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Working 70-hour weeks. Margins at 9%. Booked solid but broke.Beyond the Bid brings builders, trade pros, and construction tech leaders together to unpack the systems that separate thriving companies from those stuck competing on price.We explore practical AI—real impact on…
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Kill The 20-Hour Takeoff Before It Kills Your Margin (opens the original)
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Try Handoff free for 7 days, full platform, no sales call: 7-Day Trial Dmitry Alexin is not a software guy who wandered into construction. He spent ten years at the intersection of machine learning and building, starting on the early team at Atoms, the construction technology company founded by Uber's Travis Kalanick. He now runs Handoff with 70 people behind him and hundreds of millions in residential projects moving through the platform every month. Here's what he says out loud that most peopl
Give Homeowners Value Before They Call You: The Claude Toolbox (opens the original)
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Play Homeowner Bingo, the free tool Keith built in 20 minutes that outperforms everything else KCS ships: https://kcsimprovement.com/homeowner-toolbox/ Keith Crabtree came into his father's 40-year-old design-build company to run marketing. Two and a half years later he's the reason KCS Improvement has a shelf of free homeowner tools, a newsletter that ignores its own email platform's limits, and an automation that will not let a client go quiet. He has no coding background. Most builders build
The Roofing Contractor Who Put His Back Office Inside AI (opens the original)
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Get the free GO First AI Diagnostic and find your #1 margin leak in 7 minutes, before your competitors find theirs: https://www.gofirstconsulting.com Sam Taylor didn't come up through the trades. He came up through graphic design, art direction, and a marketing business that the '07-'08 crash took out. Then he looked at construction and saw a hole where the professionalism should have been, and walked in. A decade later he runs Taylor Exteriors & Construction out of Iowa, doing roofs, siding, de
The Preconstruction Step That Kills Change Orders Before They Exist (opens the original)
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Walk your own floor plan at full scale before your next project gets priced: https://www.projectivestudios.comEvery client who walks into this studio finds 10 to 15 items they want to revise on plans they already approved. Not change orders. Revisions caught before anything is ordered, poured, or framed. Jeff Metzger spent 15 years building wind farms, gold mines, healthcare facilities, and high-end custom homes, and he got tired of watching a small oversight on paper turn into a permanent probl
The Router Table Rule | How Ted Cut a 3 Hour Estimate to 45 Minutes (opens the original)
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Find the margin leak in your business before your competition finds theirs: www.gofirstconsulting.comTed Sihpol got beat to his own number by a client with a laptop. He quoted a waterfront renovation at $1,100 a square foot. A week later that client sent him a 21-page report he'd built with AI, priced at $1,200 to $1,300, with three scenarios and a projected return on each. Ted's words: "I think I shorted myself 100 bucks a square foot."Ted runs Renaissance Partners out of Fairfield County, Conn
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