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Houston Build Expo 2026

Name: LIVE AI EXAMPLES: How Contractor Owners Use AI to Run More Jobs Without Touching Every Single One
Start: 2026-08-12T11:15:00+00:00
End: 2026-08-12T12:15:00+00:00
Location: NRG Center

NRG Center - Houston, TX

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TJ Harpham

Coach | Business on Purpose

Presenter bio

TJ Harpham is one of 7 coaches with Business on Purpose and has spent the last 13 years in business development, leadership, and coaching. His passion is helping business owners move from chaos to clarity. He is known for guiding clients toward a clear vision and sustainable fi nancial confi dence while empowering them to build businesses that truly support their lives. His work has taken him from local leadership teams to global stages, including a recent invitation to Paris, France, where he partnered with an international organization during their managerial offsite retreat. There, TJ helped align their leadership around the owner’s vision for 2026 and beyond, reinforcing his ability to bring focus, strategy, and purpose to businesses of all sizes. At the heart of TJ’s passion is creating peace in the chaos. Whether it's working through a business’ purpose, their people, their processes, and their profits, his intentional approach has led to countless success stories. When he’s not liberating business owners from chaos, TJ can be found traveling with his wife and three kids, cheering on his boys at the baseball fi eld, or unwinding at the beach soaking up the sun and the salty breeze.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Keynote AI

LIVE AI EXAMPLES: How Contractor Owners Use AI to Run More Jobs Without Touching Every Single One

The most expensive person on most contracting job sites is the owner — and they don't even know it. When the owner is the only one who knows how to make decisions, approve scopes, answer client questions, and solve field problems, the business has a ceiling it can never break through. In this keynote, you'll see live AI examples of how contractor owners across the country are removing themselves as the bottleneck — without losing control, without losing quality, and without adding headcount. This is not theory. You will watch it work.
Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the exact operational chokepoints where owner dependency is silently capping growth — and learn why adding employees without removing yourself as the bottleneck only accelerates chaos.

2. See live AI examples of how contractor owners are documenting, delegating, and deploying their own decision-making standards into AI systems — so the business runs on their thinking, not their presence.

3. Leave with a clear first step for building an AI-powered operating layer inside your own contracting business — starting with the one system that is costing you the most time every single week.

Target audience: Homebuilders, Remodelers, Contractors