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"Build the commercial armor your construction business needs to survive and scale."
The 3 Month Business Sprint
The 3-Month Business Sprint is an intensive, one-to-one mentoring program designed to pull trade and construction business owners off the tools and eliminate operational chaos. Across 90 days, it systematically tackles the core vulnerabilities that kill construction firms: broken cash flow, unmanaged contract risk, and total reliance on the founder.
Alongside the mentoring, you walk away with an entire commercial toolkit, including practical templates for cash flow, tenders, P&L, applications for payment, training matrixes, and H&S policies. By the end, you have protected margins, enforceable contracts, and a predictable business built to run without you having to be on site.
How the 3 Month Sprint Works...
The 3-Month Business Sprint operates as an intensive, hands-on 1-to-1 mentoring program designed to systematically re-engineer how a trade or construction company functions day-to-day. Rather than offering abstract business theory, the sprint pairs business owners directly with experienced construction mentors to diagnose commercial weaknesses, plug cash leaks, and install proven, repeatable operational systems across a 90-day timeline.
The engagement is structured sequentially to move the business owner from reactive site management to strategic, commercial control.
1 | Direct Commercial Intervention:
The sprint begins by stripping back the company's existing financials and project delivery workflows. Through deep-dive audits, we analyze live pricing models, P&Ls, payment applications, and contract structures, such as JCTs, retentions, and variation tracking, to immediately stop margin erosion and secure baseline cash flow.
2 | System Installation & Operational Toolkits:
Throughout the sprint, mentors work alongside the business owner to embed practical, site-and-office procedures. Clients receive a full suite of operational templates—including custom Cashflow forecasts, Tender packs, P&L sheets, Application for Payment formats, Training Matrices, and Health & Safety policy templates—ensuring policies are consistently enforced on-site and in the office.
3 | Transition to Scalable Leadership:
As operational systems take root, the sprint focuses on leadership cadence, team clarity, and high-margin client acquisition. Mentors guide the founder in building weekly decision frameworks, establishing pipeline processes to get onto tier-one tender lists, removing the owner as the single point of failure, and producing a documented 12-month growth roadmap.
By the end of the sprint, the business transitions from an owner-dependent, firefighting trade setup into a structured commercial entity capable of protecting its margins, winning better contracts, and operating smoothly even when the founder steps away from the tools.
Common growth challenges...
1 | The Cash Flow Trap
"You’re pricing jobs, winning work, and putting in 60-hour weeks, yet at the end of the month, the bank account is dry. We help you fix your pricing structure, track project variations, and actually keep the profit you earn."
2 | The Commercial Blindspot
"Contracts, JCTs, retention, and payment terms. Most tradespeople are never taught this stuff until it goes wrong. We give you the commercial toolkit to protect your business, handle main contractors, and make sure you get paid on time, every time."
3 | The Solopreneur Ceiling
"Moving from a sole trader to a structure that runs without you is brutal. Managing labour, hiring the right people, and stepping away from the tools requires a strategy. We help you build the systems to transition safely."
More than just Mentorship...
You’re here because your business is currently your biggest headache. You are attracting opportunities, pricing projects confidently, taking pride in your work & putting in the hours. Yet at the end of every month you're overworked and there's little to no cash in the bank - with no end in sight.
You're not alone! It's a common theme in construction. Because when you learn a trade, you are rarely taught the skills you need in order to manage and run a business.
While failures and mistakes can be our biggest lessons, with approximately 10% of construction businesses failing in their first year, and up to 43% failing within 3-5 years, is it a risk worth taking?
With The Construction Mentors you will be partnered with a mentor who has been where you are heading, someone that can help you spot opportunities and weaknesses, while implementing the systems, processes and mindset needed to succeed.
We won't pretend to know exactly what you need, just from this page, because the truth is, we don’t even know who you are yet.
Book a discovery call to tell us what’s going on, what you want to change, and where you want to be. If we can help, we’ll tell you how. If we can’t, we’ll be honest and point you in the right direction.
What happens on the Discovery Call?
It’s a no-pressure, 15-minute chat us. We’ll look at your biggest business headache right now. If we can help you solve it through the retainer, we'll tell you how. If we aren't the right fit, we’ll honestly point you toward someone who is.
Who is this program for?
UK tradespeople (Electricians, M&E, Groundworkers, Roofers, etc.) looking to scale cleanly to a Ltd company, or established construction firms under £5m turnover struggling with cash flow, margins, and commercial contracts.
What is the investment for the 3-Month Sprint?
Because this is a entirely bespoke, 1-to-1 consultancy tailored to your specific trade and business roadblocks, we don't offer a generic one-size-fits-all price. We discuss the investment options transparently on our brief Discovery Call once we know we can actually help you. We also offer incentivised options for upfront payments.
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