He is handing his company to his son, and the system is how the handoff works.
Hector poured his first driveway in 1988. His son, Mateo, runs operations now, and the business knowledge that lived in Hector's head lives in the company.
- Who
- Hector Ruvalcaba, Owner
- Company
- Ruvalcaba Concrete & Paving
- Trade
- Concrete and masonry
- Where
- San Antonio, TX
- Size
- $12.5M a year
- Team
- 8 crews, his son Mateo running operations
- Every job
- priced from the same templates, not memory
- Crews
- scheduled and clocked in from one board
- Mateo
- runs the day; Hector reviews the week
Thirty-five years of concrete
Hector started pouring driveways in 1988 and built Ruvalcaba Concrete & Paving into one of the busiest residential flatwork companies in San Antonio. He priced every job in his head, and he was almost always right.
His son, Mateo, came home after college and six years at a general contractor. The question was how to hand over a business whose pricing lived in one man's head.
Why they switched
Mateo wanted Hector's knowledge in the company, not just in Hector. They built pricing templates together for driveways, patios, and stamped concrete, with Good, Better, Best options for finish and thickness.
Now estimators quote from those templates, homeowners sign and pay the deposit, and crews are scheduled and clocked in from one board.
“Thirty-five years of pricing lived in my head. Now it lives in the company, where my son can use it.”
What changed at work
Mateo runs the day. Hector reviews the week, walks a few jobs, and still settles arguments about rebar.
Quotes are consistent across estimators, so the company stopped underpricing jobs when Hector was not the one quoting.
What changed at home
Hector has four grandkids. He picks two of them up from school on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
He says he is retiring next year. Mateo says he has said that for three years.
“I pick up the grandkids on Tuesdays. The concrete gets poured without me.”
What Hector runs on Revcore
What it replaced
- Pricing in Hector's head
- Paper job tickets
- Crew schedule by phone call
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