When the power goes out, Pike's crews are the ones racing toward the storm. In this episode of Object Stats, James Banner, SVP of Administration and Safety at Pike, shares how one of the nation's largest electrical contractors builds and restores power lines across the country, and what it takes to keep 12,000 employees safe along the way. James talks about the culture behind Pike's safety record, using asset tags to track thousands of dollars of protective gear, and how the team is putting AI to work to prompt crews with the right questions before every job. He also shares candid advice for operators rolling out new safety technology, including the results Pike saw in year two with Samsara: 20% fewer accidents, a 50% increase in seatbelt use, and an 80% drop in mobile phone use behind the wheel.

Two engineers, no PRD, no backlog — just a customer problem and a few months to solve it. On this episode of Object Stats, David (VP, Product & Engineering) and Hannes (Staff Engineer) join John Bicket and Johan Land to unpack how Tracking Label went from a hand-assembled prototype to a Bluetooth shipment tracker Samsara now runs on 100% of its own outbound shipments. They dig into the hardware decisions, the surprisingly messy reality of shipment exceptions at scale, and demo the Shipment Center dashboard live.

In this one-year anniversary episode of Object Stats, CTO John Bicket and SVP, Product Johan Land dive deep into how the rapid adoption of AI tools is fundamentally transforming the daily workflows of Samsara's engineering, product, and design teams.

From designers generating functional UI code to developers managing multiple AI coding agents in parallel, discover how these cutting-edge technologies are reshaping the modern software development lifecycle."