Built to Last
Contractor Challenge
Oct 27–28 · 6:30–8 PM ET · Live on Zoom Reserve my seat
Built to Last Contractor Challenge

Your work is built to last. Is your business?

A free two-night live workshop for hardscape and outdoor living contractors. Four people who've built real businesses, with straight answers on your numbers, sales, systems and office.

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FormatLive on Zoom
DatesTue–Wed · Oct 27–28
Time6:30–8 PM ET
CostFree
Built forHardscape crews
The problem

The work isn't the problem.

  • Booked out. Still not profitable.A full schedule and thin margins. Busy isn't the same as built.
  • Quoting jobs you'll never win.Every bad-fit walkthrough costs a night you don't get back.
  • The office runs through your phone at 10 PM.If you are the system, the business can't grow past you.

More hustle won't fix it. Better systems will.

Well-used hardscape tools on a truck tailgate
Systems over sweat
The lineup

Two nights. Four sessions.

90 minutes a night, live on Zoom. Three owners with decades of running crews between them, plus the CPA behind Simple Numbers.

Night 01

Tuesday · Oct 27 · 6:30–8 PM Eastern
Nick Conley
Nick Conley
Founder · Tekton Growth

Your First AI Office Admin

Nick built and ran a multi-seven-figure hardscape company before founding Tekton Growth, where he helps contractors put AI to work on repetitive office tasks. In this live workshop, you'll install Claude and build a contractor-specific office workflow together. You'll turn messy job and customer notes into a clean summary, a follow-up, next steps and a CRM-ready note. Bring a laptop and leave with a working AI office admin.

Greg Crabtree, CPA
Greg Crabtree, CPA
Partner-in-Charge · CRI Simple Numbers

Know Your Numbers

Greg is a CPA, the author of Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits and Simple Numbers 2.0, and the creator of the Labor Efficiency Ratio. For more than two decades he has helped owners cut through financial complexity and build companies that actually make money. In this session, he'll show you where profit leaks out of the business and how to tell whether your labor is paying for itself. You'll leave with clear benchmarks to check against your own numbers.

Night 02

Wednesday · Oct 28 · 6:30–8 PM Eastern
Jim Wertz
Jim Wertz
Founder · 7 Figure Landscape Network

Systems That Run Without You

Jim owned and operated his own landscape company in Central Pennsylvania for more than 35 years. Today he coaches established landscape owners across the U.S. and Canada on their numbers, estimating, production and teams. In this session, he'll show you how to build the systems and the dependable team that keep jobs moving when you're not on site. It's the practical path to buying back your time and building a more valuable company.

Joshua Gillow
Joshua Gillow
Founder · Yes Express Sales Academy

The Cost of Not Listening

Joshua has spent nearly 30 years designing, selling and installing more than $50 million in outdoor living projects through Masterplan Outdoor Living. He's the author of The CORE 10 Sales Playbook and host of the Sales Made Simple podcast. In this session, he'll show you where sales get lost when your team talks past the customer, and how better listening changes the conversation. You'll learn to hear what homeowners are really telling you before the sale slips away.

Build the business like you build the patio. To last.

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Presented by
Yes Express Sales Academy Tekton Growth 7 Figure Landscape Network CRI Simple Numbers
Reserve your seat

Free. Live. Two nights.

Save your seat and we'll send the Zoom link and reminders. It's free for hardscape and outdoor living contractors.

  1. Confirmation emailArrives right after you sign up.
  2. RemindersSent before each night so you don't miss the start.
  3. Join on ZoomFrom the truck, the office or the couch. 6:30 PM Eastern.
FAQ

Before you sign up.

Is it really free?

Yes. Both nights are free for hardscape and outdoor living contractors.

When is it?

Tuesday and Wednesday, October 27–28, 2026, 6:30–8 PM Eastern each night. The Zoom link is emailed after you sign up.

Who should come?

Owners and managers of hardscape and outdoor living companies who want to sell better, spend less time on office work and run a tighter field operation.

Is it practical or theory?

Practical. You'll build a working AI office admin on the call and leave with frameworks you can use the next morning.

I'm not a hardscaper. Can I attend?

The examples and conversations are built for hardscape and outdoor living contractors, so that's who will get the most out of it.

Free · Oct 27–286:30 PM ET on ZoomReserve seat