Closing the Gap Between Concept and Construction with Aurimas Sabulis

🏗️ Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 95 🏗️

What if the biggest bottleneck in construction isn't the job site, it's everything that happens before anyone breaks ground?

In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Aurimas Sabulis, Founder & CEO of Dextall, a company redefining how prefabricated building exteriors are designed, engineered, and manufactured. After building a nationwide commercial window and exterior company from scratch, Aurimas set out to answer a question that had bothered him for years: why does an industry responsible for some of the largest capital investments on earth still design and build almost everything from scratch, on every single project?

In this conversation, you'll learn:

Why up to 30% of materials on a traditional job site end up as construction waste

How Dextall standardizes a building's structural "chassis" while giving architects full creative freedom on the exterior finish

Why cost, not sustainability or quality, is the real barrier standing between prefab and mainstream adoption

How Dextall's software, Kora, is compressing roughly a year of manual engineering work into days

Why using existing, already-trusted skilled labor was a deliberate strategy to lower the risk of switching to prefab

Whether you're a founder building in an industry still run on manual expertise, a PE or VC investor evaluating opportunities in construction tech and PropTech, or an operator trying to find efficiency gains hiding in plain sight, this episode offers a practical look at how to bring an entrenched industry into a new model without asking customers to pay more for it.

Connect with Aurimas Sabulis and Dextall: 🌐 Website: https://www.dextall.com/ 🌐 Software: https://kora.studio/ 💼 Find Dextall on:     LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/dextall/ and     YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@dextall

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