AI consulting · Roselawn, Indiana

AI consulting in Roselawn, for crews that outgrew the pickup.

The contractors here started in a truck and now run twenty people out of a pole barn. We sit down with the whole crew and write the plan.

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First call is free. We come to the yard.

Roselawn does not have a courthouse square or a storefront row. It has State Road 10, the interstate exit, and a deeper bench of construction trades than towns three times its size: excavators, builders, concrete and septic crews, HVAC outfits, truck and equipment repair, most of them run out of a pole barn off 10. The jobs are often up in Lake County or across the Illinois line. The companies that grew past twenty people did it by adding crews, and the office never quite caught up. One person in the barn takes calls, writes bids, orders material, chases signatures and does payroll. The foremen run the day out of a group text. The owner still knows every name, but cannot see every job.

That is the size the AI Opportunity Assessment is built for. Over two weeks we sit down with people at every level of the company, from the owner to the operator in the seat, and follow real jobs from the first call to the paid invoice. Every step that eats hours or causes errors gets tagged and gets a number. Then you get the written plan: what to fix first, what is a big swing, what to leave alone, and the math behind each one, per role, in dollars. It is built for a company of twenty or more, and it is yours to keep whether Kadro builds it or your own people do.

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. Roselawn is close, so the interviews happen at the yard, before the crews roll out or after they get back.

What we tend to find

What we tend to find off State Road 10

One person is the office

Calls, bids, material orders, change orders and payroll all land on the same desk in the barn. When that person is out, the company stops. The assessment shows which of those jobs never needed a person.

The bid, the ticket and the invoice

The takeoff goes into the bid, the crew's hours onto a paper ticket, and both get retyped into the invoice weeks later. Between the three, hours vanish and change orders go unbilled.

The schedule lives in a group text

Which crew is on which site, which machine is where, who needs a trailer tomorrow: it is all in a thread nobody can search. A schedule that assembles itself is usually the first quick win.

The assessment

Two weeks in Roselawn. Then the plan.

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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14days, start to plan
20+people is the size it is built for
5parts in the written plan
0software to buy from us

Questions

Questions from Roselawn contractors

We have twenty-five people, but most of them are on crews. Is that the size you mean?

Yes. Field crews count, and they are usually where the findings are. A company that size has an office of two or three people carrying everything the crews generate, and that is the handoff we map first. Under twenty, book the call anyway. We will tell you straight if two weeks is more than you need.

Our crews are on jobsites all day. How do you interview them?

Early or late, at the yard, thirty to forty-five minutes each. We also ride along to a site or two, because watching a ticket get filled out tells us more than asking about it. All of it lands inside the first week, and the delivery date is set on day one.

Half our work is across the Illinois line. Does the plan cover that?

Yes. Where the job sits does not change how the work moves through your company, and the plan follows the work. If crossing the line adds paperwork, separate permits or a second set of forms, that shows up in the map as its own step with its own number.

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What is the barn office costing you?

Forty-five minutes, free, at the yard in Roselawn. You'll leave knowing the two or three places we'd look first, and whether the assessment is worth your crew's time.

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