Builders FirstSource, Inc. (BLDR)
Building products for homebuilders, 28,000. Read October 3, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 2 of the 11 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
27%
Employees, annual report
28,000
Leading staffing pattern
Building Material and Supplies Dealers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now21%
- End of 202726%
- End of 202827%
- End of 203027%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 72%
- Becomes checking a model's work 16%
- Handed over with lighter checks 12%
The filing states one total and revenue by product line, so distribution and manufacturing take their shares by revenue (c), said so.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 21% now, 26% at the end of 2027, 27% at the end of 2028, 27% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 27% desk work, 21% people work and 52% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 72% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 16% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
28,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing's four segments are U.S. regions (West, South, Southeast, Northeast) and it describes no operations abroad; no count by country is stated.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we had approximately 28,000 employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Building Material and Supplies Dealers | 78% | Lumber and sheet goods (26% of revenue), windows, doors and millwork (25%) and specialty products and services (27%) supplied to homebuilders from distribution locations with a delivery fleet, with 2,700 sales representatives and 2,550 coordinators and specialists counted; no count by location kind, so by revenue (c). |
| Other Wood Product Manufacturing | 22% | Manufactured products, 22% of revenue: trusses, wall panels and millwork made in component plants; by revenue (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 28,000 employees; about 2,700 commissioned sales representatives with about 2,550 sales coordinators and product specialists; a delivery truck fleet; a digital catalog of about 20,000 courses; the recordable incident rate flat on 2024 near historic lows.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Building Material and Supplies Dealers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Home Depot (HD, 472,400 employees)22% now, 28% by 2028
- Lowe's (LOW, 276,000 employees)22% now, 28% by 2028
- The Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW, 64,249 employees)22% now, 31% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
10 sentences in the filing name AI. Ten sentences: forward-looking and competitive risk factors, and the digital tools of its Paradigm business.
- “Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control or may be currently unknown to the Company, that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from the events or results described in the forward-looking statements; such risks or uncertainties include those related to the Company's growth strategies, including acquisitions, o...”
- “Any of these competitors may (i) foresee the course of market development more accurately than we do, (ii) develop products that are superior to our products, (iii) have the ability to produce or supply similar products at a lower cost, (iv) develop stronger relationships with local homebuilders or commercial builders, (v) adapt more quickly to evolving customer preferences or requirements, or...”
- “These laws, regulations and executive orders include, among other things, regulations promulgated by the Department of Transportation and applicable to our fleet of delivery trucks, work safety regulations promulgated by the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, employment regulations, including immigration and work-authorization laws and regulations promulgated b...”
- “As a result, it may be difficult for you to resell your shares of common stock in the future. 22 Emerging issues related to our development, integration and use of artificial intelligence ("AI") could give rise to legal or regulatory action, damage our reputation or otherwise materially harm our business.”
- “Our development, integration and use of AI technology in our operations remains in the early phases.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 202510median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 28,000 | 2026-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 29,000 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 29,000 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 29,000 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 28,000 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 26,000 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 15,800 | 2020-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 15,000 | 2019-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 15,000 | 2018-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 14,000 | 2017-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 14,000 | 2016-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 3,800 | 2015-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 3,330 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,750 | 2013-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,450 | 2012-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 2,500 | 2011-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,700 | 2010-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 3,300 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 4,900 | 2008-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 5,900 | 2007-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 6,600 | 2006-03-13 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share rests on the filing's U.S. regional segments, not a stated count.
- No count by location kind: shares by revenue (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-054643, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Builders FirstSource, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 27% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Builders FirstSource, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Builders FirstSource, Inc. employ?
- 28,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Builders FirstSource, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Building Material and Supplies Dealers; by those patterns the work is about 27% desk work, 21% people work and 52% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Builders FirstSource, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 10 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 10 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 3, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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