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For construction contractors and project managers. Estimating, scheduling, contracts, AI and practical systems to grow a contracting business.

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Prompting Strategies for Construction Managers
In my most recent video I did a deep dive on what the science is currently saying about how to prompt. Long story short, prompting isn't really a skill. It's all about context engineering and getting the balance right between too much and too little information. Here is the article I based the video on, its by Anthropic and worth a read: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents
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I re-watched this video and have concluded i need way more examples in my videos, its just a massive theory dump
New to the group!
Hello everyone, Im Elijah. I am a licensed North Carolina General Contractor and run a business by the name of L&C Builder's Group. Our focus is to be your backyard professionals. We do ADUs, detached garages, concrete, tree felling, decks, pavilions and outdoor kitchens. Its awesome to be here!
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nice. I haven't done any residential stuff so most of the things i talk about are more industral/commercial/infrastructure. Keen to hear your inputs. Do you usually quote big jobs?
Introduce Yourself
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
Introduce Yourself
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@Faisal Tabrez ah nice, what industry? Scheduling is actually the toughest area of construction. Not many people do it well
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@Faisal Tabrez nice, self-perform or sub-contract? I worked on the civils on a brownfiled oil and gas project and it was very painful. lots of NDD and resitrctions because of all the live services
New to the group
Hello everyone, I’m Joshua. A 25 year old from Dallas Texas. I have very little experience with construction/buildings. For the past 5 years I have been running my event rental business. Being ready to dive into a new career I jumped on becoming a general contractor. Like I mentioned, I have no experience in that field. However, I have developed some business skills like marketing, customer relationships and other skills that I think would transfer over to a general contracting business. Am I in the correct group to gain knowledge ?
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@Joshua Sanchez yeh, you definitely need to partner with somebody who can do the work/manage the site. I know of a lot of construction companies that started with an engineer/supervisors
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@Joshua Sanchez accounting ive been using quickbooks and really like it. + its got good integrations with zapier Drawings/take offe - I love bluebeam Estimating - gotta promote Operum but its still a work in progress (but free to use) Doc control/Project management - i really like sharepoint + microsoft stack. Plus you can set up a CRM really easily
Build an AI estimator Step-by-Step
I just uploaded the step-by-step instructions and a zip file with the Claude SKILL file I used to build this AI estimating tool If you go Classroom -> Guidebooks/Resrources -> AI its under AI estimator Let me know if you try and it and find any improvements Again, I keep saying in the video, I wouldn't be using this to price jobs but its a good way of cross checking your work in parallel Also, I am part of the Bluebeam early adopter program and super interested to see when Bluebeam MCP comes out, cause this will be a lot more functional
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Tim Fairley
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I teach construction project management on Youtube!

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