For Contractors

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Real tools for hiring, training, optimizing your software, and growing your team, all in one place.

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Our Belief

The Trades Deserve Better Tools

We believe the trades are the backbone of every community, and the contractors running these businesses deserve real tools, not vague advice. This page is a resource built to sharpen your skills and strengthen your business, one tool at a time. Explore what's below, pick what's useful right now, and come back when you need the next thing.

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Explore Evaluations

Contractor Diagnostic Tools

Measure Business Performance

Take an honest look at your operations across 16 core trade dimensions and get a concrete roadmap for your next growth stage.

How It Works

Clear Insights for Growth

Practical assessment tools built specifically for trade business owners seeking clear actionable steps.

Honest Diagnosis

Specific Next Steps

Actionable Results

Evaluate your trade operations without judgment to find exact operational bottlenecks.

Receive clear guidance tailored to your current stage rather than vague advice.

Implement practical improvements that strengthen your leadership and field team.

Take This Evaluation

DIAGNOSE & IMPROVE

Business Health Evaluations

These aren't pass-or-fail tests, they're an honest look at where your business actually stands across 16 real dimensions, from call handling to team culture. Every stage you land on comes with a specific next step, not just a label. See your strongest area, get real tips for the rest, and walk away with something useful no matter where you're starting from.

• No scores to be embarrassed by, just an honest picture of where you stand today.

• Real actionable tips at every stage, not just for the finish line.

• Share your strongest area with other contractors if you want to.

• Get our best tips for your results delivered straight to your inbox.

AI Utilization Evaluation

Communications Evaluation

Culture Evaluation

See how your business is really using AI, from calls to quoting to reporting.

Financials & KPIs Evaluation

Membership Programs Evaluation

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Explore Hiring Resources

Grow Your Team

Hire the Right People, Not Just Warm Bodies

Real strategies for finding, hiring, and keeping the technicians your business actually needs, not vague advice about a labor shortage.

Go to Testing & Certifications

Use the Tools

Put the Assessments to Work in Your Shop

Advancing the Trades has a set of assessments for people in and entering the trades, and you can use them in your shop too.

Find them in the menu under Academy/ Testing & Certifications.

Pick an assessment, have the person take it on a phone or tablet, and ask them to show you their results. No account is needed, and nothing is stored, so each person shows you their own screen.

In Your Hiring

With Your Team

Have applicants take an assessment in your office and walk you through their results. Give every applicant the same assessments and the same questions.

Use the Soft Skills and Customer Service scenarios as discussion prompts at a team meeting. Ask how your crew would handle each one.

For Training Gaps

Keep It Fair

Have new hires take Trade Math and Safety Awareness to see where they need training first. These checks are not a substitute for real safety training.

Give everyone the same tests the same way, keep them job-related, and check with your HR advisor or your state's labor laws before using any test in a hiring decision.

* For employers: any test used in hiring must relate to the job, must not ask discriminatory or invasive personal questions, and should be given the same way to every applicant. Rules vary by state. Check with your HR advisor or your state's labor laws.

Read the FAQ

FAQ - Common Questions

Have Questions? Start Here

Real answers to what contractors actually ask most, no runaround, no sales pitch.

Explore Resources

Tools & Resources

Everything You Need in One Place

Guides, associations, and real resources for running a stronger trade business, all in one place.

Explore AI for Contractors

Work Smarter

Put AI to Work in Your Business

Practical ways to use AI tools in dispatching, customer service, and reporting, without losing the human touch that makes your business work.

Explore the Optimization Hub

Get More From Your Software

ServiceTitan Optimization Hub

Real, experience-based tips for pricebooks, reporting, dispatching, and automations, built from years running a shop on ServiceTitan.

Partner With Tim

Ready for More

Want Hands-On Help?

If you want direct, one-on-one guidance building or fixing your business, that's what Partner With Tim is for.