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Thursday 29 October Victoria $150

Your tools should work
as hard as you do.

Not the ones in your truck. The ones that run your quotes, emails and invoices.

One afternoon with Vancouver Island's trades and construction owners. Set up our tools on your own laptop and leave with a business assistant and a plan to get your hours back.

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When
Thursday 29 October 2026
Where
North House, 838 Fort St
Hours
12:00 to 4:30
Room
30 seats
Ticket
$150

Why This Exists

Back to the work that matters

The second shift

The job wraps up. The paperwork doesn't. Quotes after supper, invoices on Sunday, the same payment chased for the third time. Every hour on admin is an hour away from the crew, the clients and the work that keeps the phone ringing.

Hours back

We set up the playbook we run ourselves with you in the room, so more of the admin runs without you.

Busy firms rarely get the time to step back and fix this. Here's what you leave with.

What You Take Home

Built to be used, not worked around

  • A business assistant, set up for you

    Set up in the room around how your business works, ready for quotes, emails and job notes from Monday.

  • Our playbook, now yours

    The steps we follow in our own firms: setting up an assistant, starter prompts for quotes, emails and invoices, and our rules on client data.

  • A build plan

    How to decide between fixing what you already run, buying something, or building your own, from an owner who built his.

  • People worth knowing

    Experts to call when you’re stuck, and owners who face what you face.

What You Can Expect

How the afternoon runs, and what sets it apart

The afternoon

Thursday 29 October, North House, 838 Fort St, Victoria, BC

  1. 12:00

    Arrive and lunch

    Lunch from a local kitchen, coffee, and time to meet the room before anyone speaks.

  2. 12:40

    Where the hours go

    Where trades firms lose time and money, with the source on every number. Then a quick read on your own business, so you start where it hurts most.

  3. 1:20

    Owners who’ve done it

    Owners who’ve been through it, on what worked, what it cost and what broke. Then one workflow built live on stage.

  4. 2:20

    Three hands-on workshops

    Groups of 10 rotate through three rooms: set up your tools, take the admin off your plate, and decide what to fix, buy or build.

  5. 3:50

    Your Monday morning

    Pick the three moves you’ll make first, and take home the playbook to make them.

  6. 4:30

    Drinks upstairs

    Drinks on the patio. Stay and talk, or head home.

What sets it apart

  • Built by people in the trades

    Operators and builders who do this work every day, not consultants describing it from the outside.

  • Your business, not a case study

    Bring your laptop and your real problems. You work on your own business instead of watching someone else’s.

  • Nobody sells to you

    No pitch from the stage, not from the hosts or the sponsor. Just what works, what it cost, and what didn’t.

  • 30 seats, not 300

    A small room on purpose. Small enough to ask anything and get a straight answer.

  • Proper food and drinks

    Lunch from local kitchens, Island-roasted coffee all afternoon, and drinks upstairs to close.

Who This Is For

The operators and builders of Vancouver Island

  • Landscaping
  • Construction
  • Plumbing
  • Electrical
  • HVAC
  • Roofing
  • Marine
  • Restoration
  • Millwork
  • Painting & decor
  • Pest & building science
  • Property development

This is your room if

  • You own or run a Vancouver Island trades or construction firm.
  • You make the calls on what the business spends and what it adopts.
  • The business has grown, and too much of it still runs through you.

Is this for me?

We already have tools for jobs, scheduling and invoicing. Is this still for us?

Yes. Nobody’s asking you to start over. Bring what you already run. We look at where your week still loses time, around and between those tools.

What size of business gets the most out of it?

Firms with crews in the field and someone in the office. If you’ve added a crew, lost your office lead or outgrown your admin, it’s built for you.

We already use ChatGPT. Do we have to switch?

No. The method works in any AI tool. We build in Claude on a free account, and your playbook shows the same setup in ChatGPT.

What Your Business Gains

What changes after one afternoon

  • Clarity

    Know where you stand

    Get a simple score for how your tools and admin run today, and your next move. Then point every hour at what matters most.

    Where it happens: the 12:40 session and the first workshop

  • Velocity

    Get your hours back

    Watch the quoting, billing and chasing that eat your week get automated, then take the setup home.

    Where it happens: the live build and the second workshop

  • Authority

    Build on the trust you’ve earned

    Hear how one trades owner built his own app, and learn when building is the wrong call.

    Where it happens: the owner panel and the third workshop

  • Momentum

    Keep it going without us

    Leave with the playbook, the tools and the people to keep building long after the doors close.

    Where it happens: your Monday morning, and every week after

Our Commitment

The gap we’re here to close

Technology alone does not change a business. People do, when they see it working for someone like them. So instead of a vendor with a login and a promise, we put owners in a room with peers who have already done it, and done it on the job site.

Real problems. Real solutions. Real conversations.

Who's Behind It

The people running the day

They run these tools in their own firms.

Get Your Ticket

Thursday 29 October, 12:00 to 4:30, North House, 838 Fort St, Victoria, BC

The room is capped at 30. When it's full, it's full.

Lunch and drinks included. Bring your crew and the seat price drops.

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Good to know

  • Lunch, coffee all afternoon, and drinks after are included.
  • Bring a laptop. A week before, we'll email you how to set up a free Claude account. It takes about 5 minutes.
Questions?

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