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AI for Tiling BusinessesLet AI agents write your tiling quotes, variations and wet area paperwork your way, so evenings stop going on admin.

This page is about AI for tiling businesses: agents that do the office work tilers usually leave for the evening. Bathroom and floor quotes with substrate and wastage priced in, variations for the extra screed, waterproofing records, payment chasing and job notes, all with your rates, wording and rules. It is for tilers who would rather spend the time on clients and the crew.

A painted scene of a tiler kneeling on a part tiled floor setting levelling clips into the joints, his toolbox open beside him

The week this is about

Sound Like Your Tiling Business?

Bathroom quotes written after a day on the knees

Most tiling business owners measure a bathroom during the day and price it at night: strip out, screed, waterproofing, tiles, trims, wastage and grout, all from memory. The quote goes out days later, and the homeowner has often gone with whichever tiler replied sooner.

Variations nobody turned into an invoice

The extra day of screed on an out of level floor, the niche the client added, the wait while the plumber finished the rough in. Each was agreed on site and never written up, so the owner's invoice covers the quote and the extra work is quietly lost.

Generic AI that has never seen a wet area

The owner tries a general AI chat tool and gets a tidy quote that knows nothing about the business's rates, its exclusions for substrate faults, its waterproofing system or how it words a scope for a builder. Fixing it takes as long as writing it, so the tool is dropped.

Leaving the admin to the owner's evenings costs the tiling business slow quotes, unbilled variations and an owner too tired to keep the records that protect it.

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

Data First Coaching

AI for Tiling 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 tiling 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 tilers starts with the owner explaining the business.

  • The first hours go on the owner describing the tiling 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 tiling 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 tiling 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 tilers 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 tiling business?

  • Bathroom quotes written after a day on the knees
  • Variations nobody turned into an invoice
  • Generic AI that has never seen a wet area

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 against Built on your own data
Rented softwareBuilt on your own data
Built forEvery trade at onceHow your jobs actually run
Your dataLives in somebody else's systemYours, and it answers your questions
The costA subscription per seat, every monthWhat you build, kept as long as it earns its place
When it does not fitWork around it, or wait for an updateChange it, because you built it
The office workStill lands on you or an office wageAI agents do it your way, people stay on customers
Where you startA sales demoYour 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.

You start with Greg Allan's Data First Coaching. The Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your job management and finance data, so it learns how you price wet areas and floors, word a scope and bill variations. Then you build agents with Greg and the group that quote, invoice, chase and keep waterproofing records your way, so your people spend the day on clients and the crew. AI Club and the free Tradies App are where you start.

How it works

Three Steps, Starting Tonight.

Step 1

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.

Step 2

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.

Step 3

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.

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

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.

Read how Greg built a trade business that runs without him

What changes for you

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 the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.

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. 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 Tilers Actually Changes.

Three things tiling business owners walk away able to do.

Send a priced bathroom quote the same day you measure it.

Turn every site variation into an invoice line before the job closes.

Have the wet area record written up from the crew's photos automatically.

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
9,000+tradies trained4.9★Google rating4.9★App Store rating

Questions

AI for Tiling Businesses, Answered.

How can AI for tiling businesses take over the admin?
It handles the paperwork between jobs. Agents can turn a bathroom measure into a priced quote with strip out, screed and waterproofing, write up the extra niche as a variation, assemble the membrane record from site photos and chase the builder's overdue payment. They use your rates and exclusions, and nothing reaches a client until you approve it.
Can an agent price a bathroom properly?
Yes, once it has learned from your previous bathrooms and their real costs. It sees where screeding out a fall, fixing a bowed wall or cutting a mosaic around a niche blew the hours, and it asks about those before pricing. A generic chat tool has never stood in a wet area, so its quote is a guess.
Will AI take work off my tiling crew?
Only the office work. Laying a large format floor flat or getting a shower fall right still needs skilled hands. Agents take the quotes, variations, reminders and records, which leaves you time to walk clients through tile choices and bring apprentices on. Most tiling owners find customers notice the extra attention.
Is AI Club worth it for a tiling owner?
It is if you want working agents, not theory. In the live workshop you might build a variation writer that turns a site photo and a sentence into a costed variation, or a message that warns the homeowner when the membrane needs another day. You use it the following week, with other trade owners building beside you.
A painted scene of a trade business owner home before dark, sitting on the tray of his ute while his son runs to meet him

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.