FoundationsFreeComing soon
Construction industry overview
Who does what, who pays who, and where you fit. Start here even if you have been on jobsites for years.
- Modules
- 8 modules
- Total length
- 2h 1m
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Built by a 30-year commercial contractor
Learn construction management from the field, not a classroom.
Twenty courses built on 30+ years of commercial construction. Short modules you can watch between jobs. No campus. No rigid schedule. No crushing tuition.
5 complete courses free. No card required.
- 30+ years in commercial construction
- 20 courses
- 5–20 minute modules
- Self-paced, start any time
Construction education was built for somebody else’s life.
The knowledge that moves you from the field into running jobs is not secret. It is just locked behind a price and a schedule that most working people cannot make work.
It costs too much
People take on tens of thousands in debt for knowledge they could have learned on a jobsite. The debt outlasts most of what gets taught.
It runs on someone else's clock
Class meets at ten on a Tuesday. You are setting forms at ten on a Tuesday. One of those pays your rent.
It is taught from a book
There is a difference between reading about soil conditions and standing in a trench that is about to become a problem.
So we built the other version. Same knowledge, none of the campus.
How it works
Short modules
Five to twenty minutes each. Watch one on a lunch break, in a truck, or after the kids are down.
Self-paced
Days, nights, weekends. No start date, no class times, no falling behind a cohort you never met.
Field-driven
Real stories and real drawings from 30+ years of commercial construction. Not textbook theory.
Start free
Five complete courses, no card. Decide whether it is worth your money after you have used it.
One program, twenty courses
Together they cover a complete construction management education — from reading a drawing set to pricing a job to running a crew. Take them in order or take the one you need on Monday.
FoundationsComing soon
Blueprints
Read a set of drawings without guessing.
- Modules
- 9 modules
- Total length
- 1h 48m
$99See details
FoundationsComing soon
Project specifications
The book that governs the job.
- Modules
- 7 modules
- Total length
- 1h 20m
$99See details
FoundationsComing soon
Products and processes
What buildings are made of and how it gets installed.
- Modules
- 7 modules
- Total length
- 1h 42m
$99See details
StructureComing soon
Building foundations
Everything above ground depends on this.
- Modules
- 7 modules
- Total length
- 1h 27m
$99See details
StructureComing soon
Building structures
How a building carries its own weight.
- Modules
- 8 modules
- Total length
- 1h 52m
$99See details
Who this is for
Five kinds of people use Bydand CMI, and they arrive from very different places. The curriculum is the same. The reason is not.
Tradespeople and field pros
You can build it. Now learn the estimating, scheduling and leadership that gets you off the tools and into running the job.
Start with leadershipReentry and workforce programs
Construction hires on skill. This is a low-barrier, job-ready path into a trade career, and it starts free.
Start with the overviewTrade orgs and apprenticeships
A complete 20-course program for your members, ready to use. You do not have to build curriculum from scratch.
Talk to usYoung adults and homeschool students
A real career without a four-year degree or the debt that comes with it. Construction needs people who know what they are doing.
See where to startContractors and companies
Train your crew on one invoice instead of a dozen personal cards. Better-trained people make fewer expensive mistakes.
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Aaron Gaddy
Founder · 30+ years commercial construction
Who is teaching this
Aaron Gaddy spent more than thirty years in commercial construction. Not studying it — doing it.
Every course here is built from that: the drawings he has read, the jobs he has run, the mistakes he watched cost people real money. When a module explains why a submittal has to be approved before you order material, it is because he has seen a truckload of the wrong thing show up on a Friday.
He built Bydand CMI because the people who are best at this work are often the ones with the least access to the training that would promote them. A tradesperson who can already build the thing should not need four years and a mortgage-sized loan to learn how to price it.
Free, permanently
Five complete courses. No card. Nothing to cancel.
Not a trial and not a sample chapter. The full Construction industry overview plus all four career courses — leadership, launching a business, professional communications, and how people actually get promoted. Handouts, assessments and certificates included.
Straightforward pricing
Subscribe for everything while you need it, or buy courses outright and keep them. Both are real options — we tell you which one fits.
Free
Free
The full industry overview course, plus all four career courses.
Five complete courses, not a trial that expires. No card, nothing to cancel.
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All-Access
$199/month
Every course, every month you stay.
All 20 courses open at once, for as long as you keep paying. Two courses a month and it has already paid for itself — stop, and it stops.
Full program — lifetime
$1,299one time
All 20 courses. Bought once, kept forever.
Ownership, not access. All 20 courses stay yours forever with no recurring charge. Cheaper than buying the 15 paid courses one at a time, and less than seven months of All-Access.
Questions people ask
Still stuck? Send us a note — a person answers.
Build the career. Skip the tuition.
Five complete courses, free, right now. Find out whether this is worth your money after you have used it.