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AI for Trades · 8 min read

What AI actually does — and doesn't do — for a trades operation.

ServiceTitan data says 66% of contractors expect AI to transform the industry within 1–3 years. Here's what's realistic, what's marketing, and where to start if you want to try it out.

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Topics: Systems · Software · AI · Field Notes
QuickBooks · 6 min

Why your job costs are always wrong — and how to fix it.

If your job costing only gets accurate after the job closes, your estimating is flying blind. Here's where the break usually is.

Team adoption · 5 min

Three months in and nobody's using the software you bought.

The default out-of-the-box configuration is almost never how your business actually runs. Adoption is a setup problem, not a people problem.

Integrations · 7 min

When your PM tool and QuickBooks don't talk, someone is doing double entry.

Manual re-entry between systems is one of the most expensive hidden costs in a trades operation. It's also one of the easiest to fix.

Automations · 4 min

If it happens the same way every week, it can probably be automated.

Weekly reports, follow-up reminders, status updates — a short checklist of the repetitive work that's cheapest to automate first.

Ownership · 5 min

Why I don't sell software (and why that matters to you).

Most MSPs bundle licensing. If you leave, your access can go with it. Here's how to structure ownership so nothing is held hostage.

SOPs & training · 6 min

The knowledge that walks out the door when someone leaves.

Documented procedures aren't corporate theater. They're how you stop being the one person everything flows through.

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If there's a question you keep running into with your systems, tell me. I'll either answer it directly or write about it so the next person gets the answer faster.

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