Concreting & civil
For teams of 5+ people
The pour is the easy part. The week before it is where the money goes.
PG Automations builds Op3ro, the operations system we run our own 7-crew Sydney trade business on. Pour scheduling, site variables priced in, plant hire tracked and job margin the day it cures.
- Supplier, pump and crew sequenced against one schedule.
- Access, fall and reo priced into the quote, not after it.
- Hire days closed out when the job does.
What is your back office costing you?
Recoverable each year
$216,216
59 hrs/week reclaimed · 60% automatedWant to see it actually working? We'll send you a walkthrough of the real system running our 7-crew Sydney trade business — quoting a job, rostering the week, capturing receipts on site. No slides.
Concrete is unforgiving on timing and merciless on scope. If the pour is coordinated by phone and the variables are absorbed, you are losing work you already had the capacity to do.
That's our own crew, not a stock photo
Flawless Gardens · Northern Beaches, Sydney — the 7-crew business we own and run on Op3ro. We don't run concreting & civil, we build the system that runs it: quoted, rostered and costed in one place.
Three things concreting businesses lose money on
Scheduling around the pour
Concrete does not wait for your subcontractor.
Supplier, pump, crew and formwork coordinated by phone the night before, and one no-show costs you the truck.
Thursday · 3 vehicles
7am — 4pmClient names blurred.
One board per day per vehicle — crews, jobs and travel in a single view that reshuffles itself the moment something moves.
Site variables
Access, fall and reo change the price after you've quoted it.
The extra labour is real and the quote is fixed, so the difference comes straight off your margin.
Photographed on site
JobJ-10428
Cost codeMAT-02
SupplierBunnings Trade
Amount$284.60
Photograph the docket on site and it comes back coded to the job, the cost code and the supplier without anyone typing it.
Plant and hire
Hire days billed on jobs that finished on Tuesday.
Nobody owns the return, so the invoice arrives with a week of days on a job you already closed.
Labour variance · this month
| Job | Est | Actual | Var |
|---|---|---|---|
| J-10391 | 18h | 26h | +8.0h |
| J-10402 | 12h | 11h | -1.0h |
| J-10417 | 30h | 37.5h | +7.5h |
| J-10428 | 8h | 8h | 0.0h |
| J-10433 | 24h | 21h | -3.0h |
Estimated hours sit beside actual hours on every job, cross-checked against GPS, so the variance shows up this week instead of at BAS.
And you’re paying nine companies for the privilege.
Tick what you pay for now. Op3ro is a system you own, hosted — not nine licences that grow every time you hire.
What your current stack costs
Indicative Australian list pricing, 2026. Your invoices will differ — change the numbers to match yours.
You’re paying now
$2,054 /mo
$24,642 a year
On Op3ro
$150 /mo
93% lower
Simpro is commonly sold on three to five year lock-in contracts with annual increases around CPI + 5%. Op3ro is a one-time build. There is nothing to lock into and nothing to increase.
That’s on top of the time. Op3ro replaces the lot with one system you own — so the licences stop and the admin stops with them.
Configured to your services, your rates, your compliance
- Pour scheduling with supplier and pump coordination
- Site variables priced into the quote
- Plant hire tracked to the job and returned
- Variations captured before the pour
- Concrete volumes reconciled against delivery
- Job margin the day it cures
The call you miss at 4:50pm is the job that goes to someone else.
Op3ro answers, and because it reads the same database as your schedule, quotes and invoices, it knows who is calling and what is open. It books into a real slot instead of asking someone to ring back.
See how AI Reception works →
Who built itPatrick Goodyer. Software developer. Not a tradesman.
I've never been on the tools. No trade background, no qualification, never swung a hammer for money. What I do have is eight years and 300+ automation projects behind me, and a 100% job success record in the top 0.5% of Upwork's 17 million freelancers.
In July 2025 we bought a small landscaping business that ran on spreadsheets, phone calls and one person's memory. Twelve months later: 7 crews, 15 staff, about $200k a month, and the back office never grew to match. That's not because I'm a better landscaper than you — I'm not one at all. It's because the admin runs itself.
The walkthrough is the live account, not a demo tenant: quoting a job, rostering the week, capturing receipts on site. 1,003 jobs have gone through it.
Before the trade business: 8 years systemising businesses around the world.
300+
projects
5.0★
average
Top 0.5%
of 17M freelancers
8 years
systemising businesses
I was in the top 0.5% of freelancers on Upwork (Expert-Vetted, 100% Job Success), helping 300+ clients around the world structure and systemise how they operate. These are their reviews.
“Patrick is the best consultant I've worked with so far. He's extremely professional, super knowledgeable and extremely meticulous in his work.”
“A problem I spent weeks trying to figure out, Pat did in a blink of an eye. Truly a wizard in saving time for business owners. Already passed on his details to a few friends. 10/10.”
“He figured out how to do something that was very complex, with lots of moving parts. Probably never been done before. If you are looking for a creative, out of box thinker, I highly recommend Patrick.”
“Pat was sensational. He was able to deliver on everything that he said he would, even when working on a solution for a system that he had no prior experience with.”
“Patrick was always available and was very knowledgeable about Monday.com. Would highly recommend him to anyone needing a hand with process automation.”
“I highly recommend Pat for any automation work involving Pipedrive, Integromat, Zapier, Clickfunnels with emails and SMS marketing. Pat's responsiveness and knowledge was outstanding.”
“Pat and his team are the best in the business and are like having a Swiss army knife of knowledge at your disposal.”
“Patrick was an absolutely brilliant addition to our CRM migration team. He has a deep understanding of both Pipedrive and Monday that helped us deliver a very effective transition.”
“Pat was great to work with. He is super knowledgeable and efficient. He added tremendous value to the project and our small business.”
“He completed the task effectively and efficiently, but also offered to record a video explaining what he'd done so that I didn't run into the same issue again.”
“Patrick is extremely knowledgeable about the Gcal and Zoom APIs, and managed to resolve a range of problems for me within an hour consultation.”
“Patrick is fantastic. His communication is second to none, and the work he completed was exactly as briefed. I couldn't recommend Patrick highly enough!”
“Pat really knows his stuff. He did everything to our specifications, he was reasonable with his rates, and was a real pleasure to work with.”
“Patrick did an amazing job that seemed very complicated to me. He knows automations and SMS like the back of his hand.”
“Patrick was amazing and local to me which was great to call and chat about things. He built what I asked to be built and was always contactable.”
See it running before you decide anything
Flawless Gardens · Northern Beaches, Sydney — our own business, and the proof the system holds up on real jobs every day.
The three questions we get asked first
We already run job management software.
Then keep it. We build around what you already pay for and remove the re-keying between it, your spreadsheets and your accounting. Replacing a working system on day one is how projects fail.
Our work is too specific to automate.
It is not the work that is specific, it is the judgement. We automate the lookups, the assembly and the chasing, and leave the judgement with your people where it belongs.
How long before something works?
We start with the single worst bottleneck and get a first working improvement in quickly. Then we measure it and keep improving the next problem with you.
Before you hire an automation consultant.
Almost every consultant selling AI to trade businesses has never run one. They have never quoted a job at 9pm, never had a crew standing around waiting on a delivery, never chased a progress claim past the cut-off. They have helped clients in the industry. That is not the same thing, and it is why most of these projects quietly fail — they map a process they have only ever been told about.
We own and operate a Sydney trade business with 7 crews, 15 staff and about $200k a month. Every process we sell you, we run ourselves, every day.
Ask any other consultant the same question we’d expect from you: what’s your trade business, and can we come and watch it run?
Book a Growth Plan call.
We'll look at where your work comes from, where it leaks, and what fixing it is worth. You leave with a 90-day plan, whether or not we work together.