Who We Serve / Construction
Growth strategy for contractors who want to be built for what comes next
General contractors, specialty trades and engineering firms use Optimize to choose their markets, protect margin, build the next generation of leaders and plan succession.
Your team knows how to run projects. The question is where the company goes next.
Construction companies are built around the job in front of them. Backlog, bids and crews take every hour of the week. The strategic questions wait: which markets to chase, which customers to fire, when to add a division, and who runs the company in ten years.
Optimize gives contractor leadership teams the time, data and structure to answer those questions together. The result is a plan that sets bid discipline, market focus and leadership development alongside the backlog.
Decisions we help contractors make
- Market focus: public works, healthcare, education, industrial or multifamily, and how much of each
- Margin: bid-hit discipline, self-perform versus subcontract, and fee strategy
- Diversification: new trades, service and maintenance revenue, and geographic expansion
- Leadership and succession: project managers into executives, and owners into a planned exit
- Scalability: estimating, project controls and technology sized to the growth plan
The national market, by the numbers
- Construction: $2.9 trillion in 2022 receipts 8.0% a year growth since 2017 across 782,487 firms, 7,313 of them with $50M or more in revenue.
- Construction of Buildings: $1.2 trillion in 2022 receipts 8.9% a year growth since 2017 across 247,651 firms, 3,076 of them with $50M or more in revenue.
- Specialty Trade Contractors: $1.3 trillion in 2022 receipts 7.9% a year growth since 2017 across 500,271 firms, 3,203 of them with $50M or more in revenue.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Statistics of U.S. Businesses 2017 and 2022. Nominal dollars.
Size your own segment →Results
- $500K in incremental revenue in the first yearA regional contractor that went on to become the largest privately owned company in its space after three years of planning.
Optimize guided us through a management transition, helped us to set up a long-term growth plan and put our team in a position to be the best version of ourselves.Chris Lindsay, RDM General Contractors
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