Follow Knowify CEO Marc Visent’s leap from law into building construction software. It’s a journey that reveals surprising lessons for trade contractors stepping into leadership. It’s about more than changing fields; it’s about evolving your mindset, embracing new skills, and growing your business beyond the tools.

Most trade contractors don’t start out as business owners. They begin on the tools, working their way up from apprentice to journeyman to foreman. Eventually, many decide to take the leap into ownership. That shift is not just about doing more of the same work. It requires a completely different mindset, set of skills, and willingness to learn.

On a recent episode of The Cost Code Show, Marc Visent, co-founder and CEO of Knowify, shared his own story of pivoting careers. He went from practicing law to building a construction software company.

At first glance, those worlds couldn’t be further apart. But Marc’s lessons are surprisingly relevant to contractors and construction accountants who are facing the same kind of leap from worker to business leader.

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