Built different. On purpose.
Most GCs manage subcontractors. We came from industries that don't tolerate that -- automotive manufacturing where a tenth of a millimeter matters, and power generation where downtime costs six figures an hour. That discipline is now how we build.
From the factory floor to the job site.
Ross Crumpton is a Georgia Tech mechanical engineer who spent years building precision stamping lines at BROSE and turbine enclosures at BRADEN -- industries where you don't get a second chance on tolerances and downtime is measured in six figures per hour. He started Bolt to bring that standard to construction.
Georgia Tech
BS Mechanical Engineering
Systems thinking, thermodynamics, manufacturing processes. The analytical foundation for everything that followed.
BROSE
Automotive Manufacturing
Precision stamping and assembly at scale. Where a tenth of a millimeter is a failed part and the line doesn't stop for anyone.
BRADEN
Power Generation
Turbine enclosures, exhaust systems, heat recovery. Gas plants where a missed spec shuts down a 500 MW unit.
Bolt Contracting
CURRENTFounder
Applying that operational discipline to construction -- because the infrastructure Georgia is building next deserves it.
Not how most GCs operate.
Most general contractors are brokers -- they manage subs, shuffle paper, and hope coordination works out. We engineer solutions, put our own crews on the critical path, and own the outcome.
Engineering-First
PE-licensed engineers lead every project -- not just stamping drawings after the fact. Engineering drives decisions from preconstruction through punch list.
Self-Perform
Our crews and our iron on the critical path. Grading, concrete, utilities, steel. When you control the work, you control the outcome.
Design-Build
One contract, one team, one set of assumptions. No finger-pointing between designer and builder because they're the same people.
Speed + Precision
The rigor of a gas plant and the urgency of a hyperscale campus. Disciplined processes that accelerate delivery, not slow it down.
Our crews. Our iron.
PE-licensed engineers, heavy civil PMs, and field crews who've built power plants, data centers, and manufacturing facilities across the Southeast. Not a staffing agency -- a team.
Engineering and field operations aren't separate departments here -- they're one integrated delivery system. The people designing the work are the people building it.
Atlanta corridor. Southeast reach.
Center of the Southeast's infrastructure boom. 30 miles from $100B+ in data center, energy, and industrial mega-projects.
Coverage Area
We mobilize fast across six states. Most of the work we chase is within a day's drive of our yard -- and that corridor has more infrastructure investment than anywhere in the country right now.
Non-negotiable standards.
Precision
We came from automotive and power generation -- industries where a tenth of a millimeter is a failed part and downtime costs six figures an hour. That's the standard.
Accountability
One contract, one team, one throat to choke. We don't hand off the hard parts to subs and hope it works out.
Transparency
You see what we see, when we see it. No filtered updates. No surprises at the OAC meeting.
Safety
Zero-incident culture built in power generation, where safety isn't a poster in the trailer -- it's how you keep people alive around spinning equipment.
Tell us what you're building.
No RFP required. Describe the project and we'll get back to you within 24 hours with how we'd approach it.