Builder-BOS

A Business Operating System for managing your entire Construction Business.

How Pro Builders
Use Builder-BOS
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  • Optimized input to get information fast
  • Search for any of hundreds of topics
  • Job site reports link immediately to office
  • 35-years of construction mistakes avoided
  • ...and much more
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  • Organization Strategy
  • Functional Position Planning
  • Position Descriptions
  • ...and much more
  • Defining Your Market
  • Planting Your Flag
  • Your USP
    (Unique Selling Proposition)
  • Estimating for Profit
  • Setting Your Estimating Margin
  • Allocating Overhead in an Estimate
  • ... and much more
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  • Your Business Model
  • Working With Employees
  • Paperwork Processing
  • ... and much more
  • Sample Agreements
  • On the Job Site
  • Relations During the Build
  • Identifying Your Market
  • ... and much more
  • Subcontractor Agreements
  • Controlling Subcontractor Quality
  • Managing Subcontractor Risk
  • Enforcing Job Site Safety
  • ... and much more
  • Daily Progress Reports
  • High-Performance Homes Checklists
  • Project Profitability Analysis
  • Enforcing Job Site Safety
  • ... and much more
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  • Financial Decision Models
  • Monitoring the Numbers
  • Quick Financial Reports
  • "What If I...?" Analysis
  • ... and much more

•One-click access to a collection of business management assets which will enhance management skills at each level in the company.

•A curated library of analytical tools, forms, worksheets and documents based on decades of actual construction company management experience and construction owner coaching.

•A real-world supplement to the high-priced, limited purpose construction management platforms currently available in the market.

•Builder-BOS is not a knock-off of, or replacement for, BuilderTrend, Co-Construct, Procore, or other construction management tools. It’s much more than that.

•The focus is not on the individual project, it is on how that project fits into the portfolio of the entire company.

•While project-specific tools are available (contracting, client management, project profitability reports, etc.), the focus is not solely on those processes, but on how each component of the platform enhances the performance of the business.

If you have had experience with construction management platforms, you’ve probably noticed the same thing I have —

  • They are great at capturing data, documenting actions, and tracking the specifics of a single project.
  • They are great at the WHO, the WHEN and the WHERE of a construction project, but severely lacking in the WHAT and HOW of running a construction business.

That’s where Builder-BOS steps in.

Based on decades of running a construction business and coaching other builders, Builder-BOS provides analytical tools, forms, worksheets and documents to make running your construction business easier and smoother.

A Builder-BOS subscription will move you from the project focus of the construction management platforms to the business management focus necessary to be a success.

That’s what we mean when we say “You Build. We Biz.“

Builder-BOS
Monthly
Subscription

$ 10 First Month,
then $29.99/month
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Builder-BOS
Annual
Subscription

$ 299 Per year
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Builder-BOS
add seats to
Monthly
Subscription

$ 5 per seat 1st month,
then $14.99/seat
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Contact Dennis
Requires set-up
Includes Company dashboard

Builder-BOS
add seats to
Annual
Subscription

$ 149 per seat
  •  
Contact Dennis
Requires set-up
Includes Company dashboard
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Talk to your building materials suppliers (lumber, fixtures, appliances) about becoming a Builder-BOS Sponsor.

For a small monthly investment, they can offer the Builder-BOS platform to their Pro Builder customers like you.

Ask them to contact Dennis at d.anderson@builder-resources.com to get details.

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🏅 Create a Business Worth Owning

📶 Integrated step-by-step program using all tools and systems

💡 Two coaching sessions per month

📊 Monthly scorecard to measure the journey

🛠️ Tools: All tools (Chart of Accounts, Cost Codes, BBOS Estimator, Builder Business Model Canvas, SubManager, ClientManager, Policy Handbook, Management Scorecard).

🤝 What we do together:

  • A 180+-day engagement covering financials, estimating, subcontractors, clients, and workforce.
  • Coaching sessions every two weeks to review your real numbers and coach policy implementation.
  • A monthly “Business Health Scorecard” that shows where you are strong and where to strengthen.
  • Focus on building a business system that allows you to:
    • move out of day-to-day management;
    • develop a valuable legacy enterprise; and
    • create a business with significant market value.

💲 Investment: $3,500-$5,000.

🪜 Progression logic:

  • This is the capstone — combining all five prior steps into one system that builds a business worth owning.

🎯Outcome: "Now I control my business, not the other way around."

👷 Manage Your Workforce

👷‍♀️ Put the right people in the right position

📄 Create an Organization Chart and Position Descriptions

📄 Integrate employment policies

🛠️ Tools: OrgChart, Position Descriptions, Company Policy Template

🤝 What we do together:

  • Create a Company organization chart.
  • Create Job Descriptions.
  • Implement employee policy handbook
  • Identify inefficiencies in labor margins.
  • Discover hidden labor costs.

💲 Investment: $1,250-$1,500.

🪜 Progression logic:

  • Labor is usually the last controllable variable — now you are tackling optimization and efficiency.

🎯Outcome: "Now I am in control of the work that must be completed, and my employees understand their positions and accountabilities."

🗣️ Control the Client Relationship

📄 Client log, Change Order system

📄 Notice of Completion, Draw Requests

📄 Communication templates for disputes

🛠️ Tools: ClientManager, Client Contact Log, Initial Specifications, NAHB Residential Construction Guide

🤝 What we do together:

  • Implement a structured client management system.
  • Introduce the Client Contact Log.
  • Provide templates for change order and scope adjustments.
  • Train on reducing disputes and managing client expectations.

💲 Investment: $750-$1,250

🪜 Progression logic:

  • With the business financially stable and risk-protected, control of clients and their expectations ensures smoother operations and fewer profit leaks.

🎯Outcome: "Now I can manage clients and their expectations without projects spinning out of control."

🧯Identify and Manage Risks

🏠 Project Risks:

  • Site Risks – site injuries with no primary insurance coverage.
  • Reputational Risks – You don’t deliver what you promised because your subcontractors were not on the same page.
  • Capacity Risks – You can’t deliver what you promised because you don’t have the organizational structure to support your sales.

🔍 Management Risks:

  • Company Structural Risks – You don’t have the right people in the right positions.
  • Promotional Risks – Your market doesn’t know or care about your products.
  • Competitive Risks – You haven’t differentiated your company, so lowest price is the only way you can compete. 
  • Market Demand Risks – a bad market cycle will cripple or destroy your business.

🛠️ Tools: SubManager, Organizing for Success, Builder Business Model Canvas, Budgeting Forecasts

🤝 What we do together:

  • Implement Terms and Conditions, Scopes of Work, and Inspection Reports for all Subcontractors.
  • Review how you track subcontractor insurance and compliance.
  • Analyze your organizational structure to optimize production capacity.
  • Review your business model.
  • Create “Expected Case”, “Best Case”, and Worst Case” budgeting scenarios.

💲 Investment: $1,000-$1,500

🪜 Progression logic:

  • After financial clarity and profitable estimating, risk management provides the next layer of company stability.

🎯Outcome: "Now I can reduce or transfer risk exposure; identify and appeal to my primary market; and plan for any type of economic environment."

🧮Price with Confidence

🔍 Audit your estimating process

🔎 Review all active projects monthly for budget-to-actual performance

🔍 Debrief every completed project for profitability and work flow

📶 Install a margin-tracking dashboard

🛠️ Tools: BBOS Estimator, Overhead Calculator, Completed Project Profitability Report

🤝 What we do together:

  • Audit your current estimating process.
  • Benchmark your margins against industry and market standards.
  • Optimize estimating margins for maximum profitability.
  • Track true budget-to-actual expenditures.

💲 Investment: $750-$1,250

🪜 Progression logic:

  • Once finances are stable, you can sharpen your pricing to stop leaving money on the table.
  • You’ll know the margin to use to make sure overhead is allocated profitably. 

🎯Outcome: "Now I can bid jobs knowing I'll profit, not just hoping for profit."

💰90-Day Financial Reset

🗄️ Rebuild Chart of Accounts on NAHB Model

🗃️ Rebuild Cost Codes on CSI model

🛠️ Tools: Accounting platform, NAHB Chart of Accounts, CSI Cost Codes, Management Scorecard

🤝 What we do together:

  • Access to your accounting platform is required.
  • Rebuild your Chart of Accounts for project-level profitability.
  • Create and align Cost Codes so estimating, job costing, and reporting all “speak the same language.”
  • One-on-one coaching call every two weeks during the program to interpret your numbers.

💲 Investment: $1,500-$3,000

🪜 Why start here?

  • Without financial clarity, nothing else matters.
  • The reason you are in business is to make a profit. 
  • Do you KNOW if you are doing that?

🎯Outcome: "Now I know if my business is profitable and my business model is sound."

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