Tear Down
The Walls
Lower Costs. Preserve Margins. Build Better.
50 Seats · Applications Open Now
The Problem
Every day you wait,
the industry loses
$29.6 million.
That's the daily share of the $10.8 billion annual cost of builder–trade contractor dysfunction. Your company is already paying its slice. The only question is how much longer.
Annual industry cost of the labor shortage
Homes not built every year
Residential build timeline — and stretching
What You Are Losing Right Now
While you wait, this is happening.
Your best trade contractors are sending their A-crews to your competitors.
And they are not going to tell you why.
Your purchasing team is re-bidding work that has already failed once.
The scope gaps are costing you more than the savings ever did.
Your supers are losing four days a month to problems a 60-minute conversation would have solved.
Every week. Every site. Every quarter.
Your margins are compressing while your competitors' are holding steady.
They figured out something you have not.
Every quarter, the labor pool you depend on gets smaller.
The builders who act first will lock it up. The rest will bid against each other for what is left.
The Way Out
This is not a zero-sum game.
When the trade contractor feels like a department within the homebuilding company rather than an outside vendor, everyone wins. Costs fall. Quality rises. Cycle times shrink. The builder who is easiest to work for gets the best pricing, the best crews, and the best service — without ever asking for it.
That is the idea we are bringing to the industry. And it is why we are tearing down the walls.
What Happens in the Room
Two days that change how you work together — forever.
Peek Behind the Curtain
Both sides open up about how they actually operate. What drives decisions. What keeps them up at night. The walls come down here.
Fairness as Foundation
Fair pay, fair scope, job complete. Not charity — the business case for sustainable partnerships that both sides can execute.
Lowest-Cost Customer
The counterintuitive idea that is changing how builders think. The builder who is easiest to work for gets the best price — without negotiating.
90-Day Commitment
Every builder and trade contractor leaves with a joint action plan. Three specific changes. Measurable outcomes. Real accountability.
Who Belongs In The Room
Both sides of the table.
The people who interact with the builder–trade contractor dynamic every day — and the executives who want to change it.
Purchasing Leadership
The teams who buy from trade contractors
Construction Managers
Superintendents and field leadership who build with them
Trade Contractor Owners
Business owners and field leadership on the trade side
Operations Executives
VPs and leaders shaping builder–trade contractor strategy
Who Is In The Room With You
The only workshop run by people
who have sat in every seat.
Three operators. 100+ years combined. Every side of the builder–trade contractor relationship represented at the head of the table. Co-teaching every session.
Don Bronchick
The Trade Contractor Side
Founder, BuilderBeast Consulting
- 30+ years in construction
- Former state-licensed GC · NC & FL
- 68,000 new homes · $300M contracted
- Two companies scaled and sold
- NAHB committee member
Ken Pinto
The Purchasing Side
Co-Founder, Strategem
- 40+ years in supply chain
- Founder, KENZAI USA (65+ builder clients)
- Founder, Supply Chain Benchmark Group
- Author, How Much Is the Milk?
- Advisor to the top 20 homebuilders
Drew Stevens
The Builder Side
Co-Founder, Strategem
- 30+ years in homebuilding operations
- Worked for four top-10 builders
- Former Operations VP at Lennar
- Deployed Lean Construction nationally
- Led PMO teams in two major mergers
No one else in the industry can put all three sides of this conversation at the front of the room. Tear Down The Walls is the room where they finally sit together.
The Window Is Closing
The builders who move first
take everything.
The construction industry must attract 349,000 net new workers in 2026 and another 456,000 in 2027. Nearly 40% of skilled workers are over 45. Material costs are up 41% since the pandemic. Tariffs add roughly $10,900 to every new single-family home.
In a market where every builder competes for the same shrinking labor pool, the builder who is easiest to work for wins. The ones who wait will find their best trade contractors working for someone else.
The builders who figure this out first lock up the best trade contractors, the best crews, and the best pricing in their market. Every month that passes is a month your competitors are building these relationships instead of you.
50 Seats · First Cohort
50 seats. One room.
Tell us you want in.
Apply for the first cohort. We'll send the full workshop brief to your inbox and reach out within 24 hours to confirm your fit.
When
Dates finalized based on first-cohort demand
Where
City selected by first-cohort applicants
Investment
First-cohort pricing shared upon acceptance