Builder-grade expertise, without the full-time headcount.
Hemstad Home Consulting embeds operations, purchasing, plan design, land & lot setup, and sustainability expertise directly into your team — or steps in as fractional or interim leadership, VP to CEO level — on the days you need it, not a day more.
What we take off your plate
Six practice areas, engaged individually, as a full operating partner, or filled directly through fractional or interim leadership.
| No. | Practice area | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Operations | Field walks, construction training, quality assurance reviews, scheduling issue resolution, and included-feature specification support. |
| 02 | Purchasing | Contract review and recommendations, negotiations, costing, reporting, and software support depending on your systems. |
| 03 | Plan Design | Plan review and redlining for efficiency and better product use, material confirmation, and an overall look at the product. |
| 04 | Product & Features | Extends the Operations and Plan Design work down to community-specific feature and spec strategy. |
| 05 | Land & Lot Setup | Garage handing, elevation and grading issues, water drainage, and utility location review. |
| 06 | Sustainability | Best practices for material savings, waste elimination, energy-efficient building, and long-term material resilience. |
Embedded, not outsourced.
We work inside your existing team and tools — assess, recommend, implement, then hand off a system your people can run without us.
- Assess — Walk the operation, review the numbers.
- Recommend — A prioritized plan, not a slide deck.
- Implement — We build it alongside your team.
- Hand off — Documentation your team owns.
For manufacturers selling into production builders.
A separate offering for building product manufacturers and suppliers, not builders — a former builder-side operator's view of how production homebuilders actually buy, spec, and build.
- Builder relations & spec placement — positioning your product and building the builder relationships that get it specified and kept in the plan.
- Market & channel strategy — how production builders program, budget, and re-spec, and what it takes to fit into that cycle.
- Sustainability, from a builder's perspective — framing material and performance claims in terms that hold up against a real construction schedule and budget.
Founded by Philip Squires
Hemstad Home Consulting is a Raleigh, North Carolina–based consultancy that travels worldwide to work directly with your team — built for builders who need senior-level construction expertise without adding to payroll.
LinkedIn →Frequently asked questions
What does Hemstad Home Consulting do?
Hemstad Home Consulting embeds senior-level expertise in operations, purchasing, plan design, product & features, land & lot setup, and sustainability directly into a homebuilder's team, or steps in as fractional or interim leadership from VP to CEO level.
Who does Hemstad Home Consulting work with?
Established production homebuilders — national, regional, local, or international — looking to streamline their organization. Not startups building their first plan.
How is pricing structured?
Practice-area engagements are priced as a fixed scope and fixed fee based on contracted needs, with ongoing support available afterward on retainer. There's no minimum or maximum engagement length — length is set by scope.
Does Hemstad Home Consulting offer fractional or interim leadership?
Yes. Beyond the six practice areas, Hemstad Home Consulting fills leadership gaps directly, from a local VP seat up to CEO level, either running the role on contract or helping train a replacement. This typically runs a 3-month minimum, with shorter gap-stop coverage available when a replacement is already identified.
Who founded Hemstad Home Consulting?
Philip Squires, who spent 24+ years in production homebuilding, most recently as Corporate Vice President, Sustainability & Procurement at a top 20 national homebuilder.
Where is Hemstad Home Consulting based?
Raleigh, North Carolina — but this isn't limited to the US. Philip travels worldwide to work directly with client teams.