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Price Your Jobs for Real Profit
Build a job-costing prompt that reveals whether a price actually leaves you a profit.
A lot of small businesses price by gut feeling or by matching a competitor, and only find out months later that a job barely broke even. AI can't tell you your true costs — that's your job to gather — but it's excellent at doing the math once you hand it the pieces.
Give it your real costs: materials, labor hours and rate, overhead you want to cover, and the margin you're aiming for. Ask it to work backward to a price, and to show the math so you can sanity-check it, not just trust a number that appears from nowhere.
You give real costs and a target margin, and get a suggested price with the math shown.
The rest is free too — it just needs a seat.
- The full lesson, including the parts that do the heavy lifting
- 2 copy-paste prompt templates
- A worked example — real prompt in, real output out
- A do-it-now checklist
- The 2 mistakes everyone makes (and how to dodge them)
- A quick check-your-understanding quiz
- Practice on YOUR business with Alta, the AI coach
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