Most contractors carry the whole business in their head. Every workflow, every cost, every quirk of how a job moves through the business lives with one person, and that's the bottleneck. This week we walked through the exact process of getting that knowledge out of your head and into Claude, so it can perform specific roles in your business without you explaining everything from scratch every time. 🧠 What you'll learn: - How to build a Business Context Document so Claude knows your team, your trade, your region, and how a job moves from lead to close - How to set up a Claude Project for estimating: what goes in the files tab, how to write the instructions, and why updating those files is the same as training a new hire - How to build a brand design system in Claude Design so every pitch deck and proposal starts with your actual fonts, colours, and visual style - How to create a Cowork scheduled task that reads your Gmail every morning, flags sales leads, and drops a briefing in your chat at 7:30 AM - How to use the "what do you mean by that?" interview method to pull the real operational knowledge out of your team before it becomes a context gap The full session and the Business Context Document template are attached. Steal the template, run through it with one team member, and you will have your first company brain file ready before the next call. 📁 Resources mentioned: Claude Claude Design Go Full Page (Chrome extension) Wispr Flow Next event — July 7th at 2PM, Scelta Windsor office: Building Your Company Brain. Sponsored by Libro Credit Union. Register here: luma.com/q3bsltrg Want us to audit where AI can plug into your business? Start with the End State Audit: scelta.ca/ai-for-contractors/audit

anti-ai-writing-v2 is a writing framework that strips AI-generated patterns from any content — business proposals, LinkedIn posts, cold emails, YouTube scripts, and blog articles. It enforces a natural human voice by banning hollow vocabulary ("leverage," "robust," "ecosystem"), killing compulsive parallelism and false reframes, and demanding hyper-specific details over vague generics. The key difference from v1: the Business Proposals section no longer instructs framing value around what the client is currently losing. Instead, it focuses purely on direct, confident, specific writing.

Welcome to the best community for contractors to learn how to use AI. We’re just getting started, so enjoy it completely FREE. Introduce yourself below 👇 👷 1) What trade or role are you in? ⚡️ 2) What your goal is 😎 3) Something about you... This community exists because every contractor deserves access to the same AI systems the big operators use, without the big price tag. DIAL IN. 💪

Thank you to everyone who attended our 2nd in-person event yesterday! Photo Gallery of the Day Most contractors don't know their exact profit margin. This workshop shows you how to change that with a simple AI finance setup that tracks every dollar across your company and your projects. 🧠 What you'll learn: -How to set up two Claude projects that act as your full-time CFO — one for your company (overhead, cash flow, bank statements) and one for each active job (budget, draw schedule, labor hours, change orders) -A receipt-capture workflow that replaces hours of manual line-item sorting: snap a photo of up to six receipts, upload to Claude, and get every expense categorized and allocated to the right job instantly -How to calculate your real monthly overhead in minutes by uploading your bank and credit card statements and prompting Claude to flag every recurring charge — including subscriptions you forgot you were paying for -A progress billing method that makes it nearly impossible for a GC or client to dispute your invoice: feed Claude your scope, budget, and timestamped site photos and it generates a branded completion report with percentage breakdowns and photo proof attached -How to turn off AI training on your financial data in Claude's privacy settings (and why enterprise accounts have it off by default), so you can upload bank statements and credit card data without it being used to train the model Resources mentioned in this video: - Claude Projects: claude.ai - Claude Cowork (desktop app): claude.ai/download - Google NotebookLM (for learning): notebooklm.google.com - Perplexity AI (for research): perplexity.ai - Claude connectors: accessible via the + button in any Claude chat

This one's focused on finance. Bring a workflow you're actually using: quoting, estimating, job costing, tracking receivables, whatever's taking too long. We'll work through it together and figure out where AI fits. Join us at 4470 North Service Rd E Unit #107 at Noon. The jobsite is far enough along now where we no longer need hard hats or steel toes. Reminder there won't be a call tomorrow at 7pm. Looking forward to seeing you in person instead!