What Comes After a $53 Million First Project: Melissa Drew on Building a Repeatable Construction Business

A major first client can accelerate a young company, but it can also postpone the harder work of building repeatable growth. Melissa Drew launched InSite BUILD with a $53 million construction project, giving the business immediate scale while forcing her to build people, systems, and operating capacity in real time. Now, several years later, she is confronting a different challenge: how to turn an extraordinary beginning into a company capable of consistently creating its next opportunity.