Grunt, the on-demand delivery platform that keeps contractors, tradespeople, property managers, and homeowners supplied and on schedule, is expanding across the Florida Panhandle and into the state capital.
The company is launching operations in Pensacola while simultaneously building its driver network in Tallahassee, continuing their rapid growth in the midst of rave reviews.
Grunt allows users to order materials from big box stores or local suppliers and have everything delivered to their job site or home in two hours or less.
Drivers are vetted, deliveries are insured, and communication with the driver happens live through the app. For contractors managing multiple jobs and tight deadlines, every hour that a skilled worker spends driving to a store instead of working on site costs an average of $150 in lost productivity.
“Construction is a massive area of focus for us right now, locally and beyond,” says Grunt founder and CEO Martin Horak (pictured in main image above). “The need clearly exists. Contractors and businesses love the concept once they use it. Now it’s about expanding market awareness and continuing to build our local driver network in each new community we enter.”
Among the many early beneficiaries of Grunt is Exterior Jack’s, a Florida Panhandle construction company with over 16 years of experience in carpentry, framing, remodeling, deck construction, and exterior finishing.
After surpassing 100 orders with Grunt, Exterior Jack’s has netted nearly $20,000 in savings, avoided 107 store trips, saved 1,605 miles of driving, and reclaimed more than five weeks of productive work time, all while paying local Grunt drivers for every delivery.
“Grunt has been such a blessing to our business,” says Stephanie Wisdom of Exterior Jack’s. “I own and operate a local construction company and we use Grunt weekly, if not daily sometimes. It saves us so much wasted time for our crew.”
The results reinforce the nucleus of the idea behind Grunt, that the most expensive part of a supply run is not the gas. It is pulling skilled workers off the job. Most project delays trace back to logistics, missing supplies, crews waiting, and materials arriving late. Grunt removes that variable and empowers crews to focus on the job at hand.
The Pensacola expansion brings the platform to one of the Florida Panhandle’s largest and most active construction markets, where a local driver network is already in place and operations are positioned to launch within weeks. The model is built on a locals-helping-locals foundation, with drivers from each community earning meaningful income while directly supporting the contractors and businesses around them.
Tallahassee represents the next phase of that growth. As Florida’s state capital, the market carries both strategic significance and substantial construction activity. Grunt is actively building its driver base there and preparing to run targeted advertising to accelerate that network ahead of a formal launch. Driver signup is ongoing in both markets for those looking for additional sources of income in a rising enterprise in the gig economy.
“With Grunt, you don’t have to compromise payroll and profit sitting in traffic or standing in line at stores,” Horak says. “The whole concept is to help people work more efficiently, so they can do what they really want to do.”
With proven results, a growing driver network, and two new markets developing, Grunt’s expansion across Florida fulfills both the demand for what the platform delivers and the company’s commitment to the communities it serves.