STOP FIREFIGHTING.
CONTROL is the 8-step system to get a construction business out of debt and into real profit, by Josh Luebker, a master electrician who managed 150 or more projects worth more than $2.1 billion combined. Implement in order or independently. Results in 30 to 60 days per step. Launches October 1, 2026. The ebook is available for preorder now on Amazon for $3.99 through October 3, 2026, then $9.99.
You can win all the work you want and still go broke. Revenue is vanity, profit is reality, and most trade contractors have a bookkeeper, accounting software, and a CPA who shows up at tax time, none of which adds up to a financial operating system. CONTROL is what connects all of it: eight steps, each fixing one specific financial or operational breakdown, so the numbers you see are real, the decisions you make are informed, and the business actually builds wealth instead of just staying afloat.
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Ebook: available for preorder now on Amazon. $3.99 through October 3, 2026, then $9.99. Delivered to your device the day it launches.
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EIGHT STEPS. ONE SYSTEM.
Job Cost Structure
7 categories, 3 levels. See exactly where every dollar goes on every project.
Equipment Cost Basis
True daily, weekly, and monthly cost per piece of equipment. Stop losing money on every deployment.
Overhead Calculation
Most contractors think they run 10% overhead. Most are actually running 25 to 42%. Find your real number.
Estimating System
Align every estimate line item to your job cost codes. Apples to apples, every time, not a guess after the fact.
Software and Bookkeeping
The right setup so your PM pulls job costs in 30 seconds, not 3 days waiting on a report nobody trusts.
Project Management Standards
Bill on time. Send every change order. Follow the standard. No exceptions.
Monthly Cadence
Weekly bookkeeping. Cost to complete. The CEO report. 5 hours a month. That is it.
Standards and Accountability
The system that keeps everything running without you in every meeting and every decision.
SIX TEMPLATES. TWO DIAGNOSTICS.
One deliverable for every chapter in the book. Tool agnostic: build the system in software you already use, a spreadsheet, or pen and paper.
REVENUE IS VANITY. PROFIT IS REALITY.
SAME BUSINESS. BETTER SYSTEM.
STARTUP TO $50M. 49 TRADES.
CONTROL works for any trade-based subcontractor doing 70% or more commercial progress-payment work, from startup to $50M in revenue. The 8-step system is the same regardless of trade, but the specific cash failure patterns, billing structures, and job costing requirements are different for every trade. Concrete, electrical, civil, SWPPP, masonry, framing, demolition, paving, and 40 or more other trades.
If you want to build the system yourself, the book is the path. If you want it installed and run for you, that is a different service at a different revenue range, covered further down this page.
24 TRADES. LIVE OPERATING SYSTEM PAGES.
Every trade fails differently. Click your trade to read the full operating system page with the specific cash failure patterns for how your business bills, costs, and collects.
SAME SYSTEM. DIFFERENT PATH.
The book teaches you how to build CONTROL yourself. The Construction CFO, Sulphur Prairie Management, builds and runs it for you. Same eight steps, same outcomes, for commercial subcontractors doing $1M to $12M across 24 trades. No payroll, no scope gaps, everything included in a flat monthly fee.
