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Tim Wolter spent 15 years running construction and industrial operations — active job sites, real crews, real consequences. He learned how companies actually work by being the guy responsible when they didn't.

Then came the incident. A communication breakdown between systems that didn't talk to each other put a friend in the hospital and cost the company $4 million. Everyone involved was competent. Every tool involved was "industry standard." The failure was in the gaps between them — and Tim realized nobody was building for the gaps.

So he walked away from a $200K+ career to build it himself.

He started building DealVue the day he got out of surgery — coding from a rolling desk over the couch, at 4 A.M., because he literally couldn't sit at a chair. The whole year is documented in his memoir, The Last Year.

The engine thesis isn't theoretical. Tim built Axion himself, built SafetyVue on it, then — while raising SafetyVue's round — built DealVue on the same engine. Seven months after incorporation: 286 customers. Same founder, same engine, second company. The engine ships companies.

The first year nearly broke us.

No safety net, no incubator polish, a family betting on an idea. What came out of that year was a rule we still build by: if it doesn't survive contact with a real job site, a real budget, and a real Tuesday afternoon, it doesn't ship.

We're not a consultancy that read about your industry. We're operators who lived it, building the tools we wished we'd had.