Post by Tarrell Graham

This is what growing your company by 52 people in 63 days looks like. It's 6:34 PM on a Thursday, 266 miles still ahead of you, riding shotgun with your COO for the hundredth time while catching up with family between meetings. It's 138 hours in a car since October. 51 hotel nights. Late-night strategy sessions and a lot of DoorDash. A lot of prayers and meditation. It's not the slide decks or the project plans - it's the conversations at mile marker 227 when you finally solve the problem that's been keeping you up. It's partners across PDS who each show up every single time. Who know when to push and when to listen. Who understand that the work isn't glamorous but it matters. This is what integrating a company and doing it right looks like. Not just integrating systems - integrating people. Preserving what works while building something better. Honoring 30 years of legacy while preparing for the next 30. This is what our Piedmont Door Solutions team delivered: A full operational integration in 63 days. New systems, new processes, new possibilities. Handled in house by an incredible team - not many companies could pull it off but the PDS team is special and they are blessed with unusual talent. The real work happens between Point A and Point B. In the car. On the calls. In the patience required to get it right. To my partner on this journey - Shannon Ruffing - thank you. To all the PDS teammates that spent so many hours and so many miles with us the last 3 months - Jim Adams, Keith Mehltretter, Jessica Leger, Jennifer Griffin, Emily Lucas, Bill Watson, Robert Osiecki, Lance Blazek, Natalie Harrington, MBA- thank you all. And special thank you to Courtney Shuttleworth for showing up in a huge way and making every stressful situation better. We have a lot of work left - there will be a lot more DoorDash before its done - but you are all brilliant and I am blessed to know you all. To everyone grinding through their own integrations right now: the miles add up, just keep driving.