The people behind the numbers
Our Team & Authors
StartBuild’s estimates and cost guides are built and reviewed by people who work in construction cost data every day. Meet the team responsible for the technology and the methodology.
Three decades in residential construction, turned into honest, line-item answers to one hard question: what will this house actually cost to build?
Line-item new-construction budgetingMaterial quality tiers & value engineeringFoundations, site work & soft costsCustom & modified plan estimatingRegional cost variation across the U.S. & Canada
Two decades building the technology and cost database behind StartBuild — the systems that turn any house plan and a ZIP code into a localized, line-item construction estimate.
Cost-estimation enginesConstruction cost-data pipelinesFull-stack & platform engineeringMobile & web applicationsScaling data systems
Content management at StartBuild.
Cost to Build specialist at StartBuild.
Computer Science grad focused on database management, web development, and customer digital services at StartBuild.
Database managementWeb developmentTech designCustomer digital services