Jordan opened Episode 16 (October 10, 2025) with two browser games themed on our guest's company, Edgevanta, which builds AI agents for construction bids. The first was Edgevanta Tycoon, a construction take on RollerCoaster Tycoon. The demo lasted under two minutes and Jordan didn't name his tools or the build time, so evidence here is thin and this page is short.
Edgevanta helps civil contractors bid on construction projects, and Jordan wanted a fun way in before the serious conversation. He was upfront at 05:17 that he's "really no expert in the highway construction space," but likes making fun games on the internet.
It's kinda like roller coaster tycoon where you build your own roller park except in this case, you need to bid on construction projects, and then you gotta build you gotta build them out, and then you gotta grow your company, and you gotta use Edgevanta to help you do that.
— Jordan Metzner, Episode 16
Not covered on the show. We won't guess at the tools.
We can describe the game loop Jordan played, not how he coded it:
A playable demo. The agent purchase flow didn't behave quite as Jordan expected at first ("they're supposed to be like kind of these agents and then you're supposed to be able to buy them"), then the agent showed up. He ended by pointing viewers to the real Edgevanta.
The game's one real idea maps to the product: Edgevanta CEO Tristan Wilson, a former civil estimator, later explained that its agents read 1,200 to 1,500-page bid packages and summarize what matters. In the game, that's the bid brief summary agent. In real life, Tristan said reviewing a bid's documents used to take him four to six hours per bid, before any takeoffs or analysis. The rest of the episode covers how Edgevanta's agents also extract bid items, flag conflicts between documents, support go/no-go decisions and use DOT historical pricing.
Jordan's second game from the same episode is the highway paving mini-game: crush rocks, heat them, pave and roll a highway. For a more practical construction build, see the BOM price-shock scenario tool, and for the bigger picture, AI in construction.
A browser game Jordan built for Episode 16. Like RollerCoaster Tycoon, but you bid on construction projects, build them, and grow your company, with Edgevanta's AI agents as upgrades you buy.
Edgevanta Tycoon is one: you pick a project (the first was a downtown parking lot with a $150,000 budget and 30 days), get a recommended bid range, submit a bid and earn capital to buy agents and equipment.
The episode didn't say. Jordan only played the finished game on air and didn't name the tools or the build time.
