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Electrical contractors are facing one of the most significant technological shifts in modern business history. Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how organizations communicate, make decisions, improve efficiency, and compete in an increasingly digital marketplace. At the NECA Southern Region Conference, Chris Carr, President and Founder of Dynaimix AI, delivered his keynote presentation, "The Intelligent Use…

Most contractors who have tried AI and walked away from it did not fail because the technology didn't work. They failed because they handed a powerful tool to a team that had no idea where to put it. That is the pattern repeating itself across the…

When AI adoption stalls inside a contracting firm, leadership tends to reach for familiar explanations. The team is resistant to change. The older employees are not comfortable with technology. People are too busy to learn something new. These explanations are not entirely wrong, but they tend to miss the more specific and more fixable reasons…

Every firm that has introduced AI to its team has encountered some version of the same moment. Someone in the room, often someone experienced, often someone whose judgment the firm genuinely relies on, pushes back. Maybe it is direct. Maybe it is quieter than that, a skepticism that shows up in the way they engage…

At the 2026 NECA Safety Professionals Conference in Atlanta, AI keynote speaker Chris Carr, president and founder of Dynaimix AI, spoke about the coming wave of AI and the impact it will have on safety, construction, reporting, and the Future of Work. During the session, Chris explored how safety professionals can use AI to…

There is a tendency to look at AI adoption as a race where the firms that moved first have the biggest advantage. That assumption is worth questioning, because in contracting, moving fast without moving thoughtfully has a long history of producing expensive problems. The firms that will come out ahead with AI over the next…

There is a version of AI adoption that feels productive but produces almost nothing. A firm buys a tool, or starts using one of the widely available platforms, and people begin plugging tasks into it. Drafting emails. Summarizing documents. Generating boilerplate language. The tool works. The outputs are fine. And six months later, the firm…

Most contracting firms have at least one person who has figured out how to use AI well. Maybe it's an estimator who cut his takeoff prep time in half. A project manager who uses it to draft RFIs and correspondence. A BD person who stopped staring at blank screens when it's time to write a…