Our Story
We built the tool we needed.
Steve ran construction businesses for twenty years before he wrote a line of this with us. He’d already built rough versions of CheckIT inside his own companies — because nothing on the market did the job. Then he found Garrett and Allan, and we built the real thing.
The Manifesto
Follow the money. Just CheckIT.
Making money in construction is hard.
Knowing how you’re making money — and how you’re losing it — is harder. Every penny matters. And every penny compounds. Across lengths. Materials. Projects. Months. Into lost profit.
We’re building CheckIT to be a painkiller for construction finance.
We’ve lived the pain ourselves. Verifying invoices. Leveling bids to choose the right suppliers. Pulling item prices together for an estimate. Figuring out what a change order actually changed.
And you’re stuck. Either with generic business tools that weren’t built for construction, or with enterprise software that’s too expensive, too complex, and takes a year to learn. What you need are tools. Tools that work for the job you’re doing right now. No fuss. No delay. No learning curve. Just grab what you need to finish the job.
It drove us mad. Mad enough to build our own tool. Determined enough to test it on our own businesses until it just worked. Dedicated enough to make sure it works on a construction business like yours — whether you’re the local plumbing shop or the biggest heavy civil outfit on the coast.
You feel the pain in your business every day. You also see it in every piece of software you’ve signed up for in the past five years that didn’t quite live up to the hype. So why go through the headache of replacing another thing?
Don’t. Keep working how you already work.
In five minutes, turn on the CheckIT engine and use it like the work truck with 200,000 miles on it. Drag. Drop. Process. Generate. Done. Profit saved. Hours back in your hand. Headache avoided. Team happier.
We’re going to keep building CheckIT specifically for construction project finance. Nothing else. No sidetracks. No drift into other verticals.
You can try CheckIT in less time than it takes to track down that quote from six months ago.
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What we believe
Tools, not platforms.
Your team isn’t paid to learn another complex system. We build focused tools for the job in front of you — one engine underneath, but the surface stays simple.
Construction project finance. Only.
We’re not chasing other verticals. We’re not pivoting to general AP. Construction project finance is what we do, and it’s the only thing we do.
Don’t replace anything.
Keep your ERP. Keep your AP tool. Keep your PM software. CheckIT sits on top. Five-minute setup. No integration. No IT.
Every flag is provable.
When the engine flags an overcharge, it shows you the exact line, the source document, and the dollar amount. Nothing is a black box. Every dispute holds up.
Three operators.
Twenty years in construction. Fifteen years in document intelligence. One vertical SaaS exit. We’ve each lived a different side of the problem we’re solving.
Steve Silva
CSO · Head of Revenue & Customer Growth
20+ years as a construction owner-operator in the SF Bay Area. Built and sold four companies. Angel investor behind the in-house tool that became CheckIT — because nothing on the market did the job.
Garrett Nelson
CEO · Head of Operations & Strategy
Vertical SaaS operations leader. Led Vista Equity value-creation initiatives and the M&A integration office at Mindbody, and ran product launches for Samsung divisions. Grew up in construction.
Allan Stratton
CTO · Head of Intelligence & Product Tech
Multi-patent inventor in document intelligence. Former Chief Architect at Nuance and Head of Innovations for OCR and document tech. Principal Architect at Petra Construction.
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