The Automated Contractor: A Contractor Business Book for QuickBooks and Workflow Automation

YOUR BUSINESS IS GROWING. SO WHY DOES THE BACK OFFICE STILL DEPEND ON YOU? The jobs are booked. The crews are moving. But every estimate, receipt, invoice, time card, and customer follow-up still lands on your desk.

You solve problems on active job sites all day, then spend your nights catching up on the work nobody sees. That may keep the business running, but it will never give you the freedom or capacity to scale.

The Automated Contractor is a practical, plain-English operating manual for general contractors, electricians, plumbers, HVAC professionals, handymen, and trade business owners who are ready to replace back-office chaos with reliable, repeatable systems.

No coding. No tech jargon. No expensive software consultants. Just straightforward workflows built around the everyday tools you already use.

FROM BID TO BANK, YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO: Create professional estimates in minutes using structured ChatGPT prompts that turn job details into polished bids and scopes of work. Capture receipts before they disappear and route material invoices toward the right records from the job site or lumberyard parking lot. Build a cleaner QuickBooks workflow for project costs, client deposits, progress billing, and cash-flow visibility. Turn completed jobs into five-star reviews with automatic text and email follow-up that keeps your reputation growing. Reduce crew and time-card errors using simple no-code workflows for employee hours, deadlines, and project handoffs. Whether you run a solo operation from your truck or manage multiple crews across commercial job sites, this book shows you how to create an administrative system that works even when you are not sitting behind a desk.

Every chapter ends with a practical Monday Morning Implementation Checklist , so you can put the ideas to work immediately instead of adding another unfinished business book to the shelf.

STOP BEING THE BOTTLENECK. Build a leaner operation. Protect your nights. Strengthen your cash flow. And give your contracting business the capacity to grow.