The estimate gets typed three times
The estimator prices it in one tool, the office re-enters it for the schedule, and accounting types it again for the invoice. In a forty-person builder that is a job nobody was hired for.
AI consulting · Frankfort, Illinois
Custom builders, landscape companies and practices that grew from a crew into a company. The paperwork between the crews is where the week goes now. We sit down with everyone and write the plan.
About 50 minutes out. First call is free.
Frankfort grew up around the corner of Lincoln Highway and LaGrange Road, and so did its companies. The custom builder who started with one crew now runs six, with a project manager, an estimator and an office that keeps them all moving. The landscape company has forty people in season and a fleet to match. Practices along 30 have added a second location. Professional offices near the historic downtown have a second floor of staff. Past twenty people, the owner stops seeing every job, and the work starts moving between hands: the estimate to the schedule, the schedule to the crew, the crew's notes to the invoice. Every handoff is a retype, a text nobody logged, an approval that waited on one person's phone.
That is the size the AI Opportunity Assessment is built for: companies of twenty or more, where the owner still knows every name but cannot see every desk. Over two weeks we sit down with people at every level, from the owner to the person who does the thing, and follow real work from first inquiry to paid. Every step that eats hours or causes errors gets tagged and gets a number. Then you get the written plan: where the week goes, what to do first, what is a big swing, what to leave alone, and the math behind it, conservative on purpose.
Nothing goes in the plan you have not already seen and argued with. Nothing in it requires buying software from us. We charge for the thinking. Building is optional. Frankfort is about fifty minutes out, so the interviews happen at your office or your yard, on your schedule, usually inside the first week. If the honest answer is a better spreadsheet, the plan says so.
What we tend to find
The estimator prices it in one tool, the office re-enters it for the schedule, and accounting types it again for the invoice. In a forty-person builder that is a job nobody was hired for.
The client asks for a bigger patio by text, the foreman says yes, and the office finds out at the invoice. The assessment shows where that approval needs to land instead.
Open quotes, permits waiting on a signature, the client update nobody sent. In a company past twenty people, follow-up that lives in someone's head is the first leak on the map.
The assessment
The AI Opportunity Assessment runs the same way everywhere: we sit down with the people doing the work, map how a job actually moves, and hand you a written plan for where AI actually helps. Yours to keep, whether we build it or your own people do.
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Joliet is twenty minutes west, Tinley Park and Orland Park just north. Mokena, New Lenox and Manhattan get the same two weeks and the same plan.
Questions
Yes, that is the size it is built for. Field-heavy companies are often the best fits, because the office is small and the handoffs between crews, estimator and billing carry the most weight. Under twenty, book the call anyway. We will tell you straight if a two-week assessment is more than you need.
Thirty to forty-five minutes each, at the yard before the trucks roll or at the site if that is easier. Somewhere between three and fifteen interviews depending on your size, all inside the first week. The delivery date is set on day one, so it never drags into your busy season.
Yes. Frankfort is about fifty minutes out by I-80, and the interviews only work in person, at your office or your yard. The first call is on the phone. After that we come to you, usually two or three days inside the first week, then again to walk through the plan.
Your next step
Forty-five minutes, free, on the phone or at your office in Frankfort. You'll leave knowing the two or three places we'd look first, and whether the assessment is worth your team's time.
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