I run a roofing company in Calgary. Every week I open my books on this show — real job costing, real margins, real losses — and work through the operational side of running a trades business between $1M and $10M.
Not theory from someone who sold their company ten years ago. Current P&L. Current crew problems. Current cash flow.
Actual job costing from an operating company. What a job was bid at, what it actually cost, and where the gap opened up.
Most weeks it's me alone, working through something live — pricing, overhead, a crew problem, a job that went wrong.
The rest of the time I sit down with contractors further along than me and ask what I actually need to know.
One page. Ten minutes, every Monday, before the phone starts. Every number has a line next to it that tells you when to worry — under six weeks of payroll in the bank, more than five points under your bid, extras older than fourteen days.
Print it, keep it on the desk, fill it in by pen. The pattern shows up faster on paper than in any software.
I take on a small number of owners at a time and work from their real numbers — job costing, pricing, overhead, cash. Not a course, not a mastermind.