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Built for people who build.

Quoting from the ute, scheduling that a change of weather wrecks, invoices chased at nine at night. Trades businesses run on job systems that half-work together, and the hours you lose to admin are billable hours going to landfill. One of my two live public tools exists because a concreter's biggest enemy is Thursday's weather.

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Live proof

Use it. Right here.

A week of jobs, some outdoor, and the forecast. Reshuffle around the rain and watch the SMS drafts appear for your approval.

live demoThis week against the forecast

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Rain Check, one of my live tools, already does the weather half. Joined to your job system, the reshuffle proposes itself before 6am.

The work

Where the hours go, and come back.

Job systems that talk to each other

Whatever job system you already run, wired to Xero and your website, so an enquiry becomes a quote becomes a job becomes an invoice without anyone retyping it, and the office stops being a photocopier between systems. The plumbing lives at CRM & automation.

Quotes that follow themselves up

Most trades lose more to unfollowed quotes than to lost jobs. Automated, polite persistence: the quote goes out, the reminder goes out, the acceptance books the job, and you find out which quotes die and why from reporting instead of vibes.

Weather and scheduling, taken seriously

I built Rain Check, a free live tool that answers "can we pour the slab in Bendigo on Thursday", because concreting and painting fail on different weather and a generic forecast answers neither. The same thinking applies to your schedule.

Field capture without paperwork

Photos, signatures, site forms and variations straight from the phone into the job record, offline where reception is bad, per mobile apps. The site diary that writes itself is not a fantasy; it is a camera and fifteen minutes of setup.

Where this comes from

A tool for trades is already live.

Rain Check is not a mock-up: it is on the internet, free, with public source, and it answers a question only somebody who listened to trades businesses would think to ask. My day job is critical infrastructure at a miner, which is construction's bigger sibling: the same scheduling, the same weather, the same subcontractor paperwork, at a scale where getting it wrong makes the news.

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Fair questions

Before you ask.

We already run a job system. Do we have to change?
No, and you usually should not. The job system is rarely the problem; the gaps around it are. I extend what you run: the website feeding it, Xero reconciled with it, the follow-ups automated out of it. Changing systems is the last resort, not the first quote.
Can you stop the double entry between the job system and Xero?
Almost always, yes. Job systems and Xero both have decent APIs; the usual blocker is nobody senior enough to decide what maps to what. That mapping is analyst work, it takes a conversation, and then the retyping stops permanently.
We're tradies, not tech people.
Good; I am not selling you technology, I am buying you hours back. You describe the annoying part of your week in plain words, and the fix arrives working, with the office shown how to drive it. If a fix is not worth its cost, I say so.