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Notes from the Tailgate
Jobsites, crews, estimating, and the software we build for them — written by the contractor who builds it.
August 5, 2026
My price was my price
I was the busiest erector around and nearly broke. One decision changed my company, my family, and my life — overnight.
Read it →August 1, 2026
Who's paying for my diesel?
The highest fill-up of my life, what a hurricane taught the crane companies twenty years ago, and an honest question for every subcontractor watching the pump.
Read it →July 25, 2026
I once sent a proposal by fax from the roof of a sugar mill
Thirty years of trying to get jobsite paperwork to work — flip-phone faxes, foremen with fax machines, homemade servers — and what finally stuck.
Read it →July 20, 2026
Why a metal building contractor built his own apps
The paperwork never worked the way the work did. So after decades of running crews, I built the tools myself.
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