Sarah’s team used to spend 2-3 weeks putting together a proposal for a backyard home build. Now they turn one around in a day. Sarah's backyard home building company handles the front-end sales, design, and permitting. Projects ranging from $250K to $450K. That means a lot of site visits, a lot of client conversations, and a lot of details that need to land in a proposal: unit selections, hydro, water lines, site constraints, Matterport scans, floor plans, renderings. They were building all of that by hand. It took weeks. Now their sales reps record the on-site visit using an AI note taker, feed the transcript into Claude, and generate a full proposal from that conversation, with images, floor plans, and a site draft included. The AI doesn't replace the judgment call. It handles the build so the team can focus on the close. "We used to be doing these reports by hand and they would take like 2 or 3 weeks. And now we're able to turn around a pretty good proposal in like a day." Tool: Claude Try this: 1. At your next site visit, ask the client for permission to record: "It'll help me follow up faster and make sure I don't miss anything important to your project" 2. Upload the transcript to Claude and ask it to extract all specs, service needs, and client preferences 3. Ask Claude to generate a proposal draft from that output using your existing template 4. Drop your visuals in and send — same day What's a workflow in your business that still takes way longer than it should? Drop it in the comments.

Cory had 300 pages of engineering and a crew waiting on answers. He's a managing partner at Supreme Basement Solutions. A waterproofing and foundation repair company serving Windsor and London. Three months ago, he joined this community and started using Claude. Here's what happened. Supreme was working a complex of 20 units, all needing foundation wall repairs. The engineering package? 300 pages. Before AI, someone would have had to manually work through all of it, build scopes for each unit, and a project manager would need to be on site to bridge the gap between what the engineers drew and what the installation crew needed to actually do. With Claude, Corey fed in the drawings, summarized the engineering, and replicated scopes across every unit. Two hours per quote. Two minutes after. That's not a rounding error. That's the entire job changing. Project managers no longer need to be on site to create and adjust scopes. They can do it in real time, from anywhere, with more clarity and fewer mistakes. Hours freed up every day to quote new work instead of managing the one in front of them. Corey describes what AI has done for him in one sentence: "Before, I was an expert in basement waterproofing and foundation repair. Now I'm more expert." Tool: Claude Try this: 1. Pull your next engineering package or complex scope document and upload it to Claude 2. Ask it to summarize the key installation requirements in plain language, for your crew and your client 3. Ask it to create a scope template you can replicate across similar units or phases 4. Measure how long it took. Then compare that to before. What's the most time-consuming document in your workflow right now? Drop it in the comments.

Meet Jesse. He owns Tints & Tones, a commercial and residential painting company serving Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent. Before AI, he was spending an hour and a half on-site after every walkthrough — measuring, calculating, writing it all up in the truck, then presenting the proposal to the client. He wanted to get that down to 30 minutes. He's already there. Jesse built out an estimating workflow using Claude Cowork, Granola, and NotebookLM that takes everything captured during the site visit and turns it into a polished, client-ready proposal. Faster than his competitors can finish their measurements. Clients regularly can't believe it. "You're telling me you typed all this out in 30 minutes?" That disbelief is a competitive advantage. But the bigger shift isn't just speed. It's capacity. Jesse started by asking one question: what 20-minute tasks can we automate? Do that across an entire business, and suddenly you have 20 extra hours a week that used to disappear into the necessary-but-not-valuable work every owner gets buried in. He describes his business before: daunting. Now? Systematic. "I don't even feel like we're the same company in such a short period of time." Tools: Claude Cowork https://claude.ai/ Granola https://www.granola.ai/ NotebookLM https://www.notebooklm.google/ Try this: 1. Write down every task in your week that takes 15-30 minutes and feels repetitive 2. Pick one and ask Claude: "How could I automate or speed up this process?" 3. Record your next client walkthrough with Granola and feed the transcript into Claude to draft your proposal 4. Measure the time difference — then find the next task to eliminate What's the most daunting task in your week right now? Drop it in the comments — someone in this community has probably already figured out how to automate it.

This one's focused on finance. Bring a workflow you're actually using: quoting, estimating, job costing, tracking receivables, whatever's taking too long. We'll work through it together and figure out where AI fits. Join us at 4470 North Service Rd E Unit #107 at Noon. The jobsite is far enough along now where we no longer need hard hats or steel toes. Reminder there won't be a call tomorrow at 7pm. Looking forward to seeing you in person instead!

Tonight we're going deep on one of the most underused tools in the contractor sales process. AI-generated visuals. We're covering AI Studio and Nano Banana, how to take a photo a client sends you and turn it into a photorealistic render of the finished project, and the exact prompting techniques that make the difference between a generic image and something that looks like it came from a professional renderer. You'll walk away with: - A sample prompt template you can use on your next quote - The 8 techniques for accurate, consistent, high-quality renders - A live demo of the full workflow — site visit transcript → visual → branded proposal - Two new Cowork skills that automate the heavy lifting This is a demo call. Bring a photo of a current job if you want to get pulled into the hot seat.