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Bring your company forward.

Run a home services company? Keep your name on the van and your team in the trucks. This is how an independent company becomes a Grasshopper Group location.

Your name staysYour people stayYour city staysYou start from over 230

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The offer

Not an acquisition. Not a franchise.

You built something real. It stays yours to run, same name, same people, same city, inside one company built by tradespeople, for tradespeople. You are not starting from zero. You are starting from over 230 people, and growing.

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I love numbers. I love operations. I love people, and I love marketing. Operations is where I live.

Grasshopper Group started with Chad and Veda Terrinoni at Hummingbird. They came to me struggling. Not with money. The pressure was too much, and it was reaching their home life. They were about to sell for a few million. I said, why would you do that? You have a beautiful brand and so much to give the community you are in. I will help you for free. I will give you everything I know, so you can build something beautiful for your team and your people.

I had already spent millions of dollars in mistakes figuring it out for myself. I failed. I learned. I paid for every lesson. I pivoted. Why should they pay for it twice?

Not long after, they asked if I would join them on the journey. The rest is history. Because of Chad and Veda, this turned into a national movement. We built a whole team so the next founder does not have to figure it out alone. That is what Grasshopper Group is. People first. Not business stupid. Both, or it does not work. Now we bring it to the entire country.

Amanda AugustSenior Leader & Founder
What you can expect from usWhat we ask of you
Honesty first
Say the thing
No one left in the fog
Assume good intent
People before process
Let go of “always”
We celebrate the climb
Keep choosing forward
Grasshopper Group leaders together at Camp Forward '26
Camp Forward '26
You are not alone anymore

You still make the decisions. You stop making them alone.

Running a shop is lonely. Every hard call is yours. Every hire, every bad month, every decision at 9 PM with nobody to ask. Inside Grasshopper Group there are eight other founders who have made the same call, a Monday Desk that runs every week, and a central team whose job is to pick up when you call.

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WeeklyMonday Desk
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Your people get a future too

Most owners do not join
for themselves.

They join for the technician who has been with them six years and has nowhere to go. Inside Grasshopper Group that technician gets The Forward Way, a head coach riding along, a quality control supervisor on every call, tech support one phone call away, leadership coaching, a licensed therapist, and a real path from the truck to leading a team. Your people can hold equity. Your people get Camp Forward. That is what changes for them the day you join.

That is the path

Jack Boyer came to Grasshopper as a lead installer. He became the install manager. Today he is the general manager of Grasshopper Heating & Cooling, running the company day to day alongside Cait. Dylan, Kara, Kelly, Dottie, Cait, Brian, Connor, Tyler, and many more came to us from outside the trades and learned everything from the inside. We cannot imagine the business without them.

It is real, and it is open to your people the day you join.

Camp Forward '26
Camp Forward '26
Awards night · Argent
Awards night · Argent
Awards night · Full Swing
Awards night · Full Swing
Awards night · Grasshopper
Awards night · Grasshopper
What you get, and what you keep

The whole playbook.
Your hands on the wheel.

We take everything we built and hand it to you. All of it, from day one.

The Forward WayThe playbookThe central team
The buying powerThe Monday DeskCamp Forward

The central team is built once, so every location gets it. Real people, serving every location at every stage. You do not hire them, manage them, or carry them as overhead. That is how a $5M location gets the support of a $50M one. About to hire for a seat on that list? Call us first. It is probably already filled.

We do not come in and run your team. That was never the point.

We give you the tools and the support to be the best leader you can be, for yourself, for your team, and for your community. You lead. Your people rise. Your city gets the standard. That is where everybody wins, and that is where the movement comes to life.

How it works

Ownership moves up, not out.

You do not sell your company. You trade ownership in your location for ownership in Grasshopper Group, and you keep running your shop. We take nothing on your distributions. The numbers get discussed in person, not on a website.

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Ownership moves upNot out
GrasshopperYour locationYou keep running your shop
Every business is four jobs

We carry what scales.
You keep what only you can do.

Generate the leads. Book the leads. Convert the leads. Complete the revenue. Nothing else is the business. Here is who does what.

01 · We carry

Generate

Get the phone to ring.

We manage the paid media, budgets and partners. Organic stays yours.

02 · We carry

Book

Get them on the calendar.

Call center at cost, run at the center alongside your local leadership.

03 · We carry

Convert

Earn the yes.

Inside sales, training, coaching and call review, through The Forward Way.

04 · You keep

Complete

Deliver what you sold.

The work itself stays yours. Nobody at the center can install a furnace.

The back office

The unglamorous work.

One weekly call. One monthly business review. Nothing you chase.

Finance

Monthly P&L reviewed against real benchmarks.

People

Weekly one-on-ones, leadership coaching and KPI reviews.

Hiring

We vet for culture and skill before you meet them.

Buying

National pricing on equipment and software, set up for you at close.

How it starts

Owners come to us.

We have never cold-called a company. Every location on the map raised its hand first.

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Step 01

You raise your hand

You send the note. Amanda reads it.

Step 02

We interview each other

Fit before finance. Both ways.

Step 03

You come to Clifton Park

A day inside the flagship, with the team that runs it.

Step 04

Letter of intent

Due diligence begins.

No auction. No cold calls. No cash for your company.

This is not a buyer. This is a team. 

This is your name on the van and over 230 people behind it. 

This is the playbook we paid for, handed to you. 

This is what forward looks like when you stop doing it alone. 

Nine so far

Nine locations.
Every one started independent.

Each is run by the founder who built it, in the city they built it in.

Life inside

Work hard.
Celebrate the climb.

A year inside Grasshopper Group: Camp Forward, team days, Forward Fridays, launch days.

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