Construction & trades
You're great on site. The office is where it falls apart.
Quotes in spreadsheets, jobs on WhatsApp, timesheets on the back of an envelope. We become your technical partner and build the systems that run the back office, so you can take on more work without hiring more admin.
Sound familiar?
Most contractors we meet built a good business on good work. The systems behind it grew up by accident.
Quoting takes too long.
Every tender starts from an old spreadsheet, and nobody's sure the material prices are still right.
Jobs live in people's heads.
When the one person who knows where everything is goes on holiday, so does the schedule.
Paperwork follows you home.
Timesheets, RAMS, certificates and invoices get done at the kitchen table on a Sunday.
You can't see the numbers until it's too late.
You find out a job lost money weeks after it finished.
Software didn't fix it.
You've tried the off-the-shelf apps. They were built for someone else's business, so the team went back to WhatsApp.
None of this is a people problem. It's a systems problem, and that's fixable.
What it looks like when the office works as hard as the site
Quotes out the same day.
Your pricing, your margins and your supplier rates live in one place, so a tender takes an hour, not a weekend.
Everyone knows what's happening.
Jobs, crews, plant and deadlines on one screen, in the office and on a phone in the van.
Paperwork does itself.
Timesheets feed invoices. Certificates and RAMS are filed against the job automatically.
You know which jobs make money.
Live costs against quote while the job's still running, not three months later.
You grow without a bigger office.
More work through the same team, because the admin isn't the bottleneck any more.
We don't sell you a box of software. We build around how your business actually runs, then keep improving it as you grow.
A tech lead for your business, without the salary
You don't need a full-time tech hire. You need someone who understands your business, knows what's worth fixing first, and can actually build it. That's the Tech Partnership.
We learn your business.
We spend time on site and in the office, and see how a job really moves from enquiry to invoice. This comes out of your partnership days, not an extra bill.
We agree a roadmap.
A plain-English plan of what to fix, in what order, and what each step is worth to you. You can see it live in your client portal at any time.
We build and fix.
Quoting tools, job management, automations, whatever the roadmap says comes next, with the right specialist on each job.
We keep it running.
Support when you need it, regular check-ins, and any bugs in what we've built fixed for free.
Partnerships start at £1,000 a month for two days of expert time. Commit for six months, or go rolling monthly. See all partnership tiers
We've been in the trade's back office for 12 years
A fencing and groundworks firm.
We're building one system covering their enquiries, jobs, crews and finance, so quoting, scheduling and invoicing all happen in one place.
A rail industry business.
We built their bespoke software and we've supported it ever since.
Software we built over a decade ago is still running businesses today.
The questions this usually raises.
Find out what's slowing you down
Answer a few quick questions about how your business runs. We'll tell you honestly whether a partnership makes sense, or whether something smaller would do the job.
No sales script. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.