Meet the Team
Jon Tull | Co-Founder & Operations Manager
Jon is most at home in the field.
He’s spent years managing custom-home construction from the ground up—working with trade partners, solving problems, watching the details, and making sure what’s happening on the job actually matches what was supposed to happen on paper.
He’s practical, hands-on, and usually thinking several steps ahead. If something doesn’t look right, there’s a very good chance he’s already noticed it. There’s also a pretty good chance he’s already called someone about it.
Jon isn't particularly interested in doing something a certain way simply because that's the way it's always been done. He wants to know why it’s being done that way, whether there’s a better way to do it, and what happens three steps later if we change it.
This occasionally results in what was supposed to be a five-minute jobsite conversation lasting considerably longer than five minutes.
He oversees construction operations and works closely with Shane, our trade partners, vendors, and clients throughout each build. He’s direct when something needs to be addressed, willing to have the uncomfortable conversation when it matters, and equally willing to listen when someone on the team sees something differently.
And while Jon takes the construction of our homes very seriously, he doesn’t take himself nearly as seriously—which is probably helpful when you work with your wife and “I already handled it” is occasionally followed by, “Great. Did you document it?”
Brianne Tull | Co-Founder & Client Experience
Brianne spends a lot of time thinking about what it feels like to be on the client’s side of a custom build.
She works across client coordination, selections, project information, job-cost visibility, and the systems that keep a complicated build organized. She wants clients to know what’s happening, what’s coming next, and where their money is going—without accidentally becoming an unpaid employee of their own construction project.
Before construction, Brianne worked as a laboratory scientist and later in healthcare IT and informatics, helping build electronic medical-record systems and training physicians and nurses to use them.
So analyzing everything, asking an unreasonable number of questions, and wanting documentation did not start with Blake-Tull Custom Homes. This has apparently been a lifelong condition.
That background translates surprisingly well to construction: take a ridiculous amount of information, figure out what actually matters, make it understandable, and make sure it gets to the people who need it.
She’s also usually the one asking what happens after a decision is made. What else does it affect? Does the client understand the impact? Did everyone get told? And, naturally, did anyone write it down?
Because in Brianne’s world, “I’m pretty sure we talked about it” is where problems go to reproduce.
More than anything, she wants clients to feel informed, comfortable asking questions, and confident that somebody is paying attention to both the big picture and the tiny details.
She’ll worry about the 47 things happening behind the scenes. You’re allowed to just be excited about your house.
Shane King, Project Manager
If there's something happening on a jobsite, there's a pretty good chance Shane already knows about it.
He's an early bird, he's always around, and he checks on just about everything—occasionally enough that we have to remind him he is, in fact, allowed to go home.
Shane approaches every project with one goal: do whatever needs to be done to keep it moving and get it done right. He's not afraid to jump in, help solve a problem, follow up with a trade partner, or ask a question when he isn't sure about something.
And we value that last one more than people might realize. We'd much rather have someone ask a question than pretend to know an answer.
What probably defines Shane best, though, is that he never seems particularly concerned with whether something technically falls under his job description. He's usually asking what else needs to be done, where he can help, or what he can take off someone else's plate.
Shane may not have “Owner” in his title, but around here that doesn't make his voice, his knowledge, or his investment in what we're building any less important. He's an advocate for Blake-Tull Custom Homes, an advocate for our clients, and the kind of teammate who takes the outcome personally—whether his name is on the ownership paperwork or not.
He's 100% invested in the project, the people, and the outcome. And that's exactly the kind of person we want representing Blake-Tull Custom Homes.
Different Strengths. Same Standard.
Working together when you're also married has its advantages.
For one, work conversations aren't particularly good at respecting business hours.
Jon tends to approach a problem from the field first: How are we actually going to build this?
Brianne is usually right behind him with: What does that affect, who needs to know, and did anybody write it down?
And then there's Shane, who has somehow found himself directly in the middle of both.
Sometimes he gets Jon's version first. Sometimes Brianne's. Occasionally, we're pretty sure he gets both versions before either of us realizes we've already talked to him.
Fortunately, Shane isn't exactly known for sitting quietly on the sidelines.
If he has a question, he asks it. If something needs attention, he's probably already checking on it. And if his part is handled, his next question is usually some version of, “What else can I do?”
Which, as it turns out, makes him a pretty good person to have caught in the middle.
We give each other a hard time. We ask a lot of questions. We don't always see something the same way the first time. And nobody on this team is particularly interested in saying “not my job” when something needs to get done.
It's not always the shortest conversation—or apparently the shortest workday—but everybody is pulling in the same direction.