About

Operations help for contractors who are busy but not keeping enough.

Path to Scale is a founder-led operations firm for commercial and building-services contractors, based in New York and working on site across the metro area and remotely nationwide. We find where profit and cash leak, fix it with your team, and put the business on a rhythm that doesn't depend on the owner.

Why we exist

We exist to close the gap between how hard contractors work and how much they keep. Most owners can feel the leaks (margin that fades between bid and close, cash that sits on finished jobs, decisions that wait on them), but can't see where they are.

Our method, OpsAIM™, starts with your real job data, checked against interviews with your team. We measure what's actually happening before we change anything, and we measure again after.

We work only with founder- or family-owned commercial and building-services contractors doing $10M–$75M: the firms that building performance laws like NYC's LL97, electrification and the labor shortage are putting under the most pressure.

Credentials

Certified EOS® Integrator (Integrator Masterclass)
Microsoft Process Mining certified
Six Sigma Black Belt
Harvard Data Science Initiative · Agentic AI: Contextualized and Applied
MBA · Baruch College, CUNY
Computer Engineering · City College of New York

Who leads the work

Every engagement is led personally by our founder, a senior operator with 18+ years in field-heavy programs and operations, more than a decade of it in leadership roles. That includes more than $100M in programs managed, New York City rail and infrastructure programs with $10M–$65M budgets and full P&L accountability, monthly business reviews with a division CEO, and a mid-project contract renegotiation that recovered 24% margin on a fixed-deadline program.

Every automation we design runs the routine steps on its own, logged and reversible, and routes only the exceptions to a person: off-list prices, amounts over a set limit, contract changes, or anything with regulatory or safety impact.

We work in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

We founded Path to Scale on one thesis: commercial contractors are about to see more work than ever, from building performance laws like NYC's LL97, electrification and a labor shortage, and the winners will be the firms whose operations scale without the owner. 58% of construction firms have no formal ownership-transfer plan.[3]

[3] FMI/CFMA, 2024 Ownership Transfer & Management Succession Study.

Our Operating Principles

01 Data Before Design: We never design a solution before we understand the problem. Every engagement starts with your process data.
02 Independence, Not Dependency: Every system we build, your team can run.
03 Founder-led: Every engagement is led personally by our founder. You always know who is doing the work.
04 Focused niche: We work only with commercial and building-services contractors doing $10M–$75M. Our founder's background is large New York City field programs: crews in the field, scope that changes mid-job, billing that falls behind the work. The same problems, at a bigger scale.