Built for commercial and residential contractors doing $5M–$50M

AI Engagement

AI Strategy and Implementation

Find the few places AI actually pays off, then put it to work without the hype.

Most AI advice is written for tech companies. This is built for companies that run crews, schedule jobs, buy materials, and live on gross margin.

You're not behind on AI. You're behind on knowing where it applies.

Your team was told to use Copilot.

Adoption is sporadic. Nobody knows what good looks like, so it gets used for email and nothing else. The tool isn't the problem — the absence of a use case is.

Your data is spread across six systems.

ERP, accounting, CRM, design software, HR, and a custom tool somebody built years ago. Every question that matters requires a person to stitch them together by hand.

Nobody owns it.

There's no internal AI lead, no budget line, and no way to tell a real opportunity from a demo. So the decision keeps getting deferred another quarter.

Three phases. In order. No skipping to the software.

Each phase produces a deliverable you own. You can stop after any one of them.

01

AI Readiness & Literacy

Everyone in the room learns enough to make real decisions.

What happens

  • Executive working session — what current AI can and can't do, demonstrated against your actual business, not slideware
  • Inventory of your systems of record and where the data actually lives
  • Data readiness check — what's clean enough to build on, what isn't
  • Baseline of how you measure the business today and how fast that information reaches you
  • Honest assessment of internal capability and who could own this

What you walk out with

A written readiness assessment and a shared vocabulary, so your leadership team is evaluating opportunities instead of reacting to vendor pitches.

02

Process & Efficiency Audit

We find the repetitive work that's quietly eating management hours.

What happens

  • Department-by-department walkthrough — executive, sales, design, estimating, production, purchasing, finance, HR, marketing
  • Time-and-frequency mapping of recurring administrative tasks
  • Identification of where margin actually leaks: estimating accuracy, field productivity, rework, uncaptured change orders, unbilled work
  • Every opportunity scored on effort, cost, risk, and annual hours or dollars returned

What you walk out with

A ranked opportunity list with a dollar or hour figure next to each line — including the ones we recommend you skip.

03

Implementation Roadmap

A sequenced plan with owners, costs, and dates.

What happens

  • Phased 12-month plan, sequenced by payback and by what your team can absorb
  • Tool and platform recommendations tied to your existing stack, not a rip-and-replace
  • Budget ranges per initiative so it can go into your operating plan
  • Named internal owners, success metrics, and governance guardrails
  • Change management — how it gets adopted in the field, not just approved in the office

What you walk out with

A roadmap your leadership team can fund in October and execute in January.

What this actually looks like

Real examples of the questions we make answerable. Not hypotheticals.

Examples drawn from real engagements. Your list will look different — that's the point of Phase 2.

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Client testimonials, case studies, and results go here. To be filled in — no invented names, logos, or statistics.

What we don't do

  • We don't resell software. We have no vendor commissions and no partner tiers.
  • We don't recommend AI where a spreadsheet, a process change, or a conversation would do the job.
  • We don't build a plan that requires you to hire three people to run it.
  • We don't run a pilot that never ends. Every phase has a fixed scope and an end date.
  • We don't pitch headcount reduction. The return here is administrative hours and better decisions, not layoffs.

Who this is for

This is a fit if

  • $10M+ in revenue, owner-led or closely held
  • You run on a real system of record (ERP, job costing, CRM) and it holds several years of data
  • Leadership is aligned that something should happen, but not on what
  • You'd rather have a ranked list than a pilot

This isn't a fit if

  • You want someone to install a chatbot and leave
  • Your job costing data isn't trustworthy yet — we'd fix that first, and that's a different engagement
  • You're looking for the lowest bid rather than the clearest plan

What it costs and how long it takes

EngagementTimelineFee
Phase 1 — Readiness & Literacy2–3 weeksFixed fee
Phase 2 — Process & Efficiency Audit4–6 weeksFixed fee, scoped to department count
Phase 3 — Implementation Roadmap3–4 weeksFixed fee
Optional — Execution supportOngoingMonthly retainer or project-based

Fixed fee, not hourly. You'll have a number before we start, and it will fit inside a budget cycle. If you're building next year's operating plan, we can give you a working range on the first call.

Frequently asked questions

Start with a fit call.

Thirty minutes. You describe how the business runs, I tell you honestly whether there's enough here to justify an engagement. If there isn't, I'll say so.

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