# AI for Contractors & Construction Managers — 150 copy-paste prompts | AI on the Job https://www.ai-on-the-job.com/books/002-ai-on-the-job-contractors-construction-managers-edition 002 of 025 · Trades & Main Street Contractors & Construction Managers Somebody still has to walk the site. Until the day that changes there is a proposal to write tonight, a change order to explain, and a client asking why. eleven and a half hoursevery week. That’s eleven and a half hours in a normal week. Your first week will be slower — you’re learning a tool. By week three, the numbers above are realistic. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there. Where the hours come from Chapter 4Writing proposals and change orders at night~3 hours Chapter 5Client updates, sub scheduling, decision chasing~2.5 hours Chapter 6Draw requests, invoices, payment chasing, RFQs~1.5 hours Chapter 7Review responses and reputation work~1 hour Chapter 8Daily logs, punch lists, crew briefs~2 hours Chapter 9Marketing you keep putting off~1.5 hours Twelve chapters. Twelve chapters. 150 prompts you can paste as they stand. A glossary written for people nobody bothered to tell, and thirty days to make it stick. 01 Your Head Start 02 The 30-Minute Setup 03 How to Talk to It 04 Bids, Proposals, and Change Orders 05 Running the Job Without Running Your Phone Dry 06 Money Paperwork That Writes Itself 07 Reviews, Reputation, and the Long Relationship 08 On the Job — Daily Logs, Punch Lists, and the Crew 09 Getting the Next Job 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break 11 Tools of the Trade 12 Your First 30 Days Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition. Read the opening before you decide. Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade. Prompt #1. Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one. COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I run a [SIZE]-person general contracting company in [CITY, STATE] called [BUSINESS NAME]. We do [residential remodels / additions / custom homes / light commercial]. Typical projects run $[30k]–$[150k] and [4]–[16] weeks. When I ask you to write anything client-facing, keep it professional, plain, and brief — no hype, no exclamation points, an 8th-grade reading level. When I ask for a proposal, estimate, or change order, always leave dollar amounts and dates as blanks for me to fill in unless I give them to you, and never add warranty, schedule, or permit promises I didn’t state.” One of 150 in AI for Contractors & Construction Managers. Start reading here. Ordering is currently closed. Explore the books, read the opening essays, and try the free prompts. Read the opening → Try the free prompts → The questions people actually ask. Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book? Not yet. The free tiers of both tools will carry you through this entire book’s TRY IT NOW exercises and your first few weeks of real use. You’ll know it’s time to pay (roughly $20/month) when you hit the free tier’s daily limits during a normal workday — that’s the signal the tool is earning its keep. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys. Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job? No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.” You can read the whole opening, Somebody Has to Walk the Site, free: 2,191 words, no sign-up. What is actually in the 150 prompts? Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Bids, Proposals & Change Orders (16–40), Client & Sub Coordination (41–65), Money Paperwork (66–85), Reviews & Reputation (86–105), On the Job (106–120), Marketing & Growth (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full. I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced? It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses. How long is it? It is about 30,442 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 21m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them. Can I order the book here? Ordering is currently closed. Explore the books, read the opening essays, and try the free prompts. This book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where. AI on the Job: Contractors & Construction Managers Edition · page one Somebody you work with needs one of these.