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The Builders, Budgets, and Beers Podcast is where the construction industry comes to talk about the financial side of building — the decisions, the mistakes, and the systems that separate profitable companies from the rest. From regional GCs and high-volume builders to construction accountants and industry tech leaders, our guests share what's actually working and what they wish they'd known sooner.
Produced by the team at Adaptive, it's real talk on the financial operations behind growing, scaling, and running a complex construction business. One budget, one story, and one beer at a time.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
46 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
99 episodes
since April 3, 2024
episodic
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Reece sits down with Tom Atkinson of Trades Alignment to explore why contractors can hit their gross margin targets and still struggle to make money. Drawing on his experience building and selling a trades business, Tom explains how understanding overhead costs and net profit per labor hour can com…
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Reece sits down with Andrew Amrhein of Precision SME to break down why so many construction businesses avoid business planning and how to make the process simple enough to actually use. Andrew walks through a five-step framework built around reflecting, affirming, measuring, committing, and reviewi…
Reece sits down with Steven Bernitt, CFO at Artisan Builders, to talk about what happens when a residential construction business is making decisions with financial information that is already out of date. Steven explains how real-time project budgets, better purchase order discipline, and a faster…
Reece sits down with Matt Calvano, co-founder and CEO of Adaptive, to talk about why construction financials break down when the field and back office are working from different information. Unlike most businesses, construction accounting depends on constantly understanding what is actually happeni…
This compilation episode revisits past conversations with Tyler Grace, Shawn Van Dyke, Isabel Affinito, and Paul Atherton to explore when, why, and how builders should scale their businesses.Across four different perspectives, the conversations cover profitable growth, knowing your numbers, buildin…
Reece sits down with Kevin Aycock of Southern Luxury Homes to talk about what it actually takes to get control of the financial side of a construction business. Kevin shares how COVID forced him to rethink estimating, cost-plus construction, preconstruction, and the systems his team used to underst…
Reece sits down with Jared Westergard of Blackline Financial to talk about why so many builders are still making financial decisions without fully trusting the numbers in front of them.They cover overhead, deposits, cash flow, bad data, and the systems that can make the financial side of a construc…
Reece revisits conversations with Julie Adams of Sage, Deepti Yenireddy of Boone AI, and Ryan Rademann of Wipfli about how AI is changing the work of construction.Pulled from three past episodes, these conversations explore estimating, financial reporting, outdated systems, workforce shortages, and…
Reece sits down with construction bookkeeper Aimee Roden to talk about the back-office mistakes that quietly cost contractors money, from poor cost coding to delayed billing and unreliable job-cost reports.Aimee breaks down why contractors overload their chart of accounts, how coding connects direc…
Reece sits down with Bryan Eberson, founder of Eberson Construction and Remodeling, to talk about why the trades may be one of the biggest business opportunities available to the next generation, and what separates simply having a job from building a company with long-term value.Bryan shares how he…
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