Builder Business TrainingYou learned to build on site. Nobody ever taught you to run the company that carries the site.
Training built for licensed builders who run the company: contracts and variations, progress claiming, margin, supervision and cash flow across a twelve month build. Not a Cert IV, not a site ticket. The business side of building, from an owner who built his own trade business.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Building Business?
Your qualification taught you none of this
Cert IV in Building and Construction got you licensed. It did not teach you how to price a prime cost item, run a cost-plus job, or read your own work in progress. You learned the business side by losing money on it.
Every rule change lands on you to interpret
NCC editions, 7-star energy, livable housing, the residential pause to mid-2029, state adoption dates. You find out from a certifier or a supplier rep, usually after you have priced the job on the old assumption.
No time to learn while five jobs are running
Base stage on one, lock-up on another, a client meeting at four and a defect callback you have not booked. Any training that needs you in a classroom for a week is training you will never do.
Another year of learning the business side one loss at a time, while the builder down the road who was taught it properly takes the work.
Training
Here Is What We Do About It.
The Learning Hub gives you the full lesson library inside the Tradies App for $199 a month, watched at night or between site visits. Business Foundations puts you in weekly live sessions hosted by Greg Allan, where you bring your actual contract, your actual margin and your actual crew problem.
How it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
Start tonight, for nothing
Join the Tradies App with an active ABN and the starter courses open straight away. No card, no trial clock counting down while you are still on site.
Work the module that matches the problem
You do not start at lesson one and work through the lot. You start at the thing that is costing you money this month, and the library is organised so you can find it.
Take it live
Business Foundations runs weekly with Greg Allan, so the module you watched on Tuesday gets pressure tested against your actual numbers on Thursday.
Why you get me
I built the coaching company everyone else runs. Then I took it apart.
Most coaching companies work the same way. You enquire, you get a salesperson. You sign up, you get a coach who has never run a trade business.
I know, because I built one. I grew the Academy to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches. It ran without me.
And I hated it. The bigger it got, the further I was from the owners I started it for.
What gets me up in the morning is getting under the hood of a trade business and helping the owner hit their goals in the least time possible.
So I restructured the whole thing.
When you enquire, you speak to me. If you are accepted into the Academy, you work with me. Directly.
And with agentic AI, the results come sooner than most owners can imagine.
Places are limited. I only take on owners who are committed and ready to do the work.
Who you will be talking to
I built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with more than 1,950+ five-star reviews.
A general manager runs it day to day. I live in Byron Bay.
I have trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.
What AI actually changes
The old way. The new way.
More customers meant more people doing your computer work, and you paying for all of it.
You stay with your customers and your team. Agents run the office your way.
The old way
Grow, then hire people to do the computer work.
Every new customer brought more quoting, invoicing, chasing, scheduling and reporting.
So you hired people to do it. Office staff, bookkeepers, admin.
None of it is billable, and every hire costs wages, sick leave and another person to manage.
Profit and time only grew as fast as you could add people.
The new way
Keep the human work. Give everything else to agents.
Your people do what only people can do: looking after customers and leading the team.
Everything else goes to agents that do it your way, instantly, any time it is needed.
No sick leave. No capacity problems. They scale as far as the business does.
So the only people you add are the ones facing your customers and your team.
A human-centred business that runs on systems you build in minutes. Nobody still running the old way can compete with it.
What changes
What Building Business Training Actually Changes.
Three things building business owners walk away able to do.
Price a fixed price contract with escalation and prime cost items handled properly
Read your work in progress and know which job is making money before it finishes
Write a variation that is signed, priced and enforceable before the work starts
Questions
Builder Business Training, Answered.
Is this a Cert IV or a licensing course?
When would I actually do the training?
Does the training cover New Zealand builders?
Builders
The Other Ways We Help Builders.
Builder Business Coaching
Greg Allan in your corner, holding builders to the plan. By application.
SystemsBuilder Business Systems
The documented process that lets the work happen properly when builders are not standing there.
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.
Have a Chat With Greg About Your Business.
An hour with Greg, one on one, about anything in your trade business. By application: if his diary is full, you join his waitlist and he invites you. He only takes owners who are committed.