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Welcome to The Contractors Guild
Double your profit. Build the systems that take your contracting business toward $5 million — without living on the jobsite forever.
Most contractors don't have a work problem. They have a business problem. The jobs get done, the invoices go out, and somehow there's nothing left at the end of the year. You're the hardest-working person you know and you still can't tell anyone what your hour actually costs, whether the last job made money, or why February always hurts.
Every other program in this space starts by getting you more work. The Contractors Guild starts by making sure the work you already have stops losing money — then builds out from there.
WHO THIS IS FOR
General contractors, remodelers, and custom builders. Home-service trades — HVAC, plumbing, electrical. Owners doing roughly $0–$5M who are still on the tools, or just barely off them. People who want the business side taught straight, by someone still running real jobs.
WHO THIS IS NOT FOR
Anyone looking for trade or technical training — this is the business, not the craft. Anyone chasing a get-rich-quick pitch. Anyone not willing to run their own numbers.
THE PROBLEMS THIS FIXES
You price off your gut, or off what the last guy charged, and hope it works out. You've been burned on a change order, a slow-paying client, or a job that ran way over. You can't step off the tools because the business stops when you do. Your crew's either overloaded or standing around, and both cost you. Your competitors are starting to use AI and you don't know where to begin.
WHAT'S INSIDE
The Real Number System (free) — your true hourly cost, so every price you set is measured against something real.
Pricing & Estimating (free) — turning that number into prices that actually hold.
Contracts, Payments & Collections — so profit on paper lands in the account.
Sales & Client Communication — plus getting found online and by AI.
Managing Crews & Multiple Jobs — running more than one job without living in your truck.
Scaling & Stepping Off the Tools — the actual mechanics of a business that runs without you.
Bonus modules — more leads, working with subs, surviving the slow season, staying functional while you scale, and a full AI Accelerator: we're at the front of this, not catching up to it.
The Toolkit — every calculator, template, and script, 70+ of them, not sold separately.
A rank ladder — Apprentice to Legend, earned by showing your work in the feed.
FREE VS. PAID
The free tier is real: Courses 1, 2, and 3 — covering your true costs and how to price off them, plus every tool that goes with those courses and full access to the community. That's enough to fix your first real leak without paying anything.
Membership is $99/month and unlocks everything the day you join — no drip, no waiting to "earn" content you paid for. New lessons and tools are added every week.
Founding offer: the first 50 members pay $59/month, locked for life. After that it's $99.
No free trial. No sales call. No live calls to schedule around.
Built and run by Brad Bates — owner-operator of a working construction company, teaching the business side as he builds it, not a coach who sold his tools a decade ago. Some videos are delivered by a disclosed AI avatar of Brad — his stand-in for when he's not on camera live — so the content ships every week. The numbers, the playbook, and the opinions are Brad's.
New here? Start with the Start Here course — it's a 2-minute map of exactly where to begin.
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