Advice from people who've done hard things.

A team of former Army officers and business owners. We advise, lead where it's needed, and fit the plan to your ground.

Why Contact Creek.

In 1942 the U.S. Army was handed an impossible order: build a road to Alaska, about 1,500 miles through unmapped country, in one construction season. When bulldozers sank into thawing permafrost, crews improvised, laying roads of cut logs over the frozen ground. They worked through winter nights near −70°F and finished in under eight months.

Contact Creek is Mile 588 on that road. I named the firm for it because that's the work we take on: hard problems on uncertain ground, figured out when it matters most. Technology is moving faster than ever, in defense, in telecom, and in every business that runs on both. Staying ahead takes what it took in 1942: hard work, fast innovation, and getting it done.

Soldiers of the 95th Engineers lay a road of cut logs across soft ground in a freshly cleared forest lane, 1942.
95th Engineers laying corduroy road, June 1942. USACE photo.
Nick Vandam, founder of Contact Creek, mid-conversation at a Bunker Labs veteran-founder session.

Nick Vandam, founder.

West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, including innovation work for the Army sorting which new technologies actually serve units in the field. Small-business operator across finance, sales and operations. Master's in Global Management from Thunderbird.

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