From Drones to AI Ops
I didn't start in an office. I started with a drone controller in my hands, doing sUAS surveys on job sites — photogrammetry, LiDAR, 3D point clouds. I was deep in construction technology before "construction tech" was a category people put on their LinkedIn.
That work pulled me into the data side of the industry — how buildings were measured, modeled, and tracked. And the more time I spent on job sites, the more I saw the same problem everywhere: brilliant builders running companies with systems designed for companies half their size.
"They weren't failing because of the market or the economy. They were failing because they'd never been given the operating manual for a construction company that was supposed to grow."
So I moved from capturing job site data to helping builders fix the systems underneath their companies. Cost codes that actually mapped to how they did work. Estimates that could be reused instead of rebuilt from scratch. Budgets that updated in real time instead of after the job was done. Daily logs that happened every day, not just when someone remembered.
The technology evolved. I went from helping builders organize their data to helping them automate the work — Zapier, custom workflows, JobTread implementations that stuck. And then AI arrived and changed everything again.
I spent two years figuring out where AI actually fits in a construction company — not the hype, but the real, field-tested applications. The answer wasn't replacing estimators or project managers. It was removing the 40% of a PM's week that shouldn't require a PM at all.
That's what GO First is built on: 10+ years of watching builders scale, failing, scale again — and every hard-won system we've extracted from the ones who figured it out. We bring all of that to $500K–$5M builders who are ready to stop being the bottleneck in their own company.
