The construction management industry has a problem. Too many firms sell bodies, not outcomes. We started Trajanus to prove there’s a better way — fewer people, better tools, superior results.
The Problem
Walk into any large construction management firm and you’ll see the same thing: rows of desks, stacks of binders, and a business model built on billing hours. The more people they assign to your project, the more they bill. There’s no incentive to be efficient. There’s no incentive to build systems that make people more productive. The incentive is to add headcount.
We’ve watched this model fail for 30 years. Projects run over budget. Submittals take weeks instead of days. RFIs pile up because nobody has a system to track them. Quality control is a checkbox exercise instead of a real program. And the client pays for all of it — every inefficiency, every duplicated effort, every meeting that could have been an email.
The Trajanus Approach
We built Trajanus on a different premise: a small team with the right infrastructure beats a large team without it. Every time.
Our Enterprise Hub isn’t a bolt-on tool — it’s the foundation of how we operate. A 34,000+ chunk knowledge base that makes every team member as knowledgeable as a 30-year veteran. AI-augmented document review that catches discrepancies humans miss. Real-time dashboards that give project leads visibility without requiring status meetings.
The result: 12 specialists delivering what traditionally takes 40 people. Not by working harder — by working smarter, with better tools.
Why Now
The technology to do this has existed for years. What hasn’t existed is the willingness to rebuild construction management from the ground up. Most firms are too invested in the old model. Their revenue depends on headcount. Their partners’ compensation is tied to utilization rates. They can’t change even if they wanted to.
We don’t have that problem. We built Trajanus specifically to prove that ENGINEERED INTELLIGENCE™ — the combination of deep experience and purpose-built technology — delivers better outcomes at lower cost. And we’re proving it every day, on projects from Alaska to the Marshall Islands.
The Standard
The name Trajanus comes from the Roman emperor who built more infrastructure than any leader in history. Roads, aqueducts, bridges, harbors — built to last centuries. That’s our standard. Not just getting it done, but getting it done right.
Construction management doesn’t have to be a headcount game. It can be a precision operation. That’s what we built. That’s what we deliver.