How many more years can you do what you did at twenty-five?
Most people in the trades answer that honestly somewhere around year fifteen. If you have already started answering it, the next few minutes are worth your time.
Where this usually starts
You have spent years learning a trade properly. You can walk into a house and know within ten minutes what the job needs, what it should cost, and which corners the last guy cut. That knowledge took a long time and a lot of your body to build.
And it is worth the most on the day you stop needing your knees to use it.
Questions worth sitting with
- When a customer asks why your quote is higher than the other guy’s, who explains it better: you, or the salesperson at the company that outbid you?
- How much of what you know about this trade is currently earning you anything after you put the tools down at the end of the day?
- If you had to stop working with your hands next year, what would you move into?
- You have watched marketing companies sell your industry things that did not work. What would it be worth to sell something you could stand behind?
Two ways this works
Both start from the same place: you already have the credibility with contractors that we have to earn from scratch.
Sell what we have already built
You bring the trade knowledge and the network. We bring the product, the pricing, the materials, and an audit that does most of the convincing on its own. You are talking to contractors about a problem you have watched them have for years, and you can speak to it as one of them.
We build the system around your expertise
If you know a niche cold, commercial HVAC, historic restoration, high-end remodeling, we can shape the offer around it. You sell into the market you already understand, with a system built to fit how that market buys.
Which one fits depends on what you have built so far. That is the first thing we would work out on a call.
What happens if nothing changes
The work stays available. It always does. The question is what it costs you to keep taking it, and whether the years you have already put in ever turn into something you own, or stay a day of your body traded for a day of pay.
Most people in the trades do not plan the transition. It gets planned for them by an injury. Doing it while you still have the choice is a different thing entirely.
The terms, straight
This is a commission-only contract. You would sign on as an independent contractor and earn on every audit you close. There is no base and no salary. If that is a dealbreaker, it is better that you know now than after a call.
What you would be selling:
- Complete Digital Audit: $1,500
- Complete Digital Audit + Working Prototype: $2,500
- The website build that follows: $455 a month for a year
We go through the commission structure on the call, against your own numbers rather than an average. The products and prices are public, so you can see exactly what you would be selling before you speak to anyone.
If any of that landed
Tell us what you do now and how long you have been doing it. A Pro will call and we will work out together whether this fits. No pitch on the first call.