About The Blocks — Construction Software for Small Businesses

Most construction management software is priced and designed for enterprise general contractors — multi-level approval workflows, document control departments, ERP integration hubs. Those are real problems at that scale. They're not most of the industry. 83% of US construction businesses have fewer than 20 employees, and most of them are still running bids in Excel and writing proposals in Word.

The Blocks is one product: takeoffs, AI estimating, budgets, branded proposals, cost catalog, and CRM — all in one platform, configured around how small construction firms actually work. No tiered upsells. No "Enterprise" sales motion. One plan that ships with every feature, priced at $119 per seat on annual billing.

We're a four-person founding team with backgrounds in software, AI, infrastructure, and security. We believe in long-term customer relationships, not transactional sales — that means we visit customers in person, take feedback at trade events, ship updates weekly based on what we hear, and stake our reputation on partnerships that compound over years. Small contractors are owners, operators, and estimators all in one person; we design around how they actually run their day, not around what enterprise procurement teams demand.

The Blocks is an early-stage company building AI-powered construction software for the small-contractor segment — a market with roughly 700,000 US construction firms under 20 employees, most of them still running bids in spreadsheets.

We're focused on traction with small contractors and subs before expanding upward. If you invest in vertical SaaS, applied AI, or construction-adjacent tools and want to learn more, we'd love to hear from you.

We expect investors to be partners — long-term ones. We're not interested in services-for-equity arrangements or transactional intros to portfolio companies in exchange for fees. We want investors who go deep with us, help build market presence over years, and pick their bets carefully — the same way we pick ours.

We don't do one-minute pitches over coffee. We'll do them from stage if that's the format, but we don't shortcut the conversation that matters. We spend hours with customers understanding what they actually need before we build it; we ask the same from investors — time invested in understanding the product, the strategy, and the segment we're targeting. If that's how you operate, we'd love to hear from you — feel free to reach out anytime.