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Sandeep Yeole and the Quiet Architecture of Customer Experience
For more than two decades, Sandeep Yeole has worked where complicated systems meet ordinary people. At Lumber, the security-and-fintech veteran is helping construction payroll feel less like a puzzle and more like a service.
Manish Kumar Is Teaching Software to Read the Fine Print
The Lumber co-founder spent years turning project constraints into software. Now he is applying that habit to construction payroll, where every union rule, timecard and job site can change the answer.
Anna Berger Is Turning Construction Payroll Into Infrastructure
She grew up watching construction paperwork consume the people doing it. Now the two-time founder is building Trayd around a stubborn idea: the back office should work as precisely as the jobsite.
Trayd
Trayd is a New York-based back-office operating system built for specialty trade contractors, unifying payroll, HR, compliance, scheduling and real-time labor tracking in one platform. It automates the hardest parts of construction pay - union rules, Davis-Bacon prevailing wages, multi-state taxes and certified payroll - cutting weekly processing from 14 hours to 27 minutes while giving workers earned wages days sooner. Founded in 2021 by Anna Berger and Cara Kessler and backed by Y Combinator, Suffolk Technologies and White Star Capital, Trayd has grown revenue 600% year over year.
Shreesha Ramdas
Shreesha Ramdas is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lumber (LumberFi Inc.), an AI-first construction workforce management platform that automates payroll, time tracking, HR, safety, and compliance for specialty contractors. A serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded Strikedeck (acquired by Medallia) and LeadFormix (acquired by SAP/CallidusCloud), Ramdas deliberately pivoted from serving Silicon Valley to digitizing one of the most labor-intensive and underserved industries in America. Under his leadership, Lumber raised $21M in total funding, acquired BuilderFax, and is building autonomous AI agents to handle everything from prevailing wage audits to paper timecard digitization.