We teach the business side because we had to learn it on our own.
A husband-and-wife team who spent fifteen years building real companies, and taking the losses that come with it. Now we help construction owners master the business side, without letting it cost them their health, their relationships, or their peace.
We didn't set out to teach. We set out to build.
We built and ran real businesses side by side, and the work was never the hard part. The business behind it was, and we learned it the hard way: bids that came in wrong, unprofitable jobs, mis-hires, wrong investments, and a couple of lessons expensive enough that we still feel them.
Every one of those became a system, or a scar. Both are what we teach now.
We talk about the stuff no one posts about.
The losses. The unprofitable jobs, the mis-hires, the wrong investments, the lawsuits, the nights spent walking the line between barely surviving and losing it all. In an industry where every feed shines with success, the hard and embarrassing stuff gets treated as taboo. We aren't afraid to talk about it, because that's where the real lessons live. We call it radical transparency, and it's the whole reason we can help you avoid what we didn't.
- The unprofitable jobs
- The mis-hires
- The wrong investments
- The lawsuits
- The avoidable mistakes
- The nights we almost lost it all
Everything we learned became a curriculum.
The estimating, the scopes, the contracts, the client conversations, the way you keep a company healthy while it grows. It's shaped by who we are: Danielle, an educator at heart who left the classroom but never the calling, and Michael, who spent more than a decade in Fortune 500 marketing learning that every good business runs on the same thing underneath, process. Real teaching, real systems, built for construction owners.
The business shouldn't cost you your life.
We built ours without letting it run everything, and it's the reason both are still standing. So when we coach, wellbeing sits at the center of the work, right next to the pricing and the systems. Growth that comes at the expense of your health, your family, or your peace isn't the kind we're interested in helping you chase.
Michael and Danielle Gutelli.
Because you should know who you're building alongside.
Michael
I spent more than a decade serving Fortune 500 brands on the marketing side, where I learned that every successful business runs on the same fundamentals, and all of them come back to process. I bring that to construction, turning the parts most owners wing into systems you can actually repeat. I'm also not afraid to talk about what I got wrong along the way, because that's usually where the lesson is.
Danielle
I'm an educator at heart. I stepped away from the classroom, but the passion for teaching never left me, and it's the heartbeat of everything we build here. It's the reason our programs are made to genuinely teach, not just talk, so what you learn actually changes how you run the business and the way you show up for the people counting on you.
Because no one should figure out the business alone.
You know how to build. But bids, contracts, margins, and the office are where good builders get stuck, and almost no one in this industry teaches it with any structure, or any honesty about how hard it really gets. Build Together is where you get both, from people who have actually lived it.
Build a business that's worth it.
Everything we make exists to help you build a construction business that works and holds up, without it costing you everything else. We'll be honest with you the whole way, the wins and the hard parts. Start with a free webinar, a program, or a conversation.