460: Ryan Fink and Ty Frackiewicz—Can AI Build My House?

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Mike sits down with the two innovative minds behind Digs — an app that's helping to streamline the home-building process. It's a candid look at what happens when tech guys wander into the world of lumber, drywall, and delayed inspections—and try to fix it. If you've ever wondered whether artificial intelligence can actually help build a house, or at least make the whole ordeal a little less maddening, this conversation is for you.

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0:00.0	Well, here we go again. It's me, Mike Roe. This is the way I heard it. And Chuck, I'm at one of these
0:08.5	home builders conventions a couple years ago, right? And a couple entrepreneurs pull me aside after my
0:15.1	speech. And they tell me a story about a company called Diggs that they were determined to start. And it was going to be a
0:22.8	company that used AI to make the home building process easier. And I asked them if it was going to
0:28.5	have any impact on the number of homes that were behind schedule with construction and over budget and maybe, you know, could this AI thing,
0:40.3	remember this is over two years ago, have some sort of impact on hiring. And they were like,
0:46.3	yes, yes, yes, yes, it's going to change. It's going to change everything. And I'm like, mm-hmm,
0:51.3	you know, I mean, how many entrepreneurs, you know, pitch me on these things.
0:54.4	But this company has more than a toehold.
0:57.8	It's working.
0:58.8	It's growing.
1:00.2	They reached out later and started advertising on this podcast, full disclosure.
1:06.3	So I just thought with AI in the headlines and with you impersonating a general contractor
1:13.0	all those years ago, these guys might be fun to talk to.
1:16.2	And as it turns out, they are.
1:18.4	I think I might have actually learned something.
1:20.7	Yeah, I'll tell you, you really hit the nail on the head with me being able to use this.
1:25.6	If this had been around when I built the house that I built, I might still be married.
1:29.6	Who knows?
1:33.4	Well, Chuck did get the house built, but maybe next week.
1:37.1	This is called Can AI Build My House?
1:39.3	If it goes well, if it's well received, we'll follow it up with Can AI, save my marriage, and I'll let you host that one.
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