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Solar Business TrainingYour licence taught you to install solar. Nobody taught you to run the business behind it.

Structured business training for solar business owners in Australia and New Zealand. Your accreditation covers the array, the isolators and the inverter settings. It covers nothing about pricing a job, running a crew or filling the diary. This is the other half of the trade.

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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?

CPD keeps you compliant, not profitable

You knock over your 100 CPD points on standards updates and product training, and none of it tells you what your true cost per hour is or why the last twelve jobs made less than the twelve before. Compliance training keeps the accreditation. It does not keep the business.

You learned the business by getting it wrong

Every system you use came from a mistake that cost you: the deposit you could not legally take, the job you quoted before checking the network export limit, the apprentice you hired on the wrong award rate. That is the most expensive way to learn anything.

The business only works when you are on the roof

Take a fortnight off and the quotes stop, the STC claims sit, and the crew waits for you to answer a design question from the van. You are not the owner of a solar business yet, you are the most qualified employee in it.

Another year learning the business from your own mistakes costs more than any training ever will, and you pay for it one thin job at a time.

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

Training

Here Is What We Do About It.

The Learning Hub gives you the full lesson library inside the Tradies App for $199 a month: pricing, systems, marketing, hiring and cash, built for trade business owners. Business Foundations adds live weekly sessions hosted by Greg Allan, so you can bring this week's real job and get it sorted.

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.

Business Foundations

Weekly live sessions hosted by Greg Allan, where you bring your own numbers.

How it works

Three Steps, Starting Tonight.

Step 1

Start tonight, for nothing

Join the Tradies App with an active ABN and the starter courses open straight away. No card, no trial clock counting down while you are still on site.

Step 2

Work the module that matches the problem

You do not start at lesson one and work through the lot. You start at the thing that is costing you money this month, and the library is organised so you can find it.

Step 3

Take it live

Business Foundations runs weekly with Greg Allan, so the module you watched on Tuesday gets pressure tested against your actual numbers on Thursday.

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 Training Actually Changes.

Three things solar business owners walk away able to do.

Work out your true cost per installed hour, including van, insurance and downtime

Quote a solar job from your own numbers instead of the last price you heard

Set up the business so a fortnight away does not stop the quotes going out

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 Training, Answered.

Does this count towards my SAA CPD points?

No. CPD is technical training run through accredited providers and it keeps your accreditation current, which is a separate job. This is business training: pricing, cash, systems, marketing, hiring. Owners do both, because the CPD protects the licence and the business training protects the income the licence is meant to produce.

I have run my solar business for ten years. Is this too basic?

The owners who get the most from it are usually the experienced ones, because they have the volume to fix. Ten years of quoting habits, an award you have never read properly and a charge-out rate set in a different market add up. Start with pricing and cash flow, then work outwards.

Can my sales team and installers use the training too?

Yes, and it works better when they do. A salesperson who understands why the price is the price stops discounting to close, and a lead installer who understands job cost stops treating a return visit as free. The Learning Hub sits in the Tradies App, so the whole crew can work through it.

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