Dirk van der Velde

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · When Your Systems Don’t Match Your Strategy with Dirk van der Velde · 28 May 2025 podcast

And I remember nights.

So when we had four employees, I remember we'd work all day because, you know, no matter what, all your other operational things are still there.

We'd work all day and then we

would remember we'd come in let's say it was the the 25th head so we'd usually come in around like the first let's say the first is that we have to get these draws out by the fifth so we can get paid right and so we work all day come home go to go home and eat dinner put the kids to sleep and go

Drive to the gas station, grab a couple Red Bulls, and boom, at 9 p.m., me and my right-hand guy, Connor, who's also my best friend, we'd start working from 9 to 12, doing those inputs, doing exactly what we said.

Into the inbox, into QuickBooks, right?

Because there's no way around it.

There's no way around it until we found, actually, until we found Adaptive.

And we finally found a way to leverage that super manual input.

We found a way to now leverage it.

And Adaptive actually does it all for us now, which is pretty cool.

i'll say two two components of it we realize the way we we hired and run our construction company is we have what i would call like a younger office so tech based younger office because we want to be able to produce you know use technology to our advantage to produce things and then everybody in the field so all of our superintendents have 25 plus years 20 25 plus years

of experience leading the in the field stuff that's how we structured it but when we looked operationally even though that was how we set up the business our performance on that was i would call it a c minus or d so our technology adoption was really low for having that be called the business strategy the execution was really poor and so we just decided to actively start working on that are we using we're paying for pro car are we using all the tools properly and we just added that and we said no we're we're c minus so we got to take this we want to be the best we're going to take it to an a

We did that.

And then we looked around quite a bit because we did identify one of the main heavy lifting components, just manual input components, was that invoicing.

And we have our SOPs for it, right?

What we want it done daily, weekly, and monthly for that.

But it was all mainly based still on a manual input.

We had our Excel sheet, we had our QuickBooks, but it was still just manual.

And

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