About

Marty Kribs.
Forty years building.

I spent forty years inside some of the best builders and developers in the Rocky Mountain West, $750M of custom work built and developed. I sat in every seat. PM. GC. Developer. Owner. I also hired and evaluated contractors on behalf of owners, which means I’ve seen what great looks like from both sides of the table.

Here’s what separates the companies that last from the ones that stall: it was never the building. The best builders win because they operate better companies, better systems, better discipline, less dependence on any one person. Average builders are still treating operations as paperwork.

ACRE is the operating architecture I built to close that gap, refined over decades on real jobs. Now I install it in other shops, Notion as the record, Claude as the processor, JobTread as the money and the build, and I leave the principal with a company that runs, and is worth more, without them.

Years in the field
40
Built & developed
$750M
Scope today
Nationwide
Portrait of Marty Kribs, founder of ACRE
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