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Carpenter Business SystemsIf you are sick on Tuesday, does the frame still go up and does the claim still go out?
Systems for carpentry businesses: the checklists, templates and processes that let a job run from quote to final claim without you standing over it. Built for owners running framing and fixout crews who are still the only one who knows how anything works.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Carpentry Business?
Every process lives in your head
Nobody else knows which supplier does the truss takeoff, what you charge for a bearer replacement, or where the site induction forms are. So the phone rings all day while you are trying to set out, and nothing gets done twice the same way.
Progress claims go out when you remember
There is no set day for claims, so they go out when the paperwork guilt gets loud enough. One month it is the fifth, the next it is the twenty second, and the builder pays on his cycle either way. Your cash flow follows your admin mood.
Variations get agreed on site and forgotten
The client asks for two extra posts on the pergola while you are cutting. You say no worries and keep going. Six weeks later there is no email, no signed variation and no way to prove it, so you eat the labour and the timber.
Without systems the business cannot grow past the number of jobs you can personally stand on, and it cannot run for a single week without you.
Systems
Here Is What We Do About It.
The Learning Hub carries the systems and SOP training, plus the templates and frameworks TSA uses with trade businesses: quoting, variations, progress claims, site checklists and handover. AI Club runs weekly live workshops on using AI in a trade business, so the admin that eats your evenings gets built once and then runs.
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 Carpentry Business Systems Actually Changes.
Three things carpentry business owners walk away able to do.
Send every progress claim on the same day of the month, without being reminded
Hand a job pack to a leading hand and have the frame go up right
Capture every variation in writing before the timber gets cut
Questions
Carpenter Business Systems, Answered.
What systems does a carpentry business actually need first?
Do I need job management software or is a system enough?
How do I stop losing money on variations?
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 Coaching
A coach who has run a trade business, in your corner, holding carpenters to the plan.
The free appCarpenter Business App
Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for carpenters with an active ABN.
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.
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.