Your company today, the work you want next
Identify strengths, bottlenecks, growth priorities, and what needs attention before pursuing the next level of opportunity.
Contractor Capacity Lab™
Your company can do the work. But can it grow without you doing everything?
Most contractors did not start a company to create another job for themselves. They wanted to build a business that could grow and give them more control over their time. Contractor Capacity Lab helps established construction and trade contractors strengthen how their company operates and prepare for better opportunities.
Next cohortJanuary 2027
Format10 weekly sessions
Capacity25 contractors
Investment$2,000
More work should give you more room to lead
Build capacity before the next opportunity arrives.
Commercial and public-sector opportunities can help a company grow. But larger work can create more stress when the business does not have the systems, financial practices, team structure, and project controls needed to manage it well. The Capacity Lab strengthens the company behind the work while helping you find, evaluate, price, pursue, and manage stronger opportunities.
What you will work on
The business decisions that help a contractor move forward.
The company behind the work
Strengthen team structure, delegation, communication, workflow, accountability, and the systems that keep the owner from carrying every problem alone.
Using your numbers to run the business
Work through profit and loss statements, job costing, cash flow, overhead, and the difference between a busy company and a profitable one.
Finding and pursuing the right work
Understand opportunities, general-contractor expectations, insurance, bonding, safety requirements, registrations, and relevant certifications.
Understanding the work before you bid
Learn how to review solicitations, scopes, plans, specifications, and bid documents before deciding whether an opportunity is right for your company.
Pricing the work right
Work with a commercial estimating professional on labor, materials, overhead, scope gaps, contingencies, and the information needed to price work responsibly.
Managing work from contract to payment
Build stronger practices around contracts, project management, documentation, change orders, communication, and payment.
Business development for contractors
Strengthen past performance, references, capability statements, general-contractor relationships, networking, and follow-up.
Prequalification working lab
Organize your business information, identify gaps, and prepare the documents general contractors are likely to request.
Next steps for your business
Bring the work together into a practical next-stage strategy, with clear priorities, opportunities, and relationships to continue building.
How the cohort works
Practical instruction, real business work, and continued support.
- 10 weekly in-person sessionsEvery session runs from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.; lunch is served from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. and the working session begins at 12:30.
- A working file for your companyBegin with a required onboarding assessment and build your operating priorities, financial work, opportunity tools, capability materials, and next-stage plan in one place.
- Up to 5 hours of technical assistanceApply the work inside your own business with support from construction, financial, legal, estimating, and project-management professionals.
- Readiness review and connectionsGet a midpoint readiness review, a hands-on prequalification lab, industry connections, and a virtual follow-up 90 days after graduation.
Who it is for
For established contractors ready to make the business stronger.
The Capacity Lab is designed for construction and trade contractors that have operated for at least two to three years and have some subcontracting or commercial experience.
It is for owners with active projects, employees, and a reputation for quality work who are ready to spend focused time on the business behind the job, not only the job in front of them.
Leave with work you can use.
More than 50 hours of support.
- A business-growth plan grounded in your company’s real bottlenecks and priorities.
- Stronger roles, delegation, accountability, and operating systems.
- Clearer financial, job-costing, cash-flow, bid, and estimating practices.
- Company profile, past-performance, reference, and prequalification materials.
- Hands-on support to complete up to two prequalification applications.
January 2027 cohort
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