
The Leaf Blower on the Roof: How Blanton & Sons Uses AI to Stay a Family Business
Blanton & Sons has been doing plumbing and HVAC since 1996. Adam Grubb went from plumber to general manager in two weeks and rebuilt the company's back office with AI — eliminating an entire coordinator role and using Claude to write his own pricing calculators. The point, he says, isn't to replace people. It's to free them up to be the kind of company where the founder climbs on your roof with a leaf blower.




