More enquiries, less admin, and a business that runs without you. Twelve weeks.
For owners of subcontractors, SME main contractors, developers and consultancies turning over £1m to £10m. You leave with a lead engine that brings in and follows up enquiries on its own, admin that runs itself, and a team that can run jobs without ringing you. Built and taught by a senior quantity surveyor, so it covers the whole job, from first enquiry to getting paid.
Ten places per cohort. £6,000 plus VAT, or three payments of £2,100. Applications close when the cohort is full.
You are the bottleneck, and you know it.
The subcontractor
SFS, drylining, M&E, groundworks, roofing, joinery. Good at the work, and the work comes from word of mouth and the same few main contractors. Calls get missed on site, quotes go out late, and you cannot take a week off without the phone going.
The small main contractor or developer
Two to six live jobs. You are the salesperson, the estimator, the PM and the office. Evenings go on quotes and invoices. You want to grow, but every new job adds more of you, not more business.
The consultancy
PM or QS practice with a few staff. New work depends on who you know, proposals are rewritten each time, and the business cannot run without you because the method lives in your head.
The programme is not for self-builders or sole traders without a business to systemise. The 369 Create waitlist and free library are the right place to start there.
Four modules, each one a system you keep.
Lead engine (weeks 1 to 3)
The 369 Automated Marketing system installed in your business: a website and Google profile that bring in enquiries, one CRM pipeline for every lead, missed calls texted back within seconds, AI follow-up on every enquiry, automatic review requests, and job photos turned into posts. You send a photo, the system does the rest.
Win more work (weeks 4 to 6)
A quotation template with explicit inclusions and exclusions that protects your price. Every quote chased automatically until it is won or lost. Faster take-off and pricing with AI. A win-rate record, so you know which work is worth chasing.
Take yourself out of it (weeks 7 to 9)
Job workflows and SOPs your team follows without asking you. Invoicing, payment applications and chasing on autopilot. Client updates sent automatically. One weekly email with the numbers that matter, so you manage the business instead of doing every job in it.
Keep the money (weeks 10 to 12)
The QS discipline that turns more work into more profit: a cash-flow forecast updated weekly in minutes, live margins on every job, variations captured and priced the week they happen, and payment and pay-less notice dates diarised so nothing slips.
Recorded teaching. Live problem-solving. Templates you own.
The curriculum is recorded, so you watch it when the site is quiet. The weekly 90-minute live call is for your business: bring the enquiry that went cold, the quote that will not close, the job that still needs you every day, and work it through with John and nine other owners who have the same problems.
Every template, checklist and SOP is built from John's own delivery work, stripped of client names, and yours to keep. A private group runs between calls, and questions asked twice become a video or a template for everyone.
Or three payments of £2,100 plus VAT. Reclaimable as a business expense for a limited company.
Cohort two (summer 2027) is priced at £7,500 plus VAT. Founding-cohort pricing applies to February 2027 only.
Guarantee. If you attend the calls and do the work, and by week nine your enquiries are not being followed up automatically, your quotes are not being chased by the system and your review requests are not going out on their own, John will work with you one-to-one until they are.
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| Option | What you get | Typical cost | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hire an office manager | One person answering the phone and doing the admin | A full salary plus on-costs, every year | The business still runs on people, not systems, and stops when they leave |
| A marketing agency | Leads and adverts | A monthly retainer, plus ad spend | More enquiries into a business with no follow-up or admin systems just means more chaos |
| Software on its own | Tools without the process | £50 to £500 a month per tool | Adoption dies in month two without a system behind it |
| 369 programme | Lead generation, follow-up and admin automated end to end, built by a construction expert who knows the whole job | £6,000 plus VAT once | Needs you to turn up for twelve weeks |
Before you apply.
I am not technical. Will I cope with the AI side?
If you can send a WhatsApp and attach a photo, you can run everything in the programme. The tools are set up for you from a snapshot; the teaching is about how you run the business, not the software.
How much time does it take each week?
The live call is 90 minutes. Recorded modules are 20 to 30 minutes each. Implementing in your own business is two to three hours a week, most of it replacing things you already do badly on spreadsheets.
Will you look at my actual business?
Yes. Live calls work on real enquiries, quotes, jobs and documents from the cohort. Anything commercially sensitive can be shared with John privately.
Will this actually bring in more work?
The lead engine is built in the first three weeks, so it is working for most of the programme. How much work it brings depends on your trade, area and reviews, which is why the guarantee is about the system running rather than a number of leads nobody can honestly promise.
Do I need any software already?
No. The lead engine module installs the 369 Automated Marketing system for you: our own CRM, pipeline and automations, built for construction businesses. Your account is yours and stays with you after the programme.
What happens after week twelve?
You keep every template, the snapshot and the group. Most owners either run it themselves or move to the done-with-you systems build and a monthly retainer so a 369 operator maintains it.
Four minutes. Then a 20-minute call if the fit is right.
Tell us about the business: turnover, trade, live jobs, and what is taking up most of your time. Applications that fit get a call booked with John. Those that do not get an honest reply and a pointer to the free resources.