Most construction & contracting businesses lose leads in the gap between the phone ring and the CRM. Customer calls → nobody answers → no record → ghost. Rep answers → forgets to log → same result. If you're missing 3–5 calls/day at $500–$2,000/job — that's $1,500–$10,000 walking out the door. Daily. Here's the stack that closes that gap completely: 📞 VAPI — AI voice agent handles inbound AND outbound calls 🎤 ElevenLabs — gives the AI a voice that actually sounds human ⚙️ Make.com — automation layer that captures + routes all call data 📊 Google Sheets — real-time log: name, number, job type, urgency — every call 🏗️ GHL — creates the contact + fires the follow-up sequence instantly How it works in 4 steps: 1️⃣ Homeowner or GC calls → VAPI AI answers instantly (ElevenLabs voice, sounds human) 2️⃣ Agent collects: job type, timeline, budget, contact details 3️⃣ Call ends → Make.com fires automatically 4️⃣ Data hits Google Sheets + GHL contact created + follow-up SMS out in 60 seconds For outbound: same stack, reversed. AI dials your estimate follow-up list, qualifies leads, logs every response. Zero missed jobs (AI answers after hours, weekends, no exceptions) Zero logging errors (automation, not memory) Zero follow-up delays (triggered the second the call ends) The real win? Every missed call becomes a trackable data point — not a lost job. What's the biggest gap in how your business handles inbound calls right now?

Construction accounting and finance is pretty simple, right? You just bill a client more than it costs you to do the work. Track the invoices and expenses. Simple. Wrong. Construction accounting and finance is one of the most confusing topics I’ve dealt with. Retention. Progress claims. Secured and unsecured variations. Cost tracking. Estimating. Corporate overheads. There are so many elements to this topic. So I’ve been trying to research and lay out the entire topic in a simple, step-by-step framework. This week, I’m going through how those pieces fit together, from pricing a job to deciding whether the business can afford another one. As always, it’s structured around News, Inform and Work. Just quickly, I’m looking for some customer feedback on a new product I’m launching. Would love if anybody has the time to fill this out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdILOUFSeoYJRJOfY5g5BHnI8ZLPHcfZhiL78nOE0AFOpRdTQ/viewform?usp=header News Claude Duet: an assistant that keeps working in the background. Anthropic’s new agent runs on its own computer in the cloud. It can prepare email replies, meeting briefs and financial models using your connected apps. I can see this helping contractors keep up with admin while they’re on site. It is currently a US-only research preview for Pro and Max users, through a waitlist, and is designed to ask before sending messages. See how Claude Duet works. Anthropic has filed for an IPO. The company behind Claude filed its public IPO paperwork on 26 October and intends to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The share price and number of shares are still to be determined. For businesses building workflows around Claude, this makes the company behind the tool worth following too. Read Anthropic’s announcement

Hi all I joined this group and my name is @Ross Novak I made this demo, and was hoping to get some feedback. We are designed to integrate with the software you use, we are building API and other connectors to apps your team is familiar with. if your company is looking for an easy software to see how AI can help a process. I do not charge anyone, or have a marketing company that will spam you. I own, operate all the tech and outreach. Truerent.co/demo