About AI Builders
The AI company that’s actually run a job site.
We come from construction operations — running jobs, chasing subs, losing evenings to paperwork. We built AI systems for our own business first because we were the customer nobody was serving. Now we install those systems for companies like the one we ran.
The story
Built for ourselves first.
[TOMMY TO CONFIRM/EXPAND: founder story beats — years in construction ops, what broke first, the first internal tool (Marge), what it saved, and the moment other contractors started asking for it.] The short version: we didn’t learn construction to sell AI. We learned AI because we were drowning in construction admin — and the tools we built to fix our own operation became the business. The first agents we built are working every day — meet the whole roster on the case studies page.
The team
Named, local, accountable.
Tommy Whitehead
Chief Executive Officer
A serial entrepreneur who runs AI Builder Company the way he’s run every company — as an operator first. Tommy is a Florida-licensed contractor with 3,000+ renovations delivered as CEO of TomCo Solutions, founder of a national business media and events company, an Amazon best-selling author and podcast host, and a Titan 100 and Inc. 5000 honoree. His specialty is the exact seam this company sits on: AI operations applied to construction and media — his own businesses were the first two clients.
Jimmy Murray
Chief Technology Officer
Jimmy leads the engineering behind every agent we install. A senior AI engineer with a master’s in data analytics, he’s built retrieval-augmented LLM systems that let staff query years of scattered company documents in plain English, geospatial and supply-chain applications for enterprise clients, and automations across whatever stack a business already runs. Two decades as a working stand-up comedian is why he can explain what a model is doing to a room that doesn’t care how — and he’s a two-time Tampa Club 42 Under 42 honoree.
Patrick Duffany
Chief Operating Officer
Patrick turns builds into systems that keep running. An engineer with a master’s in engineering management, he’s led products from requirements through launch as product owner, migrated enterprise CRM data nobody else would touch, and built AI document pipelines — OCR and machine-learning workflows that turned paper-heavy operations into clean, searchable data. His background is in high-compliance environments where access is scoped and logged and nothing ships without review, which is the standard your systems get built to here.
Tampa Bay area. When something’s off, you call a person whose name you know — not a ticket queue in another time zone.
How we work
- Named deliverables and fixed scopes — never “strategic guidance and advice.”
- A paid audit before recommendations — we diagnose before we prescribe.
- We name the platforms we build on — no black boxes.
- You own everything — your accounts, your data, your automations.
We built these systems for our own business first.
Now we install them in yours.
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