Most people hear “autonomous construction vehicles” and assume that’s the whole story. It isn’t. That’s just the entry point.

Construction is a $10T+ global industry with some of the worst productivity metrics of any sector. Over the last century, productivity gains have been effectively flat, arguably negative when adjusted for inflation and increasing safety constraints. At the same time, labor shortages are becoming existential. Entire projects are delayed or cancelled simply because there aren’t enough people willing to work in construction. This isn’t a local issue, it’s a civilizational one.

If humanity had effectively infinite capacity to build housing, public infrastructure and energy infrastructure, many downstream societal constraints disappear. Cost of living drops. Energy availability increases. Infrastructure accelerates. Entire economies unlock. Our goal is to make that possible.

We are enabling the world’s first end-to-end automated construction company, starting with autonomous excavation and grading and expanding horizontally across the construction stack. This is not a research lab. This is production autonomy, deployed in the dirt.

Construction Is a Factory, We Just Pretend It Isn’t

At its core, construction is a manufacturing process. Today, we run that process incredibly inefficiently.

Every site is treated as a one-off. Raw materials are shipped to a location, a temporary factory is assembled, work is done manually, then everything is torn down and moved somewhere else. There’s no repeatability, no process automation, and no ability to compound efficiency gains.

That’s why manufacturing achieved massive productivity improvements - and construction didn’t.

In 2023, I co-founded MMY US where we attacked this problem by moving parts of construction into factory settings. We built the world’s first hyper-speed construction company, cutting build times from 24 months to 4 by combining modular manufacturing, structural 3D printing, digital twins and end-to-end process redesign. This enabled us to introduce automation and parallelize work. We scaled MMY US from 0 to 100 people and $30M+ revenue in 2 years.

My last startup, MMY US.

But modular construction alone doesn’t solve excavation and grading - the very first step of every project. That work still happens in uncontrolled environments, with heavy machinery, under severe labor constraints. That’s where we start with Crewline.

Our Entry Point: Autonomous Heavy Equipment

We are building autonomous construction vehicles, starting with excavation and grading, as the foundation of a much larger system.

Our approach is deliberately pragmatic:

• Retrofit existing machines instead of designing new ones from scratch

• Deploy immediately on real job sites

• Generate revenue from day one

• Collect real-world data continuously

Instead of spending hundreds of millions before a product exists, we use teleoperation as the bridge to autonomy.

With satellite connectivity and a perception stack mounted on existing equipment, operators anywhere in the world can run U.S. machines in real time. From the customer’s perspective, the job gets done. Whether a human or autonomy is driving is irrelevant, that’s our margin optimization problem, not theirs.

This gives us three critical advantages:

1. We ship now, not in a decade

2. We build distribution early, deploying sensors across a real fleet

3. We collect massive, diverse data needed for generalizable autonomy

Autonomy then layers in progressively: situational awareness, assisted operation, multi-machine supervision and then full autonomy.

Mo testing out our remote operating system on a 10T drum roller.

Where This Goes Long-Term

Autonomous vehicles are not the end goal. They are the wedge.

Our long-term vision is to enable the first fully end-to-end automated construction company - spanning excavation, foundation work and building assembly. A horizontally integrated system where construction becomes a repeatable, scalable industrial process rather than an artisanal one.

Mobile machines, robotic manipulators and factory-style workflows all become part of the same system.

If you can automate excavation & grading and pair that with automated foundation and building processes, you don’t just build faster, you fundamentally change how society grows.

The Kind of Team This Requires

This is not a company for people optimizing for comfort or incremental progress.

We are assembling a very small founding team of exceptional generalists. People who:

• Care deeply about real-world impact

• Are comfortable owning systems end-to-end

• Can operate in the field as easily as they can reason abstractly

• Crave responsibility, not guardrails

We work hard. We spend time on job sites. We ship early. We iterate fast. We hold an extremely high bar for who joins. Everyone else you work with will have passed that same bar.

In return, you get:

• True ownership of critical systems

• Meaningful equity at the right stage

• The chance to build something generational

Why This Moment Matters

Construction is breaking under its own constraints. Labor shortages are accelerating. Costs are compounding. Demand is not slowing. The world needs a step-change, not another incremental tool.

If you want to work on something that actually matters, at a scale that reshapes society, and you’re willing to commit fully - this is the moment and this is the place.

We’re not building autonomous machines.

We’re rebuilding how the physical world gets built.

To apply, simply email me on freddie@crewline.ai. Even if it's not a match, I always provide feedback.