Evolve Construction & Restoration

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Contacts

• Official website: https://evolveconstruction.com/
• National customer line (24/7, per site): 800-222-4100
• Naples, FL office line: 239-799-7006

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Signed up with Evolve Construction & Restoration? What to check

Evolve Construction & Restoration is a roofing, storm-restoration and remodeling company whose website also uses the name "Evolve Construction." The website identifies Naples, Florida and Sherman Oaks, California as headquarters and lists additional addresses across the United States, Canada and Australia. If you are waiting on a roof repair, a mitigation job, or an insurance-claim payout from this company, here is what the public record supports as of September 28, 2026:

• If your job has stalled: Florida's Attorney General sued the company on September 25, 2026, alleging a pattern of taking insurance payments or deposits and then leaving work unfinished or never started; the Better Business Bureau separately shows 69 complaints against the company in the last three years; some published complaints allege materials delivered and left sitting on the property for months with no crew scheduled.
• Read your own contract. The Attorney General's complaint describes a document called a "Contingency Agreement" that it alleges contains internally conflicting down-payment terms, no itemized cost estimate, and a clause letting the company decide not to be bound even after your insurer approves the claim — check what your specific copy actually says, since the complaint states the company used at least six different versions.
• Know who is supposed to hold your insurance check. If your Contingency Agreement requires the insurance settlement to be made out to you and the company jointly, and requires you to endorse it over within a short window, get that requirement in writing and keep copies of every check and its endorsement before signing anything over.
• If a public adjuster or "claims advocate" is involved — including a company called Nationwide Insurance Claims Advocates (NICA) — get their license number and confirm directly with your state's insurance department that the person is licensed and authorized to handle your specific claim; Michigan's insurance regulator revoked the Michigan adjuster license of Aleksandr Guldshtadt in April 2026, after a November 2025 summary suspension; DIFS identifies him as affiliated with NICA and as having been listed as Evolve's CEO in California corporate filings (see below).
• If you were told you must use the company's preferred law firm to fight your insurance company, or that you cannot cancel once materials are delivered, get independent legal advice before agreeing — these are exactly the kinds of terms Florida's lawsuit challenges as unconscionable.
• To complain: Florida residents can file with the Attorney General's office at MyFloridaLegal.com or 1-866-9-NO-SCAM; residents of other states can file with the Better Business Bureau, their state's contractor licensing board, or (if a public adjuster or insurance claim was involved) their state's insurance department. Keep your contract, all payment records, and any insurance correspondence.

Michigan license suspension and a pending California proceeding

Michigan's Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) issued an Order For Summary Suspension of Insurance Adjuster License against Aleksandr Guldshtadt on November 3, 2025 (Enforcement Case No. 25-18350), immediately suspending the Michigan adjuster license he held through his affiliation with Nationwide Insurance Claims Advocates (NICA). DIFS then issued an administrative complaint on February 4, 2026. Guldshtadt did not request a hearing or otherwise respond, and in a Final Decision issued April 1, 2026, DIFS revoked his license and ordered him to pay a $50,000 civil fine; the decision states that, because he did not respond, the allegations were accepted as true for purposes of the administrative decision.

DIFS's findings describe Evolve Construction & Restoration as "a General Contractor business with a primary place of business in the State of California," state that Guldshtadt "has been listed as the CEO of Evolve on Evolve's California corporate filings" and as "the registered agent on Evolve's Michigan Corporate filings," and that "Evolve's website lists fire restoration as part of the contractor services it provides." DIFS documented complaints from at least three named-by-initial Michigan consumers and confirmed with 12 total Michigan consumers who say they signed public-adjusting contracts with Guldshtadt after being approached by people representing themselves as working with Evolve, in some cases without realizing they had entered a public-adjusting relationship at all. DIFS found insurance checks made payable jointly to a consumer, the consumer's spouse, and NICA were endorsed and cashed by NICA without the consumers' signatures on at least two of these files, and that Guldshtadt's claim-cost estimates ran 37% higher on average than the insurers' own adjusters' estimates while succeeding on less than a third of the claims he adjusted. In one detailed example, DIFS found that after a Michigan consumer ("BJ") hired his own contractor instead of Evolve, Evolve charged him a $5,567.88 cancellation fee — about 35% of his claim — even though DIFS says Evolve and Guldshtadt "performed no work for the customer."

The Michigan order also states that "on or about May 2, 2025, California's Department of Insurance (File No. LA 20200454) commenced administrative proceedings against Respondent's public adjuster license that, in part, mirrors the allegations contained herein." Separately, the National Insurance Crime Bureau republished Los Angeles Daily News reporting (May 10, 2025) that California's Department of Insurance "is now moving to fine and revoke the licenses of Aleksandr Guldshtadt and his company, Nationwide Insurance Claims Advocates (NICA), and to reject a license application from his wife, Evghenia Gaiju." This page found no primary California Department of Insurance document confirming how, or whether, that California proceeding has been resolved as of the date checked — it is reported here as an open regulatory matter, not a settled one.

Company background: two entities, one brand

According to Florida's Attorney General, the "Evolve Enterprise" consists of two separately registered Florida companies operated together: Evolve Construction, LLC, organized effective February 1, 2021, which "sat dormant for its first year and a half" and recorded no notice of commencement until September 30, 2022 — two days after Hurricane Ian made landfall on Florida's southwest coast — and Evolve Construction & Restoration, Inc., incorporated effective June 2, 2023. The complaint identifies 3606 Enterprise Avenue, Suite 216, Naples, Florida as Evolve Construction, LLC's mailing address and Evolve Construction & Restoration, Inc.'s principal address; it lists Suite 200 as the LLC's principal address and a St. Petersburg address as the corporation's mailing address. The complaint alleges the two entities share a common website, an identical stylized "EVOLVE" logo, and consumer-facing documents that use both names interchangeably (one consumer allegedly received an original invoice from "Evolve Construction & Restoration" and a follow-up invoice for the same job from "Evolve Construction"), and that funds are commingled and transferred between the entities and to individual defendants.

The complaint names six individual defendants and describes their roles: Patrick Antoine (Lee County, FL), an authorized member of Evolve Construction since May 2023 and Secretary of Evolve Construction & Restoration, who holds two Florida Certified Roofing Contractor licenses; Ahmed Darkawi (Hennepin County, MN), Evolve Construction's original registered agent and a manager, who held a Construction Financial Officer license he voluntarily relinquished in May 2025; Jarret Gross (Martin County, FL), an authorized member who holds a Certified General Contractor license issued in 2003; Aleksandr Guldshtadt, also known as Alex Gold (Los Angeles County, CA), the original registered agent and incorporator of Evolve Construction & Restoration and its CEO until March 6, 2026 (when he was removed and replaced by Dallas Julian), also an authorized member/manager of Evolve Construction; John Vincent (Los Angeles County, CA), Manager of Evolve Construction since October 22, 2024, and listed on the company's Better Business Bureau profile as its Manager; and Jaser "Jay" Zaabri (Los Angeles County, CA), a manager of Evolve Construction and CFO of Evolve Construction & Restoration.

On its own website, the company describes itself as "North America's Most Trusted & Highly Rated International Roofing & Restoration Company" and claims rankings such as "#40 of Top 500 Qualified Remodelers 2026" and "#18 of Top 100 Roofing Contractors 2026" — claims made by the company, not independently verified here. The company lists both a Sherman Oaks, California and a Naples, Florida address as "Our Headquarters," plus roughly three dozen additional local-sounding office addresses across the U.S., in Alberta, Canada, and in New South Wales, Australia, most sharing a single national phone number, (800) 222-4100. The company's Better Business Bureau profile separately notes that its Registered Managing Officer, Aleksandr Guldshtadt, is also the Registered Managing Officer for two other contractor businesses, FullServ Restoration and WD Contractor Services, and is CEO of Nationwide Insurance Claims Advocates (NICA), a public-adjusting firm.

Complaint record: BBB and USAComplaints

USAComplaints: no posts matching Evolve Construction & Restoration, or close name variants, were found among approved complaints on this site as of September 28, 2026.

BBB (Sherman Oaks, CA profile, checked September 28, 2026): the company is not BBB accredited and carries a BBB Rating of C-, with BBB's stated reason being "69 complaint(s) filed against business" and "2 complaint(s) filed against business that were not resolved." BBB's complaints tab shows 69 total complaints in the last three years, with 28 closed in the last 12 months (checked September 28, 2026). Separately, BBB's customer-review score is 1.5 out of 5 stars, an average of 26 customer reviews. Sampled complaint narratives displayed on BBB's site (identities redacted by BBB) describe patterns such as: a sales representative who "disappeared" after collecting a deposit and an insurance check; roofing materials delivered and left sitting on a driveway for months with no crew scheduled and no permit pulled; a company statement that it lacked "Iowa workmen's comp or the ability to work" in a customer's state months after taking the job; and company responses referencing a "Residential Public Adjusting Contract," "NICA," and a "trust fund" holding insurance-check proceeds. In several sampled complaints, the company's own response promised an internal review or said the job was "ready for production" or already "completed and closed out"; whether those specific jobs were in fact finished to the customer's satisfaction is not independently verified here.

Because BBB and USAComplaints measure different populations over different time windows, these figures are reported separately and are not summed or averaged.

Florida Attorney General lawsuit, filed September 25, 2026

On September 25, 2026, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a consumer-protection lawsuit against Evolve Construction, LLC, Evolve Construction & Restoration, Inc., and six individuals, in the Circuit Court of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit, Lee County, Florida. The lawsuit brings two counts under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA): one against the two corporate defendants and one against the six individual defendants. These are allegations in a newly filed complaint; the case has not been ruled on.

The complaint alleges that after Hurricanes Ian and Milton, the company's sales representatives — who were not licensed contractors and, the complaint alleges, never held the home-solicitation-sale permits Florida law requires — went door-to-door offering "free" roof inspections, held themselves out as "experts," and promised fast permits and repairs. It alleges consumers were pressured into signing a "Contingency Agreement" that Florida's AG calls unconscionable: internally conflicting down-payment terms (33% on one page, 50% on another), no itemized cost estimate of services and materials, a clause letting the company decide not to be bound even if the consumer's insurer approves the claim, a requirement that insurance settlement checks be made out to the consumer and the company jointly with a 48-hour (or, under a related "Service Authorization" document, three-business-day) window to endorse the check over, a cancellation-notice provision the complaint says does not comply with Florida's required wording, and a 25%-to-35% "liquidated damages" penalty for cancelling after the standard three-day window — a penalty the complaint says applied "regardless of whether Defendant has performed any work." According to the Attorney General's office, at least 80 consumers across eleven Florida counties (Lee, Charlotte, Sarasota, Hillsborough, Polk, Osceola, Manatee, Volusia, St. Lucie, St. Johns and Broward) filed complaints with the state, more than 60% of them seniors, alleging they paid over $1 million combined for work they did not receive as promised, with individual insurance payments ranging from $5,000 to $80,000 per property.

Illustrative examples cited in the complaint (consumers are not named in the public filing): 22 homeowners in a single townhouse community who paid the company out of pocket in March 2023 for hurricane-related siding repairs allege the company did not apply for permits until January 2024 and then performed no work at all; one consumer who paid over $14,000 for water-mitigation work alleges the company never returned to repair holes the mitigation work itself left in the walls; and another consumer whose insurer paid $38,500 in full alleges the roof tarp the company left in place later leaked, causing an additional $23,000 in mold-remediation costs, and that a solar-panel contractor who later inspected the finished roof found it "visibly and mechanically faulty." The complaint also alleges the company threatened and in some cases recorded liens against consumers' homes — including, it alleges, for amounts the company had already been paid in full — and that in one instance a company representative was sent to a consumer's home to press them into handing over an insurance settlement check, prompting the consumer to file a police report.

The Attorney General is seeking a permanent injunction, consumer restitution, disgorgement of profits, civil penalties (up to $10,000 per willful FDUTPA violation, and $15,000 per violation against a senior, a person with a disability, or a servicemember or their family, under Florida law), and attorney's fees and costs.

Is Evolve Construction & Restoration Legitimate?

Evolve Construction & Restoration, Inc. and its affiliated Evolve Construction, LLC are active, registered Florida companies that hold, through named individuals, current Florida contractor and construction-related licenses (including Certified Roofing Contractor and Certified General Contractor licenses held by two of the individual defendants named in the state's lawsuit). The company is also the subject, as of September 28, 2026, of a newly filed Florida Attorney General lawsuit alleging unfair, deceptive and unconscionable business practices tied to storm-damage repair work after Hurricanes Ian and Milton — allegations that have not been proven or ruled on. Separately, a Michigan regulator revoked the Michigan insurance-adjuster license of a former CEO of Evolve Construction & Restoration, Inc. in April 2026 and fined him $50,000, based on findings that he diverted insurance proceeds, had a financial interest in a contractor he recommended, and failed to disclose his Evolve affiliations to a DIFS investigator, and California's Department of Insurance was reported in 2025 to be pursuing a similar license action whose outcome this page could not confirm. The company's Better Business Bureau profile carries a C- rating, is not accredited, and shows 69 complaints in the last three years alongside a 1.5-out-of-5 customer review average. This page assigns the company no rating, score, or "scam" label of its own; readers can weigh the regulatory filings and complaint record above for themselves, and should read their own contract carefully before making any payment.

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