What our software does is it's able to capture all of the different details across the different projects, put it into one centralized and searchable location to provide efficient and reliable access to any of those details so it streamlines the detailed production process within these design firms. Randy Wilburn 00:04:52.830 - 00:05:04.178 So in terms of just doing all of that, did you find that it smoothed out your internal process before you actually started Pirros and started doing this?
Peter Johann 00:05:04.334 - 00:05:45.972 So, not really. I mean, that was part of our software development group.
We were developing in-house tools to combat the problems that we were facing or to help our firm out. And we got to this problem and it was a little bit too big of an endeavor to do in-house what we realized.
Also, it wasn't just a problem that our firm was experiencing; it seemed like a very similar problem across companies.
And that's why we decided to leave the company and start this company to service not just KPFF but other structural engineering firms and architectural firms as well. It's a tool that we wanted to use when we were at KPFF but, of course, we developed it after so we never got to use it.
Now, of course, KPFF is using it and really enjoying the solution.
Randy Wilburn 00:05:46.116 - 00:06:18.292 So my question to you would be, as I'm listening to you share this, is simply why? I mean, you could have done anything, right? You're an engineer by training classically. What wired you differently to decide that, you know what, I'm going to switch gears now and stop designing for the built environment, but design and augment and create something that serves the built environment. How did you decide to make that switch? I know that's not an easy switch. Peter Johann But first and foremost, both me and my colleague really liked structural engineering. 00:06:18.476 - 00:06:59.062 Yeah, no, it's a great question. I think it was a combination of a bunch of different factors.
We liked the design side of it.
But I think that we saw the trajectory of our career within the structural engineering industry and were like, hey, we have an opportunity to do something that’s exciting to us; start our own company. I think that a lot of people can't start their own company within structural engineering. They start their own structural engineering practice. But we saw this as an opportunity to maybe jumpstart that, and we could start our own company at a young age and we thought that this was the best avenue for us to be successful with starting our own company.
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