Case Study: Vork Brothers Painting achieves streamlined operations and profitable growth with Knowify

Scaling up a commercial painting contracting business

Vork Brothers Painting, founded in 2014 by Shane Vork and his brothers in Zeeland, MI, serves residential and commercial clients including Aldi and Ford. As they pushed to scale into a multi‑million dollar business, their Excel-based workflow became disorganized and made it hard to track profits, jobs, and communication. In 2019 they adopted Knowify—using Plan & Track, the dashboard, AIA-style billing, and the mobile app—to centralize data and streamline office‑to‑field communication.

Knowify’s Plan & Track and dashboard gave Vork Brothers real-time visibility into job profitability, simplified estimating and change-order tracking, and—via the mobile app and Zapier integration into Mailchimp—improved field reporting and marketing workflows. Today 25 employees use Knowify companywide, the team is 65–70% booked for the coming year, and the business reports clearer finances, faster collaboration, and a much better ability to see where they’re making or losing money. Knowify has become a core tool enabling Vork Brothers’ ongoing growth.

Vork Brothers Painting

Shane Vork

Founder