Solhver

Operators, in writing

Who We Are,
What We Have Run

We’ve spent years running trades businesses and working alongside the people who keep them going. Solhver grew out of that experience and the belief that understanding someone’s work is a sensible place to start before changing it.

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Shannon Ruffing
Co-Founder  ·  Principal

Shannon Ruffing

Shannon built her career inside a trades operation, starting in an administrative role at Piedmont Door Solutions and growing into COO over the course of a decade.

She has run the work from inside the business: dispatch, field service software, recruiting, ERP and system integrations, branch support, acquisition integration, and the daily operating cadence that keeps a service company moving.

She helped lead Piedmont through a private equity acquisition, multiple add-on integrations, and new-market launches. At Solhver, Shannon owns implementation and client operations, making sure the plan can actually survive contact with the field.

Tarrell Graham
Co-Founder  ·  Principal

Tarrell Graham

Started as a well driller and field service technician, then spent thirty years through project management, operations, finance, systems, and executive leadership.

At Piedmont Door Solutions, where he served as CEO, he helped build the financial infrastructure, tech stack, and operating systems behind the company’s growth from a small regional business into a multi-branch platform. His work sat between the field and the numbers: pricing, reporting, acquisitions, integrations, systems, budget and branch operations.

At Solhver, Tarrell owns the diligence, the numbers, and the architecture beneath both.

The founders' record

What the two of us have already run

Solhver was founded by operators with decades of experience in the trades. We have done the daily work of scaling a business, integrating multiple acquisitions, and standing up greenfield operations from the ground up. Others can copy our deliverables or our language, they can't copy our experience.

3 to 10
Locations Across 7 States
67
Company-Best eNPS
24 to 165
Headcount Increase
20+ years
Experience in Trades
63 days
How we know the method works

The thinking behind the Solhver method helped us integrate an acquisition in 63 days, with ERP and HR live on day one. We understand the value of a detailed operating record, because it showed us how the business actually worked before we touched the systems, people, or process. That clarity kept the operation running through the change. That same type of diligence is what every Business Study delivers.

Our commitment

We will not take on work whose purpose is to reduce or replace the people doing it.

Our work should help people succeed, preserve valuable knowledge, and give ownership a clearer understanding of the business they are responsible for.

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