In this episode of The Construction Revolution Podcast, we're joined by Jake Olsen, CEO of Stratus. Jake shares how his career spanning structural engineering, construction tech at DeWalt, and hands-on time inside a mechanical contractor's fab shop led him to take the helm at Stratus, an operating system for MEP contractors that digitizes the full workflow from BIM through fabrication, logistics, and field installation.

We discuss why most MEP contractors are still running on PDFs, spreadsheets, and color-coded stickers, how Stratus connects live model data directly to the fab shop floor, and what Jake's State of MEP report revealed about the growing gap between contractors who have embraced fabrication and those who haven't.

The conversation explores how off-site prefabrication is helping contractors solve the labor shortage, why the most competitive MEP contractors are starting to run their businesses more like manufacturers, and how going fully digital gives contractors the real-time data they need to actually improve their operations over time.