Free live workshop · The 2027 Handoff · Live with Patrick Lalonde · 90 minutes
The free live workshop where I show you how to hand off the work without losing quality or control, turn the jobs only you know how to do into systems your crew runs, and start building a profitable business that keeps running while you’re on vacation. Even if every decision still runs through you and all your processes live in your head.
Free · 90 minutes · Live on Zoom
If this sounds familiar
You’re not stuck because you can’t run a business. You’re stuck because you’re the best on your crew, and your name is on every job.
One sloppy finish means a bad review and a lost referral, so you stay on the tools to protect the reputation you spent years building. Every decision and every fire lands on you, and without meaning to, you became the system.
Do the math. Take the hours you spend each week on work you could pay someone $30 an hour to do. Multiply by the difference between that and what an owner hour is really worth, then by 50 weeks. If your hour is worth $200, twenty hours a week is $170,000 a year, paid to your own bottleneck.
Do the math
a year, paid to your own bottleneck
That’s the chaos tax. You pay it every year, and it goes up with every job you add.
On the tools
Off the tools
What you’ll discover, live
You’re the system. We’ll walk through the 4 levels every contracting business sits on, from Chaos to Oral Tradition to Scattered Systems to Systemized, and you’ll see exactly which one yours is stuck at.
Without systems, every new hire is one more person calling you. Here’s the order that works: you lead your people, people run your systems, and systems run your business.
Two questions that find the first job to take off your plate: what you do every week that a lower-paid team member could do if it were written down, and what you hate doing that someone else could own.
In one live session
No theory you’ll never use. We build it together, live, and you leave with a system you can hand off before the season starts.
Where your business sits on the 4 levels, scored live with the Systems Audit across 5 areas of your business, plus the top 3 systems to build next.
One job, mapped and written down step by step during the workshop, so someone else can run it without calling you.
Who takes it over, by when in 2027, and up to 5 numbers you’ll track to know it’s working.
The Handoff System
You write it down once. Your crew runs it every time. One job comes off your plate, and the next one follows the same steps.
Off the tools, in one picture
Not a crew that calls you for everything. A crew running the systems that used to live in your head.
Wednesday, November 11 · 8:30 p.m. ET
One live session. Your level, your first written system, and your handoff plan.
Save My SeatReal contractors. Real numbers.
[“A short quote in their words about getting off the tools.”]
[One or two sentences on what changed: the hire they made, the systems they built, the week they finally took off.]
[“A short quote in their words about the hire or the system that changed things.”]
[One or two sentences on what changed: who runs the jobs now, and what the owner does with the time.]
Your host
[Patrick’s story in two or three sentences: running his own contracting company, the moment he realized he was the system, and what changed once the business ran without him.]
Our coaches are remodeling contractors themselves, and our community has 700+ contractors working on the same thing you are. On November 11, I’m putting the Handoff System on screen, live, and helping you build your first one.
It’s free. Here’s what’s in the room.
The Game Plan isn’t included with the replay. Show up live.
Straight answers
No. It’s contractors talking to contractors. Our coaches are remodeling contractors themselves, and everything we teach comes from running contracting companies.
The opposite. Right now you don’t have control, you have involvement. A written system is how your standard gets followed on jobs you’re not on.
That’s because the process lives in your head. Once it’s written down step by step, they can learn to do it your way, and you can check it against the numbers.
GCs, remodelers, roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, painting, landscaping. The trades are different, but the bottleneck is the same: the owner is the system.
That’s the point. One session now, before the 2027 season, is how you stop being the one who’s slammed when spring hits.
You’ll leave with your level, your first written system and your handoff plan whether you buy anything or not. And yes, at the end I’ll share how we work with contractors. You’ll see it coming.
There’s a replay for a short window, but the Game Plan and the live handoff reviews only happen in the room. The contractors who show up live get the most out of it.
Wednesday, November 11 · 8:30 p.m. ET
Next season is coming either way. This winter decides whether you’re running it or it’s running you.
This is a free educational workshop. Results depend on your market, your team and your execution. Nothing here is a promise of income.