Getting Paid to Plan · Pre-Construction School
Get paid to plan. Stop giving it away for free.
The six-week live system that turns pre-construction into a signed, paid, profitable phase — so you win better clients, protect your margin, and never hand over a free estimate again.
The real cost of "free"
You’re doing $10,000 of planning for free — and hoping to win the bid.
The problem isn’t your building. It’s that the most valuable work you do — the planning — is the work you give away.
Everyone bids for free and prays.
You get paid to plan.
Run pre-construction as a signed, paid agreement and it stops being overhead. It becomes the most profitable, most de-risked phase of the whole build — and the reason the best clients choose you.
Not another course you’ll never finish
Most construction courses get bought and never opened.
Pre-Construction School isn’t a video library. It’s six weeks, live, running the real process with you — one stage at a time.
A typical digital course
- ×Pre-recorded videos you watch alone (and abandon by week two).
- ×Generic theory from someone who’s never run your kind of job.
- ×No accountability, no feedback, no real deliverables.
- ×You finish with notes. Not a working system.
Pre-Construction School
- →Live, 90-minute sessions for six weeks — you build the system as we go.
- →The real end-to-end process we run on actual projects.
- →Done with you — templates, feedback, and your questions answered live.
- →You finish with a paid, repeatable pre-con system.
The system, week by week
Your real pre-construction process — week by week.
Every session is a firm 90-minute, live instructional block — and a gold thread runs through all six: how to make the client feel heard at every stage.
Lead intake & discovery → the signed, paid agreement
Qualify the right client, run the discovery conversation, and convert it into a signed, paid pre-construction agreement — before you draw a thing.
The client: feels understood and invested from day one — because they put skin in the game with you.
LiDAR scans, space plans & conceptual direction
Capture the existing conditions accurately, set the space plan, and lock a conceptual design direction everyone agrees on.
The client: sees their project take shape — and trusts that nothing is being guessed at.
Elevations, structural & architectural drawings, renderings
Turn the direction into real drawings and renderings — the documents that make the build buildable and the price defensible.
The client: can finally picture the finished home — and stops second-guessing the scope.
Trades Day — everyone in one room
Builder, designer, architect, engineer, and every trade partner at the same table — so the plan is pressure-tested before it costs you money.
The client: watches the pros align on their project — and feels the weight of real expertise behind it.
The detailed estimate — every line item
Build the estimate line by line — where the real numbers live, not unreasonable allowances that blow up mid-project.
The client: gets a number they can trust — and understands exactly what they’re paying for.
Signed contract, permits, takeoff & handoff to the field
Close it out: signed construction contract, permit files, material takeoff, and a clean handoff so the field starts strong.
The client: moves into construction confident, informed, and already telling their friends about you.
Live Q&A
Bring your real projects, your edge cases, your stuck points. We work through them together, live.
✓ Can’t make a session live? Every one is recorded and yours to keep.
The part no one teaches
The process is public. Managing the client isn’t.
Anyone can google a pre-construction checklist. What they can’t find is how to make the client a participant — educated and engaged at every stage, instead of a nervous spectator waiting on a number.
That’s the thread running through all six weeks. It’s why clients sign, why they stop fighting the price, and why they send you the next three jobs.
A client who feels heard doesn’t shop your bid.
Six weeks from now
Here’s what changes.
Signed, paid pre-construction agreements — before a shovel moves.
Margin protected by real line items, not allowances.
Fewer change-order fights. Fewer surprises.
Clients who feel heard — and send you the next three jobs.
A repeatable system your whole team can run.
Pre-con that pays for itself — and then some.
Claim your seat
Everything you get when you enroll.
Getting Paid to Plan: Pre-Construction School
Six weeks, live. The exact system that gets clients to pay you to plan — done with you, not another course you’ll never finish.
- ✓6 weeks of live, 90-minute instruction — our real pre-con process, stage by stage$5,000
- ✓Week 7 Live Q&A + your questions answered live throughout the cohort$1,000
- ✓BonusThe Pre-Con Template Vault — paid pre-con agreement, line-item estimate framework, Trades Day run-of-show, and client-experience scripts$2,000
- ✓BonusLife-First AI — our complete AI-for-owners course, included free$997
- ✓Lifetime access to every session recordingincluded
- Total value$8,997
$8,997$3,997
or 3 monthly payments of $1,332
Use code PRECON25 — your seat is just $2,997.75
Reserve your seatOne signed pre-construction agreement — or one change order handled right — can cover the entire seat.
Our guarantee
Land a signed, paid agreement — or we don’t stop.
Run the Getting Paid to Plan process on one real project during the six weeks. If you don’t land a signed, paid pre-construction agreement, we keep working with you one-on-one until you do. The risk is ours. The system is that good.
Built for builders who are done bidding for free.
This is for you if
- →You’re a builder, remodeler, or GC tired of giving away estimates and losing to lowball bids.
- →You want a pre-con process clients will pay for — and that protects your margin.
- →You’re ready to run a real system, not wing the front of every job.
- →You’ll show up live for six weeks and do the work on a real project.
This is not for you if
- ×You’re looking for a magic button and won’t put in six weeks.
- ×You’re happy racing to the bottom on price.
- ×You want another video course to buy and never open.
- ×You don’t believe planning is worth charging for.
Who’s teaching this
Run by a husband-and-wife team — not course gurus.
This is built from the pre-construction process we run on real projects — and taught the way it actually sticks. Not theory pulled from a book; the real thing that gets clients to pay to plan, protects margin, and sends the referrals back.
We’ll show you all of it — the wins, the money we lost learning it, and the mistakes we’d warn anyone away from. Radical transparency, start to finish. That’s what makes this different.
— Michael & Danielle Gutelli, Build Together Community
Michael
Builds with this pre-con process; 10+ years serving Fortune 500 brands on the business side — all rooted in process.
Danielle
Educator at heart. Takes the complicated and makes it land — so the system actually sticks.
Radical transparency
Real numbers, real projects, real failures — not a highlight reel.
Before you enroll
Straight answers.
When does it start, and how long is it?
What if I can’t make a session live?
What does it cost?
Is this only for high-end custom builders?
How does the guarantee actually work?
Is Life-First AI really included?
The choice
Stop bidding for free. Start getting paid to plan.
Ten seats. One cohort. Six weeks that change how you run the front of every job — guaranteed.
Begins November 6 · 9 of 10 seats left