From Drones to AI Ops
I started with a drone controller in my hands — sUAS surveys, photogrammetry, LiDAR. Deep in construction technology before "construction tech" was a LinkedIn category. That work pulled me into the data side of the industry. 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 fixing the systems underneath. Cost codes. Estimates that could be reused. Budgets that updated in real time. JobTread implementations that actually stuck. Then AI arrived and changed the equation entirely — not by replacing estimators or PMs, but by removing the 40% of a PM's week that shouldn't require a PM at all.
GO First is built on 10+ years of watching builders scale, fail, and scale again — and every hard-won system we've extracted from the ones who figured it out. We bring all of it to $1.5M–$15M builders who are ready to stop being the bottleneck in their own company.
