Guardian Pharmacy Services, Inc. (GRDN)
Long-term care pharmacies, all U.S. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 11, 2026. Ranked 52 of the 145 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
34%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
36%
Employees, annual report
3,600
Leading staffing pattern
Health and Personal Care Retailers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now34%
- End of 202736%
- End of 202836%
- End of 203036%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 63%
- Becomes checking a model's work 28%
- Handed over with lighter checks 8%
Guardian Pharmacy Services states about 3,600 employees, all in the United States, over 500 of them pharmacists, at local pharmacies serving long-term care facilities read at pharmacies, with the 120 in its Atlanta office at management of companies.
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: 34% now, 36% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 36% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 36% desk work, 22% people work and 42% 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 63% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 28% becomes checking a model's work and 8% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
3,600 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). All employees are located within the United States, the filing states.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 3,600 persons, all of whom are located within the United States.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Health and Personal Care Retailers | 97% | Stated counts (a) inside one business: over 500 pharmacists and over 90 nurses among about 3,480 employees at local pharmacies serving long-term care facilities nationwide, pharmacies, NAICS 456110, the SIC 5912 business. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 3% | Stated count (a): more than 120 employees work in the Atlanta office to support the local pharmacies nationwide, a stated headquarters count that rule 6 sends to management of companies, kept under five percent because it is counted. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 3,600 employees, all in the United States, including over 500 pharmacists, over 90 nurses and more than 120 in the Atlanta support office; no union; the data service's segment table shows a corporate segment at 100% and is not usable.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Health and Personal Care Retailers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- CVS Health (CVS, 300,000 employees)40% now, 45% by 2028
- Ulta Beauty, Inc. (ULTA, 66,820 employees)34% now, 35% by 2028
- Bath & Body Works, Inc. (BBWI, 60,735 employees)33% now, 35% by 2028
- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (EL, 55,000 employees)32% now, 35% by 2028
- Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (SBH, 27,000 employees)35% now, 38% by 2028
- National Vision Holdings, Inc. (EYE, 13,138 employees)34% now, 36% by 2028
- Option Care Health, Inc. (OPCH, 8,266 employees)27% now, 29% by 2028
- Warby Parker Inc. (WRBY, 4,036 employees)33% now, 36% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says its dispensing technology uses AI and barcode scanning to check drug codes and pill size, shape and color, and names the risk that AI-based technologies render its own obsolete, in two sentences.
- “It also leverages artificial intelligence and barcode scanning software to detect the correct National Drug Code number (or NDC) and size, shape, and color of pills in order to help flag problems for our pharmacies.”
- “We cannot predict the effect of technological changes on our business, and new services and technologies in the future, including those implementing or created using artificial intelligence, could be superior to, or render obsolete, the technologies we currently use in our business.”
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
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 | 3,600 | 2026-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 3,400 | 2025-03-26 | 10-K |
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-102172, 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 Guardian Pharmacy Services, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 34% now and 36% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Guardian Pharmacy Services, 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 Guardian Pharmacy Services, Inc. employ?
- 3,600 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 Guardian Pharmacy Services, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Health and Personal Care Retailers; by those patterns the work is about 36% desk work, 22% people work and 42% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Guardian Pharmacy Services, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 2 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2024 to 2025 name it in 1 and 2 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 November 8, 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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