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Solar Business SystemsIf the STC claim only gets lodged when you remember, that is not a system, it is you.

Systems training for solar business owners who are the bottleneck. Every job has a fixed sequence: quote, deposit, network application, install, compliance paperwork, certificate creation, handover. Written down properly, your crew runs it. Kept in your head, you run it, on every single job.

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A painted scene of two solar installers standing a large panel upright on a roof edge against an open sky

The week this is about

Sound Like Your Solar Business?

The STC deadline is a clock nobody is watching

Certificates have to be created within 12 months of installation, and the only thing standing between you and a job that never gets claimed is you remembering. One forgotten install is real money gone, and you will not notice until the deadline has passed.

Every job runs slightly differently

One installer photographs the switchboard and the compliance plate, another does not. One salesperson lodges the network application at quote stage, another waits until the deposit clears. Then a customer asks for their paperwork two years on and you spend an afternoon looking for it.

You are the only one who can answer anything

The crew rings you from a roof about a clearance question, the office rings you about an export limit, and the customer rings you because the salesperson has left. You cannot do a day of quoting because you are the manual everyone has to consult.

A business held together in one person's memory cannot grow, cannot be sold, and cannot survive the fortnight that person is off sick.

A trade business owner working alone at the kitchen table late at night, laptop open and paperwork spread across the table, work boots and tool bag by the door

Systems

Here Is What We Do About It.

The Learning Hub carries the systems and SOP training, plus the templates and frameworks you can put straight to work on your job process. AI Club runs weekly live workshops building AI into trade businesses, so the repeat admin around quoting, follow-up and paperwork stops eating your evenings.

The Tradies App

Free with an active ABN in Australia and New Zealand. No card, no trial clock.

Learning Hub

The full lesson library inside the Tradies App, self paced, $199/month.

AI Club

Weekly live workshops building the automations that take the admin off you.

How it works

Three Steps, Starting Tonight.

Step 1

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.

Step 2

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.

Step 3

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.

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.

Greg Allan mid-explanation with his hands open, talking to a trade business owner across a desk

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.

Illustration: a trade business owner standing over three office staff buried in paperwork at night. — The old way
More customers meant more people doing your computer work, and you paying for all of it.

Illustration: a tradesman shaking hands with a homeowner in her driveway, his phone showing jobs quoted and invoiced. — The new way
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 Solar Installer Business Systems Actually Changes.

Three things solar business owners walk away able to do.

Map your solar job from enquiry to certificate creation as one written process

Hand the STC and network paperwork to someone else without it going wrong

Take a week off without the crew ringing you from a roof

A trade business owner watching his child play sport on a Saturday morning, coffee in hand and phone face down — Nights and weekends back

A trade business owner and his partner in the kitchen looking at a tablet showing the numbers going up — Work that actually pays

A trade business owner shaking hands with a new apprentice in the work yard — A good hire who stays

A trade business owner standing calmly in the yard while his crew load two utes behind him — Out of the middle of everything

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Questions

Solar Business Systems, Answered.

What is the first system a solar business should write down?

The job flow, end to end: enquiry, site assessment, quote, deposit, network application, install, compliance paperwork, certificate creation, handover, review. Write it as the steps someone else could follow, name who owns each one and what triggers the next. Almost every problem in a solar business is a step nobody owns.

I already use OpenSolar and a CRM. Is that not systems enough?

Software holds the data. It does not decide who lodges the network application, at what point, or what happens when the network comes back with an export limit that changes the design. Systems are the decisions and the handovers. Get those right and the software finally does what you bought it for.

Where does AI actually help a solar business?

In the repeat writing and chasing: quote follow-ups, customer updates while a network approval sits, standard responses to warranty enquiries, and turning your job process into written procedures your crew will read. AI Club runs weekly live workshops on exactly this, built for trade businesses rather than tech companies.

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