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Carpenter Business AppsBuild your own business apps for your crew and customers, so the next stage, delivery and claim are visible to everyone.
Carpenter business apps are simple tools a carpentry owner builds on their own data, so the crew, builders and homeowners stop ringing for answers. This page is for owners running framing and fixout crews, decks and renovations, who want to build their own business apps around how their sites actually run, not around a template made for somebody else.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Carpentry Business?
Every answer on site still comes by phone
Most carpentry business owners spend the day fielding calls from the crew: which job tomorrow, when the frame timber lands, whether the trusses are booked, where the hinges and handles went. Each answer lives in the owner's phone or memory, so work stops on site until somebody gets through to the person who knows.
Homeowners have no idea what stage the job is at
A homeowner with a deck half built cannot see whether the decking boards are ordered, when the balustrade goes on or what the extra step will cost. So they ring, then text, then ring again, and the owner explains the same update from a ladder while the crew waits for instructions.
Timesheets and cutting lists on scraps and spreadsheets
The crew writes hours on a scrap of paper or in a group chat, the cutting list lives on an offcut, and the site photos stay on whoever took them. By Friday the owner is rebuilding the week in a spreadsheet, guessing which job those hours belong to before the pay run and the claim.
Every question asked by phone costs crew hours nobody bills, and every update the owner gives by hand is another job the owner cannot step away from.
Data First Coaching
Carpenter 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 carpentry 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 carpenters starts with the owner explaining the business.
- The first hours go on the owner describing the carpentry 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- The picture is out of date within weeks, because the numbers move every week.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 carpentry 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 carpentry 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 carpenters 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 carpentry business?
- Every answer on site still comes by phone
- Homeowners have no idea what stage the job is at
- Timesheets and cutting lists on scraps and spreadsheets
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.
Greg's Data First Coaching starts with the Trade Business Intelligence Agent reading your job and finance data, so you see where hours and messages are being lost. Then you build your own business apps on that data with Greg and the group: a job board your crew checks before they ring, a progress view homeowners can open, timesheets tied to the right job. The free Tradies App is where you start.
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 Carpentry Business Apps Actually Changes.
Three things carpentry business owners walk away able to do.
Give the crew tomorrow's job, materials and set-out notes without a phone call
Show a homeowner exactly where their deck or renovation is up to
Have timesheets land against the right job before the claim goes out
Questions
Carpenter Business Apps, Answered.
Do I need to be technical to build my own business apps as a carpenter?
Which carpenter business apps save the most time on site?
Can a builder see my frame stages without ringing me?
Where does the Tradies App fit if I want to build my own business apps?
Carpenters
The Other Ways We Help Carpenters.
Carpenter Business Training
Structured training that turns what carpenters know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingCarpenter Business Coach
Greg Allan in your corner, holding carpenters to the plan. By application.
SystemsCarpenter Business Systems
Systems carpenters build on their own data, so the work runs properly without them standing there.
SoftwareCarpenter Business Software
Software carpenters build on their own data, instead of renting tools built for every trade at once.
AIAI for Carpentry Businesses
AI agents that do the office work for carpenters, their way, so people stay on customers and the crew.
Marketing and leadsCarpenter Business Marketing
How carpenters get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitCarpenter Business Pricing
The number carpenters should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Hiring and teamCarpenter Business Hiring
How carpenters 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.