Hey everybody, thought I would kick off a new post for August. What are your goals for this month and what are you trying to get out of the community? Mine are pretty simple and straightforward 1. Keep experimenting with AI and sharing what I'm learning 2. Keep making a ton of youtube videos 3. Keep learning about construction project management and working out the best way to deliver projects and run a construction business Keen to hear what you're goals are and what you want to get out of the community

One of the biggest productivity improvements I've found in the last couple of months is talking instead of typing. I started using an AI dictation tool and its genuinely life changing. The core idea behind it is that you speak much faster than you type. Therefore speaking instead of typing saves a ton of time. The speed is the obvious win. But the bigger one is friction. Tasks I used to put off — long emails, updating a site diary, writing out a proper prompt — are cognitively easier now because I can just talk instead of type. That last point is the real construction use case. The problem with prompting AI is you never give it enough context. Speaking fixes that. I can brain-dump a full day on site — weather, client directions, RFIs — and Claude structures it straight into my Air Table site diary. No manual entry. It feels weird mumbling into your computer at first. Get over that and I'm certain it'll save you time. Here is a link to try wispr flow (I get 1 month free for every member - so conflict of interest haha): https://wisprflow.ai/r?TIMOTHY3111 But also, it doesnt matter which dictation tool you use, Wispr flow was the first one I tried and I love it.

i cant find the pdf file for the plan that is use in the video where to find it?

Rework and defects eat 5–10% of a project's value. The average contractor's margin is 7–10%. So getting quality wrong can quietly wipe out everything you made on the job. Most people treat quality and completions as a box-ticking exercise. I get why — it's your ticket to play, so it feels like compliance for the sake of it. But that framing is exactly why contractors leak so much money on it. All quality really is: verifying and validating that what you built matches the design, and the design matches what the client actually asked for. You build something, you check it's correct, you close the loop. The trap is the back end. 90% of the work takes 50% of the time, and that last 10% — closing out defects, chasing records, handing over — eats the rest. Progressive close-out as you go is what fixes it. I put together a complete end-to-end guide on the system. Let me know if you have any questions. Grab the slides: https://www.skool.com/construction-contractors/classroom/6e2a1d8d?md=b93722c6932549c185db19a6f4608e18

The floor has been raised and you are expected to do more work now. But how do you do it? Create systems that are simple and easy to follow. For example, instead of typing, which is 3x slower than speaking, use dictation tools. There are many out there, but for the Mac users I recommend privisay.com (full-disclosure: I built it) Then use AI locally. For first-time users, I recommend something simple like Claude Cowork. I know our community leader @Tim Fairley has done an excellent job in creating content that can help us in our jobs.