odisyy

The story

Thirty years managing risk.
Then he bought a truck blind.

Stuart leaning on the Hilux

Before

A career on construction sites, with good people.

For nearly thirty years Stuart worked as a quantity surveyor, project manager and construction manager: hospitals and NHS schemes, contracts, logistics and the long business of getting things built. Along the way he helped grow a regional team from two people to more than eighty.

It was a good career and he’s grateful for the people in it. In 2026 he left construction for good. Not for another job and not a midlife crisis: a move towards ownership, freedom and work that means something to him.

A business built around a life. Not a life built around a business.

Now

Interesting machines, a driveway in North Devon and the cameras rolling.

odisyy buys machines with stories in them, works on them on a driveway rather than in a workshop and films what happens. Some get kept. Some move on to their next owner. All of them get their story told.

Stuart is new to filming and learning the mechanics as he goes. He’d rather ask than pretend. If you know how to fix what he’s about to break, he wants to hear from you.

Watch the founder film

Our circle

It’s Stuart’s name on the films. It takes more than Stuart to make them.

LouBacking all of this from day one. Backed the Hilux when the sensible answer was no. Owner of Build 001.
GeorgeApprentice on the builds and the Hilux’s other biggest fan.
The dogsSite supervision. Unpaid. Frequently in shot.

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