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Despite its impressive size over $186 billion dollars in 2022 – Mexico's construction industry continues to face great challenges such as:
Fragmented Communication.
Inefficiency hinders project completion times and budgets, even as the market itself experiences a projected slowdown, with an AAGR of less than 1% expected between 2024-2027 (GlobalData).
Enter Buildpeer.
Buildpeer is a construction project management software on a mission to bring real-time collaboration to the forefront of the industry, specifically designed for construction teams to work together seamlessly.
The Seed
Mauricio Valdes, founder of Buildpeer, found his inspiration in 2018 while interning at Build Group, a private construction company in the San Francisco Bay Area. His involvement in numerous projects across the Bay Area opened his eyes to the numerous obstacles encountered in large-scale infrastructure development, particularly the communication hurdles among various subcontractors. This experience was further amplified when he returned to Mexico and worked on a significant hotel project in Monterrey, underscoring the challenges he had observed in the United States.
“In this project (Hotel Project in Monterrey), Teams were relying on WhatsApp and Slack which are limited for communication purposes, while for document sharing they were using Google Drive and Dropbox but this softwares didn't handle workflows, and finally some Larger companies were using project management tools such as Basecamp, Monday, Notion, Asana, etc., which are not specialized for construction management. I knew there had to be a better solution” - Mauricio Valdes
Customer-Driven Growth
Valdes leads with a customer-centric approach, prioritizing user feedback to continuously adapt and improve the software. Buildpeer initially targeted small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), but has successfully expanded to serve mid-market and enterprise clients as the platform's capabilities matured.
