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Your Tech Stack Needs To Start With Strategy with Dustin Stephens

Builders, Budgets, and Beers

Builders, Budgets, and Beers
Your Tech Stack Needs To Start With Strategy with Dustin Stephens
May 19, 2026
Adaptive

Reece sits down with Dustin Stephens, CEO of Alliance Solutions Group, to talk about why contractors cannot treat AI like a shortcut around broken systems. As labor gets tighter and construction businesses get more complex, the companies that understand their tech stack, data, and back office will be in a better position to compete.

Dustin shares what he is seeing across construction ERP, cloud accounting, project management, preconstruction, AP workflows, and AI adoption. The big takeaway: start with the business problem, understand the process, then use technology to make the work faster, clearer, and more human.

https://www.alliancesg.com
email: dstephens@alliance-sg.com

Show Notes:

00:48 Meet Dustin
02:23 Field To Tech
06:21 Innovation Pressure
09:20 Where Contractors Invest
11:38 Building The Stack
13:12 Cloud Resistance
16:22 Operational Tools
17:39 Where To Start
21:36 Strategic Operations
24:26 Back Office Triggers
27:55 Faster Business Insight
30:39 AI And Critical Thinking
37:02 Contractor Advice

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