Add9 AI for HALO & Construction Investments

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We believe HALO businesses—Heavy-Asset, Low-Obsolescence companies, especially specialized construction subcontractors—can be exceptional investments when strong underlying businesses are held back by weak operations, systems, and technology. We have focused on the Construction Industry for decades, and we have developed a unique perspective on identifying and transforming winning construction contractors. 

So we partner with investors to identify, acquire, and transform those businesses.

By combining experienced enterprise-transformation leadership with exceptional engineers, consultants, and enterprise technology—including AI where it creates meaningful value.

Specialized crews, equipment, field expertise, and established customer relationships provide capabilities that software alone cannot replace. Yet the businesses behind those capabilities may still depend on fragmented systems, manual coordination, and limited visibility into operating performance.

We focus on fundamentally valuable contractors whose problems are operational, organizational, and technological—not businesses that need technology to manufacture a reason to exist.

The opportunity: preserve what makes the business valuable while changing what prevents it from performing.

Leadership—not just a technology license. Our contribution starts with judgment: what to change, what to preserve, in what sequence, and how to lead the organization through it. We bring the people and technology to execute, not simply recommend.

A transformation thesis tied to the investment. Before an acquisition, we help assess where operating improvement is achievable and what it will require. After acquisition, we work with leadership to translate that thesis into accountable initiatives and measurable results. The same approach applies to businesses already in the portfolio.

Technology that works with the business you acquire. Add9 connects to existing enterprise systems, surfaces operating issues, and supports approved action. We combine data, integration, workflow automation, and AI rather than treating every problem as an AI problem.

Partnership economics. We seek a small number of deep relationships built around shared value creation, including equity participation or outcome-based compensation where appropriate. Our objective is to help improve the investment outcome—not maximize software seats or billable hours.

• Project profitability: better visibility into estimating, labor productivity, equipment costs, and execution. 
• Cash conversion: fewer billing gaps, better change-order follow-through, and stronger collection visibility. 
• Scalable operations: repeatable processes and shared capabilities across branches, divisions, and acquisitions. 
• Management effectiveness: reliable operating information, clear accountability, and less manual coordination. 

Technology is the means. Stronger earnings, better cash flow, and a more capable operating business are the objectives.

Getting more from your systems takes more than installing another tool. DCY Projects and Add9 bring enterprise-technology and transformation experience to the work: deciding what to monitor, which processes to improve, and how to turn findings into changes your people can sustain.

Findings are traceable to source records, and actions are logged, giving your team a reviewable evidence trail for internal decisions, audits, and lender conversations.

Add9 already runs in live operations for a construction and drilling/blasting contractor, monitoring crew overtime, contractor risk, job-site cost drivers, and shift-level performance across multiple regional divisions.

• Catch labor, equipment, and job-cost problems while there is still time to respond. 
• Reduce the hours project managers and controllers spend reconciling reports and chasing exceptions. 
• Keep attention on outstanding change orders, billing gaps, and overdue receivables. 
• Give ownership a clearer picture across jobs and divisions—without taking control away from the people running them. 

Have an acquisition or portfolio company in mind? Let’s work through the transformation opportunity together →