AI for Concreting BusinessesAI that quotes, invoices and chases builders your way, so your evenings stop going on concrete paperwork.
AI for concreting businesses means agents that do the office work the way you would: drafting quotes by the cubic metre, sending pour reminders, writing up job notes and chasing progress claims, using your prices, wording and rules. This page is for concreters who want the admin done without another office wage, so their people stay on the customers, the builders and the crew.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Concreting Business?
Quotes for slabs written at the kitchen table
Most concreting business owners finish a day on the tools, then measure plans, work out cubic metres, add pump hire and write quotes late into the night. The quote a homeowner asked for on Monday goes out on Thursday, after another concreter has already booked the job.
Progress claims wait until the owner finds time
The slab is poured and the builder owes the claim, but the invoice waits until the owner gets to the office work at the weekend. Late claims mean late payment, and the business carries the cost of the concrete, the steel and the crew's wages in the meantime.
Generic AI chat tools know nothing about concrete
The owner tries a general AI chat tool, and it writes a polite quote with the wrong volume, no waste allowance, no pump and none of the exclusions the business always includes. It does not know the rates, the builders or the rules, so the owner rewrites it anyway.
Every night on quotes and claims is a night the owner is not resting for the next pour, and every late quote is a job handed to a quicker competitor.
Data First Coaching
AI for Concreting Businesses, 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 concreting 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 concreters starts with the owner explaining the business.
- The first hours go on the owner describing the concreting 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- The picture is out of date within weeks, because the numbers move every week.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 concreting 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 concreting 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 concreters 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 concreting business?
- Quotes for slabs written at the kitchen table
- Progress claims wait until the owner finds time
- Generic AI chat tools know nothing about concrete
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.
AI for your trade
Here Is What We Do About It.
Greg Allan's Data First Coaching starts with the Trade Business Intelligence Agent reading your job management and finance data, so the agents you build work from your real rates, your waste allowance and your exclusions. With Greg and the group you build agents that draft quotes, send pour day reminders and chase progress claims your way. AI Club runs weekly workshops on it, and the free Tradies App is the place to start.
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.
AI Club
Weekly live workshops building the automations that take the admin off you.
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.
Find where the problem starts
Your own data shows which job keeps going wrong and where. Not a guess, and not a list of AI tools to subscribe to.
Put an agent just before it
The agent asks for what is missing before the job can move on, with your prices, wording and rules, so it is right first time.
Keep people on the human work
The agents take the quoting, invoicing, chasing and reporting. You and the crew spend the day on customers and the work.
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 AI for Concreters Actually Changes.
Three things concreting business owners walk away able to do.
Send a slab quote the same day the plans arrive
Have progress claims drafted the day each pour is finished
Let an agent turn job notes and photos into a handover pack
Questions
AI for Concreting Businesses, Answered.
Can AI do the admin in a concreting business?
Will AI get my concrete volumes and pricing right?
Does AI mean a concreting business needs fewer people?
Where should a concreter start with AI?
Concreters
The Other Ways We Help Concreters.
Concreter Business Training
Structured training that turns what concreters know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingConcreter Business Coach
Greg Allan in your corner, holding concreters to the plan. By application.
SystemsConcreter Business Systems
Systems concreters build on their own data, so the work runs properly without them standing there.
SoftwareConcreter Business Software
Software concreters build on their own data, instead of renting tools built for every trade at once.
Business appsConcreter Business Apps
The simple screens concreters build for their crew and customers, on their own data.
Marketing and leadsConcreter Business Marketing
How concreters get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitConcreter Business Pricing
The number concreters should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Hiring and teamConcreter Business Hiring
How concreters 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.