Installed Building Products, Inc. (IBP)
Insulation installers, counted by role. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 98 of the 161 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
29%
Employees, annual report
10,400
Leading staffing pattern
Building Finishing Contractors
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202726%
- End of 202829%
- End of 203030%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 67%
- Becomes checking a model's work 24%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
Installed Building Products counts approximately 10,400 employees at December 31, 2025, 7,100 installers, 800 sales professionals, 700 production personnel and 1,800 administrative and management personnel, so the installers and sales take the finishing contractors pattern, production the insulation manufacturing group, and the stated administrative count goes to management of companies (a).
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: 17% now, 26% at the end of 2027, 29% at the end of 2028, 30% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 30% desk work, 13% people work and 57% 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 67% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 24% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
10,400 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes installation branches on local U.S. construction sites; no count by country is stated.
The filing: “HUMAN CAPITAL RESOURCES As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 10,400 employees, consisting of approximately 7,100 installers, approximately 800 sales professionals, approximately 700 production personnel and approximately 1,800 administrative and management personnel.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Building Finishing Contractors | 76% | The filing counts approximately 7,100 installers and 800 sales professionals who install insulation, waterproofing, garage doors and other building products on construction sites, read at the finishing contractors group that holds insulation contractors (a). |
| Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing | 7% | The filing counts approximately 700 production personnel, the manufacturing and distribution of insulation materials, a counted pattern at the group that holds insulation products (a). |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 17% | The filing counts approximately 1,800 administrative and management personnel, a stated administrative count read at management of companies under rule 6 (a). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 7,100 installers (68%), 800 sales professionals, 700 production personnel, 1,800 administrative and management personnel; less than 3% under collective bargaining agreements; installer monthly turnover 3.2% in 2025; over 50% ethnic minorities, 49.5% Hispanic or Latino.
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as something competitors could use for new products or methods of enhancing operations, and as a tool of threat actors for phishing, false images and voice cloning.
- “Competitors could use artificial intelligence to develop new products or methods of enhancing internal operations to gain advantages if we are unable to develop similar changes.”
- “Advancements in artificial intelligence could be used by threat actors to attack our systems in various ways including, but not limited to, creating increasingly effective phishing emails, false images or voice cloning to access our data.”
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 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20252median 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 | 10,400 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 10,800 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 10,600 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 10,300 | 2023-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 9,500 | 2022-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 8,950 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 8,500 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 7,700 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 6,900 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 5,292 | 2017-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 4,510 | 2016-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 3,600 | 2015-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 3,200 | 2014-03-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share rests on the filing's description of local U.S. construction sites, not a stated count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001580905-26-000004, 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 Installed Building Products, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 29% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Installed Building Products, 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 Installed Building Products, Inc. employ?
- 10,400 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 Installed Building Products, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Building Finishing Contractors; by those patterns the work is about 30% desk work, 13% people work and 57% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Installed Building Products, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 2 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 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 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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