Fifteen years running crews, projects and operations. The AI and automation that took one contractor from 30 people to 130 without a software team. Now built for your business.
Email arrives, the terms are read and extracted, the file lands in the right folder, the log updates, and the right three people get a message. Nobody touches it.
Each of these has a fix that does not need a software team. We have built every one of them.
Someone reads it, retypes the terms into a log, files it, and emails three people. Then does it again for the next one.
Leadership sees labor and billing after the month is over, when the hiring decision has already been made by default.
The office calls the vendor. Nobody writes it down, so nobody knows what is on site or what it is costing.
Projects in one sheet, manpower in another, service tickets in a third. None of them agree, and the owner's view is whatever got emailed last.
Replit · Claude · Postgres
BeforeProjects, manpower, service tickets, change orders and estimating each lived in their own spreadsheet. Nobody's numbers matched.
AfterOne platform, role-based, used company-wide by a 130-person electrical and solar contractor. Built in-house with no software team.
Make.com · Claude · Smartsheet · Slack
BeforeA contract arrives as a PDF. Someone reads it, retypes the terms, files it, updates the log and tells three people. Hours of admin per contract.
AfterThe terms are read and extracted, the file lands in the right folder, the log updates and the right people get a message. Minutes, and nobody opens the PDF.
Excel · Smartsheet · HTML
BeforeLabor demand was a conversation in the Monday meeting. Hiring and billing surprises showed up once they were already problems.
AfterA roster-driven forecast with a live dashboard: six months of labor demand and billing visible before it happens, with gap analysis across every open project.
Salesforce · SOP · monitoring integrations
BeforeService calls landed wherever they landed: phone, email, a tech's memory. Six inverter platforms, each checked by hand.
AfterFour visit types, a dispatcher role built around the ticket system, and fleet monitoring across all six platforms. Designed on paper first, then tooled.
Slack · Make.com
BeforeCrews called or texted the office for dumpsters, toilets and storage. The office chased the vendor and nobody logged it.
AfterCrews order from their phone through Slack. The order goes out and gets logged, and the office stops chasing calls and texts.
Case studies with numbers are available on request and shared with permission from the companies involved.
Video conversations with six to ten of your people, a map of how work actually moves, an opportunity scorecard, a 90-day roadmap, and one quick win shipped before the readout.
$6,500fixedDesigned with the people who do the work, built in your accounts, tested by your staff doing their real jobs over screen share, handed off with an SOP, a two-minute video and a 30-day warranty.
$15,000 – $35,000fixed scopeMonitoring and alert response, platform and AI-model updates, bug fixes, access changes, backups checked, and a monthly health-check note. A banked hour allowance each month, response targets in writing, month to month.
$500 · $1,250 · $2,500per month, three tiersA weekly operations review on video, a backlog that ships two to four improvements a month, and a one-page scorecard in hours saved and cycle time.
$5,000 – $9,000per monthSmaller jobs: a Wire-Up connects two systems you already use, one step of a workflow, $3,500. Training: half-day and full-day AI workshops for your team over video, $2,500 to $6,000. Everything is fixed scope with written change orders and delivered remotely. Your systems live in your accounts from day one.
I'm Blaze Graham. Army veteran, fifteen-plus years across field construction, project management and operations leadership, most recently as Director of Business Operations for an electrical and solar contractor that grew from $10M to $70M while I was there.
I started building software because nobody was going to build it for us. The platform our company runs on, the automations that handle our contracts, the forecasts leadership reads every week: I built them, with AI, inside a company, for the people who had to use them. Backbrief is that work, offered to businesses that have the same problem we had.
The method is the same everywhere: define the end state, work backward, rehearse it with the people who do the work, measure what changed. The industry supplies the details. The conversations supply everything else.
No. Every system on this page was built inside a contractor with no software engineers on staff, with AI tooling and the platforms the company already paid for. That is the whole premise.
Whichever is faster. If a tool you already have does the job, we turn it on and wire it up. We build only when nothing off the shelf fits the way your people work.
You do. Everything is built in your accounts from day one and handed off with an SOP and a two-minute video. It keeps running whether or not we keep working together.
Every build carries a 30-day warranty after acceptance. On day 31 you choose: the Care Plan, a monthly hour bank with monitoring, updates and fixes from $500 a month, or hourly change orders as things come up.
Every engagement is fixed scope, written down and signed before work starts. Anything outside it is a change order you approve first. Platform subscriptions are yours; a Build Sprint carries a $400 allowance for anything we stand up during the build.
The Assessment ships one quick win before the readout, so something is running inside three weeks. A Build Sprint hands off a full workflow in four to six.
Six to ten of your people for one video conversation each, a look at the systems you actually use, and one person who can say yes. The Build Sprint adds your staff testing the real thing over screen share.
No. Interviews, mapping, testing, workshops and readouts run over video and screen share, on your calendar. Your people stay at their own desks with their own tools, which is where the work has to run anyway.
Bring the workflow that frustrates you most. We'll walk it end to end on a screen share, count the hours and handoffs out loud, and you'll leave knowing whether an Assessment is worth it.
Book a 30-minute callEvery engagement runs remotely: interviews, mapping, testing, workshops and readouts over video and screen share, on your calendar.