI Adoption Checklist (free, the exact moves from this episode): beyondthebid.co</p><p>Most builders adopt AI in a weekend. Their crew never touches it. Andrew Nuhfer cracked the part everyone gets wrong: getting a field-bred team of carpenters to actually run the tech.</p><p>Andrew built AKN Interiors into a 15-person Pittsburgh remodeling shop in four years, with no tech background. In this conversation he breaks down how he made software the standard instead of an optional good idea, how his 50-year-old director of construction went from typing with two fingers to doing everything the office staff can, and the Claude and JobTread &quot;budget factory&quot; that turns a recorded sales call into a budget in the customer&#39;s own words. Most $3M builders are still hand-entering data that AI could be writing for them. Andrew shows you what to fix first.</p><p>If your team ignores half the tools you pay for, this is the episode that fixes it.</p><p>OTHER ANDREW NUHFER RESOURCES 🔗</p><ul><li>See AKN&#39;s work: <a href="https://www.akninteriors.com">https://www.akninteriors.com</a></li><li>Follow Andrew on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/akn_interiors">https://www.instagram.com/akn_interiors</a></li><li>Find Andrew in the JobTread Pros group</li></ul><p>🎯 Get in Touch with Beyond the Bid</p><ul><li>Instagram: @beyondthebid</li><li>LinkedIn: [BTB LinkedIn]</li><li>Website: <a href="https://beyondthebid.co">https://beyondthebid.co</a></li><li>Email: [BTB email]</li></ul><p>TIMESTAMPS00:00 Introduction</p><p>00:38 The Showroom Project</p><p>04:05 From Finance to Carpentry</p><p>06:33 Overcoming Tech Resistance</p><p>14:16 Avoiding Shiny Toy Syndrome</p><p>18:52 AI in Construction</p><p>25:36 Scaling Advice</p><p>29:01 Summary and Outro</p><p>Like this if it made you rethink your tech stack. Comment the one tool your crew actually uses. Subscribe for a new systems breakdown every week, your competitors already are. Share it with a builder who&#39;s fighting adoption.© 2026 Beyond the Bid. For education only, not financial or legal advice.</p>