Our Story

Cadynce did not start with a pitch deck or a product roadmap. It started inside real jobs, real bids, and real frustration. In plan-driven construction and manufacturing, teams generate multiple estimates for multiple contractors, all chasing a single project that only one will ultimately win. Off-the-shelf tools and home-grown solutions never understood this reality, and the chaos they created was impossible to ignore.

In 2006, Kenneth Sewell joined Baker Drywall, one of the largest commercial drywall specialty contractors in the United States, as Director of Technology. It was one of the most formative and rewarding roles of his career. Baker was a family business operating in a world driven by architectural plans, tight deadlines, rapid growth and relentless competition. Every project required precise estimating. Every mistake was expensive.

It was there that Kenneth experienced bid chaos firsthand in the bid-to-build process that drives construction and manufacturing projects.

Projects were driven by architectural blueprints and plan-driven estimating workflows. Tracking bids was managed through spreadsheets and email. Status lived in people’s heads. Files lived everywhere. Visibility was fragmented, and the cost of mistakes was high. Over time, it became clear this problem was not isolated to Baker. It was systemic across plan-driven construction and manufacturing.

A Pattern That Kept Repeating

In 2011, Kenneth left Baker and joined a mid-sized ERP and business process consulting firm. That is where he met David Dozer.

They became fast friends because they shared the same passion for helping manufacturing companies untangle broken processes. Separately, they traveled across North America working with manufacturing companies trying to scale using spreadsheets, email, and ERP tools that were never designed for bid-to-build workflows.

Different industries. Different company sizes. The same problems repeated everywhere.

Spreadsheets pretending to be systems. Email threads pretending to be workflows. Teams working hard but flying blind.

Kenneth later moved into sales at HP and other spinoff companies. David continued his career across multiple ERP vendors. They stayed in close contact, often comparing notes and realizing how little had changed inside operations teams.

In 2018, David moved to Texas. The conversations became more frequent. The idea never quite went away.

The Idea That Would Not Let Go

In 2020, during the COVID lockdowns, everything slowed down enough to think clearly.

Manufacturers were still bidding. Still guessing. Still overloaded. Still losing work they should have won.

Kenneth and David kept coming back to a simple question.

Why is the bid process still this broken?

They sketched ideas. They debated approaches. They imagined a world where bid work had real visibility, clear ownership, and predictable flow. Not more documents. Not more storage. Actual process clarity.

In 2023, those conversations became a company. Cadynce Software was born.

The Hard Part Nobody Talks About

Starting Cadynce was not clean or easy.

Both founders were working full time in their day jobs. Progress was slow. Development costs added up. Early versions of the software were buggy and incomplete. At one point, the entire database had to be scrapped and rebuilt because the database direction chosen early on was wrong.

There were months where development was paused entirely. The direction felt unclear. Giving up would have been reasonable.

Then something changed.

Cadynce sold its first customer.

Suddenly, the work looked different. Real requirements surfaced. Real urgency appeared. The product had to work, not just sound good. Shortly after, a second customer came on board.

Momentum was still slow, but it was real.

The Decision That Changed Everything

The true inflection point came when Cadynce made a conscious decision to stop trying to be a solution for everyone.

Instead of serving every manufacturer, the focus narrowed to one market with one deeply painful problem.

Truss and building component manufacturers and the bid process.

This industry lives and dies by bidding construction projects from blueprints using plan-driven estimating and takeoff processes. Multiple proposals are created as everyone is quoting everything. Win rates are not what is hoped for and only one manufacturer can win. Enormous effort is spent on work that never turns into revenue. And the data from all of it often disappears into file cabinets, shared drives, and forgotten folders.

As one customer put it:

“We have over 15 years of historical bid data just sitting around in file cabinets. We have been waiting for someone to come and help us make sense of it all.”

That statement crystallized everything.

Cadynce was not just about bidding faster. It was about visibility. About turning chaos into clarity. Every process, every step, known by all. Without visibility, speed creates mistakes. With visibility, speed creates advantage. It is about making sure the effort manufacturers invest actually compounds instead of evaporates.

What We Believe Today

Cadynce exists because the industry has accepted bid chaos for far too long.

We believe manufacturers deserve real visibility into their bid process. We believe speed should come from clarity, not heroics. We believe historical data should be an asset, not dead weight.

And we believe the future of this industry belongs to teams who can see, decide, and act faster than their competition.

That is what we are building. And as technology evolves, we are committed to turning decades of buried bid data into something far more valuable. What was once scattered across files, inboxes, and spreadsheets is becoming a foundation for smarter decisions, faster bids, and a competitive edge that compounds over time.

The industry is about to see bid data differently.