On the On Site Podcast, Brandon interviews Eric Fortenberry, CEO of JobTread, about the company’s growth and the rapid evolution of AI in construction. Eric shares milestones including reaching 10,000 active customers at the International Builders’ Show five years after launching sales, growing to over 11,500, and celebrating wins to build culture (including a team steakhouse dinner after a strong Q1). They discuss JobTread’s new AI “connector” using MCP (Model Context Protocol) to connect users’ own AI (like Claude) to JobTread; within the first week it drove over 1,000 new Claude signups and now several thousand companies are connected. Both emphasize AI’s productivity benefits for budgets, proposals, dashboards, workflows, and error-checking, while warning about hallucinations, over-automation, security risks (especially email access), and the need to “trust and verify,” strong prompting, and cautious adoption.

Chapters

• 00:00 Podcast Intro
• 00:14 Meet Eric and JobTread
• 01:41 10K Customers Milestone
• 04:16 Celebrating Wins and Culture
• 06:09 AI Elephant in Room
• 09:29 MCP Connector Breakthrough
• 13:00 Adoption and Use Cases
• 19:08 Prompting and AI Training
• 23:41 Risks and Security Concerns
• 26:30 Open Source AI Risks
• 28:10 Start Small With AI
• 30:13 Keep Humans In Control
• 31:05 AI For Research Wins
• 33:12 JobTread AI Roadmap
• 35:41 AI Skills Beat Fear
• 38:17 Raising AI Ready Kids
• 40:22 Alpha School Experiment
• 46:14 Schools Versus AI Tools
• 49:14 Wrap Up And Links

Connect with Eric Fortenberry
Website: https://www.jobtread.com/
Facebook :https://www.facebook.com/JobTread/

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Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_contractorcoach

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In a solo On Site Podcast episode, Brandon promotes the Elite Builder Society Contractor Growth Seminar in Chilliwack/Vancouver area on July 24 ($97 with breakfast and lunch; VIP sold out) and previews topics to be covered. He argues contractors lose jobs by emailing quotes without context and recommends scheduling an in-person or Zoom proposal review to frame the next step, handle objections in real time, and avoid “follow-up.” He shares a case study of Andrew, a remodeling contractor in Clear Lake, Iowa, who switched from self-performing work to a subcontractor model and generated nearly $1M in two months. He urges contractors to take action, seek mentorship, and outlines EBS offerings, including a $49/month community and a paid AI integration group teaching tools like Claude and ChatGPT to streamline business communication tasks.

Chapters

• 00:00 Show Intro
• 00:14 Solo Episode Setup
• 00:34 Contractor Seminar Invite
• 02:20 Stop Emailing Quotes
• 05:37 Scale With Subcontractors
• 09:22 Why Contractors Stall
• 12:55 Why Trust My Coaching
• 15:05 Next Step Sales Script
• 20:26 AI Is Here Now
• 24:01 Inside The AI Group
• 25:56 Find The Right Mentor
• 32:56 Small Group Takes Action
• 35:40 Final Thanks And CTA

Connect with Brandon Fuchs
Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_contractorcoach

Join the Elite Builder Society
Website: https://ebsworks.com/

The host welcomes listeners to the On Site Podcast and brings on his 18-year-old son, Jaxson, a welder who is about to graduate high school. After sharing old photos as an icebreaker and noting a delayed recording due to the production manager’s condo fire, they discuss Jaxson’s first year in welding, including working afternoons at Falcon on crane trucks and building components for decks, plus a challenging repair on a rusted dump body. Jaxson says he’s excited about making money, working with his hands, and being done with school, and he mentions practicing with a Weld VR app. The host reflects on lessons from Jaxson’s hockey background, the importance of discipline amid “noise” in the trades, and his own early financial mistakes, encouraging Jaxson to stay focused as he enters the industry.

Chapters

• 00:00 Podcast Welcome
• 00:15 Jaxson Joins In
• 01:15 Family Photos Icebreaker
• 04:28 Why Jaxson Is Here
• 05:07 Welding Work Showcase
• 07:41 Trades Motivation And Fears
• 09:09 First Big Repair Job
• 10:58 Early Work Ethic Lessons
• 11:57 Welding Paths And Time
• 14:31 Landscaping Hard Lessons
• 15:09 Brutal Work Lessons
• 15:36 Welding Reality Check
• 17:09 Hockey Roots
• 17:48 Sports To Success
• 19:20 Discipline And Fitness
• 21:31 Dad’s Hard-Won Advice
• 23:21 Trades Temptations
• 25:17 School And AI Shift
• 26:11 VR Welding Practice
• 27:50 Future Plans And Pride
• 29:45 Old Photos And Memories
• 30:46 Wrap Up And Call To Share

Connect with Jaxson:
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/weldingwithjaxson

Connect with Brandon Fuchs
Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_contractorcoach

Join the Elite Builder Society
Website: https://ebsworks.com/