Grasshopper Group is a leadership creation engine that happens to run home service companies. The trade is the vehicle. Leaders are the product.
Grasshopper was born in the trenches. We started as a commercial HVAC shop in Clifton Park, New York, before Grasshopper had a name. We pivoted to residential and started over. Then COVID nearly shut the doors for good.
We had no choice. We went all in on a new brand and a new purpose. It was our last at bat, and we swung. We named it Grasshopper, because a grasshopper only moves forward, and we were determined to keep moving. Amanda August did not have a playbook. She built one, on a belief that refused to settle: people deserve more than a job. They deserve a future. A team. A chance to rise.
That shop became one of the fastest-growing home service brands in the country. Not luck. People. Culture. A standard that only moves forward.
Then it became something bigger. Founders in nine cities, each running the company they built, all running The Forward Way. The first women-led home service company of its kind. One company, many locations.
A commercial HVAC shop in Clifton Park, NY, before Grasshopper had a name. We pivoted to residential and started over with nothing but a crew and a belief.
No safety net. No playbook. One swing left. We bet everything on a new brand and a new purpose, and we named it for the one thing that only moves forward.
We stopped building a company and started building people. Better culture, better leadership, a real chance at a life the team never thought was possible. The shop that almost closed became one of the fastest-growing home service brands in the country.
Nine founders who kept their name and found their people. Over 230 teammates across eight states and DC. The Forward Way in every truck, Camp Forward every year, and a Monday Desk that reaches all of them. What started as a last at bat is now the new standard for the trades. And we are not done.
I did not start Grasshopper to build something big. I started it to keep the doors open, and then to keep them open for the people who walked through them.
Somewhere in that fight I figured out what I actually wanted to build. A place where the trades are the way up, not the fallback. Where a technician becomes a leader, and that leader raises the next one. That is the whole point of Grasshopper Group. Nine cities so far. We are not done.
To rehumanize the trades.
To make blue collar the new gold standard.
To raise up builders who become leaders, and leaders who multiply others.
To build companies that do more than cycle revenue. They change lives.
To lead with heart.
To operate with grit.
To scale with integrity.
To prove that you can come from the field and build an empire that lasts.
lead from the front.
build world-class systems without losing our soul.
pioneer bold ideas and execute with discipline.
champion people, on the job, in their homes, and in their lives.
win together or we lose together.
People first. Not business stupid. Both, or it does not work.
What happens in a home, in order. Every location is taught and scored on the same six.
Amanda built Grasshopper out of a company that nearly closed, and named it for the one thing a grasshopper cannot do: move backward. She leads every Grasshopper Group location from the Monday Desk, live, every week. It is where she pours her heart into every technician across the company, the passion, the vision, and the why behind The Forward Way, so it shows up in every home we serve. One vision, carried by Location Founders & Leaders in nine cities.
Most companies our size do not put a therapist on the org chart. We do. Every Grasshopper Group location runs with the full central team behind it from day one. 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. Nobody at the center can install a furnace. That part stays local, on purpose.
Eight states and DC.
