ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Ian Price won seven amateur national titles, spent eight years on the Burton World Cup team, and closed it out in 2002 with US and Japanese national titles. Then he walked away and built a custom home company.
Today he runs Forest St. Builders in Denver with a team of six — and he's ballparking full remodel jobs in about five minutes using Claude, JobTread, and a set of AI skills he built himself.
We get into the tool stack that actually moves the needle, how to pull what's stuck in your head into systems your team can run, and the exact workflow behind his five-minute ballpark quote.
Systems first. AI second. Same story every time.
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🎯 WHAT WE COVER
🔨 Why "every job is different" is the excuse killing your systems
⚡ The tool stack Ian runs his whole business on — Whisper Flow, Loom, Otter, JobTread, Claude
📋 Turning Loom videos into SOPs your team will actually watch
🤖 The ballpark quote skill — drop in plans, get a priced JobTread budget and a client-ready email
🖼️ How it grabs a rendering from the plans, or pulls Google Street View if it can't find one
📊 Setting square-foot rates from your own historical job data
🔍 Why Ian keeps the ballpark pinned at the top of every budget as a sanity check
📨 The 6 AM daily briefing that lands before the team opens JobTread
🎨 400 selections scraped from a spreadsheet into JobTread — with photos, sorted by room
🧠 What Claude Skills are and why they finally made process-building simple
✍️ Four prompting rules: lead with the outcome, set the stage, call the format, name your connectors
⏰ The time-blocking rule that gets you out of firefighting mode for good
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro
01:01 Early Builds in Vermont
02:37 Learning Trades and Renovations
03:31 Cabinet Business to Denver Move
04:41 Building Forest St. Builders Team
08:01 Systems Over Firefighting
12:15 Tool Stack for Contractors
15:06 SOPs with Loom and Otter
18:39 Claude Skills and Automation Ideas
23:52 Ballpark Quote Workflow
28:00 AI Running Back Office
28:46 Five Minute Ballpark Quotes
30:13 Square Foot Pricing Method
32:28 Prompt Bible Automation
33:15 Daily Briefing Workflow
34:02 Selections Spreadsheet to JobTread
36:46 What Claude Skills Are
39:20 Prompting Tips for Skills
41:23 Snowboarding Origin Story
46:47 Contractor Time Blocking Advice
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🏗️ CONNECT WITH IAN PRICE — FOREST ST. BUILDERS
🌐 Website → https://www.foreststbuilders.com
📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/forestst.builders/
📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/ForestStBuilders/
📞 Call → (303) 335-8676
📍 621 Kalamath St, Denver, CO 80204
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🚀 WORK WITH BETTER BOSS
🔥 Free Growth Audit → https://better-boss.ai/growth-audit/
🌐 Website → https://better-boss.ai
🧱 AI Implementation → https://better-boss.ai/services/ai-accelerated-implementation/
🏆 AI Boss Certification → https://better-boss.ai/aiboss/
🎓 JobTread Training → https://better-boss.ai/jobtread-training/
📞 Call or text → (720) 636-9500
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📈 WHAT OUR CLIENTS SEE
✅ +23% close rate
✅ 3x faster estimates
✅ 20+ hours saved every week
✅ +6% profit margin
✅ $1M+ added annual revenue
✅ Live in 30 business days — guaranteed
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🛠️ TOOLS MENTIONED
JobTread · Claude · Whisper Flow · Loom · Otter · Descript · Fathom · Office 365 / SharePoint · Google Maps
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