our mission

Keep it True

It’s rare to meet people who truly love what they do and are great at it, and even rarer to meet three at the same time. That’s how we felt when we met each other. The more we started talking, the more we knew we had to make something happen, and here we are.

CMsquared is a construction management company that represents the best of us – Carl (Rod), and Matt. We started this company with the mission to – keep it true – and part of that means if we are true to ourselves, we give the best to our clients.

You’ve heard stories about the ideas that get started in the dorm room, out of someone’s garage or from a sketch on the back of a napkin…the story behind our mission statement is very similar. We were standing around the kitchen after dinner one night, kicking words and ideas around about what makes us different. We kept coming back to themes around honesty, open book, “what you see is what you get.” The idea that when we are our true selves – our best selves – and bring that to work, that’s how we win for our clients. For our clients, working with us means none of the politics and layers and levels that come with other companies. We kept coming back to the word true – truing it up and making things right, and “keep it real,” and Rod had this light bulb moment with “Keep it True.” We scribbled it on an old shopping list and now it’s memorialized on this website. For us, “Keep it True” really does mean being true to your goals and being honest with you – about your project and the costs, what’s happening in real time. It also means you are getting the “true” versions of us – a passionate, energetic team who is committed to doing right by you, because doing right by you means ultimately doing right by us and our families.