Thank you to everyone who attended our 2nd in-person event yesterday! Photo Gallery of the Day Most contractors don't know their exact profit margin. This workshop shows you how to change that with a simple AI finance setup that tracks every dollar across your company and your projects. 🧠 What you'll learn: -How to set up two Claude projects that act as your full-time CFO — one for your company (overhead, cash flow, bank statements) and one for each active job (budget, draw schedule, labor hours, change orders) -A receipt-capture workflow that replaces hours of manual line-item sorting: snap a photo of up to six receipts, upload to Claude, and get every expense categorized and allocated to the right job instantly -How to calculate your real monthly overhead in minutes by uploading your bank and credit card statements and prompting Claude to flag every recurring charge — including subscriptions you forgot you were paying for -A progress billing method that makes it nearly impossible for a GC or client to dispute your invoice: feed Claude your scope, budget, and timestamped site photos and it generates a branded completion report with percentage breakdowns and photo proof attached -How to turn off AI training on your financial data in Claude's privacy settings (and why enterprise accounts have it off by default), so you can upload bank statements and credit card data without it being used to train the model Resources mentioned in this video: - Claude Projects: claude.ai - Claude Cowork (desktop app): claude.ai/download - Google NotebookLM (for learning): notebooklm.google.com - Perplexity AI (for research): perplexity.ai - Claude connectors: accessible via the + button in any Claude chat

Clients can't buy what they can't see. A line-item quote asks them to imagine the finished job and imagination loses to whoever shows up with a picture. AI changes that. This week John walks through the full workflow: record your site visit, let a Claude skill extract the client's specs, generate a photorealistic render in Google AI Studio, and drop it into a branded proposal all before a competitor has even followed up. 🧠 What you'll learn: - A Claude skill that reads your site visit transcript and outputs a ready-to-paste image generation prompt (including materials, colours, camera angle, and lighting) - 8 prompting techniques that make AI renders look photorealistic: referencing actual product SKUs, marking up images to scope the exact area to change, using negative prompts, and specifying camera settings and time of day - A live backyard transformation demo in Google AI Studio, from unfinished construction photo to fully rendered pergola and landscaping in under 30 seconds - Why editing and rerunning a prompt beats retyping in chat, and how to iterate without burning context or tokens - How one company cut their proposal turnaround from 2 to 3 weeks down to a single day using this exact workflow Three skills are attached: the site visit to image prompt skill, the branded proposal skill, and a standalone photo to image prompt skill for quick renders without a full transcript. Drop them into your Claude project and run the workflow on your next site visit. 📁 Resources mentioned: Claude: claude.ai Google AI Studio: aistudio.google.com Granola: granola.ai Otter: otter.ai Want us to build this for you? Start with the End State Audit: scelta.ca/ai-for-contractors/audit

Most contractors have no idea what next month looks like. Jobs come in, get booked, and payroll runs on gut feel. A 12-month job pipeline fixes that, and connecting it to Claude turns it into a business you can actually ask questions. This week we build the pipeline live in Google Sheets, connect it to Claude via the Google Drive connector, and add a brand new job to the spreadsheet just by talking. 🧠 What you'll learn: - How to build a 12-month pipeline template that tracks every job by status and maps it to your forecasted monthly revenue - How to connect Claude to your Google Sheets pipeline so it always pulls your latest data - How to ask Claude which leads have been sitting the longest and get a prioritized outreach list in seconds - How to add new jobs to your spreadsheet just by talking to Claude using the Google Sheets MCP connector - How to spot underfunded months before they hit and know exactly how much you need to close to meet your monthly goal The full session and the pipeline template are attached. Drop your real jobs in, connect it to Claude, and ask your first business question this week. 📁 Resources mentioned: Claude: claude.ai Google Sheets: sheets.google.com Notion: notion.so https://youtu.be/II3uTWGNbPg Want us to build this for you? Start with the End State Audit: scelta.ca/ai-for-contractors/audithttps://youtu.be/II3uTWGNbPg

How to get Claude to know your brand, use your logo, and write in your voice for every piece of content you create. This session covers the exact five-step process for setting up Claude as a fully branded marketing assistant — so your proposals, captions, and emails are on-brand without explaining your business every time. Fill your business gaps with the End State Audit: https://www.scelta.ca/ai-for-contractors/audit Resources mentioned in this video: - Go Full Page (free Chrome extension for full-page screenshots) https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fdpohaocaechififmbbbbbknoalclacl?utm_source=item-share-cb - How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age https://www.amazon.ca/How-Friends-Influence-People-Digital/dp/1451612591 (Just ask Claude to research and create a skill based off this book) - Sell Like Crazy by Sabri Suby https://www.amazon.ca/SELL-LIKE-CRAZY-Customers-Possibly-ebook/dp/B07N7GRHNK - Free PNG background remover from adobe https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/image/remove-background Follow Scelta: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scelta.ca/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scelta-ca/