BrightView Holdings, Inc. (BV)
Commercial landscaping services. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 19, 2025. Ranked 94 of the 95 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
11%
End of 2028
15%
Employees, annual report
18,600
Leading staffing pattern
Services to Buildings and Dwellings
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now11%
- End of 202714%
- End of 202815%
- End of 203015%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 84%
- Becomes checking a model's work 10%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
18,600 employees counted by segment: 15,400 in landscape maintenance, 2,500 in landscape development read as specialty trade contracting, and a corporate staff of 300.
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: 11% now, 14% at the end of 2027, 15% at the end of 2028, 15% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 15% desk work, 9% people work and 76% 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 84% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 10% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
18,600 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; the business is in the United States, and the 1,500 seasonal H-2B workers are employed there.
The filing: “Human Capital Employees As of September 30, 2025, we had a total of approximately 18,600 employees, including seasonal workers, consisting of approximately 18,200 full-time and approximately 400 part-time employees in our two business segments.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Services to Buildings and Dwellings | 85% | Maintenance Services employs about 15,400 full-time employees (a), the landscape maintenance and snow removal crews, with the 400 part-time employees read into the same pattern by description. |
| Other Specialty Trade Contractors | 13% | Development Services employs about 2,500 full-time employees (a), the landscape design and construction work on commercial sites, read at specialty trade contracting. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 2% | The corporate staff is approximately 300 employees (a), recorded under rule 6 and kept as a pattern because it is counted (rule 5). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 18,200 full-time and 400 part-time employees including seasonal workers; 15,400 in Maintenance Services, 2,500 in Development Services, 300 corporate; about 1,500 seasonal workers through the H-2B visa program in fiscal 2025 (2,000 in 2024); employment peaks in spring and summer; about 5% covered by collective bargaining agreements.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Services to Buildings and Dwellings, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- ABM Industries Inc. (ABM, 113,000 employees)12% now, 16% by 2028
- Rollins, Inc. (ROL, 21,946 employees)10% now, 13% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in three sentences, in its cybersecurity risk factor: the increased prevalence of artificial intelligence and its own efforts to incorporate it may heighten cyber risks, AI may be used to craft attacks, and vulnerabilities may come from its own, its customers' or its partners' use of AI.
- “Additionally, the increased prevalence and use of artificial intelligence and our efforts to potentially incorporate artificial intelligence in our business may heighten the risks mentioned above related to cybersecurity incidents.”
- “To the extent artificial intelligence capabilities continue to evolve and are increasingly adopted, they may be used to identify vulnerabilities and craft increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks.”
- “Vulnerabilities may also be introduced from the use of artificial intelligence by us, our customers, suppliers, and other business partners and third-party providers.”
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 20253median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 18,200 | 2025-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 19,100 | 2024-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 20,400 | 2023-11-16 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 20,300 | 2022-11-17 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 19,800 | 2021-11-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 19,000 | 2020-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 20,900 | 2019-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 19,400 | 2018-11-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The universe row held the 18,200 full-time count; the filing's total including part-time employees is 18,600 (rule 2).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-25-288109, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of BrightView Holdings, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 11% now and 15% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce BrightView Holdings, 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 BrightView Holdings, Inc. employ?
- 18,600 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up BrightView Holdings, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Services to Buildings and Dwellings; by those patterns the work is about 15% desk work, 9% people work and 76% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does BrightView Holdings, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 3 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 19, 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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