Runding Roundup

Q1 2026 | Prepared by Runding Corp

The Momentum Is Real

Runding's momentum is real and we experienced record growth in Q1. Our strategy has always remained the same: protect and optimize what we have, while building for growth around what the market needs next.

On the foundation side, we’ve doubled down on exceptional delivery for our long-time corporate accounts and with our great partners such as Kahua. Our focus is to protect our core and ensure our existing business performs at a high level to fund our future.
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​On the growth side, OpenBuild is exceeding even our most wild expectations. This validates our initial vision: fast-growing specialty contractors need an approach that is open, flexible and responsive. I am so proud to say that we have delivered in spades. Q1 was our biggest quarter ever for OpenBuild across new orders, customer growth, backlog, and ARR. But more importantly, we’re solving real problems for our customers with an approach that puts them and their process at the center of the universe.
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​Thank you to our customers and partners for trusting us to be part of their journey and to our team for doing the hard work to execute on our vision.

Contractor First, Efficiency Obsessed

Welcome New OpenBuilders


Selected Runding to modernize project operations, improve financial visibility, and support the company’s continued growth.
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Selected Runding to implement OpenBuild - Smart Estimator to modernize estimating across its multiple operating companies.
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Selected OpenBuild - Smart Estimator from Runding to transform and modernize its estimating operations.
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A contractor-first approach that flexes to how you work, not the other way around.

Continuing The Mission

At Runding, we're just as focused on our current OpenBuilders, expanding our relationships and solving good growing pains along the way.


ICS Holding expanded its OpenBuild partnership with the deployment of the OpenBuild - Smart Agreements module, streamlining how contracts, master service agreements (MSAs), and rate structures are created, governed, and operationalized across its portfolio of operating companies.
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Vice President of Operations at ICS Holding

"This isn’t about just digitizing documents; it’s about monetizing contracts. With Smart Agreements, our teams no longer chase contracts or validate rate tables manually. The system brings the right contract data to the right people at the right time, which directly impacts growth, speed, accuracy, and margin protection."


Partners In Efficiency

Scheduling isn’t an afterthought for us, it’s core to how our clients operate.

As Kahua continues to evolve its platform, we’re evolving alongside it. Ensuring our solutions stay aligned, performant, and practical.

This quarter, we’re focused on advancing the rSchedule experience through targeted enhancements within the Runding Data Toolset, including:

  • Improved processing performance for large, complex schedules
  • Enhanced rQueue logging to strengthen error visibility and troubleshooting
  • Expanded modularity to better support client-specific scenarios
  • A series of quality-of-life and UI refinements to streamline day-to-day use

These updates reflect our ongoing commitment to making scheduling more reliable, scalable, and usable for the teams that depend on it.

Managed Services

When legacy systems still lead the way.

This quarter, our Managed Services team raised the bar in supporting some of our most discerning clients. When a system is deeply customized and aligned to the way an organization operates, maintaining and evolving it becomes a full-time commitment.

Over the past few months, the team has focused on extending the life and value of these systems through thoughtful planning and a deep understanding of each environment. From enhancing access and authentication experiences to delivering new solutions that strengthen performance and reliability, their work continues to make a meaningful impact.

Much of this progress happens behind the scenes, but it plays a critical role in keeping these essential systems running smoothly and securely every day.


Congratulations Kidi Short

Kidi Short is the Viking Award recipient for Q1 FY26 in recognition of her can-do attitude, high performance, and consistently delighting our customers. ​

  • Quietly delivers high-quality work without oversight
  • Steps into gaps and keeps delivery moving
  • Produces clear, structured documentation that improves team efficiency
  • Maintains performance across multiple customers
  • Reliable in execution: when Kidi owns it, it gets done ​
  • Consistently improves through feedback

Having the right people matters.

Over the past year, both Stephen Wood and Kidi Zemed have worked alongside us as contractors, playing important roles in delivering for our clients and advancing our platform. Their impact, ownership, and alignment with how we operate made the next step clear.
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​We're pleased to share that they are now full-time members of the Runding team.
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​Building a great company isn’t about hiring quickly - it’s about earning trust over time and investing in the people who help move the mission forward. We’re excited to have them continue that journey with us.

Scott Avirett
​CEO, Runding Corporation

When you have the right people on the bus, hard work starts to feel like Legos snapping into place. Even the smallest pieces matter; they can make or break the whole creation. We've finally got the right people in the right seats, and it shows. The transformation hasn’t been easy, but the momentum is real and you can see it in our customer outcomes and in the quality of our team.
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​If you were a fly on the wall here, you’d see that nearly all of our time is spent where it should be: solving our customers’ most pressing problems. That’s our center of gravity and our true north. It's a very simple formula: great people focused on solving real problems for customers.

Contractor First. Efficiency Obsessed.

Shannon Allen
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