Hosted by Owen Gagne · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 34 episodes
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The Intelligent Builder is a podcast for residential contractors and home services operators who want less chaos and more control. Each week, host Owen Gagne sits down with CEOs, founders, and operators to break down what actually drives growth. We go deep on the day-to-day levers: lead flow, sales process, project ops, reputation, and the systems + tech that make it all happen. Actionable, tested, and built for crews that actually do the work without the burnout. This podcast is sponsored by Plutus Agents, an AI growth consulting firm helping residential contractors reduce admin load, increase efficiency, and connect tools using custom systems and automations.
Owen Gagne hosts The Intelligent Builder, a business show with 34 episodes published.
Craig Williams has run a home services business for years, built a 15-team operator network, and personally dragged a legacy pest control company off handwritten carbon paper tickets. In this episode, he and Owen get int
Brad Strawbridge started at Lowe's as a delivery driver, worked his way up to district manager over in-home services, and then made the leap into roofing. He scaled Capital City Roofing to eight figures in two years, bui
Harvey Hine has been running HMH Architecture and Interiors in Boulder since 1989. Ten people. Over 400 projects. Zero desire to grow past his comfort zone. In this episode, Harvey walks through what 37 years in resident
Ben Lagrange co-founded AirGuard out of a problem he kept stepping into running his own HVAC companies in North and South Carolina: mold shows up in crawl spaces and duct systems constantly, but by the time it's visible,
Aimee Zhang is a founding member and broker at Real Residential in the Seattle and East Side market, and she's spent a decade watching builders leave money on the table at the exact moment they should be winning. In this
Chad Harrison runs franchise development for DoodyCalls, a pet waste management company under Authority Brands that has scaled from roughly 30 locations to over 100 by installing systems, a 24/7 call center, and an AI bo
Alek Ivanov (Synergy3) is a change-driven home services operator with high standards and a simple belief: if you’re not growing, you’re dying. We get into how Synergy3 started, the mindset shift that unlocked growth, and
Lori Dennis is a veteran interior designer, builder, and founder who spent 30 years vertically integrating design, construction, and a high-end windows & doors business, all under one roof. We cover the sustainability ni
Brian Chatfield helped scale a commercial mechanical business from near zero to $36M in four years. In this episode, he breaks down what actually makes that possible, and what breaks first when it doesn't go right. We co
Robert Schissler is Senior Director of Operations at K&H Home Solutions, a company that's been modernizing faster than most in the residential space. In this episode, he breaks down his path from commercial windows and d
Alisha Taylor, founder of Alisha Taylor Interiors in Scottsdale, breaks down what it takes to build a profitable, recession-resistant luxury design firm. She covers her path from civil engineering to interior design, sur
Kara Roche, Operations Manager at Castle Haven Construction in Atlanta, explains what it takes to run high-end renovations before construction starts. She covers client onboarding, selections management, moving away from
Carl Nelson, Co-Founder of Visual PNW, spent over a decade running national rollout programs for brands like Starbucks and McDonald's. Now he's applying those build-at-scale lessons to custom homes and remodels in the Se
Cate Bloom, Vice President at AAA Appliance Service Center, explains how her family's multi-generation appliance service company modernized from paper systems to scalable digital operations. She covers her transition fro
Rob Dalrymple, Executive Vice President at Ryan Contractors, shares how he went from Boston carpenter to helping build a multi-state general contractor operating in 35 states. Rob breaks down the transition from resident
Todd Torbert, President of Level 1 General Construction in Dallas, shares his journey from finance and insurance to building a roofing and storm-restoration company that evolved into a boutique general contractor. He dis
Dave Wageman is the new CEO of Hometown Restyling, a nearly 40-year remodeler in Eastern Iowa that just became 100% employee-owned. We unpack why they chose employee ownership over private equity, what changes when every
Charnell Griffin, founder of Clean Corp in Atlanta, shares how she built her cleaning business from college startup to systematic operation since 2007. She breaks down the early marketing that actually worked, pricing di
Alicia Powers, President & Owner of Price Builders in San Diego, shares her journey from managing Air Force runway reconstruction to acquiring a 30+ year residential design-build firm. She talks about inheriting outdated
Austin Kent, CEO of Kent Development, is a second-generation builder making the shift from general contractor to developer in Dallas. He breaks down how he built a family-run GC, why he's tired of living on other people'
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The Intelligent Builder is hosted by Owen Gagne. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 34 episodes.
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