Time freedomGet your nights and weekends back
Build the systems that let the business run a day without you, then a week. Starts with getting the work out of your head and onto something that is not you.
The Tradies App
Get your life back
off your business.The free app for trade business owners.
Training, coaching, systems and business tools in one app. Learn how to build time freedom, hire better and make more profit, without running the whole thing from the kitchen table at 9pm.
9,000+tradies trained4.9★Google rating4.9★App Store rating$0to get started
Player to coach
The best players become coaches. That's the job now.
A pro athlete gets great at the sport, then teaches it. A trade business with a team asks the same of its owner. The skill that built it is what your team needs from you.
Before
The team runs through the owner
- Every quote
- Every schedule change
- Every invoice
- Every enquiry
- Every question from the crew
One person. Every hour.
The team can only grow as far as the owner's week. Add a tradie and the owner gets busier, not freer.
After
You coach the team
Agents run
- Marketing
- Sales
- Operations
- Admin
Your tradies run
- The jobs
Your hours go to
- Coaching your team
- Your clients
Add a tradie and the business grows. Your week doesn't.
01
Systemise the work
Write down how your team quotes, runs and invoices a job, once. Then it stops living in your head.
02
Build an agent for each task
Marketing, enquiries, quotes, invoices, scheduling. Each one gets an agent that does it.
03
Grow the team and coach it
The next hire goes on the tools, not in the office. Your hours go into your tradies and your clients.
The 9pm Reality
It Is 9pm. The Tools Are Down. The Laptop Is Open.
You were on site at six. You have been going since. And the part of the job nobody trained you for is still sitting there waiting.
“Every quote, every invoice, every call back. It all runs through me.”
9:04 PM“I am the best tradie on the team, so I am also the thing holding it up.”
9:26 PM“I trained a good one and he left, so I went back to doing it myself.”
9:48 PM“If I took a week off, the whole thing would stop.”
10:12 PMThat is not a work ethic problem. It is a systems problem, and it is fixable.
You were the best player on the team. The job now is coaching it, and nobody teaches that part. The app does: the systems and agents that take the office off you, so the hours go to your team and your clients instead of the laptop.
What Changes
Four Things The App Teaches You To Build.
Each one hands hours back to you as the team grows. The same system 9,000+ tradies have been trained on, broken into steps you can work through between jobs.
Time freedom
Hire betterHire people who actually stay
How to write the ad, run the interview and induct someone properly, so a good hire is a process you can repeat rather than a bit of luck you got once.
More profitPrice it so the work pays
Know your real numbers, set rates that hold their margin, and stop quoting on hope. Most owners are busier than ever and cannot say which jobs make money.
Stop the overwhelmGet out of the middle of everything
Map the jobs your business repeats, hand them over properly, and stop being the bottleneck every quote, every invoice and every decision has to pass through.
All In One App
Training, Coaching, Systems And Tools.
Four things most owners buy separately, if they ever get around to buying them at all. They are in one app, on the phone already in your pocket.
Training
Lessons built for the ute
Short chaptered lessons on pricing, quoting, hiring, cash flow and systems. Jump straight to the part you need between jobs.
Systems
Map the way your business runs
Drag and drop process maps for the jobs you repeat, plus a guided health check that scores where you are weakest and maps the fix onto the canvas.
Business tools
An AI task manager for your week
Tell it where the business needs to go. It turns that into this week’s actions and keeps you honest about doing them.
Coaching
Real coaches, not a forum of guesses
Ask a trade business question and get an answer from someone who has run one. Every day, inside the app, free from the day you join.
It is not only the daily answer. Free members also get a complimentary one-on-one coaching session with a trade business coach, to go through your business properly rather than in a comment thread.
Our coaches are tradies and trade business operators first. They have priced the jobs, carried the wages bill and made the hire that did not work out, so the answer you get is the one that survives contact with a real week.
The Crew
A room full of owners in the same boat
The Crew is the members community, and every single member is ABN verified. That is the whole point: it stays full of real trade business owners rather than keyboard experts selling something.
Compare real numbers with people in your trade. Ask the question you would not ask at the pub. 9,000+ tradies have been through this training, and a lot of them have already solved the thing currently keeping you up.
What growth really costs
Triple the jobs and you triple everything else.
Every hour on site drags non billable work behind it, on the tools and in the office. Grow the jobs and the marketing, enquiries, emails, quotes and invoices grow at the same rate.
Today
1 tradie
Hours on site: 1x
- Marketing1x
- Enquiries1x
- Emails1x
- Quotes1x
- Invoices1x
- Scheduling1x
Non billable, every year
$80,000
- Tradies' admin: 87 hrs, $5,000
- Office staff: none, it all lands on you
- You: 874 hrs, $75,000, half your work, done in your own time
On top of a $100,000 wage bill for the tradies.
3x the work
3 tradies
Hours on site: 3x
- Marketing3x
- Enquiries3x
- Emails3x
- Quotes3x
- Invoices3x
- Scheduling3x
Non billable, every year
$235,000
- Tradies' admin: 262 hrs, $15,000
- Full time admin: $70,000
- You: 1,748 hrs, $150,000, off the tools, none of it billable
On top of a $300,000 wage bill for the tradies.
9x the work
9 tradies
Hours on site: 9x
- Marketing9x
- Enquiries9x
- Emails9x
- Quotes9x
- Invoices9x
- Scheduling9x
Non billable, every year
$635,000
- Tradies' admin: 787 hrs, $45,000
- Ops manager: $150,000
- Salesperson: $130,000
- Admin: $80,000
- Admin: $80,000
- You: 1,748 hrs, $150,000, general management
On top of a $900,000 wage bill for the tradies.
Worked example. Each tradie costs $100,000 a year: an $80,000 wage plus 25% on-costs. 5% of their paid hours go on admin; travel is left out, because no agent drives the ute. The owner is paid $150,000. Office staffing is typical for a trade business at 3 and 9 tradies. At 1 tradie the owner does all of it, about half their work. Put your own team in.
Old way
Hire for it
- The work
- What you pay for
- Paid, and idle
An admin person, then an agency, then an ops manager. Each one is a wage or a retainer, paid in the quiet weeks the same as the busy ones.
New way
An agent for each task
- The work
- What the agents do
Three times the quotes, it writes three times the quotes. A quiet month, it does a quiet month. It grows with the work, however far you grow.
The two charts show the shape of each cost, not measured figures.
Measured
75.9% less time
69 systems from our library, each timed by hand and again with AI.
So every tradie you add goes on the tools, and the office doesn't grow with them. That's how you grow the team without growing your week.
Individual results. Where a member is quoted, it is in their own words. What any owner gets out of this depends on their business and the work they put in, and any cost or saving named here is an example rather than a quote for your business. Results vary.
The Free Tier
What You Get, Free.
No sample content, no locked preview, no fourteen day clock. These four are yours from the day you join.
Free
The Crew
The members community, ABN verified. Ask anything and compare real numbers with owners in your trade.
Free
Daily Q&A
Trade business questions answered every day by real coaches who have run trade businesses themselves.
Free
Starter Courses
Starter courses from the Learning Hub on pricing, quoting and systems. Short chapters, built for the ute.
Free
Complimentary Coaching Session
A one-on-one session with a trade business coach. Talk through where your business is actually stuck, and what to fix first.
Three Steps
You Can Be In Before The Kettle Boils.
1
Enter your email
That is the whole form. No card details, no phone calls, and nobody chasing you before you have even looked around.
2
Verify your ABN and mobile
A quick ABN check and one SMS code. It is what keeps The Crew owners only.
3
You are in, free
The Crew, daily Q&A, starter courses and your complimentary coaching session, from day one.
No card. No trial clock. No tyre kickers.
Member Results
The System Works.
Member result
A member went from a $90K loss to running 7 trucks.
Member result
Bailey doubled revenue year on year.
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Stop Running The Business From The Kitchen Table.
9,000+ tradies trained. 4.9 stars on Google. The same system, now free to start, tonight.
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