M&A SmartCraft Buys LiveCosts for €8.45M, and the Multiple Is Worth Writing Down A profitable Irish cost-control platform with €1.77M of ARR sold for under five times revenue — a number worth holding next to what AI-branded construction startups are raising at. Hugo Pegley · Sep 8, 2026
Analysis Foreman Is Building the Construction Software That Procore Won't Bother With A fourth-generation construction family member who triple-majored at Berkeley and shipped software at Amazon is building an all-in-one AI construction platform for the contractors Procore has always been too expensive and too complex for. It's a large, underserved market with a clear incumbent problem. Hugo Pegley · Jun 12, 2026
