Of the more than 2.3 million miles of paved roads in the U.S., 94% are done with asphalt, with airports and parking lots adding more to contractors’ annual workload. While highly dependent on weather, quality of work put-in-place and other factors, pavement projects have stayed notably unintelligent—despite the explosion of big data and business analytics in other areas of construction. “Working outside [on an] average day there are so many variables that affect us, from the weather to making decisions on operations to be a go or no go,” explains Bryce Wuori, CEO and co-founder of Pavewise, a software-as-a-service provider that recently closed a $2.5-million seed round. “Can we get our quality and our requirements on this particular day because it’s really cold and windy?” Pavewise provides data to paving contractors through its SaaS platform so they can better monitor projects. Wuori worked with contractors as a paving consultant for 10 years before launching Pavewise in 2023.…