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Most contractors are drowning in AI options.

New tools every week. New features buried inside the tools you already pay for. No clear answer on which ones are worth your time.

Grant Fuellenbach implements project management systems for contracting companies at GoFirst Consulting, and he uses AI to do it faster. He also hosts the Beyond the Bid podcast.

So we asked him a simple question: what should a contractor actually be using right now?

His answer was three tools, and two of them are free.

Grant walks us through NotebookLM (he calls it the underserved GOAT), Prompt Cowboy, and Claude Cowork. Then he actually walks through the work, with examples: a company brain built from SOPs and training videos, an estimate pulled together from a photo and a few measurements, and an SEO audit that runs on a schedule without him touching it.

If you have ever lost a night to an AI rabbit hole and come out with nothing, start here.

Find Grant on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantfuellenbach or reach him at grant@gofirstconsulting.com.

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP292

00:00-Intro

01:49-AI in Contracting & Workflows

10:01-NotebookLM & Second Brain

21:59-Prompt Cowboy & Efficiency

25:50-Claude Co-Work & Automations

31:23-Demo of NotebookLM

38:45-Final Recommendations