I'm keen to hear who everybody is, and what their goals are I assume you already know who I am. But if you don't I'm Tim. I worked for 8 years for big contractors on road, rail, renewable energy projects. I've always worked for head-contractors. I recently worked for some smaller contractors as a consultant when I left my job doing estimating and contract management. It was good, but I found it hard to see a path to scale (other than just starting a contracting business myself) So I instead decided to build software, and found that that's 100x harder than I thought and a very easy way to lose money

Hey Everybody A knew month so I thought I’d start a new welcome thread. Please comment and introduce yourself. Let me know what you are trying to achieve and if you have any questions about the resources. If you click on the “Classroom” tab you’ll get access to all the resources. My goal in June is to keep growing my consulting business and focus on re-building my construction project management course. The original is around 9 hours, but the new one I want to be around 30 hours and cover a few more important topics like software, AI and personal skills. Let me know if you have any questions!

I was wondering if there is anybody here who applies Data Science/Analytics to any part of their workflow. I am interested to hear about your experience.

Contractors can go broke on profitable projects. And it's not because they underquoted or managed the job badly. It's just that they didn't understand the timing of their revenue and expenses I had my eyes opened by the first project I worked on with a subcontractor It was a $10 million contract with a 15% profit margin. There were 10% bank guarantees and 30-day end-of-month payment terms. When you factored in the pricing schedule, the upfront purchase of materials, and the amount of money we had to put up for the bank guarantees, we were down almost 25% of the contract value While the project was profitable, we had a negative cash position of $2.5 million by the time you factored in these upfront expenses Cash flow management is all about understanding the timing of when we're getting paid and when we're incurring our expenses Here is my best attempt to explain it

I've been experimenting with some different architectures for a construction site diary. If you aren't familiar with the concept, the site diary is one of the most important construction tools. You basically document everything that happens on site: who did what and how much work you got done each day. Then you use the data to feed your project control system. It also makes incredibly powerful evidence for any construction claims In this video I outlined a simple architecture using Airtable as the database, Claude and Claude dispatch for updating the diary, and WhatsApp for tracking project correspondence and tasks