Welcome to The Builders Ladder, for residential builders and construction business owners who want to fast-track their results, scale their construction company, and create a systemized, profitable construction business.
If you’re ready to free up your time, increase profit, and build a high-performing team, you’re in the right place.
Your host, Marti Amos, has worked with over 5,000 building companies globally over the last 19+ years through builder coaching and proven business systems. His mission? To help you climb the builder’s ladder and run a predictable, high-margin construction business.
Tune in to hear from industry experts and discover step-by-step strategies to become a strategic building business owner - and ultimately, achieve true wealth, time freedom, and financial freedom through your residential construction business.
Epi 229: Stop Being The ONLY ONE Doing Everything In Your Business | Coach Chase
Coach Chase has gone through the numbers of over 100 building companies as a coach at The Professional Builder. His dad was a builder who did new builds, remodels and commercial work, but couldn't always pick him up from school on time. So Chase coaches building company owners on how to run the business without missing key life moments.
Owen sits down with Chase to go through how he got here. He built stages and sets for film and events, traveling 10 months a year for almost 10 years, then did fix and flips around Austin from 2017. After 2020, a vacation to Portugal turned into a business with a Portuguese partner who has developed land his whole life. They have about 200 acres on the side of a mountain and develop it one lot at a time. Once he had systems in place there and didn't need to be on site, Chase joined TPB as an accountability coach. He called members every week or two to check the job ad or WIP report got done, and to remind them why they wanted it in the first place. He then moved to performance coach, going through members' numbers every month and matching them to TPB playbooks, and now heads up partnerships across North America.
If you've wondered what a TPB coach does on a call with a member, start at 10:06.
What's covered
Growing up on his dad's job sites and why that shaped how he coaches builders
Buying abandoned land in Portugal, including a lot with no legal documents
Putting manufactured homes and RV slots on unrestricted land outside Austin
What an accountability coach checks on a 15 minute call
Reviewing 100+ companies' numbers as a performance coach
Partners TPB works with on estimating software, AI and recruiting
About Chase:
Chase is head of partnerships and network for North America at The Professional Builder, based in Austin, Texas. Before that he was an accountability coach and then a performance coach at TPB, and he develops land in Portugal with a Portuguese business partner.
Mentioned in this episode:
TPB events: https://tpbevents.com (https://tpbevents.com)
Chapters:
00:00 Teaser: the reason behind every accountability call
01:05 Growing up on his builder dad's job sites
02:26 From film sets to buying abandoned land in Portugal
06:44 RV slots and rentals on unrestricted Austin land
07:38 TPB events for the next 12 months
10:06 What an accountability coach checks on each call
11:52 Performance coaching with monthly numbers and playbooks
13:43 Partners for estimating, AI, merchant discounts and recruiting
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TPBmember: https://www.facebook.com/TheProfessionalBuilder (https://www.facebook.com/TheProfessionalBuilder)
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13 Oct 2026
Epi 228: AI Won’t Save Your Building Business Until You Know THESE Numbers | Coach Chase
Coach Chase came back to Texas from a land development business in Portugal. He joined The Professional Builder as an accountability coach, moved up to performance coach, and now runs partnerships across North America from Austin. He and Owen go after a habit both of them see in owners: spending hours trying to AI-ify the whole business, with no extra jobs signed and nobody on the team in charge of what got built.
The fix starts with the Business Maturity Date. Owen sets a 3 to 5 year target and works it back: $12M a year is 12 projects, and at a 50% close rate that needs 24 quotes and 48 qualified leads. Next he splits 12 to 18 metrics across finance and pricing, pipeline, project management, and administration and legal. Each department goes to one person, and that person installs the AI. From there, Chase covers checking every AI output against someone who knows what a good result looks like. He also covers keeping data access read-only and training estimating AI on a cost catalog. The strongest result in the episode: one member did $400K less revenue and made $100K more gross profit by sticking to $150K to $200K remodels.
Links & Resources
TPB Events: tpbevents.com (tpbevents.com)
TPB summit, San Antonio, end of October: https://event.theprofessionalbuilder.com/texas-summit-2026 (https://event.theprofessionalbuilder.com/texas-summit-2026)
TPB 1% referral program: https://tpb.tools/ob-ref (https://tpb.tools/ob-ref)
🕒 Timestamped Key Points:
0:00 Manual tools vs electric tools: AI for builders
7:14 The AI-ify rabbit hole vs signing more jobs
11:50 BMD math: $12M target to 48 qualified leads
20:03 $400K less revenue, $100K more gross profit
20:53 NZ builder’s 2-year jobs and 11 months breaking even
26:05 Job ads vs job descriptions and the MoSCoW framework
32:33 Cost catalog: AI estimates from 15% off to 5%
33:55 3-hour team meetings cut to 1 hour with AI notes
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TPBmember: https://www.facebook.com/TheProfessionalBuilder (https://www.facebook.com/TheProfessionalBuilder)
See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.
30 Sept 2026
[ON SITE] Epi 15: This Is What Happens When Your Custom Build Wins A GEORGIE Award | Louis Nguyen
Louis, a developer based in Vancouver, faced a critical operational bottleneck when scaling his residential construction company. He was trapped trying to solve technical issues on site and relying on the undocumented loyalty of subcontractors who had worked alongside him for 11 years. This lack of clear expectations meant trades arrived on unprepared sites, wasting schedule time and pulling Louis away from high-level sales.
To fix this operational drag, Louis instituted detailed Purchase Order Agreements for every sub-trade, outlining exact expectations for site cleanliness and communication speed. By hiring three site superintendents and two project managers, he successfully delegated daily operations and transitioned his own focus entirely to business development and securing project financing through credit unions.
Links & Resources
TPB Events: tpbevents.com (tpbevents.com)
🕒 Timestamped Key Points:
00:00 Introduction
03:11 Navigating R1-1 zoning for Multiplex Development on single lots in Vancouver.
06:32 Designing Multi-Generational Housing floor plans to capture the aging baby boomer market.
12:49 Transitioning from a lean 3-person team to a 12-person organizational chart including site superintendents and project managers.
17:15 Delegating daily construction problem-solving to architecture-trained project managers.
25:56 Using itemized Purchase Order Agreements to set strict site cleanliness and communication standards for trades.
27:28 Treating long-term subcontractors as clients to eliminate scheduling delays and misaligned expectations.
44:50 Creating a physical accountability whiteboard for the sales and marketing leads pipeline.
58:02 Financing multiplex construction projects through credit union partnerships at 75% loan-to-value.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TPBmember: https://www.facebook.com/TheProfessionalBuilder (https://www.facebook.com/TheProfessionalBuilder)
See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.
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