About
Who builds StashGrade
StashGrade is built by Mike Petroskey and Justin Judy. We met at ArcSite, where we spent years selling and supporting the software that fencing, decking, roofing, and concrete contractors run their businesses on.
We were in the same rooms, on the same calls, looking at the same thing from two directions. Mike ran revenue and operations. Justin ran business development and partnerships. Between us we talked to thousands of owners, and the same gap kept showing up in every one of those conversations.
These are good operators. They know their crews, their material costs, and their market better than anyone. What almost none of them had was a financial snapshot they could read at a glance, and a straight answer on what to do with it. The numbers existed. They were just locked inside an accounting system built for an accountant, not for the person who has to make a call on Monday morning.
Mike was already running that diagnostic by hand for every client of his advisory firm, However We Got Here. So we built it. StashGrade reads the books, grades the financial health of the business, and points at the next decision. A calibration tool you can run every week.
Mike Petroskey
Co-Founder · Product and technology
Mike has spent the last two decades in IT infrastructure, development, operations, integrations, financial technology, and construction SaaS. Enterprise storage at Compellent and Dell, go-to-market infrastructure at Blue Medora, then the full revenue and operations function at ArcSite.
Along the way he worked with private equity buyers and the companies they bought. The pattern was hard to miss. Owners who knew their financial health cold, and ran a tight operations playbook, exited for eight figures. Owners with the same trucks and similar revenue who did not, exited for seven.
He also runs However We Got Here, a tech advisory firm working with specialty contractors directly. Every engagement started the same way: pull the books apart, find the leaks, set the baseline. He was running that diagnostic by hand for every client. StashGrade is that diagnostic, built once and run every week.
Justin Judy
Co-Founder · Go-to-market and partnerships
Justin spent eleven years at Best Buy building and running a specialty sales force before moving into contractor software. He knows how people actually learn a new system, and why most rollouts fail on adoption long before they fail on technology.
At ArcSite he moved from business development through account management and outbound leadership into Director of Business Development and Partnerships. Four and a half years of daily contact with fencing, decking, roofing, and concrete contractors, and ownership of the partner and integration relationships that tied ArcSite to the rest of their stack.
At StashGrade he owns go-to-market and partnerships: who we build for, who we integrate with, and making sure the answer a contractor gets is one they can act on. He is a Partner at However We Got Here and is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
If any of this sounds like your business, write us. We read and answer our own email: mike@howeverwegothere.com.