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Contractor business self-assessment

Twenty-five statements across the five systems every profitable contracting business has to get right: Pricing, Offers, Sales, Leads, and Operations. Rate each one honestly and you get a score for every system, your primary bottleneck, and what to fix first.

5Business systems
25Statements
~5 minTo complete
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Unless a statement lists its own answers, rate it 1 to 5: 1 is never, 5 is always.

PricingProfit Engine

Whether every job is priced to cover its direct cost, your overhead, and a net profit, or whether profit shows up by accident.

1.I know my overhead this year.
2.I charge a markup.
3.I lower my price to win jobs.
4.I price my jobs for a net profit goal.
5.I charge extra for high risk jobs and change orders.
OffersWhat You Sell

Whether you sell a defined offer to the clients you want, on terms you set, or compete on price for whatever comes in.

6.Most of the leads I talk to can afford my price range.
7.On jobs I do regularly, my job costing shows my estimates landing close to actual cost.
8.I can give a lead a typical price range for their project on the first call.
9.I get paid before doing estimates or design work.
10.I finish jobs on time and on budget.
SalesConversion System

Whether you run a repeatable process that qualifies prospects and closes the right ones, or react to whoever calls.

11.I qualify prospects before giving my time.
12.I have a defined and consistent sales process.
13.I discuss budget before giving a proposal.
14.I present pricing confidently without hesitation.
15.I track my close rate.
LeadsDemand Engine

Whether enough of the right leads arrive every month, from sources you know and can repeat.

16.I generate consistent leads every month.
17.I attract my ideal client.
18.I track where my leads come from.
19.I have a system for referrals and repeat business.
20.I invest in marketing.
OperationsExecution & Control

Whether a job that was sold correctly stays profitable through production: contracts, selections, change orders, job costing, and payments.

21.I use detailed scopes and signed contracts before starting a job.
22.I enforce selection deadlines before construction begins.
23.I enforce change orders before work begins.
24.I perform routine job costing to compare my estimates to actual job costs.
25.I stop work when payments fall behind.
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Run the systems this assessment scores

Clamp is one app for the whole job: tracking and qualifying leads, design agreements, estimates, proposals, change orders, and invoices, with overhead and job costs logged against the work. From first call to final invoice. Clamp does not score your business for you; it is where the habits behind a higher score get recorded.

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How the assessment works

How is it scored?

Each statement is rated from 1 to 5. Each section is scored out of 25 and the total out of 125. A section scoring 5 to 12 is broken, 13 to 18 is inconsistent, and 19 to 25 is strong. Overall, 60 or below is at risk, 61 to 90 is surviving, 91 to 110 is solid, and above 110 is scalable.

What is the primary bottleneck?

Your lowest-scoring section. Most businesses do not have five problems at once; they have one system holding the others back. Fix that one first.

Does it collect my information?

No. There is no sign-up and no form to submit. Scoring runs in your browser and nothing you answer is sent anywhere.

Who is it for?

Remodelers, general contractors, and residential trade contractors who run the business as well as the work, from a solo operator to a small company with a crew and an office.

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