What does it take to turn a courtroom nightmare into 14 U.S. patents and three category-defining construction tech companies? Peter Lasensky knows.

In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, Rishi Srivastava sits down with Peter Lasensky — co-founder and CEO of Command Post, founder of NoteVault (acquired by Bentley Systems), former CEO of Pacific DataVision (now ATEX, NASDAQ: ATEX), and the builder behind one of San Diego's top construction firms, Peterbuilt Corporation.

Peter takes us from his early days "born with a hammer in his hand," through the painful 2001 arbitration that cost him $100K and four days in court, to the moment in his superintendent's truck — staring at a Nextel walkie-talkie — that became the epiphany behind voice-first construction reporting.

We dig into:

– Why 80% of major projects run a year or more late, and how contemporaneous documentation changes the math on liquidated damages, change orders, and getting paid.

– The "Talk. Add photo. Get a report." philosophy that captures 9x more content without slowing crews down — and why simplicity is the hardest thing to build.

– Real stories where documentation saved contractors millions: a $30K touch-up paint dispute settled in a 5-minute meeting, a $20M change order paid because of attendance photos, and a $400K drilling swing that hinged on one photo of a survey stake.

– Why Command Post is an "anti-AI capture" app — and the looming construction litigation crisis when video, photos, and chain-of-custody can no longer be trusted.

– The hub-and-spoke architecture Peter is betting on to solve the silos-of-data problem (the average jobsite now runs 10 disconnected apps).

– Why voice has always been how construction gets built — and what the next generation of contractors will demand from software that previous generations never asked for.

If you run a construction company, manage projects in the field, or build software for the jobsite, Peter's 30+ years of pattern recognition is a masterclass in protecting time, materials, and cash flow — without the courtroom.

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About the Guest:Peter Lasensky is the co-founder and CEO of Command Post (commandpost.ai), the software that thinks like a contractor. He previously founded NoteVault — the "Talk. Add photo. Get a report." platform that reinvented field reporting and was acquired by Bentley Systems, where Peter went on to lead Construction Product Research & Strategy. He also co-founded Pacific DataVision (now ATEX, NASDAQ: ATEX) and built Peterbuilt Corporation into one of San Diego's top construction firms before its acquisition. Peter holds 14 U.S. patents.

About the Host:Rishi Srivastava is the founder of Beiing Human and host of Finance at the Jobsite — the podcast where construction CFOs, COOs, and operators share the hard-won lessons behind building profitable construction businesses.

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