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Nearly 40% of planned weekly work on construction sites isn’t delivered: New Buildots Intelligence Lab Global Benchmarks Report

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Less than 30% of activities start on time, and nearly half of weekly work runs behind schedule, yet top-quartile projects show strong performance is possible, just inconsistentReport establishes production output benchmarks for 21 core construction activities, drawn from recent industry performance data

TEL AVIV, Israel, October 8th, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Buildots Intelligence Lab today announced the launch of its inaugural Global Construction Benchmarks Report, which establishes a new type of benchmark based on anonymized, aggregated data from hundreds of global construction projects across five verticals. According to the report, in a typical week: just 29.3% of construction activities actually start on time, 52.8% of active construction work stays on schedule, and 37% of planned work remains undelivered.

The materials and equipment contractors buy have long been standardized down to a market price that can be checked instantly. And while rate books have told estimators what a crew should theoretically install for decades, no one has ever continuously measured what construction actually delivers, week by week, against the plan. This report does exactly that, turning real data into a set of objective benchmarks. 

The activity-level benchmarks in the new report include schedule adherence, on-time starts, completion overrun, planned-vs.-actual production, peak-vs.-typical performance, and trade-level reliability across 21 core construction activities.

Among the report’s key findings:

Nearly half of all active construction work is behind schedule in a typical week – sites keep just 52.8% of activities on schedule.The typical construction activity finishes 5.3 weeks late, but performance varies sharply. Top-quartile projects hold that to 2.3 weeks, showing that fast, reliable delivery is achievable.Nearly 40% of planned weekly output is not delivered. The typical project delivers just 63% of its planned output, leaving 37% of planned work volume undelivered in a typical week.Nearly every construction activity under-delivers its planned weekly output. 20 of 21 activities measured fell short of plan, ranging from 38% (resilient/soft flooring) to 122% (drywall framing, the only activity to exceed plan).70.7% of construction activities miss their planned start date. Just 29.3% of activities actually start on time.

“Everything else that goes into a building has long been standardized – equipment, materials, specs. But one thing that hasn’t been is the work itself,” said Amir Berman, VP of Industry Transformation at Buildots and head of the Intelligence Lab. “This report is a step toward changing that: turning construction activity into repeatable, measurable units, so we can finally answer how much a project can actually build in a given timeframe, and how wide the gap is between a typical week and a top-performing one.”

An ongoing construction benchmark series

The Global Construction Benchmarks Report is the first release in an ongoing Buildots Intelligence Lab research series. Having established a global baseline, the Lab will next apply the same methodology to sector-specific and regional editions – starting with data centers and healthcare – sharpening these global reference points into benchmarks that project teams can hold a specific project to.

“You can’t fix what you can’t measure, and the construction industry has always lacked a source of macro-level truth about its own performance,” said Roy Danon, Co-founder and CEO of Buildots. “Establishing objective, data-driven benchmarks like these is central to our mission at Buildots, and these findings show exactly why. This report proves strong performance already exists in the industry, it’s just inconsistent. Revealing that is the first step toward helping every construction project, portfolio, and organization perform at its best.”

The full Global Construction Benchmarks Report, including sector breakdowns, quartile data, and detailed production-rate tables for 21 core construction activities, is available at: https://buildots.com/lab/global-construction-benchmarks-report/ 

About Buildots Intelligence Lab

The Buildots Intelligence Lab is construction’s first AI-powered research hub. Drawing on aggregated, anonymized global data, the Lab publishes metrics, insights, and benchmarks designed to drive decisions from the project level to the enterprise. All data published by the Lab is freely available and designed to help address long-standing industry blind spots. It operates as an autonomous research unit within Buildots and invites industry professionals, academics, and analysts to challenge it with their own questions and hypotheses.

About Buildots
Buildots is the global construction intelligence platform, serving as the operational backbone for construction projects of all scales – from local schools and multi-family projects to the world’s most complex data centers and mega-projects. By transforming site data into actionable insights, Buildots enables construction leaders to know sooner, act faster, and outperform. Buildots is currently used by Fortune 500 contractors and household-name owners, including Turner Construction, JE Dunn, Intel, HOCHTIEF, and Bouygues, to drive operational excellence worldwide.

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American Bitcoin Schedules Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Release and Conference Call

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MIAMI, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — American Bitcoin Corp. (Nasdaq: ABTC) (“American Bitcoin” or the “Company”), a Bitcoin accumulation platform focused on building America’s Bitcoin infrastructure backbone, today announced it will release earnings for the third quarter of 2026 after the market closes on November 4, 2026. The Company will host a conference call and webcast to review the results on the same day at 4:30 p.m. ET.

Conference Call and Webcast Details 

Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Time: 4:30 p.m. ET

To register for the webcast, use the following link: https://app.webinar.net/pymQJ5mJ37e. To join by telephone, dial 1 (888) 880-3330 ten minutes prior to the start time to allow time for registration. International callers may dial 1 (646) 357-8766. 

Supplemental Materials and Upcoming Communications

The Company expects to make available on its website and/or official social media channels certain materials and updates designed to accompany the discussion of its results, along with certain supplemental financial information and other data, including regarding its Bitcoin holdings and related performance metrics. For important news and information regarding the Company, including investor presentations and timing of future investor conferences, visit the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website, abtc.com/investors, and its social media accounts, including on X, Instagram, and LinkedIn. The Company uses its website and social media accounts as primary channels for disclosing key information to its investors, some of which may contain material and previously non-public information.

About American Bitcoin

American Bitcoin Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Hut 8 Corp., is a Bitcoin accumulation platform focused on building America’s Bitcoin infrastructure platform. The Company delivers institutional-grade exposure to Bitcoin through an industry-first business model that integrates scaled self-mining operations with disciplined accumulation strategies. For more information, visit abtc.com and follow the Company on X at @ABTC.

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LJM Group Names Rob Gelb CEO to Lead Next Phase of Growth and Innovation

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Veteran Executive Brings Three Decades of Experience Scaling Technology-Enabled Services Businesses and Advancing Cost Transparency for Clients

FARMINGDALE, N.Y., Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LJM Group (“LJM”), a tech-enabled provider of small parcel shipping cost optimization solutions, announced today that Rob Gelb has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer. Gelb brings three decades of experience building and scaling tech-enabled services businesses, much of it on the buyer’s side of complex, opaque pricing—first in workers’ compensation, then in group health, and now in parcel shipping. That experience aligns with LJM’s shipper-focused model and its mission to bring clients clarity, confidence, and control over logistics costs.

“I am honored to join LJM at such a pivotal moment,” said Gelb. “Over more than 20 years, this team has built a differentiated platform with a proven record of measurable results for shippers. I look forward to working with Ken, Kevin, Thomas, Kenneth, and the broader team to scale our technology, deepen client partnerships, and lead LJM into its next chapter.”

Gelb will lead all aspects of the business, while President and Founder Ken Wood will remain actively involved in key client relationships and LJM’s strategy for future growth.

“Rob’s track record of scaling tech-enabled services businesses and bringing transparency to opaque costs makes him the ideal leader for LJM’s next phase of growth,” said Wood. “The parcel shipping landscape continues to evolve rapidly, creating both challenges and opportunities for our clients. With Rob at the helm, we are well positioned to keep investing in our people, technology, and services while staying focused on the results that matter most to those we serve.”

Prior to joining LJM, Gelb spent more than seven years as CEO of Valenz Health, where he transformed a single point-solution provider into an integrated healthcare platform spanning cost containment, payment integrity, and self-funded employer solutions. Under his leadership, Valenz completed eight acquisitions, grew from 62 to 520 employees, and achieved approximately 30% compound annual growth, including more than 15% organic growth. The company was named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in six of his seven years. Earlier in his career, he led strategy and growth at Coventry Workers’ Compensation Services and held senior leadership roles at York Risk Services Group, Intracorp, and Medlogix. Gelb is a Forbes Finance Council contributor and podcast host who writes and speaks on leadership, culture, and cost transparency. He holds a B.B.A. in Public Accounting from Hofstra University and is a CPA (inactive).

About LJM Group

Headquartered in Farmingdale, New York, LJM is a technology-enabled provider of small parcel shipping cost optimization solutions that help organizations manage and reduce parcel spend. Combining proprietary technology, advanced analytics, deep parcel expertise, and white-glove service, LJM provides carrier contract negotiation support, parcel analytics, ongoing rate optimization, and audit and recovery services. Founded in 2004, LJM has served clients nationwide for more than 20 years and is recognized for its deep parcel expertise and data-driven approach.

Learn more at www.myljm.com

About Clearview Capital

Clearview Capital is a private investment firm founded in 1999, focused on acquiring and recapitalizing lower middle-market companies in North America. The firm has completed more than 150 transactions across diverse industries and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, with additional offices in California and Tennessee.

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CUJO AI and F-Secure Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Seamless Consumer Security Across Home and Mobile

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Joint offering combines best-of-breed home network, endpoint and scam protection, helping Tier-1 CSPs strengthen consumer trust in the age of AI-driven threats.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CUJO AI, a global leader in cybersecurity, device and network intelligence for service providers, and F-Secure, a global leader in consumer cybersecurity and scam protection, today announced a strategic partnership to help the world’s leading Tier-1 Communication Service Providers (CSPs) deliver a seamless security experience that protects consumers across home networks and personal devices.

AI is rapidly changing the scam landscape, making fraudulent content easier to produce, more convincing and increasingly difficult for consumers to distinguish from legitimate interactions. At the same time, scams increasingly cross traditional boundaries between networks, devices, applications, and digital services.

The partnership brings together CUJO AI’s home network cybersecurity and granular device and network intelligence with F-Secure’s endpoint and embedded security capabilities, covering device, scam, identity and privacy protection. Together, the companies will help service providers protect consumers across the home network and individual devices while creating a seamless security experience at home and on the go. As consumers increasingly move between home broadband, mobile networks, applications and connected devices, their security needs extend across multiple environments. Yet protection is often delivered through separate products and experiences. CUJO AI and F-Secure are working together to simplify that landscape, helping service providers bring complementary cybersecurity capabilities into a more seamless and cohesive consumer experience.

“Consumers don’t think about security in silos; they simply expect to be protected wherever they connect,” said Remko Vos, CEO of CUJO AI. “We already enable service providers to protect millions of homes through advanced network-based cybersecurity, scam protection and device intelligence. By combining these capabilities with F-Secure’s endpoint security and scam protection expertise, we can help service providers close the gap between home network and device protection and create a more seamless security experience for consumers.”

CUJO AI provides cybersecurity directly at the home network level, protecting connected devices without requiring security software to be installed on each individual device. Its platform also provides deep intelligence into connected devices, applications and network behavior, helping service providers identify threats, understand their subscribers’ connected environments and deliver subscriber-facing security services at scale.

F-Secure complements these capabilities with endpoint and consumer cybersecurity solutions spanning device protection, scam protection, identity, privacy and embedded security, bringing visible value for consumers into everyday digital interactions. Together, the companies will reduce fragmentation between network and endpoint protection and help service providers deliver a more integrated security experience across home and mobile environments.

“The trust advantage for CSPs in the agentic AI era has never been clearer, and we recognize the importance of equipping the world’s leading providers to succeed in protecting their customers in a holistic way,” said Timo Laaksonen, President and CEO of F-Secure. “We are delighted to be partnering with CUJO AI to help us achieve this; this partnership demonstrates a natural evolution in providing the best-of-breed solution with holistic protection for an evolving threat landscape.”

Through the partnership, CUJO AI and F-Secure will collaborate with the world’s leading service providers on opportunities including integrated network and endpoint protection, seamless security across broadband and mobile environments, simplified customer experiences, and new security propositions designed to strengthen subscriber engagement, retention and monetization.

The partnership also creates opportunities to combine security and intelligence across the connected environment, helping operators better understand their customers’ devices and digital experiences while protecting them across multiple touchpoints.

About CUJO AI

CUJO AI enables service providers to understand, serve, and protect consumers with advanced cybersecurity and granular network and device intelligence. The CUJO AI Intelligence platform – built on 72,000 device models and deployed across 63 million homes – gives service providers deep, continuous visibility into every connected device and network behavior from day one.

CUJO AI Services delivers active security, digital parenting, and scam protection for service providers ready to monetize that intelligence with subscriber-facing products. Advanced AI algorithms help service providers uncover previously unavailable insights to raise the bar for customer experience and retention with new value propositions and improved operations.

CUJO AI is trusted by the world’s largest broadband operators, including Comcast, Charter Communications, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, TELUS, Sky Italia, Sky UK, Rogers, Cox, Shaw, Videotron, BT and EE.

For more information, visit www.cujo.com.

About F-Secure

F-Secure is a human-first, AI-powered consumer cyber security experience company with 38 years of expertise in tackling digital threats. We help digital service providers turn trust into a high-value growth engine — protecting their customers while enabling them to live their best digital lives in a world of relentless, AI-driven scams. With billions of digital interactions secured each year, tens of millions of consumers protected globally, and over $10 billion in partner value created, we deliver proven impact at scale.

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