Jan 26’ GMS V1.0 Live — Final Field Validation Underway

The hardest part of any climb isn’t the first steps — it’s the last stretch before the ridge, where the wind hits harder, exhaustion sets in, and conviction takes over. That's where GMS is right now. This quarter was about crossing the final bridge between BETA testing and paying subscribers: stabilizing the core, improving reliability, and preparing for a commercial rollout that contractors can trust.

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Construction is the second most complained-about industry in the U.S., with surprise costs, scheduling delays, and poor communication topping the list. We're here to change that.
The GMS is a GPS for construction contractors. Simply enter in your project goals, and GMS uses artificial intelligence to mine, analyze, and leverage that contractors historical and real-time data, for machine learned estimates—improving estimating accuracy up to 95%, and the GMS autonomously optimizes their scheduling in real-time—saving contractors up to 35% on labor costs.

💻Product Updates:

GMS is moving from “working features” into a cohesive, interconnected ERP — where each function becomes shared intelligence across the platform. Key product progress this quarter includes:

• The release of Create Bid 2.0, a redesigned estimating experience capturing deeper project detail earlier in the estimating process to better identify downstream workflows.

• Inventory and subcontract modules are being field-tested and stabilizing in live environments

• AI receipt scanning, reduces manual entry while preserving human review and override abilities.

• Improved data architecture, allowing upgrades without disrupting active projects
  
  

📊KPIs & Core Metrics:

Across Q4, BETA testing moved deeper into real workflows, generating insights that directly improved system performance. Notable progress includes:

• A discovery within a primary manufacturer’s estimating calculator that cut estimate input time in half.
  
• Mapping datapoints and formulas to automate Gantt chart task percent-completion to eliminate manual entry.
  
• Validation of workflows spanning estimating, scheduling, accounting, and vendor coordination.
  

GMS was engineered with feature switches and manual overrides — meaning, AI enhances the system without making it fragile. If AI fails, the system doesn’t. This is real security for our users and investors — especially as markets grow cautious about ill-informing or over-promised AI.

💼Business Development:

Our momentum extended well beyond product development. This quarter included:

• Continued investor introductions and diligence conversations.

• Ongoing progress with Lindsay Windows, advancing toward a mutually beneficial partnership.

• Early steps toward board formation, guided by experienced multi-company operators.

• Strengthening onboarding workflows, in preparation for our commercial release.
  
  

😓Challenges:

Progress always brings friction. This quarter’s challenges included:

• Time pressure as launch milestones approached.

• Capital constraints during a traditionally slow fundraising season.

• Repeated investor feedback tied to revenue thresholds rather than product abilities and readiness.
  

Fortunately, that pressure brought clarity. GMS is not an AI hype chasing product. It’s a data-first ERP chassis, designed to support AI as models evolve — not collapse when they change.
That distinction becomes the advantage: GMS isn’t locked into any single model or vendor, so better models can be swapped in without disrupting workflows, while the same continuous data stream keeps compounding value for customers — giving every new model more context and delivering better outcomes over time.

🏆Wins:

Despite the challenges, this quarter delivered meaningful wins:

• GMS released Version 1.0 just before the new year.

• The platform is within months of stability that will justify subscription conversations.

• Delivery speed has increased without sacrificing quality.
  
  

📰Press:

GMS has been asked if we’d be interested to speak at an AI leadership forum in London this May — a gathering of global AI builders, major cloud providers, and institutional investors. This type of visibility reflects growing recognition of GMS as an industry pioneer — and opens doors to high-value strategic partnerships.

💰Finances:

All this progress has a cost — and Q4 made that clear. GMS is operating lean by design, extracting the output of a much larger organization with a fraction of the spend. Still, additional funding remains critical to bridge BETA into full commercial launch. This window — between testing and subscription revenue — is the final bridge before scale. Every dollar raised now accelerates time-to-market and strengthens long-term positioning.

🆘Help Wanted:

We need your help! Momentum compounds when our mission and progress is shared.

• We're looking for warm introductions to investors or industry leaders.

• Please, share GMS content and updates.

• Talk about what GMS is building — and why it matters.
  

Nothing gets disrupted quietly. It changes when people rally for change.

🙏Thank You!

I wanted to share a few special shout outs:

• I met Venk Shukla with Monta VC at TechWeek in San Francisco. Thank you for introductions to investors in our vertical.

• Stephanie Simmons with Profitability Works, an Amazon #1 best seller titled “Building Excellence.” Her business and solutions are sound and proven principles, I would say a must in every construction business (and even in other verticals).

• Scott Williams, for considering having GMS join an informal, non‑commercial AEC tech consortium that he’s forming for pilots and feedback.
  

To our investors, partners, and team — thank you. Your trust and grit have carried us through the hardest miles. We’re past the fog now. The work is visible, the progress is tangible, and the opportunity ahead is one few will ever experience. 

You are awesome and appreciated!
Keep making life wonderful 🙂

-Tommy & the GMS team