The Drafting Workshop community is a resource for drafters and designers! This space is built to be a support system, whether you're working for a firm or building your own freelance drafting business. You'll find the help and practical pointers you need to not just succeed, but truly shine. For the CAD drafters out there that are done dreaming about leaving the office behind and ready to start your own business, I want to support you in that journey. I've worked many years as a freelance CAD drafter, so I've learned a lot of hard lessons that I can help you avoid. I want to work with you to win and succeed. - How to land those perfect clients with smart marketing and lead generation strategies. - Learn how to develop a pricing strategy that makes you money and not headaches. - Providing services so good your clients will never want to leave. - Keeping your skills sharp and staying at the forefront of the construction industry. - A think tank to ask for and receive real help with the obstacles you face. Follow this link to get there.

Hi everyone. Thanks Alan for the invite.

You don’t have a "bandwidth" problem. You have a delegation problem. Stop trying to be the Architect, the Drafter, and the Detailer. If you are an Architectural Design firm owner, doing your own CAD work, you are bottlenecking your own growth. Period. Here is the reality: The market pays you for your Taste and your Skills. The market does not pay you premium rates to draw lines in software. Every minute you spend on documentation is a minute you are robbing from: - Closing the next deal. - Fixing a client crisis. - Expanding your portfolio. I solve the friction between Concept and Construction. You sketch. I draft. It gets built. No errors. No "design doesn't work" phone calls. No headaches. You can keep grinding 14-hour days trying to save a few bucks on drafting. Or you can buy back your time and double your design output. If you want to scale, let's talk. Leave a comment below. DM me to start getting your time back.

Everyone thought I'd lost my mind. 2003. Barely any savings in the bank. And I'm about to quit my stable job to become a freelance drafter. My life at that moment: → Full-time job (steady paycheck) → Married with real responsibilities → 1 1/2 -year-old daughter counting on me → Pregnant wife (baby #2 coming soon) → Brand new house with mortgage payments What was I thinking?! But lying in bed at night, I kept imagining a different life. Freedom to choose my projects. Time to actually be present for my kids' milestones. Building something that belonged to me. The fear was real. The pull was stronger. So I jumped. Zero to six figures within a few years. But here's the part nobody warns you about: Being an incredible drafter means absolutely nothing if you can't run a business. I learned this the expensive way. Pricing mistakes. Client management disasters. Cash flow nightmares. Technical genius. Business amateur. It nearly broke me. 20+ years later, I'm building the Drafting Workshop community for one reason: So talented drafters don't have to stumble through the same business mistakes I made. You've already mastered the hardest part - the technical skills. Let me help you with everything else. P.S. The "crazy" decisions are usually the ones that change everything. What's your version of 2003? Join my community or DM me and we can talk about it.

I've made a career of being a freelance drafter that worked for many architects and interior designers, but it's been a few years since I have been doing, so not sure what the market is looking like now. I've talked to a few people in my community and on LinkedIn, and a common thing I'm hearing is that there are not many opportunities out there as an outsource CAD drafter. I'd like to figure out a way that I can help them, but not sure about the market. This is a great group of practicing architects here, so I thought I would pose the question to you, so I made a poll about it. If you are not using outsource CAD services, what is keeping you from doing so? Are you worried about losing control of you project? Drafting costs getting too high? Let me know what your concerns are so that I can help my members develop their responses to address them.