Business of Construction Newsletter

This decision shows up in your bonding, your borrowing, and one day, your sale price.

The one number that settles it, and why most owners have never calculated it

It's not the market. It's not your crew. It's a file at a bonding company.

The business dies with me. Thirty years of work, and it's worth the trucks and the receivables.

Your $3M exit can shrink to $1.5M after closing. Here's how.

Owners who scale past $3M make this hire months early.

30 days? Full rundown. 3 years? Blank stare.

The Math Most Owners Skip Before They Bid the Next Job

How one contractor bought back 12 hours a week with a whiteboard, a binder, and a $500 rule.

£5 billion in revenue. £29 million in cash on the day it died.

Most business owners guess two or three. The real number is usually higher.

It's not the competitor across town. Not anymore.

A backlog is a promise. Recurring revenue is the asset. Three ways to build it.

Most owners can quote last year's revenue from memory. Almost none can quote the number that actually pays them.

Your income statement tells you if you made money. It won't tell you where.

Most contractors price labour using the wrong number. Here's what it really costs.

Most contractors price jobs well. Few understand how the decisions they make every day quietly increase or destroy the value of the business they're building.

It's not because they love contracting. Here's the actual game. What that means for you?

Most roofing contractors are profitable on paper and broke in the bank. Here's why.