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Welcome to the Designers Show, the place to be if you want to grow a more profitable design business. Join us each week as Dan Baumann and John Schrader share their experiences and interview top industry experts. You'll get actionable tips and strategies for the real world of design in construction to help you take your design and contracting business to the next level.

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Stop Making These Common Chief Mistakes - Part3

- Designers Show #170 -

You’re not losing deals because of your drawings. You’re losing them in the decisions behind them.

In this episode of the Designers Show, we’re continuing to unpack the patterns that quietly wreck projects: missed details, bad assumptions, and workflow habits that seem harmless until they stack up and start costing you real time, real money, and your credibility.

No fluff. No theory. Just what’s actually going wrong in Chief projects and how to stop letting it happen.

If you’ve dealt with revisions that drag on, clients pushing back late, or builds not lining up with what you thought you modeled… this is probably closer to your reality than you want to admit.

Part 3 is where it tightens up. Less surface-level, more of the decisions that actually move things forward or break them.

If you’re in Chief regularly, this Designers Show will save you time. And clean up a lot of the friction you’ve gotten used to.

March 20, 2026
10 AM Pacific | 11 AM Mountain | 12 PM Central | 1 PM Eastern

Show up, bring your questions, and we’ll work through it.

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