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Built for the Trades is a business and leadership coaching platform for owners of skilled trade service companies in the United States, covering local service industries such as plumbing, HVAC, and electrical. Its goal is not to provide generic career-skills courses, but to help business owners build companies that can “run themselves,” reduce dependence on the owner personally, and develop systems around leadership, team culture, profitability, and growth.
The platform offers Enterprise Coaching, Mastermind/Business Coaching, 1-2-1 Coaching, Group Coaching, a Mastermind Group, and a Skool Community. Delivery formats include biweekly 90-minute owner coaching, monthly coaching for managers, weekly group meetings, leadership assessments, an online community, video courses, PDF tools, and email newsletters. Free resources include an ebook on hiring and retaining talent, a five-part video course on finding your next leader, a Success Scorecard, and Train the Trainer tools.
The pricing tiers are clearly structured: Skool Community is $99/month after a free trial, Mastermind Group is $500/month, Group Coaching is $750/month, 1-2-1 Coaching is $2,750/month, Mastermind/Business Coaching is $3,000/month, and Enterprise Coaching requires a quote. There is also a $50 offline Lunch & Learn event. Overall, this is a high-ticket business coaching service best suited to business owners with clear operational improvement needs.
The strengths are its highly focused industry positioning and the fact that founder Dan Dowdy has more than 20 years of management experience in home service businesses, along with credentials such as John Maxwell-certified leadership coach. The content closely addresses the real pain points small service businesses face in delegation, hiring, manager development, and expansion. The drawbacks are that the website does not disclose a complete course syllabus, learning timeline, refund policy, or quantified case studies; it also does not display learner certificates. Its “faith, family, business” values are prominent, so fit will depend on the user’s cultural background.
It is better suited to owners of trades businesses from the startup stage up to around $10 million in annual revenue who want to develop a leadership team and improve profits. It is especially suitable for owners who are still deeply involved in day-to-day operations, lack a management layer, and need peer accountability. It is less suitable for learners who only want to study a specific technical skill, have a limited budget, or need formal academic credentials or professional certifications.
Based on the crawled text, access from mainland China cannot be determined, so it is marked as unknown. Since the service is clearly aimed at the U.S. local service industry, domestic users should consider the language, time zone, industry-system differences, and the cost of adapting case studies even if the site is accessible.
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