Builder Business AppsBusiness apps you build for your clients, supervisors and trades, so the schedule, variations and selections are where everyone can see them.
Builder business apps are the simple screens your clients, supervisors and subcontractors use instead of ringing you: the next stage, the variation waiting for a signature, the selections still to make, the site diary. This page is for building company owners who want to build their own business apps on their own data, shaped around how their builds run, starting from the free Tradies App.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Building Business?
Clients ring for updates the schedule could show them
A client paying for a renovation or a new home wants to know when the frame goes up, when the cabinets arrive and what the last variation cost. With nothing simple to look at, they ring the builder, often at night. The owner spends hours each week repeating updates instead of running the job.
Subcontractors hear about delays by text, or never
The waterproofer runs late, so the tiler needs moving, then the plumber's fit-off, then the painter. Each change goes out as a string of calls and texts from the owner's phone. Somebody always misses the message, turns up to a site that is not ready and charges for the wasted trip.
Site diaries and selections still live on paper
Supervisors keep site diaries in a notebook, client selections arrive by email and on scraps of paper, and defects get noted on whatever is handy. When a dispute comes up at handover, the owner spends a weekend rebuilding the record from photos and old messages.
Every update the owner repeats by phone is time off the build, and every trade turning up to an unready site is cost the building company carries.
Data First Coaching
Builder Business Apps, Built on Your Own Data.
Data First Coaching starts from your own job and finance data. On that data you build the systems, software and business apps your building business actually needs, shaped around how your jobs run and how your customers buy, and AI agents take the office work. Greg Allan works it through with you.
How most coaching works
Most coaching for builders starts with the owner explaining the business.
- The first hours go on the owner describing the building business to a coach: the jobs, the crew, the customers, the money.
- The picture is out of date within weeks, because the numbers move every week.
- So the advice treats what the owner happened to notice, which is usually a symptom.
- Too often it comes from someone who has never run a building business, or any trade business at all.
- The owner pays for the explaining, then pays again when the advice does not fit.
Data First Coaching
Data first starts from your building business's numbers, not your memory.
- The Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your job management and finance systems first.
- It sees your quotes, jobs, time on site and money as they are this week, the way builders actually make and lose it.
- It finds where the problem actually starts, not where it shows up.
- You put in the system that fixes it at the root, and the data shows whether it worked.
Which of these is the root cause in your building business?
- Clients ring for updates the schedule could show them
- Subcontractors hear about delays by text, or never
- Site diaries and selections still live on paper
Usually one of them is causing the others. Data first means your own numbers answer that before anybody guesses, so the fix goes where the problem starts.
| Rented software | Built on your own data | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Every trade at once | How your jobs actually run |
| Your data | Lives in somebody else's system | Yours, and it answers your questions |
| The cost | A subscription per seat, every month | What you build, kept as long as it earns its place |
| When it does not fit | Work around it, or wait for an update | Change it, because you built it |
| The office work | Still lands on you or an office wage | AI agents do it your way, people stay on customers |
| Where you start | A sales demo | Your own numbers, read by the Trade Business Intelligence Agent |
Fix the root cause, once
The data names the real problem, so the system you put in fixes it once instead of patching the same symptom every month.
Own your software
Build your own tools on your own data, shaped around how your jobs run and how your customers buy. Cancel the subscriptions and agencies that were never built for your business.
A more human business
Agents do the non-billable work: the quoting, invoicing, chasing and reporting. Your people spend the day on customers and the crew, so relationships get better and the team performs.
Business apps, built by you
Here Is What We Do About It.
You start in the free Tradies App, and Greg Allan's Data First Coaching takes it further. The Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your job management and finance data, so the business apps you build run on your real builds, not a template. With Greg and the group you build apps for your clients and crew: a stage view for the client, a schedule your subcontractors can see, a site diary your supervisors fill in on site.
The Tradies App
Free for trade business owners. No card, no trial clock.
Data First Coaching
Greg Allan and the Trade Business Intelligence Agent start from your own job and finance data, then you build what fixes the root cause.
The Academy waitlist
The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.
How it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
Start in the free Tradies App
Lessons, the members community and the tools, free for trade business owners. No card, no trial clock.
Build the screens your people need
Today's jobs for the crew, a quote to approve for the customer, the numbers for you, all on your own data and built around how your jobs run.
Put an agent behind each one
An agent fills the gaps a screen cannot: chasing the missing photo, sending the reminder, updating the job, so the app keeps itself current.
Why Greg
You speak to the owner who has already done it.
Greg built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with 1,950+ five-star reviews. A general manager runs it.
He has trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.
He grew a coaching company to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches, then cut it back so every owner deals with him directly.
Most coaching companies hand you to a salesperson, then to a coach who has never run a trade business. Here you get the owner.
What changes for you
The old way. The new way.
More customers meant more people doing the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.
You stay with your customers and your team. The office stops landing on you.
The old way
More jobs. More paperwork. Less of the owner left.
Most trade businesses grow the same way.
More jobs means more quoting, invoicing, chasing and scheduling.
None of it gets paid for.
So the owner does it at night, after a full day on site.
Or hires an office person to do it.
The office grows. The wages grow. The margin does not.
And the owner is still the one everything waits on.
Where we take you
More work. More profit. More of you left.
The phone rings with the jobs you want, at the price you set.
You grow when you're ready, never faster than the business can carry.
Every job is priced to make money, so the busy months show up in the bank.
The best tradies in your area want to work for you, and they stay.
The chasing, the paperwork and the 9pm admin stop landing on you.
The business runs the day. You pick which parts of it you're in.
Bigger, without the headaches. Getting bigger stops meaning getting busier.
What changes
What Building Business Apps Actually Changes.
Three things building business owners walk away able to do.
Show clients their stage, selections and variations without a phone call
Move a subcontractor's dates and have every affected trade see the change
Keep site diaries, defects and photos against the job, ready for handover
Questions
Builder Business Apps, Answered.
Do I need to be technical to build business apps for my building company?
What business apps does a building company need?
Can clients sign variations through a business app?
Where does a builder start if they have never built a business app?
Builders
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SoftwareBuilder Business Software
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Marketing and leadsBuilder Business Marketing
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Pricing and profitBuilder Business Pricing
The number builders should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Hiring and teamBuilder Business Hiring
How builders build a crew that does it right without being watched.
Join the Waitlist to Work With Greg.
The Crew, daily Q&A and starter courses. Free for trade business owners. No card, no trial clock.
The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.