If you had a clone for 2 weeks, what’s the first task you’d offload?

I would send my clone to measures so I’d have more time to design. Of course I’d verify those measurements myself before ordering ; )

I would have someone oversee all projects and assign tasks.

No brainer! Estimating!! :slight_smile:

Running the jobs onsite so I can focus on the billing and estimating!

job costing and estimating ill handle the social media

I would have them stay on top of the scheduling and budget for me.

finish schedules

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The first thing I would offload is job-cost cleanup and follow-up, because it is important but easy to push to the end of the day. Receipts, vendor quotes, labor notes, allowance decisions, client upgrades, and small change items pile up fast. By the time you finally sit down to update the job, you are reconstructing history instead of managing the project.

The ideal “clone” would not just enter data. It would chase missing information while the job is still active: Which vendor quote did we approve? Did the client select the standard fixture or the upgraded one? Did that extra framing get written as a change order? Did the sub’s invoice match the scope? Are we still inside the allowance?

That work protects margin and reduces stress because it keeps decisions current. A lot of project-management problems are really delayed-information problems.

If I only had two weeks of help, I would have the clone clean up every active job into one simple status: original budget, approved changes, pending changes, committed costs, actual costs, and remaining decisions. Once that is current, the rest of the project gets easier to manage.

tracking, ordering, estimating