Starter lesson library

Ready to start. Made to be yours.

Every crew needs these lessons, but no two companies do them the same way. Each one is a template: you add your rules, photos, and examples, review it, and approve it before your crew ever sees it.

Residential and commercial · About 25 minutes

Start of Day, Your Company's Way

The habits your best leads follow before the first cut: arriving ready, walking the site, checking the plan, staging, the daily huddle, and tool checks.

You customize: Start time and meeting spot, PPE by task, phone and vehicle rules, who runs the huddle.

Residential and commercial · About 25 minutes

Top Callbacks and How We Prevent Them

Where callbacks come from, what they really cost, the check-before-you-cover habit, and how your crews know a job is done right.

You customize: Your real top callbacks, photos of past issues, your quality checks, who to tell.

Residential and commercial · About 20 minutes

Photo Documentation on Our Jobs

What to photograph, when, and how, so your company is covered when questions come up about existing conditions, damage, changes, or completed work.

You customize: Where photos go, how to label them, who reviews them, your social media policy.

Residential · About 25 minutes

Working in a Customer's Home

Parking, arriving, protecting the home, pets and kids, what to answer on site and what goes to the office, and leaving clean every day.

You customize: Parking rules, bathroom policy, music and phone rules, office contact, lock-up procedure.

Commercial · About 20 minutes

Site Orientation: Your Project

A project orientation you copy for each new job: access, check-in, emergency plan, GC rules, site hazards, deliveries, and working around other trades.

You customize: Address and site map, GC and super contacts, hours, check-in, emergency assembly point, site rules.

Residential and commercial · About 25 minutes

Your First 30 Days Here

A new hire's path from before day one through the first month, including core tasks, field sign-offs, and who to ask for help.

You customize: Welcome from the owner, pay and hours, PPE, your lead's contact, core tasks for the role.

New foremen and crew leads · About 30 minutes

New Foreman Fundamentals, Our Way

Making the shift from best hands to leading hands: planning the day, giving clear instructions, teaching new crew members, handling problems, and what goes to the office.

You customize: What the office expects daily, timecards and reports, what foremen can decide, PM contact.

How the templates work.

  1. Pick the lessons you need. Start with one or the whole set.
  2. Make them yours. Each template marks the spots for your company's rules, contacts, photos, and examples. Fill them in with our questionnaire, or send us what you have.
  3. Review and approve. Nothing goes to your crew until you've signed off on it.
  4. Assign and track. Crews sign in with a QR code, in English or Spanish, and you see who finished and passed.

In development

More templates on the way:

  • Protecting Finished Work
  • Closeout and Cleanup, Our Standard
  • When the Plans Don't Match the Site
  • Inspection Readiness by Trade
  • Working Around Other Trades
  • Daily Reports and Field Paperwork
  • Tools, Trucks, and Trailers

Have a topic every new hire at your company needs? Tell us. That's how new templates get made.

Start with the library. Add your own.

Use the templates for what every crew needs, and build custom lessons from your best people's know-how for everything else.

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