Trades & Contractors
Business Consulting for Trades and Contractors
In the trades, the owner is usually the best estimator, the fixer when a job goes sideways, and the person the crews call first. That is exactly why the business can't grow past you.
Who it is for. General contractors, specialty contractors, commercial trades, construction firms, and project-based businesses managing bids, crews, materials, schedules, and change orders.
The pattern
Why growth stalls for trades and contracting businesses
Job costing is loose and you find out too late a project went upside down
Crews need you on site to keep quality and pace up
Cash swings hard with project timing and change orders
You can't bid bigger work because you can't staff or manage it yet
What we do about it
How LINX helps
We tighten the numbers first: how you bid, how you track cost against the bid, and where margin leaks on change orders and rework. Then we build the field leadership and the routines so crews run to standard without you on every job.
Where the back office is the bottleneck, LINX Leverage puts support on estimating admin, scheduling, and billing so you stay focused on the work only you can do.
Fit
Is this right for your business?
A strong fit
- You are owner-led, typically 5 to 50 employees and $500K to $10M in revenue.
- You want a real thinking partner, not a one-time strategy deck.
- You want help getting the work done, not advice on its own.
- Location is not a constraint. We work virtually from Omaha.
Not the right fit
- You want advice with no help executing.
- You are looking for the cheapest possible option.
- You want a strategy deck rather than changes that hold.
If it is not a fit, we will tell you that on the first call and point you somewhere useful.
Schedule a ConversationQuestions
Asked and answered
Half our jobs make money and half don't. Can you fix that?
That pattern almost always traces to bidding and job costing. We make both disciplined so you know before a job starts whether it will be profitable, and you catch overruns while you can still act.
My crews only run well when I'm there. Is that fixable?
Yes, and it is one of the most common things we fix. It takes standards, the right crew leaders, and a routine that holds. We build all three.
See also
Consulting for other industries
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We will listen first. If we cannot help, we will say so.
