Too small for this? Let’s find out together.
When your whole team is three or four people, every hour you spend on bookkeeping, order entry or chasing vendors is an hour not spent with customers. A lot of small teams are finding a different way to handle that work. It might be worth a look.
The small-team squeeze
You’re the owner, the buyer and the bookkeeper.
Quotes and orders pile up after hours.
A local hire costs more than the role seems worth.
Same role, a very different number
Once benefits are included.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Median annual pay for bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks is $50,670 (May 2025), and employer-paid benefits average about 30% of total compensation — so wages are roughly 70% of the real cost, which puts a fully-loaded bookkeeper near $72,000 a year ($50,670 ÷ 0.70 ≈ $72,400). The ADBM figure is a representative full-time rate. All figures are approximate and illustrative — a sense of scale, not a quote, and not a statement about your business. Your actual cost depends on the role and how you would otherwise staff it.
One role, one person, one simple start
Tell us the one role that’s holding you back
Bookkeeping, order entry, quoting, customer service or purchasing. Start with the one that’s eating your week.
Meet candidates we’ve already screened
People screened for aptitude and real building-materials experience before they ever reach you. We handle the rest — recruiting, vetting, onboarding and the day-to-day.
Start with one person and a simple 90-day plan
See how it fits before you decide anything bigger — no big commitment up front.
Small companies already run this way
We already have dedicated teammates working inside small building-materials and hardware companies — some with only one or two people on staff. A few of them, kept anonymous:
A specialty hardware distributor
Running lean, with a dedicated ADBM teammate carrying the back-office load.
An independent building-products brand
A small team, extended by a full-time ADBM teammate who learned their catalog on the job.
A surface-solutions specialist — Midwest
One or two people on staff, plus their ADBM teammate.
A surface-solutions specialist — Gulf Coast
The same lean setup, a second region, same model.
A family-run architectural hardware showroom
Decades in business, a handful of people, one ADBM teammate in the mix.
Kept unnamed here out of respect for our clients. We’re glad to make an introduction once we know what you’re weighing.
Too small for this? Let’s find out together.
Tell us the one role that’s holding you back. We’ll show you the people, the cost, and how a 90-day start would look.