Webinar
The AI Maintenance Race: Whoever Moves First, Wins
Duration: 1 hour
Published on: September 02, 2026

Tom James is a Computerized Maintenance Management Administrator at Axon. His team was hand-filtering spreadsheet exports to count $1,000 spare parts and rebuilding near-duplicate PM schedules for every new manufacturing cell, so he built two apps to handle both, without writing a line of code.
In this live webinar Tom joins UpKeep CEO and Founder Ryan Chan to explain what changed once his team had it.
UpKeep Staff Product Manager Spencer Nelson will build a working app live on screen so you can see what the timeline looks like now that AI does the heavy lifting.
The session covers where AI is putting pressure on maintenance teams, what happens to the build-versus-buy decision when building gets cheap, and what your team does with the hours that come back.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Why the competitive pressure from AI lands on maintenance teams first, and what it costs to wait a year
- How the build-versus-buy math changed, and when building beats adding another point solution to your stack
- What it takes to replace the point solutions already in your stack with functions built into your core system
- Where your team's time is going to manual work today, and who on your team is positioned to fix it once they can describe an app instead of code it
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