A true asset
A business that runs without you in every seat.
Clean systems, real leaders, and numbers you can measure. More freedom in the day to day.
Run a business that runs without you.
You started for freedom, not to be stuck in the day to day. VBG’s team builds the operations, systems, and people your business needs, so it becomes a real, measurable asset instead of a liability.
The business works because you never stop working.
You built yourself a job. You’re the engine behind every sale, decision, and hire, so when you stop, the company stops. That isn’t freedom. A business that depends entirely on you is a liability, not an asset.
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Every decision waits on you
Pricing, scheduling, and hiring all stall until you weigh in.
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You can’t take a real vacation
Time off means checking your phone from the beach.
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The phone never stops
Customers, techs, and vendors call you first, day and night.
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You don’t trust your numbers
Cash, margins, and job costs are a best guess at month end.
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Hiring and turnover land on you
Every open seat pulls you back off the field.
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No leaders under you
Your team is good at the work but waits on you to run it.
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Growth costs you more hours
Every new truck adds to your week, not your freedom.
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The value lives only in you
Without you in the building, the business is worth very little.
Every component your business is missing.
We add the finance, legal, marketing, people, and technology pieces a growing company needs, so it runs on systems instead of on you.
Finances
CFO and CPA review, clean books, and payroll, with numbers you can measure and plan around.
Legal
Entity structure, contracts, and risk guidance that protect what you’ve built.
Marketing
Ads, website, and CRM, run with R&R Development.
People & Ops
Comp plans, leadership, and recruiting, so the team runs without you in every seat.
Best Practices
Field-proven standards from operators who’ve scaled.
Technology
A full customer journey platform. Launching Dec 2026.
You win either way.
Vested Builders Group helps turn businesses into true assets. We get them into a sellable position, even if you never sell it.
A sellable position
Ready if you ever choose. Valuable if you never do.
Buyer-ready books, proof, and management, so the value isn’t locked in you.
Our process.
Four steps from a free discovery call to a plan we put in place.
Discovery
A free call with one of our professionals. We talk through your business and uncover whether we’re a good fit.
Onboard
We get access to what we need and go deeper into your numbers, tech, and everything you have going on.
Audit
We audit everything we have access to, see what’s missing and what’s needed, and build the plan.
Implementation
Once the plan is clear, we put it to work and run the implementation with you.
We’ve run the same kind of business.
Not consultants from a desk. Operators who’ve owned trucks, sold jobs, hired crews, and built real companies in the trades.
Here’s what our team has built and sold.
Thousands
Of homes our team put solar on
We ran a residential solar company across three states, start to finish.
$38M
In commercial solar projects sold
Large solar jobs for businesses and buildings.
$100M+
Sold to homeowners since 2016
Energy efficiency, solar and roofing.
$50M to $120M
An electrical contractor we helped grow
Including hiring hundreds of people a year.
$12M to $35M+
A software company we helped grow
We built the hiring systems that let the team scale.
20+ years
Building software for real businesses
The tools that keep operations, sales and service running.
Operators who’ve built companies like yours.
Marc Erpenbeck
President
Marc Erpenbeck has led George Brazil Plumbing & Electrical as president since 2013, and he also serves as its chief legal officer. He started as a civil engineer, then spent more than a decade as a construction and environmental lawyer and partner at Snell & Wilmer. In 2024 he led the Phoenix company’s move to 100 percent employee ownership. George Brazil’s roots go back to 1955, and it serves more than 13,000 service-agreement members.
Jake Gress
CEO
Jake Gress became chief executive of Goettl Air Conditioning & Plumbing in 2023, after a year as president. Ken Goodrich moved from chief executive to chairman in that change. Before home services, Gress led operations and marketing at L&W Supply and held senior product and national-account roles at USG. He has a marketing degree from Eastern Illinois University and an MBA from the Wisconsin School of Business.
Dan Puente
Chairman
Dan Puente founded DP Electric in his garage in 1990 and is now founder and chairman of the board. In 2023 he turned day-to-day leadership over to his daughter, Danielle Puente Torres, who is president and chief executive. The company became 30 percent employee-owned in 2021 and fully employee-owned in 2024. It is based in Arizona and opened an Austin operation in 2023.
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Ready to build a business worth more?
For home-service owners roughly $1M–$10M ARR who want real operating support.
