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Industry insiders only. Currently selecting investment from people with deep field and PM leadership experience. If you have not run construction work or sat inside a contracting business, this is probably not the round for you.
// The Ask

The category has no owner.
We intend to.

$6.2M Pre-Seed SAFE. Delaware C-Corp. The product is live. Drift detection is validated. We are building this with or without this round. The question is whether you're part of it.

// The Deal

Pre-Seed SAFE, open round.

Round
$6.2M
Instrument
Pre-Seed SAFE
Entity
Delaware C-Corp
Stage
Live product • validated drift
18-mo target
$2M ARR • 30 customers
Payback
2–3 months
// The Frame

Construction does not have a software problem.
It has a memory problem.

500,000 project docs per job. A single 5-page document holds 200–400 decision-making data points. The best PM in the world can hold 8–20 in their head at one time. That is not a workflow problem, it is a cognitive load crisis, and it is burning the margin of every contractor in America. The industry loses $177B annually to it.

DPM is the first system that never forgets, and reminds you at the perfect time, every time.

// Why this founder

The methodology wasn't designed.
It was built in the field for 27 years.

Matthew Smith, Founder & CEO. Started in the trades in 1998. Journeyman → Foreman → PM. Hospitals, process pipe, data centers, industrial MEP. Built the reconciliation methodology manually on every job. K-37 QP • Licensed Journeyman Plumber • NVIDIA Inception • AWS Marketplace.

// Momentum

The market is not waiting.

The people who know this industry best are already in.

✓ 6 Meetings Active

Leading MEP Contractor

$200M active work • $70M hospital • $1B backlog

An industry voice on prefabrication and preconstruction software. Currently presenting DPM success at conferences. Willing to go directly to ownership to advance the relationship.

Someone with $1B in backlog does not go to six meetings for a product they are not serious about.
✓ Live Usage

MEP Service Shop

Active deployment • producing results

A service shop is currently running DPM on a limited basis. The product is in the field, being used by a real team, on real work. Not a POC. Not a conversation. Live.

DPM is not a pitch. It is a product that is already working.
✓ SAFE Signed

BIM Department Director

Domain expert • capital committed

A sitting Director of a BIM department heard the pitch and signed a SAFE agreement. This person has spent their career inside the exact problem DPM solves.

The first check did not come from a fund. It came from someone who knows exactly what this replaces.
// The Market

No one owns this category yet.

TAM
$500B+
US MEP annual subcontract scope at risk.
SAM
$80–120B
Large-scale critical infrastructure, hospitals, data centers, aviation, government.
SOM
$10–30B
Top 500 MEP contractors • $50K–$150K ACV • 5-year horizon.

Path to $10M ARR: 100 contractors × $100K avg ACV. Less than 10% penetration of the addressable base.

// Business Model

B2B SaaS • two-year contracts • payback in 2–3 months.

SMB
$18K–$36K/yr
Contractor tier • 5–15 seats • 2-yr TCV $36K–$72K.
MID
$48K–$96K/yr
Mid-Market • 16–35 seats • 2-yr TCV $96K–$192K.
ENT
$150K–$250K/yr
Enterprise • 35–60 seats • 2-yr TCV $300K–$500K. Validated through direct Enterprise customer conversations.

Closeout Archive: $50K–$110K per year per customer. Triggers at project closeout. Zero incremental dev cost. Foundation for post-closeout facilities intelligence. LTV:CAC ratio: 16:1 to 97:1.

// Use of Funds

Where the capital goes.

45%
Product & Dev
Core platform • drift engine • new functionality every 45 days.
30%
Sales & Revenue
Founder-led sales • pilot-to-paid • 30-customer pipeline.
15%
Customer Success
Onboarding • implementation • success-to-renewal.
10%
Operations
Legal • AWS • NVIDIA • SeedLegals • insurance.
// The Team

One practitioner built the methodology.
This team builds the technology.

Matthew Smith
Founder & CEO
27 years MEP field → PM. Journeyman → K-37 QP. Built the reconciliation methodology on every job.
Jigang Wang, PhD
Chief AI Officer
Brown University • 15+ yrs enterprise AI • 12 patents • NLP + Computer Vision.
Ali U.
Lead Full Stack
8+ yrs • built RAG pipelines for 5,000+ law firms • architected DPM core.
Daiki Fujii
Frontend & UI
Rust, NestJS, AWS Serverless • PM dashboards • field mobile UX.
DevOps Engineer
Infrastructure
AWS Certified • MS AI/ML • 5 yrs enterprise cloud infrastructure.

We are not raising to find out if this works. We are raising because it already does.

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Matthew Smith • msmith@hc-build.com • 602.339.2395

This page describes a private financing round and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Any offering will be made only to qualified investors pursuant to definitive transaction documents. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties.