Hi everyone, great to be here! I'm Craig and I've been a Contracts Director for a supply and installation company for the past 10 years. I’m joining this community because I really want to connect with like-minded construction professionals and draw on your real-world experiences to help improve my current processes. My number one goal right now is streamlining. I'm specifically looking for new, highly efficient ways of tracking projects from start to finish. Currently, my main tech stack consists of G Suite and Salesforce, but I’m incredibly interested in exploring how to integrate AI into my workflows to save time and reduce friction. If anyone has successfully brought AI into their project management, or has any favorite integrations/workflows that play nice with Salesforce and G Suite, I would absolutely love to hear about them! Looking forward to learning from you all and sharing what I know along the way. What is everyone else using to track their projects right now?

Here's mine: A construction programme is your methodology expressed through time. The Gantt chart is only the output. The actual work is deciding how the team will deliver the project: - Break the scope into activities with clear owners. - Sequence the work from the required milestones. - Calculate durations using quantities and realistic production rates. - Identify the critical path and low-float activities. - Optimise the work that can actually change the completion date. Crashing critical-path work usually costs more. Fast-tracking it introduces more risk. Doing either to non-critical work will not bring the completion date forward. Do I think a planner should build the programme alone and hand it to the site team? No. The people delivering the project need to help build the methodology and commit to it. This is my attempt to explain it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QahPnqB4UHo

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

Hey everyone Victor here. Just joined the community, and I’m looking forward to connecting with contractors and learning more about the industry. I’m mainly interested in the systems behind growth — lead generation, follow-up, CRM, automation, and making sure good leads don’t get lost after they come in. I’ve noticed a lot of businesses can generate leads, but the real challenge is often what happens after someone calls, fills out a form, or asks for a quote. Curious to hear from the contractors here: What’s currently the biggest headache in your business: getting leads, following up, booking jobs, or managing everything once the leads start coming in? Looking forward to learning from everyone here 🤝

Curious what everyone’s running. Here’s mine: • JobTread — PM, estimating, budgets, and the file system: plans, drawings, receipts, job docs all live here • QuickBooks — accounting • Notion — business brain / SOPs + cost history • Airtable — Contractor OS data layer • Claude / ChatGPT — the glue. Skills + MCP connectors so I’m not re-entering the same data three times Google Drive is still in there, but honestly it’s redundant — it only exists as a staging spot until I get receipt capture running properly through the agents. Once that’s clean it comes out. What are you running — and what’s sitting in your stack that you know you don’t actually need?