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The business is the bit that’s breaking you.
Pricing. Cashflow. Contracts. Hiring. The numbers.
Paul Fitzgerald still runs a £10m+ construction group this week.
Ten years. No shortcuts.
Twelve months. One focused theme a month. The programme meets you in your phase and carries you into the next.
The Build & Scale Academy
Everything you need to know is just below.
For trades, builders & contractors
A twelve-month programme that fixes the business side properly, taught by a builder who is still running a £10m+ construction group, not one who sold up a decade ago.
The honest bit
Pricing. Cashflow. Contracts. Hiring. The numbers. None of it was on the apprenticeship, and none of it gets easier by working another Saturday. It gets easier when somebody who has already done it shows you the sequence.
“You learned your trade. Nobody taught you how to run the company that came afterwards.”
Paul mid-explanation across a table from a business owner: notebook, printed numbers, a whiteboard behind. Dusk or neutral interior, warm light.
Taught in the room
Every mistake Paul coaches on, he’s made. Every system he teaches, he runs.
Try it
They have a stressful job with a van. Drag your hours on the tools down and watch what grows around you.
Figures are indicative. The shape of it is not.
Every job waits on you. Nothing moves unless you move.
The build sequence
From one van and one set of hands to a team of six, three jobs, and the services under them: sales, pricing, programme, labour, cash.
Contracts, operations and commercial managers take the day-to-day. A layer between you and the work.
A group of teams and sites across construction, development and investment. It runs without you.
No shortcuts. Every stage of this ran in Paul’s own group before it went in the programme.
The backbone
Every builder we work with is in one of two phases. The programme meets you in yours and carries you into the next.
You’re on the tools, or just off them, and the business lives or dies by you. This phase turns the graft into a real, profitable business.
You’ve built something real. Now it’s about scaling without it growing straight back onto your shoulders.
The programme
One focused theme a month. Each comes with a playbook, templates you can use on Monday, and a recorded teardown of a real job: the numbers, the mistakes, and what we’d do differently.
Never get caught short again. We build your thirteen-week rolling forecast, get a proper grip on what is coming in and going out, and install the cash discipline that stops you lying awake the week before payroll.
Price for real profit and still win the work. Margins, mark-up and quoting fixed, so every job leaves money in the business rather than turnover on paper.
Simple management accounts and the handful of KPIs that tell you how you are really doing. Turnover is the number you tell people in the pub.
Stop losing money on changes. Capture every variation the moment it happens, price it properly and get it signed before you build it.
Get paid on time, every time. The contracts, terms and payment notices that protect you, plus a system for chasing without the awkward phone call.
Build the machine. Document how the work actually gets done so the business runs the same whether you are on site or on holiday.
Hire the right people, lead them properly, and build the kind of place your best people do not leave to start up against you.
Step out of delivery without the whole thing collapsing. What only you can do, what to hand over, and who to bring in first.
Keep more of what you make. At scale, small inefficiencies cost real money. We find them and fix them.
Predictable work instead of feast and famine. A pipeline you can count on, bigger and better jobs, and growth on purpose.
Protect what you have built: cover, contingency and the safeguards that mean one bad job or one bad month does not sink the lot.
Build something worth owning, and worth selling. An asset with value beyond you, and a plan for your endgame.
Month one, in your hands
Thirteen weeks of a builder’s bank balance. Change the terms, add a job, and watch what happens. More good builders go under from cashflow than from a lack of work.
Closing cash position · weekly
Holding
Free tool · sixty seconds
Construction owners turning over up to £10m+ tend to be one of four builders. Eight quick questions tell you which, where you get stuck, and the first thing to fix.
Free tool · two minutes
Most owners know what they charge a client and what they pay their team. Very few know what they earn per hour themselves.
Example result
£18.38an hour
Below what you pay a skilled tradesperson. You are working at a discount.
Free tool · four minutes
A free business audit. Real scores across six areas, each tied to a month of the programme, and a straight answer about what to fix first.
Four levels of access
The same twelve-month system sits behind all four. The only difference is how much of me, and my world, comes with it.
Self-serve
£249per month + VAT
Monthly · 60 min
POAprice on application
Fortnightly · 60 min
POAprice on application
Weekly · 60 min + messaging
POAprice on application
All coaching tiers are a twelve-month commitment, priced on application, because the right level depends on your business. Prices exclude VAT.
All twelve months open from day one on every one-to-one tier.
The vetted suppliers, subbies and professionals I actually use, at rates I’ve already negotiated.
A full Business Review: numbers, pricing, pipeline, brand and marketing.
A contract dispute, a pricing call, a hire you’re unsure about. No fortnight’s wait.
Inside the Academy
Courses don’t ring you when you’ve gone quiet. The Academy lives in its own app, built for it: twelve months that open one at a time, the templates that go with them, the teardowns, and a room of builders your size.
On the one-to-one tiers, every month opens from day one because a coach is setting the pace.
Month 4 of 12 · open now
Three months done, one open, eight to come.
M04 · Build
Stop losing money on changes.
A real partnership
This only works both ways. Worth knowing before you book anything.
Paul walking a live site with another builder or a site manager, pointing at the work, explaining.
The builder behind it
“I came off site at 28 and quickly realised starting a business is a whole different ball game. You have to learn how to be a business owner.”
Somewhere along the way, trades and builders became a target market for coaching gurus: people who’ve never priced a job, chased a retention, or carried a payroll through a wet January.
The Academy is the opposite. It’s part of the Hawksmoor Construction Group, and everything in it is implemented in the group before it’s taught. Every mistake Paul coaches on, he’s made. Every system he teaches, he runs.
The rule
If it doesn’t work on our own sites, it doesn’t get taught.
Asked, answered
Still not sure? Take the sixty-second quiz or the free scorecard first.
Trades, builders and contractors turning over anywhere up to £10m+. You are good at the work and the phone rings, but the business lives or dies by you, cashflow keeps you up, and growth has meant more stress rather than more freedom.
Anyone looking for a quick fix. Anyone who will not be straight about their numbers: I can’t fix what you hide. Anyone who will watch the videos but not do the work between calls. And anyone who thinks the market or the team is the problem. Ownership is the entry requirement.
Largely, yes, which is exactly why this exists. The Academy is part of the Hawksmoor Construction Group and I am still running it, this week. If it doesn’t work on our own sites and our own balance sheet, it doesn’t make the curriculum.
That sentence is the reason you will still be on the tools at sixty. The programme is one theme a month, not a firehose, and the first three modules are the ones that buy you the time to do the rest. Start with the thirteen-week forecast. Twenty minutes a week.
A few hours a month on the playbook and templates, plus your calls if you are on a one-to-one tier. The teardowns are thirty-five to forty-five minutes, and you can watch them in the van.
Because the right level depends on your business, and I would rather have a ten-minute conversation than sell you the wrong tier. The Academy is £249 a month plus VAT, published and fixed. If none of the one-to-one tiers are right for you, I’ll say so.
Because that is how long it takes. Fixing pricing takes a quarter to show up in the bank. Getting off the tools takes a hire and a system, then another. You can’t skip the foundations.
On the one-to-one tiers, yes. A real one, not a countdown clock. I only take on a limited number at a time because each one gets proper attention.
Now open · limited intake
The Academy is open to a limited intake so every member gets proper attention. Join the waitlist and we’ll be in touch about your place.
Or email directly
hello@buildandscaleacademy.co.uk
