Guest: Brad Strawbridge — Founder, Capital City Roofing & BuilderLync

Guest Links: Website: https://builderlync.com/

This episode covers practical, real-world ways roofing companies are using AI right now to automate non-revenue tasks and free up teams to focus on selling and customer experience. Brad Strawbridge walks through how he uses Claude Co-Work to build reusable workflows that automate everything from proposal creation to dispatching sales reps, how the teach feature lets you record clicks and turn any repetitive CRM process into a saved workflow you can trigger with a forward slash command or put on a schedule. He explains how he built Capital City University, a full training curriculum for roofing using Notebook LM with manufacturer materials and RCA-approved content uploaded as knowledge sources. The conversation also covers BuilderLync, an all-in-one CRM built specifically for roofers that replaces five or six separate tools, handling everything from AI-powered cold outreach and lead nurturing to scheduling, dispatching, supplements, bookkeeping, and payment collection. Brad shares his take on why newer roofing companies have a massive advantage right now by starting AI-first instead of trying to retrofit old processes, why the best way to use AI is to give it a ridiculous amount of context before asking for answers, and his five-year outlook on where roofing is headed with the Roofing Alliance bringing the trade into universities and driving technology adoption across the industry.