How to get off the tools, take home more money, and build a trade business that runs without you.
No chasing work. No longer hours. No underpricing. Jamie walks through the roadmap he used to go from £0 to £2m in 18 months, and what you'd do first.
Watched it? The next step is a free 30-minute call to go through your numbers.
It isn't your skill. It's the structure.
Four reasons good tradespeople stay on the tools for twenty years, and none of them is "not working hard enough".
You're too cheap
Prices set years ago, in fear, to win the job. Your mates and your customers have told you. Every job you win at that price costs you the time to win a better one.
You rely on word of mouth
The best leads you'll ever get, and you can't turn them up on demand. So it's flat out one month and dead the next.
You are the business
Quoting, answering the phone, running the diary and being on the tools at the same time. Something gives, and it's always the sales side.
No systems, no one you trust
How a job gets done lives in your head. The moment you're not on site, it disappears. So you can't hire anyone who isn't as good as you.
The order to fix it in.
- 1Why owners stay stuck on the tools
It's business structure, not skill, and why "more work" is never the answer at £100k.
- 2Pricing and quoting like a contractor
The 15–30% price rise, the margin targets by trade, and why a quote is a sales document, not a price list.
- 3Winning steadier, better-quality work
The sales process that stops you losing 30–50% of the jobs you could have won, and ends the feast-or-famine cycle.
- 4Hiring people you can rely on
Who to hire first (it isn't a labourer), and how the first hire pays for itself.
- 5The roadmap, in full
Three stages and thirteen steps, from a one-man band to a business that runs without you.
Before you book.
Who is this for?+
UK tradespeople turning over roughly £80k to £500k who are still on the tools most of the week: from a one-man band or a van and a lad up to a small team, who know they're capable of more and have been stuck at the same level for too long.
Wherever you sit in that range, we start at Step 1. Even members already turning over £300k usually find Steps 1 to 5 of the roadmap are half-built, and that's exactly why they're stuck. We'll tell you honestly on the call whether we're the right fit.
What trade do I need to be in?+
Any of them. Electricians, plumbers and heating engineers, plasterers, decorators, joiners, groundworkers, landscapers, roofers and builders are all in the programme. The roadmap is about the business, not the trade, and every lesson comes with a worked example from a named trade with real numbers.
What happens on the free call?+
Thirty minutes with one of the team. We go through where the business is now (turnover, average job value, hours on the tools, how work comes in), where you want it to be, and what's actually in the way. If we think we can get you there, we'll explain how the programme would work for you. If we don't, we'll tell you.
Do you supply me with work?+
No. We build your ability to win your own work, at better prices, from sources you control, so you're never dependent on anyone else's pipeline, including ours.
If we come across work that suits a member we may make an introduction, but it is never promised, never charged for and never part of the offer.
Ready to go through your numbers?
A free 30-minute call. We'll tell you which step of the roadmap you're on, what's actually holding the business back, and whether we're the right people to fix it.