Ivan Melnik

Founder of The Blocks, construction management software built for small-to-mid contractors. We give 3-to-20-person crews the same digital takeoff, AI-assisted estimating, cost catalog, budget, and proposal tools that enterprise GCs rely on — without enterprise pricing or onboarding complexity. Before The Blocks, I spent years building SaaS products and watching small companies get squeezed between spreadsheets and over-engineered enterprise software. Happy to comment on construction tech adoption, SMB SaaS, estimating workflows, AI in trades, bootstrapping, and founder-led product decisions.