What’s Happening with Home Renovations
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In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Julie Kheyfets, CEO of Block Renovation, to talk about what’s happening with home renovations this year and beyond.
Julie Kheyfets is the CEO of Block Renovation, the AI renovation platform empowering homeowners and contractors to build better together. Block’s AI delivers instant cost, scope, and design guidance tailored to each homeowner, powered by proprietary data from thousands of projects. By accessing Block’s vetted network of contractors, homeowners can discover the right professionals for their projects, rapidly receive easy-to-compare proposals, and hire with confidence, backed by Block’s project protections.
Before being appointed CEO, Julie served as Block’s COO, steering Block’s operations as the company evolved from a one-stop shop for renovations to an AI marketplace platform. Julie brings a strong track record of scaling AI to help consumers in complex industries. Before joining Block, she built and led the North America business for Tractable, the AI platform for accident and disaster recovery. During Julie's tenure, Tractable became the world’s first computer vision unicorn for financial services.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
How to match consumers with contractors
Why so much of the difficulty in remodeling are “problems of information”
The surprising relationship between interest rates and remodeling
Block’s unique demand renovation demand data and what it’s telling us about the market right now
How changes to the immigration system will impact the remodeling industry
Why productivity in construction has not improved in 50 years and why that is about to change
Trends in AI that homeowners should pay attention to
Why AI and information have the potential to dramatically improve the consumer relationship with the contractor
The most important demographic trends and what they tell us about the home renovation market over the rest of the decade
Which local markets are the leaders and laggards in renovation
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