Last year, I walked onto a stage in Vegas with a simple message: real scaffold design, made simple.
It was a 60-second pitch in front of the Trimble team and a room full of people who had no idea who we were. We walked off stage as the winners of the 0-60 Challenge. That one moment opened a door we’d been pushing on for years.
This year was different. We weren’t competitors – we were invited back as partners.
Trimble asked us to share what happened after the win. How two successful experts from different disciplines in the scaffolding industry took an idea, turned it into a prototype and then turned that prototype into a global platform. And how the industry we grew up in is now shifting because of it.
I used to get nervous doing this stuff. I’d overthink every word.
Now, I look forward to it.
For me, talking about ScaffPlan is easy because it’s built on real experiences. Challenges that I faced day in and day out, that I was committed to solving.
ScaffPlan exists because I couldn’t find a single design tool that actually worked the way a scaffolding business works. I tried them all. None of them gave me the detail, the accuracy, or the workflow I needed.
So I decided to build my own. Not because I’m a software guy – I’m not – but because I understand the pain of chasing information across ten systems. I know what it feels like when a drawing is wrong and a crew is waiting on you. And I’ve experienced what happens when decisions get made without proper data.
Every customer we have is dealing with the same pressures I dealt with. That’s why ScaffPlan is built by scaffolders, for scaffolders.
It’s not a slogan. It’s literally how this business grew.
Winning the 0-60 Challenge didn’t make us overnight tech company experts.
It did something more important: it gave us the confidence and the connections to scale what we already knew worked.
The platform evolved fast:
And the reaction back in Vegas this year said it all.
People weren’t looking at us as “the new guys with an idea.” They were looking at us as the team pushing scaffolding into the future.
I’ve learned everything I know the hard way: try something, fail, learn, do it better.
No courses. No formal training. No shortcuts.
I enjoy working with other founders for that exact reason. If someone had shared with me what I’m sharing now, I would have made fewer mistakes and moved faster.
Helping the next group level up isn’t charity. It’s how the industry improves.
Digitising our industry isn’t about replacing people. It’s about giving them better tools so they can do their jobs properly.
The way scaffolding works today is messy. Too many manual steps, too much guesswork, too much risk.
When you digitise the workflow, everything sharpens:
We can do better as an industry. And technology gives us that chance.
ScaffPlan isn’t here to be “another software option.” That doesn’t interest me.
We’re here to set the standard for how scaffolding is designed, managed, and delivered globally.
Five years from now, I want scaffolders to look back and say this is the moment everything changed. Not because of me, but because someone finally built the thing that should have existed years ago.
If you asked me in a pub what ScaffPlan does, I’d tell you this:
“It takes the guesswork out of scaffolding. It gives you one workflow from sketch to engineering. It stops mistakes before they cost you money. And it makes your whole business work smoother.”
That’s it.
Simple. Practical. Real.
You’ve got your own pains, your own goals, your own way of working.
ScaffPlan is built to meet you where you are. Not force you into someone else’s system.
If you want to see what version of ScaffPlan fits your business best, check out these pages on our website and choose the path that suits your workflow.