Collin Graves

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ABOUT COLLIN GRAVES

I grew up in construction. Started pulling wire for my dad\'s electrical company when I was 14. My extended family worked in and owned manufacturing firms across the Midwest. I\'ve been around the trades my whole life.Today, most construction companies are sitting on a decade or more of project data — bids, change orders, sub performance, cost history — and getting almost nothing from it.Their PMs are pasting proprietary pricing into ChatGPT because the productivity gain is too real to ignore. Every time they do, that data lands on a server they don\'t control, training a model they don\'t own. The big consulting firms will charge you millions to solve this and then panic when they realize construction data isn\'t clean and structured like they\'re used to.I build private intelligence systems for builders. The data stays on dedicated hardware you control. No cloud AI provider ever sees it. The system learns your subs, your cost patterns, your risk history, and your market — and it gets sharper with every project. After a year, it knows your business in ways that would take a new hire a decade to learn. After three, it\'s irreplaceable.Serving with USAF & NATO Special Operations teams taught me that clarity, discipline, and stage-gated execution are the difference between success and failure. Those lessons are the foundation of everything I build today. Fifteen years of building and advising businesses later, North Labs is working with some of the largest general contractors and developers in the country to turn their project history into competitive advantage — on infrastructure they own, with intelligence that compounds over time.If you\'re a GC or specialty contractor wondering what your data is actually worth, I\'m happy to have that conversation. No pitch deck. Just a straightforward look at what\'s possible with information you already own.