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Good day guys, I'm Austin Kruah and an Industrial and Manufacturing Engineer that is developing a small construction company...I just got my second contract. I'm so excited to be here and to learn more from everyone.

Hi all, happy to join! I’ve worked on construction sites and in rail roles. Here to learn, connect, and find new opportunities. Looking forward to being part of the community.

I'm keen to hear who everybody is, and what their goals are I assume you already know who I am. But if you don't I'm Tim. I worked for 8 years for big contractors on road, rail, renewable energy projects. I've always worked for head-contractors. I recently worked for some smaller contractors as a consultant when I left my job doing estimating and contract management. It was good, but I found it hard to see a path to scale (other than just starting a contracting business myself) So I instead decided to build software, and found that that's 100x harder than I thought and a very easy way to lose money