Our mission
The standard model was built to make a few wealthy people wealthier.
We exist to disprove it. We build durable companies, put real ownership in the hands of the people who run them, and let the results make the argument.
Every company in the family is 100% employee-owned. Not a profit-share. Not phantom equity. Ownership — the kind that shows up on a balance sheet and in a retirement account.
The name
The people who build it are kin to it.
Build
The work we do, every day, with our hands and minds — every technician, engineer, developer, and account manager creating value that's real.
Kin
The family who shares in it. The people something belongs to, and the ones it belongs to in return.
Buildkin: when you build it, you belong to it — and it belongs to you.
100%
Employee-owned,
every company
Four
Companies in
the family
1996
The year our earliest
company opened its doors
The family
Four companies, each one itself.
Managed IT services
Regional practices
Managed-services companies rooted in the regions they serve, with the local relationships and long client tenures that only come from being genuinely present.
- Paragus IT Managed IT for small and mid-sized businesses across Massachusetts and New England.
- A Midwest practice Managed IT for the Chicagoland region, serving businesses since 1996.
Specialist practices
Focused expertise
Companies built around a specific discipline, available to clients across the family and to organizations that come to them directly.
- AITF AI transformation — guiding organizations through AI readiness, governance, strategy, and cultural adoption.
- A software company Custom application development and SaaS products, built for how real businesses actually operate.
Structure & operating model
Independent companies. One team at the top.
One team at the top
Buildkin employs a shared executive leadership team, working alongside the leaders who run each company day to day. The people your team already knows keep running the business they've always run.
Independent, yet shared
Each company keeps its own name, its own team, and its own full profit-and-loss responsibility. What's shared is the infrastructure a company this size could never afford alone — so operators can spend their time on clients and their people.
For founders
Thinking about what comes next?
Succession is a hard thing to plan for, and harder still when what you've built has people in it you feel responsible for. Employee ownership is one answer to that problem. The company keeps its name and its character, the team stays together, and the people who kept it running become the people who own it.
If that's a conversation you'd like to have — unhurried, and in confidence — we're always glad to have it.
Get in touch
What a company owes the people who built it.
A company outlives the people who start it, but only if someone makes sure of it. Employee ownership is how we make sure of it — the commitments made to a team and its clients don't depend on who happens to be in the chair.
If that idea is one you're thinking about too, we'd be glad to hear from you.
Get in touchOr email us directly at [email protected].