Builder Business SystemsIf you stop answering the phone for a week, does the build keep moving or does it stop?
Systems for building companies: the scheduling that keeps subcontractors turning up in order, the progress claim that goes out the day the stage is done, the variation that gets signed before the work starts, and the site handover that does not need you standing there.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Building Business?
The whole schedule lives in your head
You know the plasterer follows the sparky's rough-in, that the waterproofer has to be done and cured before tiling, and which supplier is slow on windows. None of it is written down, so nobody else can run a job without ringing you.
Progress claims go out whenever you get to them
The stage was signed off on Tuesday. The claim went out the following Monday because you were on another site. That is a week of your money sitting with the client, on every stage, on every job, all year.
Defects come back and nobody logged them
The wet area callback, the door that dropped, the paint touch-up. Each gets fixed by whoever is closest, at your cost, with no record of the cause. Wet area waterproofing under AS 3740 is the highest defect claim category in the home warranty schemes.
A building company that only works when you are on site is not an asset, it is a job with more risk and a licence attached.
Systems
Here Is What We Do About It.
The Learning Hub carries the systems and SOP training, plus the templates and frameworks TSA has built for trade businesses: schedules, claim processes, variation forms, handover checklists. AI Club runs weekly live workshops on using AI in a trade business, so the admin that eats your Sundays gets done in minutes.
How it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
Write down the job you already do
Every system starts as the thing in your head. The templates in the app give you the shape, so you are filling in a form rather than staring at a blank page.
Hand one process over and watch it
A system is not real until someone else has run it once without ringing you. The training covers how to hand over, what to check, and how to fix it when it comes back wrong.
Automate the parts that never needed a human
AI Club runs weekly on exactly this: the quote follow-up, the reminder, the invoice chase. The admin that eats your Sunday and does not need your judgement.
What changes
What Building Business Systems Actually Changes.
Three things building business owners walk away able to do.
Hand a job to a supervisor with a written schedule and sequence they can follow
Issue every progress claim the day the stage is signed off, not the week after
Log every defect and callback so you can see which trade is costing you money
Questions
Builder Business Systems, Answered.
Will systems work when every build is different?
Do I need construction software to get organised?
How do I stop variations turning into disputes at the end?
Builders
The Other Ways We Help Builders.
Builder Business Training
Structured training that turns what builders know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingBuilder Business Coaching
A coach who has run a trade business, in your corner, holding builders to the plan.
The free appBuilder Business App
Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for builders with an active ABN.
Marketing and leadsBuilder Business Marketing
How builders get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
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.
Start Tonight, For Nothing.
The Crew, daily Q&A, starter courses and your complimentary coaching session. Free with an active ABN. No card, no trial clock.
Turning over $20k a month or more? Thirty minutes, one on one with a trade business coach, on what is capping the business and what to fix first.