The Construct Group

The Construct Group is a retail fixture installation company. National footprint. 50+ workers in the field at any given time. Projects spanning every major retail chain you've walked into.

When we met them, the business ran on spreadsheets for labor forecasting, manual purchase order processing, inventory tracked by memory and phone calls, scheduling that lived in someone's head, and a dozen disconnected tools that didn't talk to each other.

The operations worked. They'd been working for years. But the manual overhead was enormous. Every project manager spent hours on administrative tasks that should have taken minutes. Information moved through the company at the speed of email. Decisions were made with incomplete data because pulling complete data took too long.

Before the platform, TCG's project managers spent much of their day on administrative work: compiling labor forecasts by hand, processing purchase orders manually, tracking inventory through phone calls and spreadsheets, and assembling reports from disconnected systems.

After deployment, those workflows moved into a single integrated system. Labor forecasting that used to require manual data compilation runs automatically. Purchase orders that involved multiple steps of manual entry and approval routing now flow through the system in minutes. Inventory is tracked in real time instead of reconciled after the fact. Financial data, project status, and operational metrics are all available in one place without anyone having to assemble them.

The AI agent team handles daily executive operations: morning intelligence briefs, email triage, meeting preparation, and operational monitoring. TCG's leadership gets a synthesized view of the business every morning before their day starts, built from actual system data rather than someone's summary.

The results led TCG to come on as an equity partner. Ben Barnes, TCG's CEO, now actively refers other operators to 1404.