AI for a 135-person remodeler: a custom Claude business advisor and scope-of-work reviewer at Mosby Building Arts
Mosby Building Arts
What they did with AI
Mark McClanahan, president of Mosby Building Arts, a 135-person remodeling company, describes in a Pro Remodeler article how the company adopted AI. All 12 of its managers use a "Mosby Business Advisor," a custom Claude project built from a 30-page operating-system prompt plus seven files covering core values, strategy, financials, target market, the employee manual and management team profiles, which he says took about 70 hours to build. A custom AI scope-of-work reviewer checks each of its 13 salespeople's scopes for grammar problems, inconsistencies and conflicting information before they go to the client, and a handoff tool to standardize scopes passed from eight designers to two estimators is on the roadmap. McClanahan says a monthly employee newsletter article went from 45-60 minutes to about five. He puts subscriptions at roughly $450 a month and says staff must read and own anything AI writes. Figures are his own, from a first-person trade-magazine article.
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