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          Business Of The Year
          Kansas Women-Owned Businesses 2017

          Rule Breaker Award
          New York Rule Breakers 2015

          25 Outstanding Businesses Under 25 Employees
          Twenty Five – 25  2012

          CEO of the Year
          City Union Mission 2009

          Women Who Mean Business
          Biz Journal 2009

          Vision of Excellence
          National Association of Women in Construction – 2009

          About MySmartPlans

          Shelley Armato and Dominick Armato

          Shelley is the Founder and CEO of MySmartPlans. Her husband Dominick is Co-founder and President. They suffered firsthand the effects of chaos in the industry. Dominick, a 45-year contractor, was wildly successful and one project with insufficient data caused them to shut the doors on that company. But they rose again and reinvented the construction industry by streamlining the business.

          MySmartPlans is a software-as-a-service solution with an experienced digital information librarian as part of your team, who creates transparency, organization, and efficiency in construction projects. They are the driving force behind Data Governance, which mitigates the risk associated with insufficient document oversight. MySmartPlans has been improving the industry for 16 years and has a revenue aggregate of over 19 billion dollars. Build on time, on schedule, and with audited as pre-discovery files that are proven to prevent litigation!

          Honors & Awards

          Business Of The Year
          Kansas Women-Owned Businesses 2017

          Rule Breaker Award
          New York Rule Breakers 2015

          25 Outstanding Businesses Under 25 Employees
          Twenty Five – 25  2012

          CEO of the Year
          City Union Mission 2009

          Women Who Mean Business
          Biz Journal 2009

          Vision of Excellence
          National Association of Women in Construction – 2009

          About MySmartPlans

          Shelley Armato and Dominick Armato

          Shelley is the Founder and CEO of MySmartPlans. Her husband Dominick is Co-founder and President. They suffered firsthand the effects of chaos in the industry. Dominick, a 45-year contractor, was wildly successful and one project with insufficient data caused them to shut the doors on that company. But they rose again and reinvented the construction industry by streamlining the business.

          MySmartPlans is a software-as-a-service solution with an experienced digital information librarian as part of your team, who creates transparency, organization, and efficiency in construction projects. They are the driving force behind Data Governance, which mitigates the risk associated with insufficient document oversight. MySmartPlans has been improving the industry for 16 years and has a revenue aggregate of over 19 billion dollars. Build on time, on schedule, and with audited as pre-discovery files that are proven to prevent litigation!

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      MySmartPlans Track Record:

      16 years in business

      2,130 Projects completed with no litigation

      $23 billion in project value completed

      99.9% projects completed on time & on budget

      6.4% projects completed ahead of schedule

      18% project on-site savings

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      MySmartPlans Track Record:

      16 years in business

      2,130 Projects completed with no litigation

      $23 billion in project value completed

      99.9% projects completed on time & on budget

      6.4% projects completed ahead of schedule

      18% project on-site savings

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          It’s such an efficient way to share information. The real value is in accelerating our decision making. MySmartPlans was the one place everyone could go to get real time information.

          Tim Debuse

          MySmartPlans has saved thousands of hours in costly rework and has allowed us to collaborate with our team members in the most efficient manner possible.

          Craig Childers

          MySmartPlans helped us focus on the project rather than collection of data & documentation. The MSP team knows what needs to be included and does a great job gathering, managing and ensure timey responses on required information. It also gives us a centralized location for project documentation, giving us comfort of knowing where to find information in the future. MSP allows us to work smarter and be smarter.

          Northwest Florida Beaches

          Technology has made promises over the years that someday we would all be paperless and all electronic, but there has been a missing link in sharing information between groups. MySmartPlans is the medium that fills that gap.

          Rick Thompson

          As a construction litigator…to be able to point and click and find the documentation that relates to that specific change order, whatever, in seconds as opposed to days or weeks manually would be a game changer.

          Bill Quatman

          What you offer was a refreshing change because it can take weeks, sometimes months, to get documents from various parties at a construction project. And having an integrated centralized service I think is a great idea…

          Wayne Kalayjian

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      March 30th 2023, 10:30 am CST

      Webinar: Stop Construction Litigation

      Kansas City
      Stop Construction Litigation! This live webinar will discuss building with clean data creates accuracy that eliminates construction litigation on 99.8% of projects. Join us on March 30th at 10:30 am CST. Defend your Claim and Protect your Profits. Passcode: PCTuS4
      April 29th, 2023

      SEC-AAAE Annual Conference

      The Richmond Mariott
      We will have a booth at this year’s SEC-AAAE Annual Conference.
      August 23, 2023

      Four States Airport Conference 2023

      Kansas City Marriott Downtown
      We will have a booth at this year’s Four States Airport Conference and plan to present on Stop the Change Order Game: Run your project audit ready.
      July 15, 2023

      CFMA Annual Conference & Exhibition

      Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center
      Booth #429 This is where CFOs and top professionals in construction come together with CPA firms and providers of accounting software, banking, and financial services, HR management and benefits administration, insurance, management consulting, and surety and bonding to share the latest industry products, services, and tools. Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center
      March 22, 2023

      Airport Leadership Forum

      Dallas, TX
      Airport Leadership Forum, in Dallas Texas, will bring together airport leaders and key aviation stakeholders to exchange best practices and innovative case studies, create long-lasting relationships, and provide focused business-airport collaboration for practical progress in aviation development. Participants will include senior airport representatives, airport associations, private sector companies, and NGOs. Through roundtable discussions, question and answer (Q&A) sessions, case study presentations, and site visits they will share experiences, and best practices and debate common challenges.
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1500 Projects, from mega projects to small remodels; we have supported them all.  Like Uber, we are streamlining construction.  Can you even imagine such a thing?

Like Uber, I am sure we all thought there had to be a better way, can’t you just hitch a ride?  Hitchhiking was a thing of the past.

Hitch a ride, thank the driver, and go on. Until people were getting killed, murdered, raped, and beaten.  BAD people took over the idea and ruined a great thing. Good people disappeared, and the right to meet a stranger and help without being suspected.  My father was a hitchhiker, he was picked up by Andy Griffith’s aunt, he hitchhiked from Maine to Missouri.

Much like construction, there was a time when you could trust, good people to do what is right. There was a time when integrity was routine.

I am reminded of a pre-bid meeting we were attending, virtually as an audit insight. The resounding conversation was about the Construction Manager being a Christian. He was loud, he quoted scripture, and he swore he was going to do this job right! LOL, I said to myself, let us watch you and determine if you definitely stand by what the bible says, “do unto others as you would have done unto you?”  OR was money going to get in the way?  Margins?  WELL like most people using the Gospel as a weapon he was looking for the margin of the project.

Trying is no longer an option, trust then verify is a terrible idea, we say verify THEN trust. 

As gatekeepers of the project and documents our project information managers (PIMS), see it all. General Contractors asking our PIMS to open closed documents, open review documents to make changes, change meeting minutes, you name it we have seen it! It all matters, concrete pour date and the days weather that it was poured, etc.

So why would you risk your life/livelihood hitchhiking, when you can safely take Uber? To keep the document library organized, putting them in the hands of a third-party custodian is the key. As in the earlier catastrophe, knowledge was the key to saving lives. They had not hired us and they are still looking for documents for that project.

Are you willing to stand for doing the right thing? Are you curious about what really goes on?  Is your neck on the line?  Your job? Your Legacy?  Do you have plans for when you must retire early?

Let us verify and trust us for your project and peace of mind.