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🎉 WELCOME! Introduce yourself... (Comments)
Welcome to the best community for contractors to learn how to use AI. We’re just getting started, so enjoy it completely FREE. Introduce yourself below 👇 👷 1) What trade or role are you in? ⚡️ 2) What your goal is 😎 3) Something about you... This community exists because every contractor deserves access to the same AI systems the big operators use, without the big price tag. DIAL IN. 💪
🎉 WELCOME! Introduce yourself... (Comments)
TOMORROW: AI for Contractors In-Person - MICHGAN
Register to attend: https://luma.com/ny5rnqpo?utm_source=skool Location: Sterling Heights, Michigan Come to our next in-person session where you'll learn how to use AI in a purpose-built way for construction, backed by real use case examples. ​Eliminate the manual in-between work of managing crews and projects by building a "Company Brain" that thinks and acts like a seasoned team member for construction specific use cases. ​Examples: ​Generate reports, create schedules, recognize financial patterns across projects, automate communication, benchmark estimating, and more. Connect the tools you already use so you can run your company from one place.
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What's still manual in your CRM??
What's the one thing your CRM is supposed to do automatically that you still end up doing manually anyway? Mine is logging calls/meetings...
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How to remove the stress of Monday (prompt at bottom of post)
Sunday afternoon. You're not working, but you're not off either. The week is just sitting there. Three quotes to get out, the guy who never called back about the framing, the invoice you keep meaning to chase, your kid's thing on Wednesday. Monday's alarm goes off and your heart's pounding from stress before it's even pounding from your extra large double double. One consistency among top performing contractors we've worked with is how effectively they use their calendar. I'm not saying every week you're forced to follow it exactly, this is construction after all. But the power of the calendar is in the art of planning how you're going to spend your time on the most important activities this week to move your business forward. And AI is the perfect tool to help you dial in your priorities and put it in writing. STEPS: 1. Hit the plus button in the bottom left of the Claude chat. 2. Hover over Connectors, then Add Connector, then Browse Connectors. 3. Connect to either your Google Calendar or Microsoft 365, depending on what you use. 4. Run the prompt below. 5. Then dump it out. Open Claude on your phone, hit the microphone, and talk for five minutes. Don't organize it, don't make it make sense. Work, personal, all of it. Then it sorts into four piles, and each pile gets a different action. ‼️ Urgent and important. You do these. Claude puts them on the calendar first, on the days their deadlines actually fall. ❗ Important but not urgent. Hiring, pricing, chasing the good GC, fixing how you quote. This is the work that grows the business and it never screams at you. It gets a real block in whatever space is left. If it's not on the calendar it isn't happening. ⚠️ Urgent but not important. Someone else should be doing this. Claude asks who, then writes the message you send to hand it off. If there's nobody to hand it to, it asks how you do it now and looks for what could be automated later. 🗑️ Noise. Stuff you should just let go. Then it writes the week and starts sliotting your tasks and activities into your calendar. You review it before anything goes on the calendar. Don't let it book blind.
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Why AI isn’t working for you (How to Fix)
You open a new chat, ask about a quote, close it. Tomorrow you explain your whole business to it again. That's where many contractors are with AI right now. One chat, one job, and it forgets everything the second you close it. Building a Company Brain fixes that, and it's simpler than it sounds. First, create a separate project for every department: marketing, accounting, operations, estimating, field, and sales. Then give each one an instruction set describing its role. The estimating project gets told it's an estimator. The field project gets told it's writing for the guys on site, not the office. Then write the MD files. How a job gets estimated. How something gets written up in the field. How a project gets closed out. Once those exist, you're not re-explaining your business every time. You're just asking the question. Keeping each department in its own project means the answers fit how that department actually works, instead of one answer trying to cover everyone. Comment below. If you only had time to build two of these this month, which two would you build?
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