Not Another Tool. A New Operating System for Development.

Development no longer runs on backhoes and blueprints. It runs on automation, data and algorithms shaping tomorrow's skylines.

AI is No Longer Optional — It's Operational.

Commercial construction is being rewritten by applied AI. This isn’t a feature race—it’s an operating change. Here’s the short list that moves the needle.

Accessibility

AI has moved from specialists’ labs to every desk and jobsite. If your foreman can text, your team can use AI—no translations needed.

Adaptation

It’s not about replacing people—it’s human judgment with machine insight. Plans, schedules, RFIs: your calls, augmented and accelerated.

Acceleration

What took months now takes days. Advantage compounds for teams that move first—and standardize fast across jobs.

The Shift

The industry has shifted. RDI exists to chart that shift not react to it. We are a living system forged in thousands of projects reengineered for the next era. Where field expertise meets machine learning. Where leadership is measured in both square footage and foresight.

The RDI Philosophy

RDI isn’t a platform or a playbook. It’s a living system — built by builders, refined by strategists, and accelerated by AI.

Insight Becomes Infrastructure

Growth isn’t about more sites — it’s about systems that scale across timelines and teams.

Built by Builders

3,000+ jobs led. Real‑world execution re‑engineered into clean systems that cut chaos.

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AI as a Partner

AI reduces delay, boosts clarity, and connects the org from field to finance.

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Legacy as a Partner

The next 100 sites don’t succeed by default — they require adaptive, intelligent systems.

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Slow Down, To Speed Up

The Line Between Momentum and Mistake is Razor Thin Avoid These Three Silent Killers and Speed Follows.

Breakpoint:

Platform Over Purpose

Launching tools before aligning them to people, processes, or purpose.

The Misstep:

Launching tools without clear direction or clarity.

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The Result:

Confusion. Low adoption. ROI that never shows up.

The Takeaway:

Start with purpose, not platform.

Breakpoint:

Outdated Playbooks

When instinct and legacy models miss the signals of a re-coded industry.

The Misstep:

Relying on instinct and outdated legacy playbooks.

The Result:

Slower teams. Missed signals. Strategies that land flat.

The Takeaway:

Update the lens — shift from reaction to recognition.

Breakpoint:

Paralysis by Precision

When planning drags on until opportunity has already passed.

The Misstep:

Overplanning. Waiting until every detail is figured out.

The Result:

Competitors advance in real time. You’re still drafting plans.

The Takeaway:

Progress comes from building while moving.

One Ecosystem. Three Strategic Functions.

RDI Operates as one system with three separate functions. Training. Consulting. Agents — aligned to people, process and performance.

Hard Hat AI Training

Field-ready intelligence for supers, PMs ad site leaders.

Glaux AI Consulting

Advisory for executives aligning AI with strategy and scale.

Hard Hat AI Agents

Custom agents built for the jobsite and beyond.

Choose Your Path

Every leader encounters friction at one of three points: people, process, or systems. Where you begin matters less than how you move. Pick the entry that matches your pressure.

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Field gags Training

Cross-dept friction Consulting

Ready to automate Agents

Do RFIs, submittals, and inspection request slow projects down because your teams don't have a faster system?

Start with: Hard Hat AI Training

Hard Hat AI Training gives your teams a system that eliminates those choke points. Instead of chasing paper, digging through emails, or waiting on responses, they learn to use AI to draft REFIs in minutes, generate submittals instantly, and track inspections in real time.

The results: It's not just faster paperwork it's fewer delays, tighter schedules and a field team focused on building, not burnt out from endless hours of paperwork.

We're ready to operationalize automation.

Start with: Hard Hat AI Agents

Hard Hat Agents move AI from experiment to execution. Instead of running isolated tests or one-off pilots, your teams gain deployable agents that handle scheduling, permitting workflows, RFIs and vendor communication inside live projects. This isn't theory its automation embedded into daily operations, freeing managers from repetitive task and accelerating delivery.

The results: The competitive edge comes when AI stops being a side project and starts running the work that drives margin.

Are your teams slowed by silos, duplicate work and decision bottlenecks?

Start with: Glaux AI Consulting

Glaux AI Consulting brings structure where chaos costs you margin. We don't add more meetings or headcount we streamline workflows, eliminate duplicate work and align decision making across teams. By embedding AI into your core processes, handoffs become seamless, accountability sharpens and execution speeds up.

The results: Fewer bottlenecks, faster decisions and a system your people can actually rely on.

Guidance Without Guesswork

Three ways in. Pick the entry that matches your pressure.

Quick Diagnostic Checklist

  • Checklist Supers/PMs are buried in admin or backlogged comms.

  • Permitting, inspections or punch list closeouts are slipping.

  • Departments are siloed hard work, low sync.

  • You've tested AI, but nothing lives in daily workflow.

  • Growth is up; process complexity is dragging speed down.

  • You need better tools and structure but no one has time to build them.

Two or more? You're ready to move.

RDI Arms — Quick Comparison

Hard Hat AI Training

Glaux AI Consulting

Hard Hat AI Agents

The RDI Team

Behind the RDI platform is a core team of executive-level partners who built their reputations in the field not in theory.

Shawn Burkett

Development Strategist,

Builder, Vision in Motion.

Catherine Lee

Executive Strategist. System Architect. Brand Steward.

Victor Mason

AI Partner, Embedded Execution Engine.

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