About Vertrage
We founded Vertrage because we believe the world needs more efficient projects, and the owners of those projects need better tools to manage them. The stakes are high: Energy, utilities, datacenters, hospitals, airports. The infrastructure supporting modern life.
These projects are constantly beset by delays and cost overages. Change orders pile up. Executives rush through reviews or delay them for weeks. Money slips through the cracks, schedules drag on, and costs are passed to consumers. We believe there's a better way.
Vertrage exists to serve project owners: the people writing the checks, taking the risk, and ultimately responsible for delivering results. We combine deep project controls expertise with modern software and AI to solve tedious-but-critical problems that determine whether projects succeed or fail.
What We Value
Solving Valuable Problems
We focus on the problems where getting the details right changes the financial outcome for the people who own the project.
Speed to Deliver
Infrastructure owners can't wait on slow software. We build working tools fast and put real value in their hands in weeks.
Security from Experience
Our team has deployed software inside some of the largest industrial enterprises in the world. We hold our products to the security and reliability those environments demand.
Our Team
Colin Harman
Co-Founder & CEO
Obsessed with solving boring and unglamorous problems, Colin's goal is to strengthen the steel-and-concrete foundation of our society. He is an experienced software executive and has deployed software and AI solutions for major energy and manufacturing companies.
Plus a dedicated group of engineers, project controls specialists, and advisors.
Partners and Affiliations
An accelerator supporting Michigan founders building ambitious, high-growth companies.
An EPRI-led consortium advancing open AI models and datasets for the power industry.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
Detroit, Michigan
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