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Hey folks, my guest today is Josh Levy. He's the CEO of Document Crunch and he co-founded

the contract intelligence platform to leverage his extensive construction law expertise.

With the background and leading a billion dollar departments, his mission is to empower the

construction industry by raising contract standards through innovation and risk mitigation. Josh, you ready to take us to the top?

I am. Good to be here, Nathan. Yeah, yeah. Tell me the pain that you experience sometime in your

history. You said, I've got to fix this. Was it like a $100 million deal that blew up because the contract

wasn't signed the right way or the IP timestamp wasn't attached or what was it? Yeah, I mean, really,

I certainly was very aware of the issue in the construction industry that there just aren't a lot

of lawyers out there and construction is super risky. So, you know, understanding and setting contracts up the right way negotiating

that that was important but that um because so many companies just don't have those types of

resources and it's risky but the aha moment nathan really was you know i was in-house at a large

contractor where they did make the investment to have me there full-time as

their in-house lawyer. And I'd be doing all this legal work that you would expect or, you know,

negotiating contracts. But every single day, I would have a line outside my office, you know,

folks out there, heart had in one hand, a piece of paper on the other hand. It wasn't about

setting up the contract or negotiating the contract. They knew I had that. What it was about

is construction is so dynamic and there's so much risk that happens every single day in the

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