Aggregates Business has published an interview with David Boardman, founder and CEO of EveryPoint®, the company behind Stockpile Reports® and SR Measure®. Editor Guy Woodford talked with David about artificial intelligence in the aggregates industry: where it helps, where it goes wrong, and why it starts with the stockpile.

Read the full interview at Aggregates Business

Here are a few of the ideas David returns to, in his words from the interview.

The pile comes first

"The money maker is the pile," David told Aggregates Business, and he tied the pile to everyday decisions: trucks, railcars, crushers and screens. He also explained why bulk materials are hard to digitize: "things don't come with barcodes and they don't come in boxes."

AI runs on data

His warning for companies starting AI projects: "Everybody thinks about AI, but what they're going to discover is that they have bad data."

He told Aggregates Business what he hears from producers who don't measure their piles regularly: "Most producers will smile and tell you they're within 5%, but reality is often closer to 15% or 20%." And once AI sits on top of those numbers, he said, "AI amplifies errors more than it amplifies productivity."

For what that means in practice, read Your AI Mandate Starts With Your Stockpile Numbers.

People with superpowers

On jobs, David's view is plain: "I do not believe we're running out of jobs for humans." His analogy is the drum machine of the 1980s, which musicians feared would end drumming. "We still have drummers."

He sees AI giving skilled people "superpowers," and he sees smaller producers moving faster than large ones: "I'm super bullish on the little guy right now."

Stockpile data in your AI assistant

The interview also covers connecting Stockpile Reports to AI assistants. David described a customer who asks Claude about his inventory while driving between sites, through Apple CarPlay: "He'll ask what material he has on hand, or when a pile was last measured, all through voice."

Connect a Stockpile Reports® Business account to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and more, then ask about your stockpiles in plain language. The setup guide walks through it. As David put it: "If you're using Stockpile Reports, you're already using AI."

Read the interview

Thanks to Guy Woodford and Aggregates Business for the conversation. Read "From Stockpiles to Superpowers" at Aggregates Business.