Built from the field, the clinic and the estimate.

Cronk Companies LLC is built on direct field, project and clinical experience, not a technology background applied from the outside.

Currently, I work full-time as a project manager and estimator in the power delivery sector, specifically transmission lines and substations, running the same estimating, cost-tracking, and field-to-office reporting problems this practice is built to solve.

Earlier I did field exploration and sampling on a mineral exploration project in Nunavut, out of a remote fly-in camp, and assisted in the core processing facility. Before that, core processing and field support on a uranium exploration project in Colorado, and contract grid line-cutting for geophysical surveys in northern Minnesota.

I also spent years on the clinical side. I hold a bachelor's degree in human biology, taught biology as an adjunct professor, worked as an athletic trainer alongside physicians and professional athletes, and practiced as a chiropractor. I never subscribed to the adjustment philosophy. What interested me was biomechanics: how a body moves, how it compensates, and why every patient needs a solution built for them rather than a protocol applied to them. I no longer practice. I started the clinic with my wife's support and she took it over. She is the heart of it now, and I build the systems behind it.

That clinical side is not history. I build and run the technology behind the practice, including a system now in beta that takes an out-of-pocket claim, reads what was submitted, and routes it to the providers who need it. That removes an afternoon of manual re-typing from a small clinic that does not have an afternoon spare. Healthcare and construction look like different industries. They have the same disease: the people doing the work generate the information, and the systems make them enter it twice.

Not all of it is field software. I build websites, progressive web apps and client-facing tools where a browser is the right answer, including the one you are reading.

And before all of it, I was 21 years old and serving overseas when I was asked to help with casualty reporting in Iraq. I inherited a pile of data that did not agree with itself. I built a spreadsheet. That spreadsheet ended up in front of people whose decisions depended on those numbers being right, which is not a thing I expected and not a thing I have forgotten.

That range, construction and utilities on one side, mining and exploration geology on the other, and data systems tying it together, is why this practice isn't built around a single industry or a single software platform.

Across exploration camps, a clinic, a lecture hall, a war zone and a substation estimate, one thing has never changed: all anyone wants is good information they can trust. That's the job.