Beyond the Bid | Practical AI for Builders
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Booked solid, busy every day, and the margin still is not there. Beyond the Bid is the podcast for residential builders and remodelers who run the business, not just the jobs. Host Grant Fuellenbach, founder of GO First, talks with operators and tech leaders about the systems behind estimating, job costing, and project management — and where practical AI actually helps. The Beyond the Bid newsletter is read by 1,300+ builders and remodelers. Start with the free Construction Systems Diagnostic: gofirstconsulting.com/diagnostic. Episodes, tools, and more: beyondthebid.co
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- Make Every Add-On Earn Its Spot in JobTread | Megan Peyton · 46 minFree tool from this episode: https://beyondthebid.co/vault Most builders add AI and add-ons on top of a process nobody wrote down. Then the account turns into chaos: 63 job board…
- AI Adoption for Contractors: Why Your Crew Refuses the Tools You Bought | Estie Briggs · 47 min · Episode 83You bought the software. Your crew nodded through training. Then they went right back to the old way. Estie Briggs (Briggs Performance Consulting) spent 7 years rolling out…
- The GC Who Built His Own Software So His Crew Can Clock Out at 4:30 | Thomas Kurtz · 42 minFind where your business is leaking time and margin in 7 minutes, before your competitors do: https://gofirstconsulting.com/diagnostic Thomas Kurtz has been in the trades since…
- Construction AI Policy: The Document to Write Before Any Tool | Kelly Stephens · 42 minFree AI policy template for construction companies (from Kelly): https://www.eyeonautomations.com/blog/construction-ai-policy-template You paid for Copilot, locked it down, and…
- AI Estimating: Kill the 20-Hour Takeoff Before It Kills Your Margin | Dmitry Alexin · 42 min · Episode 80Try Handoff free for 7 days, full platform, no sales call: 7-Day Trial Dmitry Alexin is not a software guy who wandered into construction. He spent ten years at the intersection…
- Free Homeowner Tools That Book Jobs Before the First Call | Keith Crabtree · 43 minPlay Homeowner Bingo, the free tool Keith built in 20 minutes that outperforms everything else KCS ships: https://kcsimprovement.com/homeowner-toolbox/ Keith Crabtree came into…
- A Roofing Contractor Put His Back Office Inside AI | Sam Taylor · 48 min · Episode 78Get the free GO First AI Diagnostic and find your #1 margin leak in 7 minutes, before your competitors find theirs: https://gofirstconsulting.com/diagnostic Sam Taylor didn't…
- Preconstruction Reviews That Kill Change Orders Early | Jeff Metzger · 36 minWalk your own floor plan at full scale before your next project gets priced: https://www.projectivestudios.comEvery client who walks into this studio finds 10 to 15 items they…
- The Router Table Rule: A 3-Hour Estimate Cut to 45 Minutes | Ted Sihpol · 56 minFind the margin leak in your business before your competition finds theirs: https://gofirstconsulting.com/diagnosticTed Sihpol got beat to his own number by a client with a…
- Turn Your Best PM's Knowledge Into a Training System | Kevin Peloso · 58 minSteal Precision's design-first Project Roadmap before your next bid: https://buildwithprecision.com/design-and-development/Kevin Peloso can't fake 25 years of field experience…
- Get Your Crew to Actually Use AI | Andrew Nuhfer, AKN Interiors · 33 minSteal the Crew AI Adoption Checklist (free, the exact moves from this episode): beyondthebid.co Most builders adopt AI in a weekend. Their crew never touches it. Andrew Nuhfer…
- Fix the Two Profit Leaks Your Software Can't (ft. Chad Eslinger, Eslinger Homes) · 45 minBuilders lose $750+ for every day a job runs behind. Chad's client system that stops it → https://constructionflowpro.com/ Most builders think their next profit leak is in the…
- How to Use AI in Your Construction Business Without Losing Control" (ft. Eric, Heartwood Craft) · 57 minFind the margin leak draining your profit before AI buries it deeper. Take the GO First AI Diagnostic: https://gofirstconsulting.com/diagnostic Most builders bolt AI onto a messy…
- How to Stop Giving Free Estimates and Get Paid for Design (ft. Trent Raines) · 49 min🔧 Find the margin leak in your business in 7 minutes, before your competitor does: www.gofirstconsulting.comMost remodelers give estimates away for free. Trent Raines charges…
- How One Remodeler Built His Own AI Software to Run His Business · 1 h 0 minBuild your own operating system instead of renting one. Join Nathan's BlueCollarOS community free before the next cohort fills → https://www.skool.com/bluecollaros-8198 The…
- How Two Builders Rebuilt Their Entire Tech Stack Around AI (ft. McDevCo) · 41 minA drafter wanted a few thousand dollars and five weeks for a permit set. Ian McCormick did it in an hour with Claude. The permit was issued the next day. That is one piece of a…
- How To Stack 4 Construction Businesses Without VC · 1 h 10 minJoin Data X Friday Office Hours (free, every Friday 11am ET). Bring your toughest JobTread automation problem and Elliott, Peter, and Dominic will workshop it with you live…
- Scaling AI for Smarter Contracting | (ft. Edward Rivera of Ion Electrical) · 45 minMost trade contractors lose money two ways and never see either one. The daily leak: every clocked-in labor hour sits in timesheets and never feeds back into the next bid. So we…
- What Surviving 100 Years in Construction Actually Takes (ft. Christene Marie) · 55 minGet 21 Days of Free Vertical Alignments from Christene Marie (the morning practice she runs with Toyota execs and trades operators): https://verticalalignment.com Most…
- The Builder Who Killed His SaaS Stack and Built His Own (ft. Steve Young) · 1 h 25 min🎯 Find Your Margin Leak in 7 Minutes (Before Q3): www.gofirstconsulting.com Steve Young paid a Fiverr developer $21K in 2022 to build him an AI proposal tool. Three years later…
