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.
What you’ll walk away with
Skills, not certificates of attendance
Curriculum
4 chapters · 17 lessons
5h 39m total01Estimates That Hold Up5 lessons+
- 1Your true cost per hour: burden, downtime and overhead recoveryVideo23:40
- 2Building the estimate: labour, materials, subs and contingencyVideo27:15
- 3The assumption register: what the price does and does not includeVideo18:30
- 4Bid or walk: scoring deals before you spend a day quotingVideo16:05
- 5Estimate templates and the two-tier quote that raises average valueVideo21:50
02Scheduling Without the Chaos4 lessons+
- 1The capacity calendar: committed hours versus available hoursVideo25:20
- 2Sequencing jobs around long-lead materials and site accessVideo19:45
- 3Buffers, weather days and the 80 percent booking ruleVideo17:10
- 4Daily dispatch: what the team needs before they start workVideo14:35
03Scope, Variations and Change Orders4 lessons+
- 1Spotting scope drift in the first 48 hours of a jobVideo15:25
- 2The variation workflow: notice, price, approve, logVideo22:05
- 3Scripts for pricing extra work without damaging the relationshipVideo20:40
- 4When to absorb the cost and when to stop workVideo13:55
04Job Costing and the Feedback Loop4 lessons+
- 1Time and material capture your team will actually completeVideo18:20
- 2Estimate versus actual: the one-page job profit reviewVideo26:30
- 3Margin by client, service line and crew: finding the drainsVideo24:10
- 4Feeding real numbers back into next quarter's pricingVideo21:35
Your instructor
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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