A Better Built World

Miter exists for one simple reason: to empower contractors to build with confidence. 

In the US, our ability to build physical infrastructure – efficiently, ambitiously – is no longer a given, and today we’re announcing $38 million in funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Coatue to accelerate our vision of a better built world.

At Miter, we don’t pour concrete or raise steel, but we work our asses off for the people who do. Today over 700 construction and field service contractors use Miter to build better teams, control job costs, and accelerate jobsite execution. 

With these new funds, we’ll accelerate our investments in:

• Our software platform that connects HR, finance, and operations teams
• Our US-based consulting teams who support our customers every day
• Our partnerships across the construction and field service industries

A better built world

We live in a world of technological marvels. We can edit genes. We can launch rockets and land them back on Earth. We can summon AI in our pocket. 

Yet when it comes to construction – essential buildings, critical infrastructure, housing – progress has stalled. At the time of writing, in 2025, it’s embarrassingly slow and expensive to build anything in the US, and over the last few decades, we’ve gotten worse, not better.

Consider some uncomfortable facts: 

• A public toilet recently cost $1.7M to build in San Francisco
• The California high-speed rail project has swelled past $150B with little to show for it
• Two miles of subway in New York City costs over $4.5B and may take years to permit

High speed rail, roads, bridges, and yes – public toilets – take far too much money and far too much time to build. The opportunity cost is staggering, both in terms of dollars and societal progress.

 But we believe that this can change.

Our lost superpower

Imagine an America where infrastructure projects routinely finish on time and under budget. An America where…

• …high-speed rail connects our major cities
• …data centers rise in months, not years
• …affordable housing emerges with speed and scale
• …our grid is modernized to power an electrified economy

This is what we mean by a better built world – a world where it’s much faster and easier to build critical infrastructure. And it’s within reach. Such a world isn’t even particularly ambitious by historical standards. 

The Empire State Building rose in 410 days. The Pentagon, still one of the world’s largest office buildings, took just 16 months to complete. The entire Interstate Highway System transformed American life in a single generation. The five years we spent building the Hoover Dam is half the time it takes to add a new bike lane today.

These projects weren’t flukes. They reflected a nation that prioritized building – that valued speed, efficiency, and bold execution. Somehow we’ve lost our way, discouraging tens of thousands of contractors along the way.

Contractors, it’s time to build

America’s 7 million contractors represent our best hope for infrastructure renewal. Every day these professionals wake up to shape the physical world around us. They are responsible for everything that makes modern life possible: schools, power lines, irrigation systems, data centers, housing, utilities. 

And today it has never been more exciting, and daunting, to be a contractor:

• Skilled labor shortages worsen as expertise leaves the industry
• Emerging markets like data centers create complex new demands
• Regulatory requirements multiply administrative burdens
• Industry consolidation reshapes competitive dynamics

In the face of these challenges, contractors don’t need another software vendor. They need a new operating system.

Building with confidence

We believe that we have a role to play by eliminating the friction that contractors feel when asking their most fundamental questions:

• How can I build and retain a strong workforce?
• Am I making money or losing money on that job? 
• How do I comply with new rules and regulations?
• Do I know what is actually happening on the job site? 

To answer these questions, we’ve built a platform from the ground up that connects HR, finance, and operations teams under one roof. That’s where Miter’s magic comes from:

• Onboard a new employee via text message, and log them on a daily field report in minutes
• Send real-time timesheet and cost code approvals for a specific job to a dedicated job foreman 
• Notify crew leads or direct managers the moment a project enters overtime
• Trigger automatic per diems based on driving distance from an employee’s home or office
• Automate gross pay for crews working across multiple union or prevailing wage jobs 
• Trigger cash bonuses for crews that hit their production targets for the week

Take Marathon Electrical for example, the largest electrical shop in the Southeast, who uses Miter to hire and pay the teams that build some of the largest data centers in the country.

Or Green Mechanical, the largest mechanical shop in Kentucky, who replaced 4 discrete systems for managing their workforce across 8 different states.

Or Truebeck Construction, a leading general contractor in the Bay Area, who uses Miter to maintain pin-point precision on timesheets for their union workforce.

Or Kaufman Lynn, one of the top general contractors in Florida, who used Miter to migrate their entire business to the cloud.

Or American Roofing, one of the largest roofers in Kentucky, who builds daily reports on real-time jobsite updates in minutes across dozens of jobs throughout the midwest.

Join us

We’re building Miter because we believe that infrastructure matters deeply. The physical world around us – from data centers to housing, from bridges to rail lines – shapes our possibilities in ways both obvious and subtle. We’ve spent too long accepting that building must be slow, expensive, and frustrating.

This isn’t just about software. It’s about restoring our capacity to build the world we want to live in. Every contractor who can work more efficiently, every project that finishes on time, every team that knows exactly where they stand – these are small victories in a much larger fight against stagnation.

If you’re a contractor who wants to build with confidence again, we’d love to work with you. If you’re an engineer, designer, or business leader who wants to help us on this journey, we’re hiring. And if you’re simply someone who believes in a world where building physical things doesn’t have to be a heroic act, we hope you’ll follow our progress.

The problems we face aren’t inevitable. They’re solvable. Let’s solve them together.