Richard Sperber has built and sold two of the biggest landscaping companies in the United States. When someone with that track record calls a piece of software a game changer, it's worth paying attention.
Meet Richard Sperber
If you've been in the landscaping industry, you probably know about Richard Sperber. He ran ValleyCrest Landscape and scaled it into what eventually became BrightView. BrightView is now the largest landscaping company in the United States, with annual revenue exceeding $3 billion. After that, he wasn't done. He went on to build Sperber Landscape Companies into a $500 million operation. Multiple companies, billions in revenue, decades of building and scaling at the highest levels of the industry. Richard now focuses on partnerships and advising, and he's selective about who he works with.
Why Bobyard?
We met Richard at the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) and though we struck up a lively conversation, by his own admission, he was skeptical at first. A platform that automates takeoffs and cuts estimating time in half? He'd heard big promises before, but had also seen big disappointments about the magic of software. Then he actually saw Bobyard in action.
"I'll be honest, I was skeptical. But Bobyard truly does exactly what it says it does. This is the kind of tool that changes how you run a business." — Richard Sperber
For someone who's run operations at the scale Richard has, he knows the difference between software that sounds impressive in a demo and software that actually holds up on real jobs.
Bobyard 2.0 held up.
The platform Richard tested has only gotten better. Bobyard 2.0 brings a material-centric takeoff experience, a consolidated AI workbench, and a smoother path from completed takeoff to production-ready estimate without rebuilding data or exporting to Excel.
See for yourself what Richard’s talking about
Check out the full Bobyard 2.0 launch announcement to see everything that's new, or jump straight in and book a demo to see it for yourself.