11/01/2026
One year ago, this is where BrickPix started.
I was trying to match brick on a house built around 2000 in the St. Louis area. What seemed like a simple job turned into a real challenge.
Six suppliers later, I found a guy who was semi-retired. The brick had been discontinued, but he remembered one old cube sitting in the back of his brick yard.
It wasn’t in their computer system. He just knew it was there.
That stuck with me. The material existed, but finding it depended on reaching the person who remembered it. I kept thinking: there has to be a better way.
That’s why I set out to build BrickPix and MasonIQ.
What started with identifying and matching masonry materials grew into a much bigger mission. That experience showed me a problem that reaches across the trade: valuable knowledge is scattered across people, suppliers, companies, and job sites, with too few connections between them.
Masonry is one of the world’s oldest skilled trades. There’s generations’ worth of knowledge behind the work we do every day. As experienced people step away, too much of that knowledge risks leaving with them.
My vision is to capture that experience and connect it across the entire masonry workflow, using the best tools in technology to empower the industry from within.
That means helping people understand the materials and structures in front of them. Giving the people doing the work better tools to do their jobs. Helping the next generation of masons understand how and why decisions are made, and carrying lessons from one project into the next.
Every project teaches us something. That knowledge should keep working for the trade, helping us make better decisions and extend the life of masonry structures.
That’s our mission at BrickPix. Capture the knowledge and wisdom in this trade and put it to work for the people carrying it forward.
Preserve the past. Understand the present. Build the future.
