A note from our CEO
Earlier this month, on July 17, CAD Journey marked four years in business. Four years, three offices, and more than 800 clients later, it has gone fast and it has been quite the ride.
CAD Journey started in 2022 with a simple idea: engineering teams get the most out of great software when there is a partner alongside them who understands the work itself. Not just the licensing, but the projects, the workflows, and the deadlines behind them. We believed that if we combined the software with local expertise, responsiveness, and a long-term view of every relationship, we could add real value to the firms we serve. That idea became the foundation for everything that followed.
Four years on, it has grown into something far bigger than any of us imagined at the start.
Today CAD Journey supports more than 800 clients across North America. They are civil and transportation consultancies, structural and geotechnical firms, water and rail engineers, and the contractors and consultants delivering some of the largest infrastructure programs on the continent. These are the teams designing the roads, bridges, and networks we all rely on, and playing even a small part in that work is genuinely the best part of what we do.
Along the way we opened offices in the UK and Ireland, turning a North American business into a transatlantic one and letting us support engineering teams on both sides of the pond with the same approach. And in the past year we launched our Training & Services division, born from a pattern we kept hearing from clients: the software is only half the story, and the teams who invest in mastering it get dramatically more from it. Helping engineers build real skills in tools like OpenRoads Designer, MicroStation, and ProjectWise, through training delivered by people who use them every day, has quickly become one of the most rewarding parts of the business.
None of this happened alone. A genuine thank you to Bentley Systems, whose partnership has been paramount to our success from day one. The collaboration, openness, and support from the Bentley team is what lets a channel partner like us build something meaningful, and being named a Bentley Partner of the Year in 2025 was a proud moment for everyone here.
The biggest thank you goes to two groups. First, our clients, many of whom took a chance on a brand-new company four years ago and have grown with us ever since. Your trust is the reason we exist. And second, the CAD Journey team. We have invested in people every single year, adding specialists, trainers, and support so we can keep bringing more value to the firms we serve, and this company is what it is because of the group of people who care about doing it properly.
Four years in, we are growing, we are hiring, and we are more excited about what comes next than we were on day one. Here’s to the engineers, and to the next chapter.
