While Butler Si made arrangements to deal with Sam, the person in question is knee deep in research.
But he has to come out of it because, Grivon is asking so many doubts about the business and their strategy. Only when he once again met with him after this week did he understand, how much Grivon has done and how fast he managed to move.
Within a week, he established a factory with people to forge cylinders and people to draw the required inscriptions and finally the people to assemble and test the product properly.
He had done all of this in a week. Maybe the pre-existence of the building might have helped a lot, but it is still faster than Sam had expected. But on top of that, he actually had teams currently discussing deals with three different organizations.