The Blue Claw Group · AI for contractors

I built AI to run my own contracting companies. Now I'll build it for yours.

A few years ago Blue Claw did zero. It grew into a $12M+ contracting operation across three companies. The tools that got us there — estimating, cash flow, purchasing, pricing, social, a full command center — are the same ones I'll set up in your business.

See how it works → Book a call — no pitch

★ As Seen On · Dropping Bombs with Brad Lea

$12M+
Portfolio revenue built
6.5 yrs
From $0 to $12M
30 yrs
Experience in Business
20+
Companies Founded/Acquired

Built in the field, not the classroom. Every tool here runs a real contracting business first.

The Blue Claw Group product suite

One operating system for the work that runs your business.

Start with the tool that solves today’s bottleneck. Add the next one when you are ready. Every product is built around the same goal: make a contractor’s operation clearer, faster, and more profitable.

The Blue Claw Ecosystem brochure cover

Every app · every price

See the whole suite and pricing in one place

How ClawHQ, BidClaw, KYN, RouteClaw, PoolClaw and the rest connect — with current plans for each.

View the brochure → Download PDF

BidClaw + AI Jamie · estimates in minutes, not late nights

Know Your Numbers · are you actually making money?

Know Your Numbers

Live

See the numbers behind your business: overhead, capacity, breakeven, and profit.

Open KYN

BidClaw

Live

Build accurate estimates, win approvals, and follow a job from proposal through billing.

Open BidClaw

CashClaw

Live

See cash flow ahead of time and make smarter calls before payroll is due.

Open CashClaw

PoolClaw

Live

Move a sold pool job from handoff to schedule, materials, and the next phase.

Open PoolClaw

RouteClaw

Live

Route work, dispatch crews, track time, and turn finished stops into invoices.

Open RouteClaw

PO Desk

Live

Turn a crew’s material request into a traceable purchase order from the field.

Open PO Desk

Social Autopilot

Live

Your job photos, checked, captioned in your voice, turned into short videos and posted for you about once a day.

$79/month or $790/year

Open Social Autopilot

ClawCam

Live

Capture, tag, and organize jobsite photos so every project has a clean record.

$79/month or $790/year

Open ClawCam

ClawGang

Community

The community for contractors building smarter, stronger businesses together.

Join ClawGang

Not sure where to begin? Start with the numbers, then build the operating system around your actual business.

Book a live demo of BidClaw or KYN → Talk through your stack →

Custom work

When you need more than the tools

Software off the shelf only goes so far. When your situation is one of a kind, I build for it — the same way I built for my own companies. Every one of these is custom-priced to your business.

★ Custom pricing · scoped on the call

⚙︎ Custom AI consulting & builds

Tell me the bottleneck. I'll design and build the AI system that clears it — on the same stack I run my own companies on: Supabase, Netlify, and the Claude API.

Book a 15-minute call with Ian →

◈ Business analysis & acquisitions

Thinking about buying a company — or getting bought? I'll dig into the numbers and help you evaluate the deal, spot the risk, and structure it so it actually works.

↗ SEO that gets you found

Get in front of the people already searching for what you do. Technical SEO and content built to rank and to book real work — not vanity traffic.

▤ Website builds

Fast sites that capture leads and book jobs — like the ones behind Blue Claw's own companies. Built to load quick, read clean, and convert.

◎ 1-on-1 consulting

A day on-site, or a standing call. We go through your numbers together and I show you exactly where the money's going — and what to do about it.

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◇ Speaking & events

Keynotes, podcasts, and the Building Better Connections event. Real talk on running a contracting business — no theory, no filler.

Ian McCarthy, founder of The Blue Claw Group
$0 → $12M+in 6.5 years

Meet Ian McCarthy

Thirty years in business. One system. Now it's software.

Ian is the president of Blue Claw Associates, a landscape and masonry contractor on Cape Cod, Boston's South Shore, and Nantucket. He started in accounting on Nantucket back in 1993, moved into landscaping in 1996, and co-founded the National Basketball League of Canada along the way.

He launched Blue Claw Associates in 2018 and grew it from $0 to more than $12 million in six and a half years — founding or acquiring six other companies, including Blue Water Pools & Spas and Boston Tennis & Sports Court along the way.

The tools he built to run all of it — estimating, pricing, cash flow, purchasing, an AI command center — became The Blue Claw Group. Same fight you're in. Same numbers. Now built into software you can actually use.

Read the full story Talk to Ian

On the mic

Where you've heard Ian

Straight talk on building, buying, and running contracting companies.

Build It To Sell It

Ian with Lance Bachmann

Dropping Bombs

Ian with Brad Lea

Buying, Building & Scaling

Ian with Ken Baden

Watch more on YouTube →

Know your numbers. Run a better business.

It starts with a KYN Profit Audit — we run your real numbers together, then map what to install first. No sales pitch, just the numbers.

Book a KYN Profit Audit →