Aaron Baker knows construction from the ground up. Before joining OpenSpace, he worked across nearly every role on the jobsite—from estimating and preconstruction to project engineering, and later as a superintendent and QA/QC manager.
We recently sat down with Aaron, a Senior Solutions Engineer at OpenSpace, to learn about his background and his take on where construction is headed. In this video, he shares what led him to leave the field for a new career building technology for the industry. And why he thinks construction is at a turning point.
Lessons from years on the jobsite
From years on jobsites, Aaron has a clear view of how construction projects actually run day to day. One thing that stood out to him: how little many processes have evolved. Many workflows still rely on legacy processes, simply because that’s how things have always been done.
In practice, that often means chasing information across multiple stakeholders, entering the same data more than once, or looping in several people to resolve a single issue—sometimes delaying an entire project over something small.
But things are changing. New technology is replacing fragmented, manual workflows with more connected, data-driven ways of working. And field teams are feeling the difference. Less time tracking down information. Fewer delays from missing or outdated data.
As Aaron puts it, “Construction is at an inflection point right now.” Expectations are changing. A new generation is pushing back on long-standing processes, while tighter timelines, increasing costs, and quality demands are accelerating the need for better solutions.
From OpenSpace user to the OpenSpace team
Aaron experienced this shift directly. In his previous role, he was introduced to OpenSpace. After using it on a project, he saw how this technology not only meant a way to completely document your project, it meant a faster way to log issues with visual context. A way to stop re-entering the same information across systems, and all in a platform built around how field teams actually work. He made the move from the field to OpenSpace because he’d spent years inside the processes that needed fixing, and now had a chance to fix them.
His message to anyone in the field: your frustrations are being heard, and OpenSpace is built to address them. The issues teams deal with every day, from disconnected data to slow issue resolution, are exactly what drove Aaron here and what the platform is designed to solve.
The goal is straightforward: make day-to-day work simpler. Less time spent on manual tasks and coordination means more time to focus on the actual build. And in an industry known for long hours and demanding schedules, that also means creating more space for what happens outside the jobsite.
Learn more
- Watch our quick video with Aaron Baker.
- See what Aaron experienced on his former project, and what brought him here. Request an OpenSpace demo.
