Laying the Foundation With Bob Cain
Builders and trades deal with real challenges every day. Estimates need to be clear. Materials need to arrive when crews need them. Inventory needs to stay organized. Communication needs to keep everyone on the same page.
Laying the Foundation with Bob Cain is a series built around those day to day realities. Each session brings practical conversations, industry perspectives, and helpful ways to keep work moving.
Join Bob Cain every 2nd Thursday of each month at 2:30 p.m. ET.
Complete the form to reserve your spot or access the session.
- Format:
- Virtual Webinar
- Duration:
- 30 minutes
Upcoming Sessions
September 10, 2026
How To Scale Your Trade Contractor Business With Homebuilders
Learn about the foundational pieces needed to scale a trade contractor business and how to implement them. In this session you will also learn how to win the business once you get the appointment with a homebuilder. And most importantly, understand how to keep the business you have while expanding.
What we're hitting on:
- Key foundational pieces for scaling a trade contractor business
- Keys to winning once you have your chance to pitch a homebuilder
- Keeping the business you have while expanding
Guest Speaker:
Don Bronchick
Owner of Builder Beast Consulting
October 8, 2026
Field Operations For Builders And Trades From A Production Homebuilders Perspective
Production builders need reliable trade contractors, sound processes and technology to support the operation. Learn about best practices that helped scale an organization into additional markets based on these foundation principles.
Key topics we’ll explore:
- Finding and keeping the best and most reliable trade contractors
- Production scheduling best practices
- How to maximize technology to improve communication
Guest Speaker:
Rick Muravaski
Senior Vice President of Multifamily & Property Management, The Rausch Companies
November 12, 2026
Geographic Expansion — Follow the Same Play
Once your trade business has a repeatable way to sell, staff, schedule, and complete work, the next market may be closer than you think. We’re covering how to expand into new production-builder territories without losing control of crews, quality, or the customer experience.
We’ll focus on:
- Choosing a market where builder demand matches your trade capacity
- Replicating your crew structure, field standards, and operating rhythm
- Managing travel, supervision, materials, and builder communication across locations
- Hear from two experts with deep, firsthand industry experience.
Guest Speaker:
Don Bronchick
Owner of Builder Beast Consulting
December 10, 2026
Open Another Line of Business and Follow the Same Play
The builder who hires you for one scope may already have a need for another. We’re exploring how trade contractors can add a complementary line of business, use the relationships they have earned with production builders, and create another growth engine without taking their eye off the core operation.
Key topics we’ll explore:
- Identifying adjacent scopes that fit your crews, equipment, and builder relationships
- Deciding what must be added before taking on the new work
- Using the same estimating, production, quality, and closeout playbook in a new line
- Hear from two experts with deep, firsthand industry experience.
Guest Speaker:
Don Bronchick
Owner of Builder Beast Consulting
