Indianapolis Build Expo 2027 | Keynotes & Seminars

Your P&L says you made money last year. Your bank account says something different. That gap — between what you earned on paper and what actually sits in the bank — is the single most common problem in construction, and it has nothing to do with how hard you're working or how many jobs you're closing. Using real, live examples from real contracting businesses, this keynote lays out exactly why profitable companies run out of cash, and the specific playbook to fix it — without buying another piece of software, without raising your prices, and without taking on debt to bridge the gap. This isn't theory. It's the exact framework being used inside contracting businesses right now to turn "profitable on paper" into cash you can actually see.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the specific point in your business where profit is quietly leaking out between the job and the bank account.

2. Learn the account structure that separates true profit from operating cash — so you always know what's actually yours to spend.

3. See a live, real-numbers example of a contractor who fixed this exact problem without raising a single price.

4. Leave with the first two moves to make this week to start closing your own cash flow gap.

You already earn enough revenue. The problem was never how much money comes in — it's how much of it you actually get to keep. This keynote is built for the contractor owner who is tired of living deposit to deposit, tired of watching real revenue disappear before it ever becomes real profit. Using live, real-world examples, we'll show you exactly how cash-rich contractors are built — not through bigger jobs or higher prices, but through a small number of specific shifts to how revenue is captured, protected, and kept inside the business. You'll leave knowing exactly what separates a contractor who's always chasing the next check from one who never has to again.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the difference between revenue and Real Revenue — and why that distinction is the root of the deposit-to-deposit cycle.
2. See a live example of a contracting business that ended its own cash cycle without changing pricing or volume.
3. Learn the specific account structure that protects revenue the moment it comes in, before it can leak out.
4. Leave with a clear, personal definition of what "cash-rich" actually looks like for your business — and the first shift to make toward it.

 You don't need to be technical. You don't need another piece of software you'll abandon in a month. What you need is something that acts like a second brain — a built-in assistant that takes the repeatable, energy-draining work off your plate so you can get back to running the business instead of being buried inside it. In this live, hands-on workshop, we'll build a real AI-powered delegation system in front of you — no scripts, no fluff, just a working tool you can start using the moment you walk out the door. This isn't about chasing every new AI trend. It's about turning AI into the one thing most contractor owners have never had: a system that remembers, reminds, and executes so you don't have to carry it all in your head.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the three categories of repeatable owner-level tasks in your business that are safe to delegate to an AI assistant today — and the ones that are not.

2. Build a working AI delegation prompt live in the room, using your own business as the example, that you can put to use the same day.

3. Learn the difference between an AI tool and an AI system — and why only one of them actually gives you hours back.

4. Leave with a specific, written plan for the first 8 hours per week you will reclaim, and what you will do with that time instead.

Every contractor owner is being told they're falling behind if they're not "using AI." Much of it is not true, and most of it is a distraction from the real problem. In this live workshop, we cut through the hype and show you the truth: most contracting businesses don't have an AI problem — they have a system problem, and AI without a system just makes chaos move faster. Using a live demo, we'll show you exactly where AI does and doesn't belong in a contracting business, and how to build the system underneath it first, so that when you do use AI, it actually works.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the difference between a business problem AI can solve and a business problem only a system can solve.
2. See a live demo of AI layered on top of an existing business system — and understand why it fails without that system in place.
3. Learn the specific, narrow list of tasks where AI creates real time savings for a contractor owner today.
4. Leave with a one-page plan for what to build first — system or AI tool — based on where your business actually stands.