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Course N°182 — Operations

Quote to Cash: Estimates, Scheduling and Job Profit

with Incipio Studio

Original curriculum by Incipio Academy

A field-tested system for service and project businesses: build estimates that hold, schedule without chaos, price change orders, and close every job with real margin data.

17 lessons17 videos5h 39mIntermediateLifetime access

What you’ll walk away with

Skills, not certificates of attendance

01Build a labour burden rate that reflects true hourly cost
02Write estimates with assumptions that survive client pushback
03Schedule crews and deliverables against real capacity, not hope
04Price and sign change orders without souring the relationship
05Run job costing that shows margin per job, client and service line

Curriculum

4 chapters · 17 lessons

5h 39m total
01Estimates That Hold Up
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  1. 1Your true cost per hour: burden, downtime and overhead recoveryVideo
    23:40
  2. 2Building the estimate: labour, materials, subs and contingencyVideo
    27:15
  3. 3The assumption register: what the price does and does not includeVideo
    18:30
  4. 4Bid or walk: scoring deals before you spend a day quotingVideo
    16:05
  5. 5Estimate templates and the two-tier quote that raises average valueVideo
    21:50
02Scheduling Without the Chaos
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  1. 1The capacity calendar: committed hours versus available hoursVideo
    25:20
  2. 2Sequencing jobs around long-lead materials and site accessVideo
    19:45
  3. 3Buffers, weather days and the 80 percent booking ruleVideo
    17:10
  4. 4Daily dispatch: what the team needs before they start workVideo
    14:35
03Scope, Variations and Change Orders
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  1. 1Spotting scope drift in the first 48 hours of a jobVideo
    15:25
  2. 2The variation workflow: notice, price, approve, logVideo
    22:05
  3. 3Scripts for pricing extra work without damaging the relationshipVideo
    20:40
  4. 4When to absorb the cost and when to stop workVideo
    13:55
04Job Costing and the Feedback Loop
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  1. 1Time and material capture your team will actually completeVideo
    18:20
  2. 2Estimate versus actual: the one-page job profit reviewVideo
    26:30
  3. 3Margin by client, service line and crew: finding the drainsVideo
    24:10
  4. 4Feeding real numbers back into next quarter's pricingVideo
    21:35

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Incipio Studio

Original curriculum by Incipio Academy

Incipio Studio is the academy's in-house curriculum team. Studio courses distill proven playbooks, frameworks, and operator interviews into structured, do-this-next lessons, researched and produced by Incipio Academy.

“We found two service lines that were running at negative margin for a year. Fixed the estimating rates, tightened change orders, and added about 9 points of gross margin in one quarter.”

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