We build for contractors because we are one.
COMMISSION — founder portrait, real jobsite, bench-grinder lighting
Founder · Joe Meadows · GC, Meadowlark Construction
I built the thing I wished my last GM had given me.
I run a remodel shop. I tried Procore (priced for firms five times my size), Buildertrend (close, but the daily logs were a chore), QuickBooks plus a stack of spreadsheets (everyone’s least-favourite Tuesday). So I built what I wished existed. It runs my jobs now. We’re shipping it for everyone else who’s tired of the same trade-offs.
BC
Meadowlark Construction
2026
Tenon shipped
Live
Real jobs every day
How we build
Five principles. We follow them so the product can stay simple.
01
Dogfood
Founder runs jobs on Tenon. Bug found Friday is fixed by Monday.
02
One database
No exports between modules. Estimates flow into budgets flow into billing.
03
Boring shipping
Weekly releases. No big-bang. Customers know what changed.
04
Mobile = desktop
Foremen aren’t second-class. Same data, same auth, same shortcuts.
05
Stay accountable
Public roadmap. Public changelog. Public status page.
Talk to the founder.
Questions, ideas, war stories from the trades — we read everything.