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Better Margins Stronger Cash Flow

Shapcott Lauber is a boutique, senior-led, fixed-fee, construction-focused advisory firm. We help contractors and construction companies improve how work is won, delivered, and measured through stronger sales, tighter execution, financial visibility, and business control. 

Our Services

Our Services

A practical suite of services built for owner-led construction companies — connecting sales, operations, financial visibility, leadership, structure, and long-term value into one disciplined path forward.

Originate- Find the Work

We strengthen origination through better positioning, qualification, client conversations, proposal discipline, relationship strategy, and a repeatable process for pursuing the right work.

Execute - 
Profitably

We improve execution by tightening handoffs, clarifying roles, strengthening project controls, improving communication, tracking accountability, and protecting margin from start to finish.

Measure-
Keep Score

We help measure the business through practical scorecards, financial visibility, job-cost review, pipeline tracking, margin analysis, cash-flow insight, and leadership reporting.

Systemize & Structure

We systemize and structure the business by clarifying roles, workflows, decision rights, reporting rhythms, accountability, ownership, and repeatable operating processes.

Exit Planning
& Succession

We support exit planning and succession by clarifying owner goals, leadership continuity, business value, transition options, risk, timing, and next-step priorities.

Wealth Preservation

We help owners preserve wealth by aligning business structure, cash flow, strategic tax planning, asset protection, estate planning, retirement goals, and transition readiness.

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Hi, I’m Bill Shapcott, Owner and Management Consultant of Shapcott Lauber.

If you decide to go ahead with our services, you'll be working with me. For the past 28 years, I have worked in the trenches with small to mid-market companies across the United States, helping owners strengthen their sales, strategy, systems, structure, and execution. My passion at this point in my life is helping SMBs succeed to new levels and help grow their revenues and profits.

 

Earlier in my career, I spent time in the trades, so I understand what it means to work under pressure, solve problems in real time, and earn trust through results.

I am 100% focused in the built environment. My work with construction owners is practical, direct, and grounded in experience as a past business owner myself.

 

I believe most contractors do not struggle from lack of effort. They struggle because the business has outgrown its systems, structure, and operating rhythm.

 

Integrity matters deeply to me. I do not believe in open-ended hourly consulting. Shapcott Lauber works on a fixed-fee, value-based model focused on outcomes that matter to you and your business.

My goal is simple: help you build a company with more clarity, control, consistency, and confidence.

Testimonials

“What changed most was not just the volume of opportunities — it was the quality of the work we pursued. Shapcott Lauber helped us tighten our sales process, ask better questions, qualify opportunities earlier, and create a more predictable path from prospect to contract. We stopped chasing every job and started focusing on the right ones.”

Jason S.
Commercial General Contractor

Free 90-Min Assessment

Our complimentary 90-minute assessment gives construction owners a focused, practical look inside the business to identify where profit, cash flow, sales, operations, people, or systems may be underperforming.

In many owner-led construction companies, there is often meaningful value already sitting inside the business — in the form of recoverable margin, preventable leakage, underpriced work, billing exposure, cash-flow drag, or financial control gaps.

In 90 minutes, I can usually identify at least $50,000 in hidden opportunity or business leakage that may be costing the company money, control, or momentum.

The purpose of the assessment is simple: uncover the constraints, missed opportunities, and practical next steps that can help the owner determine whether a deeper engagement makes sense.

 

Schedule a 15-minute alignment call to learn more and see if your business is a fit for the assessment.

Free 90 Minute Assessment

The 3 C’s of Life:

Choices, Chances, Changes

"You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change.”

- Zig Ziglar

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