I just watched the Youtube video from Austin on systems & AI for Land Clearing. They showed an estimator for building job estimates quickly. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Z38EPF_74 My point is, with just my phone I created my own version. Shown below https://go.chazmoore.net/brush Why is this relevant: I am moving from Alaska to Oklahoma and working to get my CDL to get started. While I have this time where I cant be productive, I am learning all I can about the systems. This took me 40 minutes to build. Its not accurate yet since I have no idea what my numbers will be or how much overhead I need to plan for but my point is this: anyone can do this. It was so easy and uncomplicated to create. I did this with Claude and my prompt was this: "I’m starting a forestry mulching business called brush bison I want you to read below and come up with a web app calculator for pricing. Example, 10 acres on mild brush density on rolling hills will cost this much. Assume monthly overhead is 10k. The note on the machines, teeth, grease gas etc." I then gave it the inputs of a business plan that I bought for $9 from brushwork co. The guy who quoted a project with Meta's Ai Glasses. It gave the differences in terrain and density of the brush. Thats it. Again, I dont own a machine or know the rental prices yes to factor in accurately. But for those who are afraid to start using Ai to help build out there systems its quite easy to get started. Think of Ai as a friend and your just talking to him. if something doesnt look right just say exactly that and the ai will attempt to fix it. 2nd point. For those with experience what am I missing? Is my calculator it too high - low? (I understand each market is different) I do not have a minimum day rate established yet in this. I put a general monthly overhead at 10k, divided by 16 working days a month to come up with the price. (Owner/Operator)

Just wanted to share what following the process looks like! If people in here are on the fence about making this their full time job, I made the jump in early March to go full time into this. We had our first baby in October and my wife was very skeptical/nervous, dare I say excited, about the whole idea of me quitting. I have been bouncing between jobs about every 8-10 months, and this last job was 90k salary with killer benefits, but I was battling depression, low energy, and just wasn’t myself. I sat down with my wife, showed her my plan, and I went all in. In Austin’s starter scorecard I had a goal of my first 3 months going 10, 20, 30k in revenue. Currently, around 3 weeks into April I will hit 60k in revenue, which is 6 weeks ahead of my plan. Long story short, it works. I look in this group every day for motivation and I see some great people doing amazing things. Asking questions. Taking feedback. Moving forward. Generating results. @Austin Gray ’s community here is fantastic, and I can’t help but feel thankful and alive this Easter weekend! I feel that we are all hard nosed, hard working individuals, and I pray that we all find peace, success and something to pour our work ethic into! Big things coming in 2026 for this group!

Good Morning folks, I have watched Countless videos by Austin and its time to stop watching and start doing. I am an Air Traffic Controller by trade and due to my wife's health concerns we are forced to move out of Alaska to somewhere warmer. My job will not allow me to transfer hence me ending up here. (quitting) For now I am enrolling in a CDL course and will complete it before the sale of my house so I can hit the ground running after the move with only minor paperwork to fill out. Thank you for your warm welcome into the group and I am excited to be here.

Hello friends, thank you all for the warm welcome! I’m looking forward to learning as much as I can. I’m working on a ad video kinda like @Josh Reaper did to get a feel for my area. If anyone has things to share to make this a faster transition I would love to hear it. I’m not sure how long my full time job is going to be around as they are talking about a move to Mexico. Other then that I’m really happy to have found such as amazing group of people who like to share am and help people grow instead of what you find on Facebook with the smart remarks and tearing you down.

The hardest part of building a real business is not what you say “yes” to. It’s what you have to say “no” to. If you’re like me, “shiny objects” are real. New machines. New ideas. New services. New side business. The toughest part? You could probably do most of it pretty well. But that’s what makes it dangerous. Discipline for guys like us isn't about “waking up early” or “working hard” — that's in our DNA Discipline is this: Being able to look at all the fun, new ideas and say, “No. I’m going to fix the one hard problem in my business first.” In your business, the thing you NEED to do almost always feels harder than the thing you WANT to do. Why? Because you don’t know how to do it yet. Or maybe you kind of know what to do… but you know it will take longer than you want. So instead of addressing the "hard thing" head on, most operators: Buy a new machine or attachment Research "better" machine upgrades or HP options Start a new service (like excavation) Switch to a new service area Tinker with new software to “optimize” the backend But the truth is, we just need to be honest and ask: 1. What is actually holding my business back right now? 2. Am I spending my time fixing THAT thing? If cash is your bottleneck, you fix your prices until you make real profit If leads are your bottleneck, you learn how to market better until more leads come in If closing is your bottleneck, you call/text leads faster until you start winning more jobs Not “another project.” Not “build a house on the side.” Not “add a second business.” Not “research the latest high-flow technology” The question is not, “What else could I do?” The better questions are: “What's the bottleneck in my business right now?” “What am I not doing because I don't know how?” Step 1: Tell the truth about the single most important problem in your business that is: - taking way too long to fix, or - you really don’t know how to fix Step 2: Bite down on that problem like a log in the grapple and don’t let go until it’s in the pile.