Omar Khan interviews Basim Hamdi, co-founder and CEO of Briq, an AI automation platform for the construction and manufacturing industries. Basim shares how Briq pivoted through challenges, leveraged robotic process automation to overcome technical barriers, and developed a rapid enterprise sales strategy that closes deals in as little as nine days. The episode explores actionable strategies for SaaS founders aiming to scale in complex B2B environments.
Basim explains how his vision for the Construction Data Cloud was initially blocked by the lack of APIs in legacy construction software. The company nearly shut down before discovering robotic process automation (RPA) as a workaround.
After customers requested not just data extraction but data entry, Briq pivoted to digital workers—AI bots that could mimic human actions in legacy systems. This shift rapidly found product-market fit and grew ARR to $1.5M by 2020.
Never do anything for free—getting even a dollar from enterprise customers accelerates deal cycles, validates product-market fit, and sets the stage for scalable growth.



