TradesSolar InstallersBusiness apps
Solar Business AppsCustomers see their approval and install date, your installers see the roof and the layout, and the phone goes quiet.
Solar business apps are the simple screens that stop the phone calls: a customer page showing where the network approval and install date are up to, and a crew app with the roof notes, panel layout and switchboard photos. This page is for owners of solar and battery installation businesses who want to build their own business apps on their own data.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Solar Business?
Customers ring to ask where the approval is up to
Most solar business owners field a steady stream of calls from customers waiting on network approval, an install date or the meter change. Nobody on the customer side can see the status, so the office or the owner stops work to look it up and explain it again.
Installers arrive without the roof details
The site assessment photos are on the salesperson's phone, the panel layout is in the design tool, and the switchboard notes are in an email. The crew rings from the driveway to ask about roof access, the tile type and where the inverter goes, and the install starts late.
Commissioning and compliance records end up on paper
Test results, serial numbers, compliance certificates and handover photos are written on forms, photographed loosely and filed whenever someone gets to it. When a customer or the regulator asks for the paperwork later, the owner spends an afternoon searching folders and phones for it.
Every job run on phone calls and loose paperwork costs the owner hours of explaining, late starts on the roof and records that go missing exactly when a warranty claim needs them.
Data First Coaching
Solar 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 solar 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 solar installers starts with the owner explaining the business.
- The first hours go on the owner describing the solar 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- The picture is out of date within weeks, because the numbers move every week.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 solar 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 solar 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 solar installers 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 solar business?
- Customers ring to ask where the approval is up to
- Installers arrive without the roof details
- Commissioning and compliance records end up on paper
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.
It starts with Greg Allan's Data First Coaching: the Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your job and finance data, so the apps you build answer the questions customers and installers actually ring about. With Greg and the group you build your own business apps on that data, a status page for customers and a job app for the crew. Start on the free Tradies App while you wait for a place.
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 Solar Installer Business Apps Actually Changes.
Three things solar business owners walk away able to do.
Show customers their approval, install date and handover pack without a call
Give installers roof notes, layout and switchboard photos before they arrive
Capture serial numbers and test results on site, filed against the job
Questions
Solar Business Apps, Answered.
Can a solar business owner build apps without technical skills?
What apps does a solar business need?
Is the Tradies App the same as a solar business app I build?
Can customers use a solar business app after the install?
Solar Installers
The Other Ways We Help Solar Installers.
Solar Business Training
Structured training that turns what solar installers know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingSolar Business Coach
Greg Allan in your corner, holding solar installers to the plan. By application.
SystemsSolar Business Systems
Systems solar installers build on their own data, so the work runs properly without them standing there.
SoftwareSolar Business Software
Software solar installers build on their own data, instead of renting tools built for every trade at once.
AIAI for Solar Businesses
AI agents that do the office work for solar installers, their way, so people stay on customers and the crew.
Marketing and leadsSolar Business Marketing
How solar installers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitSolar Business Pricing
The number solar installers should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Hiring and teamSolar Business Hiring
How solar installers 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.