ACS Group Inc - General contractor

ACS Group Inc. runs out of Malden, founded by brothers Dauro and Mucio, who the company says have put in 21 years building around Boston — a timeline a LinkedIn listing for the company backs up by pointing to a 2004 start. The jobs people call them for aren't small repairs: think commercial fit-outs, restaurant build-outs, and full residential renovations for architects and developers across the region. Right now the crew is partway through a full masonry home addition, and the client posting about it in June points to something that keeps showing up across ACS's history: they flag problems before they turn into expensive surprises, rather than after. A commercial client wrote in January that ACS has now built three restaurants for them, with a fourth underway — the kind of repeat business that's hard to manufacture. Zoom out and the pattern holds across 32 Google reviews stretching back to 2022: a 4.9-star average, and not a single negative review in the last six months. Its Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor license (HIC #163467) is active per the state registry, and its Houzz page lists a LEED AP credential alongside five completed projects. That Houzz profile is worth noting for a different reason too: despite those five projects, it has no reviews there at all, so nearly everything known about ACS from actual customers runs through one channel — Google. A BuildZoom score of 99 and a Malden Chamber of Commerce listing round out a consistent local reputation, but the company's own site is the only source for its founding story and who's actually running it day to day. For a homeowner or developer sizing up a serious renovation or a commercial build-out, ACS reads like a fit for the bigger job rather than the quick fix — worth asking to see the current masonry addition or one of the restaurant projects in progress, and confirming how Dauro, Mucio, or the office directly staff a project before signing on.