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Welcome back. This is the BuildWIT update number 30. And as we have discussed, this is the weekly what the heck is going on in buildwit to give you a better idea of what we do, what we deal with, the good, the bad, the indifferent, the business. Business, as I call it. Um, this one's a little different. I didn't put together this whole elaborate update for our team, our investors, and you, because this was coming off the 2025 ARIAT dirtworld summit, which was a massive success. It was our third event. We learned a lot in the first two years. We tried to put as many of those lessons to practice into practice this year, and we got the benefit of it. I think the lesson I've learned with the summit is that great things, momentum, movements, whatever we're building, it takes time. Anything significant just takes time. And this was proof. It was a different conversation, it was just a different feeling at this year's event. Totally exciting, and I think we're now finally establishing the event and the brand dirt world and the movement as something real in the dirt world. And that's, you know, the frustrating thing about the industry is that it's slow to change. But that's the great thing about the industry is once you win the trust of the industry, you can be a lot more effective and create awesome change, which is where I think we're getting to now at this event. So it took us three years. This was year three. But boy, did it feel good. Boy, was it fun. And I.
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I had so much fun. So instead of just talk about it from my perspective, I instead wanted to use some attendees to share with what the heck they thought of it, which means a lot more than my words. Here were a few. This was a few ones that I pulled that, that. That.
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So rather than tell you how good of an event it was, from my perspective, obviously I'm going to tell you that whether it was good or terrible, hopefully if it was terrible, I would tell you. But it wasn't. It was great, but just don't believe me. If you need convincing, here's some words from some attendees. This event is an incredible opportunity to connect with industry leaders, strengthen our culture, and unite around a shared mission of making the world better. I walked out of today feeling energized, grateful, and fired up. When you're surrounded by leaders who care about their teams, it reminds you why your work matters. All of us enjoyed and appreciated being there. We are returning home with an arsenal of tools that we did not have before and a deeper understanding of the tools we are already using. We definitely plan to return next year. Our issue is going to be deciding who gets to go and who has to stay home and keep the wheels turning. The top question I'm asked is what does Bill Witt do? Our purpose is to build the dirt world's next generation. The dirt world is the companies and people building the critical infrastructure and supporting those who build our critical infrastructure that we need to live the lives that we do. Our business is much bigger than me. I run around the world building our brand, but the business itself does two things. One, we help develop the next generation through our product called billwhit Improve. It's a daily training and development platform that about 300 civil construction companies are using to not just make their people better workers, but better people. And of course we have the 2026 ARIAT dirtworld summit. The best opportunity to develop yourself and your teams as leaders. So check us out. Billwhit.com book a meeting with us and we'll talk to you soon.