For Immediate Release:
Clients, Team Members, and Advisors:
StructSolve Engineering, at its current state and compared to its entire existence, is at its most pivotal moment. We have broken a monthly sales record back to back for the last 4 months straight. Our current record of net income was 160k, and within October’s first week, we have closed 150k. We are on track to decimate a two-year long dream: a Quarter-Million Dollar Month.
I am being as honest as I can about these numbers to help you understand the rare opportunity before us: we have discovered something that the industry has failed to acknowledge: Professional Engineering should be given to the general public, not just to massive corporations, and we seem to be one of the only firms that strive to do this with Truthfullness, Integrity, impartiality, and with Super Service. We are fulfilling our mission statement one day at a time: to be the Best Residential Engineering Firm in the Nation.
Yet, I must be honest, this level of growth is burdensome. To start, we’ve completely changed the executive leadership this year - in major part because of previous partners who couldn’t meaningfully contribute and in minor part because of simple unfaithfulness. When I started this company, I only owned a third of the firm, I now find myself in a position to lead this firm entirely. While I am happy to work with the partial owners and with our branch directors to grow this thing to where it needs to be, this work is exhausting. I am so proud of what we have accomplished and, regardless of my opinions, it is only fair for me to be honest with where our current trajectory stands: We are going to fulfill our mission statement. I am accepting this statement and the anticipated stresses involved with our current destination.
We are going to be in every state. We are going to have physical locations with equipment and trucks for our Engineers and EIT’s to use. We are going to deliver phenomenal service to every client who calls. We are going to make Professional Engineering more accessible than ever. We are going to grow vertically, not just horizontally, which will force me to switch my focus. We are going to hit a quarter million, a half million, and a million dollars a month by the end of next year. We are going to experience a level of success and growth that none of us dreamed possible - and the real reason may surprise you. If I am going to do this, I want to be as clear as possible as to why we are growing as much as we are:
It is because we have faith in God that this will happen. Regardless of your background, I want to challenge every client, coworker, director, and associate to read Hebrews 11, I’ll quote a few parts of it here for your reference:
And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. Women received back their dead, raised to life again. (Hebrews 11)
If these things are possible through faith and if we, as a company generally speaking, would claim faith, then we must believe that these goals that I’ve set before you are so incredibly low for the one who has had His hand on this endeavor since the beginning.
We are not raising people from the dead, we are not shutting the mouths of lions, we are simply making Professional Engineering more accessible to the public. And, regardless of your position, I have the faith that these things will occur. I may not have much faith, but I have been promised that the faith of a mustard seed can move mountains (Matthew 17). We also have evidence that even in our unbelief, God can work miracles (Mark 9).
I may have weaknesses, I may have human limitations, but the One who has carried us this far has not brought us to this place for no reason. We are on a path that even I, in my weaknesses and rebellion, cannot stray from. Admittedly, there is something larger than me that is at play here, and my role is to simply guide us on that path.
I am so proud of each and every one of you. Some specific shoutouts include Abraham, Brett, Eric, and Jaael. You guys have been instrumental in our growth and you have picked up your roles perfectly. And, because of your contributions, I am more inspired and motivated than ever to pursue success for you and your families, along with every other employee contributing.
We may have challenges in the future, we may be approached by problems that we don’t quite know how to solve yet. As it currently stands, we have over 125 open projects! Yet, I can stand in front of you all with this confident declaration: I have the faith that we will find the way forward. I will do whatever it takes to ensure that we will be successful and profitable for everyone who has entrusted this company with their own lives and, if applicable, their families’ security.
So, let’s get after it - let’s have a mustard seed of faith and let’s go run the race before us. Let’s be the Best Residential Engineering Firm in the Nation.
