If you've ever renovated your home. or are thinking of doing it, you'll want to tune into to today's Milkshake episode to protect your investments.

Renovating a home is a super-stressful, super-exciting process ? with the emphasis on stressful if you?re watching your bank balance drop while receiving nightmarish texts about unexpected cost overruns. Until now, cost ?estimates? have often functioned as cruel jokes ? at least when compared to the final price. Bolster aims to solve that problem ? and in today?s Milkshake, the CEO and co-founder of the New York City firm, Anna Karp, talks to us about how it?s managed to do the impossible: offer a guarantee to clients that it won?t go over budget ? and if it does, they?ll pick up the difference. ??????"""""""""""""""""
Karp was born in Mexico and began her career in forestry, before moving into construction. Bolster is her brainchild, along with co-founder Fraser Patterson ? a fellow veteran of tech-centric construction start-ups. What makes Bolster unique is how it fuses the design and construction processes; it claims that Bolster projects finish, on average, two weeks early, while spending less, thanks to the Bolster ?promise?: a fixed price that won?t be revised upward unless you ?change your mind on a critical path item.? Outside of that, Bolster will eat the cost overages. How do they do it" ?When we started the company, we b...