Alex Modon is CEO and Co-founder of Unlimited Industries, a company transforming infrastructure development through AI-driven automation. Unlimited tackles one of the biggest bottlenecks in climate and industrial innovation: the outdated, risk-averse world of engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC). Traditional EPCs are often misaligned with the needs of first-of-a-kind projects. Unlimited flips the script by using AI to generate thousands of design permutations, drastically cutting feedback loops, iteration time, and overall cost. Alex shares how his background in software, combined with childhood exposure to industrial environments, inspired him to take on this hard problem—and why he believes the only way to build faster is to rebuild the entire system from the ground up.
Episode recorded on July 29 (Published on Dec 3)
In this episode, we cover:
- [03:15] An overview of EPCs
- [05:05] How EPCs make money
- [07:06] Why FOAK projects face EPC challenges
- [10:02] Reducing marginal cost of engineering design with AI
- [12:35] Alex’s pivot from software to infrastructure
- [15:39] Why EPCs resist adopting AI tools
- [19:14] Unlimited’s capital projects platform explained
- [23:41] How Unlimited manages physical construction
- [26:36] The company's vision of fully autonomous construction in the future
- [28:08] Why physical abundance drives Alex
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