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The Founding Fifty

There are two kinds of operators in construction. Technically competent. Commercially valuable.

Construction Management Secrets is a private community for the second kind – and for the cadets, CAs, PMs and commercial managers determined to become them. The founding intake is capped at fifty.

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Fifty seats. Then the doors close.
$200M+
Subcontract value negotiated
Both sides
Head contractor & subcontractor
213,500
Views in the last 30 days
Harvard PON
Program on Negotiation trained
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The gap nobody teaches you about

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University teaches systems, process and theory.

Then you land on a real project and learn the truth.

Outcomes aren't decided in lectures. They're decided by contract mechanics, timing and communication – the things nobody formally teaches.

The operators who learn them early don't just run better projects. They get the senior roles, the higher salaries, and the seat at the commercial table.

The ones who don't? They plateau at competent.

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Built for every rung of the ladder

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Students & cadets
Learn in one year what most operators take ten to piece together. Walk onto site already speaking the commercial language.
Contract administrators
Stop processing paperwork. Start controlling outcomes – and become the CA the project can't run without.
Project engineers & project managers
Run the commercial side as sharply as you run the program. That's what separates a PM from a future GM.
Commercial & contracts managers
Sharpen the craft. Protect margin without burning relationships – and pressure-test your thinking against serious peers.
Executives, GMs & directors
Build commercially dangerous teams. Stay sharp yourself. See how the next generation is being trained – and shape it.
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What the founding cohort gets built around them

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CMS — 3.01

Contract mechanics

The clauses that decide projects – time bars, EOTs, variations, set-off, liquidated damages – and how to work them with confidence instead of fear.

CMS — 3.02

Commercial communication

The 90-second emails that create leverage before disputes ever start. How communication wins or loses contracts long before lawyers get involved.

CMS — 3.03

Negotiation

Tactics drawn from $200M+ of real subcontract negotiations – from both sides of the table. Not theory. What actually moves positions.

CMS — 3.04

Career leverage

How to convert commercial skill into salary, title and seniority. The moves that take operators from competent to indispensable.

CMS — 3.05

The room itself

Cadets to directors, one standard: operators serious about the top 1% of their role. The network you build here will outlast every project you ever run. Founding members don't just join the room – they help decide what gets built in it first.

"I've sat on both sides of the table for over $200M of subcontracts. The difference between the operators who rise and the ones who stall was never intelligence. It was knowledge nobody handed them. CMS exists to hand it over."

Mat Kennedy Founder — Construction Management Secrets
QUT Construction Management Harvard Law — Program on Negotiation The Construction Contracts Co.
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The Founding Fifty

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Before CMS opens to anyone else, fifty founding members get in first. Founding status is issued once. It will never be re-released.

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    A founding rate, locked for life

    Whatever founding members pay, no one will ever pay less. The rate is being finalised with the founding cohort – and it dies with the founding intake.

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    Direct input on what gets built first

    The founding fifty shape the curriculum. Your role, your sector, your sticking points – built into CMS from day one.

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    Founding status, permanently marked

    Inside the community, founding members are identified for life. In five years, that mark will mean something.

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    First access to everything

    Every resource, every session, every tool CMS releases – founding members see it before anyone else does.

Requesting an invitation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. It tells me you want a seat when the doors open – and it puts you in the queue, in order.

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Request your invitation

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Fifty founding seats. Invitations are sent personally, in order of request. No spam – ever.

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You're in the queue. Founding invitations go out personally before the doors open – keep an eye on your inbox.

Annexure

Questions, answered straight

Founding pricing is being finalised with the founding cohort – that's part of the point of going first. What's guaranteed: founding members will pay less than anyone who ever joins after them, locked for life.

Especially you. The earlier you learn the commercial side, the longer it compounds. The cadets who get this knowledge in year one don't compete with their graduating class – they compete with people ten years ahead of them.

When the founding fifty is filled. Invitations are sent personally, in the order requests come in. Requesting an invitation now costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

The free content shows you what exists. The community is where it gets applied – structured, in depth, with direct access and a room full of serious operators. Posts make you aware. This makes you dangerous.

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Commercial knowledge they didn't teach you at university.
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