BuildOps

This is a big one. ACG Los Angeles recognized BuildOps with this year’s Industry Transformation award, and we’re fired up 🔥. Huge moment for us and the work we’re doing to help contractors. Shoutout to our team, customers, and partners who are building this with us. 💚

Our CEO @AlokChanani just made the @LABJnews 2026 LA500 — the most influential leaders in Los Angeles. Army captain → tech founder → 1,500+ contractors trusting @BuildOps. The trades built this city. We're here to make sure they have the tools to keep going 👇

Most project tools were built for the GC. Not for the specialty contractors actually doing the work. That’s why we built Projects. A project system built for the trades. buildops.com/platform/proje…

Big news: Dzmitry Markovich joins BuildOps as our new CTO. He scaled engineering at Dropbox through its IPO, led the function at Apollo.io, and has been advising us since 2023. Now he's here to build what's next for OpsAI and the trades. bit.ly/48CcRSk

You were there. You remember. THE event made for commercial contractors, and it's coming back. Lock in your ticket before early bird ends May 6. Save some 🤑. And if you weren't there? Be in this photo next time. Forge 26. November 4–6. San Diego. buildops.com/events/forge/?…

You shouldn’t have to spend your nights stitching together Dailies just to figure out what got done. From To-do to Done shows how crew level reports, tasks & drawings all roll into one workflow so the job tells on itself. Hit the link & grab a spot bit.ly/4tg5APr

Day 4 of #NationalApprenticeshipWeek is about what real mentorship looks like. Greg Crumpton (40+ years in HVAC) is backing 20-year-old tech Henry Kneeland as he builds his career. One mentor, one apprentice.

Day 3 of #NAW2026 : Brooke Liang, steam fitting and welding apprentice. She walked away from a nursing track, found welding and steamfitting, and helped start Sisterhood of Trades so women in the trades don’t have to do it alone.

Day 2 of #NationalApprenticeshipWeek: Karly Rolls Hoehn, Rolls Mechanical. Her take on “I can’t find anyone good”: you have to build them. Rolls keeps apprentices on-site year-round, brings in interns every summer, & has leaders who started as shop hands & worked their way up.

Kicking off National Apprenticeship Week #NAW2026 with Angie Simon. After leading Western Allied Mechanical, she co-founded Heavy Metal Summer Experience and put high school students on real jobsites across 51 camps in North America.

This year’s spring cleaning list: • The “don’t erase this” corner of the whiteboard • Stacks of printed job and cost spreadsheets • Every work order that only exists on paper Box up the old system and kick it to the curb. What’s the first thing you’d toss in the box? 🧽

If we keep selling HVAC as “hot roofs and hard days,” we’ll keep losing the next gen. On Commercial Grade, Curtis Perry Jr. shows how that same work can turn into controls, chillers, boilers, project management, sales, and leadership. youtu.be/ahiYd5EhZJ0

Weak cost controls on small jobs? Manageable. On larger projects? One thing goes sideways and the boulder's already in motion. The best contractors read it in the first 25%, not the last. Full conversation here: youtube.com/watch?v=hRuRAH…

Three open jobs. Twelve techs. One dispatcher making the right call in under a minute. That's what happens when OpsAI pulls skills, certs, and distance — and recommends the best fit before you have to think twice. bit.ly/488YDYP

April is that customer who calls you in the rain and expects you to remember every nut and bolt on the unit. OpsAI Smart Asset Recap pulls the whole story on your phone in a couple taps so you fix instead of guess.

“Pressures look good” is table stakes. In our new Commercial Grade ep, Curtis Perry Jr. walks through how he really runs a no-cool call: superheat, subcooling, airflow, filters, cleanup, and hunting for the quiet issues that blow up later. youtu.be/ahiYd5EhZJ0

A breakup letter to every whiteboard holding a multi-million-dollar project together with dry-erase markers and a prayer. Swipe through. Tag someone who's still in this relationship.

The book that secretly designs BuildOps. Fast Company tapped our Head of Design, Roger Wong, to share his most influential business read. fastcompany.com/91520886/23-le…

Philly contractors: trade the jobsite for The Bank on May 1. Breakfast & lunch on us, real-talk roundtables, and a backstage tour of the Home of the Phillies with the sharpest shops in the region. Lock in your spot now, this one’s going to be good. 🔗 buildops.com/citizens-bank-…