The BIG Setup
Understand the economic, technological, demographic, and competitive forces reshaping independent business.
Builder Intelligence Group Presents
Are You a Builder?
A four-hour working Summit for independent business owners who create more value than they consume.
The Are You a Builder Summit is designed to help you understand the world around your business, see the business itself more clearly, build a practical path forward, and strengthen the Builder behind it.
Watch the Invitation
Why the Builders Summit Exists
Builders create businesses, jobs, opportunity, stronger families, and stronger communities. Yet too many independent business owners are expected to build alone.
Four Hours. Four Acts.
One Clearer Path Forward.
Every Summit follows the same practical four-act experience, built to move a Builder from understanding to clarity, from clarity to action, and from action to leadership.
The BIG X-Ray
See the strengths, weaknesses, risks, constraints, and opportunities inside your business.
The BIG Playbook
Turn insight into priorities, practical systems, and a focused 90-day operating plan.
The BIG Owner
Strengthen the financial, emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual capacity of the Builder.
The Summit Promise
This Is Not Four Hours of Information.
It is four hours designed to change how you see your business, your priorities, and yourself as the Builder.
See your business more clearly.
Identify the issues that matter most.
Build a practical 90-day plan.
Connect with other independent Builders.
Enter the Builder community.
Stop trying to build alone.
The Founding Series
Choose Your Summit
One Summit format. Multiple cities. One Builder Movement. Select the location that works for you.
Founding Series No. 1
Gurnee, Illinois
Friday, September 18, 2026
1:00 PM–5:00 PM
The 10 Hotel
The Founding Series begins in Gurnee with four hours of practical intelligence, business clarity, action planning, and Builder development.
Founding Series No. 2
Naperville, Illinois
October 2026
Date and venue announcement forthcoming
The Builder Movement continues in Naperville. Full event details, registration, and partner announcements will be added as they are confirmed.
Our Partners
Organizations Standing With Builders
The Builder Movement is strengthened by organizations committed to independent business, practical guidance, and stronger communities.
JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase
Founding Builder Partner
SCORE
SCORE
Preferred Partner