What’s Inside the Business Plan?

1) Executive Summary

You’ll outline your core services, service area, target clients, value proposition, and funding needs. This section clarifies your construction niche, how you bid, and how your company operates. It includes lender-facing points such as bonding readiness, capacity, and projected cost structure. The summary is formatted to satisfy SBA reviewers and bank underwriters.

2) Market Overview

A U.S. market scan built on permit activity, renovation demand, development pipelines, and local economic factors. You’ll map client segments including homeowners, developers, landlords, and municipal/commercial clients. The plan shows competitive positioning through capability, schedule reliability, and safety performance. It helps lenders and partners understand your market fit and growth path.

3) Services & Pricing

A detailed breakdown of project types: residential builds, remodels, additions, commercial TI, and recurring maintenance. You’ll present how you price projects using job costing, subcontractor rates, material allowances, and markup structures. The plan covers margin protection, estimating logic, and change-order strategy. Lenders use this as proof your pricing aligns with real market conditions.

4) Operations & Delivery

A full workflow from lead intake to close-out, including bidding, pre-con, scheduling, procurement, inspections, safety, and punch lists. You’ll show how subs are managed, how delays are mitigated, and how quality is controlled. The section includes permitting flow, inspection checkpoints, and documentation practices. Operations are presented in a contract-ready structure lenders trust.

5) Marketing & Sales

A pipeline strategy using local SEO, referral systems, past-client re-engagement, builder networks, and bid platforms. You’ll develop a proof stack with photos, licensing, insurance/bonding readiness, and reliability metrics. The plan outlines qualification criteria so you avoid low-margin projects. This section helps demonstrate stable backlog potential.

6) Management & Controls

Clear definitions of PM roles, foreman structure, subcontractor oversight, documentation, and safety controls. You’ll track KPIs like margin per project, schedule variance, rework rate, and change-order capture. This section establishes operational discipline and stability — a core lender requirement. It shows how you maintain consistency as your team scales.

7) Financial Model (36-Month)

A lender-ready projection covering job costing, overhead, equipment/vehicles, insurance, bonding, labor burden, materials, and seasonal volume. Revenue is modeled by project type with realistic cash-flow timing and retainage. You can adjust crew size, utilization, capacity, and margins to reflect your local market. Outputs include P&L, cash flow, balance sheet, and break-even.