Fractional COO in Cape Coral
For Cape Coral contractors and trades. Pool, seawall, roofing, marine, HVAC, and the builders and remodelers who serve a city that is almost entirely homes and canals.
Cape Coral is the largest city in Southwest Florida by area and nearly all of it is residential. The customer is a homeowner, the job is on a canal, and the referral is the marketing.
- Lee County
- Across the river from my office. Twenty minutes on a good day.
- Twelve companies operated, six of them mine
- One engagement covering operations, software and demand
The estimate-to-invoice cycle is the business
I have operated a Florida construction group and built an escrow platform for contractors, so I know the shape of a trades business from the inside. In Cape Coral the shape is sharper than most. The city is hundreds of miles of canal frontage and single-family homes. Every job is residential, most of it is water-adjacent, and the owner is usually estimating, scheduling and chasing money all at once.
The operations problem is the cycle. How fast does a call become a quote, a quote become a scheduled job, a finished job become a paid invoice? Every day in that cycle is cash you do not have. The fix is intake, job tracking and collections that run without the owner's truck being the office, and it is a build I have done before.
In the Cape the truck is the office and the owner is the software. Both of those can change.
What it looks like in Cape Coral
Intake that does not lose the call
Homeowners call while you are on a job. A missed call goes to the next name on the list. Intake that captures, texts back and books an estimate is the cheapest revenue you will ever add.
Job tracking your crews will actually use
Most job software dies in the field. What survives is simple, on the phone, and tied to getting paid. That is the build, not the licence.
Collections without the awkward calls
Progress billing, deposits and reminders that go out on schedule change your cash position more than any new customer will.
Straight answers
I do not pull permits, run crews, or estimate your jobs. I do not do trade marketing gimmicks either. I fix how the work flows from call to cash.
- Do you know construction?
- I have operated a Florida construction group and built a contractor escrow marketplace. I know what a Friday payroll feels like when three invoices are late.
- My business is just me and two crews. Too small?
- If you are the one doing estimates at night, no. A diagnostic here is short and specific, and the first build is usually intake and scheduling.
- Will you come out to the Cape?
- Yes. It is twenty minutes from my office. The first look at a trades business is usually a morning riding along.