Legacy Builders Services

20 yrs in polished concrete & epoxy. I run ops for a Michigan contractor + built the software I wished I had: Contractor Operations Suite. Building in public.

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

I didn't come from the trades - I was a musician first. Got into concrete to provide for my family, then spent 20 years owning a polishing & epoxy company with a good friend. Now I run ops for a Michigan contractor and built the software I wished I had. Building in public.

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

A pour scheduled three weeks ago was scheduled against a forecast that no longer exists.

COS checks the weather against every dated job each morning and flags the ones a cold snap or rain puts at risk. You decide whether to move it.

#contractors #concrete

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

The jobs you lose are not the ones you lost on price. They are the ones you forgot to follow up on. That estimate sitting in QuickBooks three weeks, unanswered. COS flags the ones gone quiet so the call happens. You keep QuickBooks. #Contractors #QuickBooks

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

A contractor with 25 years in the trade, no tech background, built COS, the back office he runs, with Claude. Now COS runs the busywork. Sorts new leads, catches revenue slipping, watches the books-to-calendar 24/7. You make the calls. #AIforTrades @AnthropicAI

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

A finished job is not locked in COS.

Drag it to a future date on the calendar and it goes back to Scheduled. Repaint it and it is In Progress again. The person who moves it wins.

#contractors #construction #QuickBooks

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

COS runs on top of QuickBooks Online, not instead of it. It reads your estimates and invoices and does the busywork around them. It never writes to your books. Running at a real concrete contractor today. https://t.co/PJ89KJeXL5 #QuickBooks

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

One calendar, every crew, color is the status. Two-way synced with the pipeline, so the schedule and the books never drift apart. Drag a pour to a new day and the office follows. @QuickBooks @AnthropicAI #contractors #construction

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

Two addresses for one job is how a crew ends up at the wrong driveway.

In COS, the address in QuickBooks wins. Fix it there once and the pipeline and the calendar follow.

@AnthropicAI #BuildInPublic #QuickBooks

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

The whole job in your crew's pocket. Today's work, the scope, a weather check, and one tap to mark it done. The crew taps once, the office updates itself. @AnthropicAI #contractors #construction

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

Most construction software is one more login. Contractor Operations Suite layers on top of the QuickBooks and Google Workspace you already run. It works in the background, audits your jobs 24/7, and only taps you when something needs a person. @QuickBooks #Contractors

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

@TheXSami Good call, and it's already in there. The lead task carries the original message right under the name, plus a link back to the source. Confirming takes a glance, not an inbox dig.

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

A lead filed under the wrong name is worse than one marked "unconfirmed."

The wrong name looks finished, so nobody checks it.

COS now marks any name it can't verify from the message, and a person confirms it.

You pick who gets the estimate.

#BuildInPublic @AnthropicAI

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

Every job in one pipeline. The status pill matches the crew calendar color, and the QuickBooks dollar values sync in live. No re-typing, no second system to babysit. Built on Claude. @AnthropicAI @QuickBooks #contractors #QuickBooks

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

AI for the trades isn't a chatbot you babysit.

It's the busywork running itself.

COS grades the leads, audits the books-against-calendar handoff, and flags the invoice you forgot to send.

You make the calls. It clears the busywork.

Built on Claude.

#AIforTrades @AnthropicAI

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

COS told me a job "was not written." It actually was, just by a different run happening at the same moment. Locked out, it reported the wrong half of the truth. Now I check the log, not the toast, before I trust either one. #BuildInPublic @AnthropicAI

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

Your books are the most sensitive thing you hand a software company. So we audited every line of COS code that talks to QuickBooks and published it: every call is a read. Zero writes. If that changes, the page changes first. https://t.co/7PNTKwcecg #QuickBooks #Contractors

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

I'm 50. A contractor, not an engineer. 20 years running a concrete company, no CS degree. I built COS, the software that runs the operation, with Claude. It runs a real Michigan contractor today. The trades aren't behind on AI. We're about to lead. #AIforTrades @AnthropicAI

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

@brkaydev @AnthropicAI Good call. My runs already take a lock, so two of them can't overlap. The dup came from a writer outside that lock, which is why the write-time check is the backstop. A key per job is the tighter fix.

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

Two calendar events for the same job, 41 seconds apart.

My software checked for an existing event when its run started, not when it wrote. Another one landed in between.

Now it looks again right before it writes. Check at the moment you act.

@AnthropicAI #BuildInPublic

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

Most contractor software pings you when something breaks. COS catches its own misses. The classic: an invoice you forgot to send, caught by your software and re-flagged before it slipped. Routine misses get re-fired; bigger fixes get a human. #contractors #AI @AnthropicAI

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

@pebb_io That's the part nobody prices in. The hour of invoices at 10 PM comes out of the 6 AM start.

[Legacy Builders Services @AustinMCOS]

Built for concrete. Designed for every trade.

A slab, a frame, a roof. Different work in the field. Same pile of paperwork after dark.

COS runs that pile on top of the QuickBooks and calendar you already use.

#Trades #QuickBooks