▲ Built for the founder who landed here on purpose
AI Mentor for Construction Owners
You can frame a house, read a set of plans, and run a crew in the rain — but you never signed up to be the salesman, the marketer, the estimator, the bookkeeper, and the guy who answers the phone at 9pm.
Construction is one of the few businesses where you can be slammed busy and still broke at the end of the year.
▲ This is your week · let's name it
Construction is one of the few businesses where you can be slammed busy and still broke at the end of the year. The work comes in waves — feast for three months, then a dead pipeline you didn't see coming because nobody was generating leads while you were on the jobsite. When work does come, you bid it the way you've always bid it: gut feel, a number that feels competitive, and a quiet hope the materials don't spike mid-project. Some jobs make money, some bleed it, and you can't always tell which until it's over. Meanwhile every part of the company — sales, estimating, scheduling, collections, hiring — routes through you, because there's no system, just your memory and your phone. You don't have a marketing problem or a sales problem or a margin problem. You have all three at once, and no time, no playbook, and no one in your corner who actually understands how a contractor makes money.
▲ What lands in your hands
No filler. Just what you walk away with.
A lead system that fills your pipeline before it runs dry
Most contractors live and die on referrals and whoever calls first — great until the phone goes quiet. We build you a real lead engine: a site that converts homeowners and GCs instead of just listing services, a follow-up sequence so no quote request goes cold, and an AI council member that helps you decide which lead sources are actually worth your money. The goal is simple — you stop riding the feast-or-famine rollercoaster because there's always work in the funnel.
Bidding and margin discipline so you keep what you earn
We don't just tell you to 'raise prices.' We build a repeatable way to estimate, price, and review jobs — so you know your real cost before you sign, you stop underbidding out of fear, and you catch the jobs that bleed margin before they sink the month. Your AI exec council becomes a CFO you can text from the truck: run a number by it, pressure-test a bid, sanity-check whether a project is worth taking.
Systems that pull the work off your back
Right now you're the salesman, estimator, scheduler, and collections department. We document and systematize the parts of the business that only live in your head, so the crew and office can run plays without texting you for every decision. You move from being the bottleneck to being the owner — and you own these systems forever, even if you walk away from MentorMe.
This is for you if
- Construction business owners — GCs, remodelers, trades, specialty contractors — already doing real revenue but capped because the whole company runs through them
- Owners tired of feast-or-famine lead flow who want a marketing and sales system instead of praying for referrals
- Contractors who suspect some jobs are quietly losing money and want bidding and margin discipline they can actually trust
This is not for you if
- Pre-revenue contractors with no crew and no jobs yet — you need a working operation before systems have something to scale
- Owners who want a done-for-you agency to run their marketing while they stay hands-off — MentorMe is done-with-you, and your involvement is what makes it stick
- Anyone looking for a cheap lead-gen vendor or a quick ad hack rather than building a business that runs without them
Founder —
You searched for this for a reason. You're carrying the whole thing yourself, and you're tired of being the only one who can do the work.
You don't have a discipline problem. You have a system problem — and no one ever handed you the system.
So here it is: 90 days, real systems, a fractional CMO in your corner and an AI clone doing the work you keep doing yourself. Your name stays on the win. We just rope in.
Start your plan. The first foothold is free.
— Italo
▲ Your move
Start your 90-day build.
Answer a few questions and walk away with a custom 90-day roadmap — free, no card, no call. Your first concrete step out of the chaos.
▲ Before you decide
The questions you're already asking.
I'm a contractor, not a marketer. Will this actually make sense to me?
That's exactly who this is built for. Italo and your AI executive council translate strategy into plain, jobsite-level decisions — no jargon, no MBA homework. You'll never be handed a 'marketing funnel diagram' and left to figure it out. We build the lead, bidding, and systems work with you, in language that makes sense to someone who runs crews, not campaigns.
How is this different from hiring a marketing agency to run my ads?
An agency runs ads and disappears when you stop paying — you own nothing. MentorMe builds systems you keep forever: your lead engine, your follow-up sequences, your bidding process. You also get a human fractional CMO weekly and a 24/7 AI council, not a junior account manager. The point isn't to rent you leads — it's to make your company stop depending on any one vendor, including us.
My pipeline is feast-or-famine. Can this really smooth it out?
That's the core problem we attack. The reason it's feast-or-famine is that nobody is generating demand while you're on the jobsite — lead flow stops the second you get busy. We build a system that keeps working when you can't: a converting site, automated follow-up so quotes don't go cold, and a council that helps you steadily invest in the lead sources that pay off. Consistency comes from the system, not from you finding more hours.
How much time does this take? I'm already buried in field work.
It's built around a buried owner. Weekly 1-on-1 strategy calls are focused and short, the AI council is available 24/7 from your phone so you get answers between jobs instead of scheduling meetings, and the systems we build are designed to give you time back, not take more. The whole premise is pulling work off your plate — if it added to your load, it would defeat the purpose.
Why only 10 seats, and what does the founding investment include?
MentorMe is capped at 10 founding seats because real weekly fractional-CMO attention from Italo doesn't scale to hundreds of people. Your founding investment includes the weekly 1-on-1 strategy, a custom AI executive council trained on your construction business, and the done-with-you lead, bidding, and systems build — all of which you own forever. It's a founding-member commitment, not a monthly subscription you rent.
▲ The adventure is the climb