About STRATEGEM

We're on a mission to transform the construction industry through comprehensive training, innovative technology, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.

Meet The Founders

Ken Pinto
Ken Pinto
Founder

With over 25 years in construction management & homebuilding consulting experience, Ken is an authority on supply chain and cost savings innovation. Ken is the author of How Much Is The Milk.

Drew Stevens
Drew Stevens
Founder

Drew brings 28 years of lean systems, process and homebuilding expertise, specializing in continuous improvement, lean construction and technology implementations.

Our Purpose

Our Vision

Inspire the homebuilding industry to become a better version of itself — smarter, stronger, and more sustainable — by revealing the untapped potential within every builder, team, and process.

The homebuilding industry is built on grit, ingenuity, and heart. But too often, those strengths are buried under inefficiency, outdated systems, and the weight of "how it's always been done." Our purpose is to help builders see beyond that — to unlock the hidden value already within their operations and their people.

Future Impact.

Through education, workshops, and intelligent technology, we will equip homebuilders to work with greater clarity, confidence, and control — transforming operational chaos into cohesion, and effort into impact. Not by replacing people with systems, but by empowering people through them, unlocking a level of performance, clarity, and profitability that lifts the entire industry.

Our vision is a future where homebuilding is known not just for what it creates, but how it creates — a future defined by collaboration, continuous learning, and excellence that endures.

Core Values

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Innovation
  • We constantly push boundaries to deliver cutting-edge solutions that transform the construction industry
  • Innovation requires disciplined experimentation, rigorous testing, and the courage to challenge conventional approaches
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Collaboration
  • We believe in the power of teamwork and partnership to achieve extraordinary results
  • Effective collaboration requires open communication, mutual respect, and a shared commitment to common goals
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Truth
  • Strategem deals in verifiable facts, data, and disciplined analysis
  • Client recommendations must be grounded in objective assessment, even when conclusions are difficult or disruptive
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Commitment
  • Strategem treats every commitment — written or verbal — as binding
  • Timelines, deliverables, and representations made to clients, partners, and one another must be honored
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Empathy
  • View operational challenges through the realities faced by builders, trades, suppliers, students, and homebuyers
  • Solutions must be implementable, humane, and grounded in real-world constraints