Construction & building
For teams of 5+ people
A three-week takeoff, done before Friday.
We're not a software company guessing at your industry. We own and run a business that quotes, schedules, claims and invoices through this system every day — bought running on spreadsheets. Twelve months later: 7 crews, 15 staff, about $200k a month. Op3ro — the software PG Automations builds — does the same work for builders.
- Takeoff and pricing off the drawing, not off a two-year-old spreadsheet.
- Progress claims assembled before the cut-off, not chased after it.
- Earn versus burn on every job, updated daily.
What is your back office costing you?
Recoverable each year
$351,000
90 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.
The quicker you price, the more you win. If estimating is a bottleneck sitting with one person, and progress claims eat a day a month, 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 construction & building, we build the system that runs it: quoted, rostered and costed in one place.
Three things builders lose money on every month
Estimating
One person is the bottleneck for every dollar you win.
Takeoffs done by hand, priced in Excel, then re-typed into the job system. When the estimator is away, quoting stops.
One person · under an hour
- 01TakeoffMeasured from plan
- 02Local supplier pricing3 suppliers compared$11.40/ea · best price
- 03ProposalRendered and priced
- 04Into scheduleWon → rostered
Measure once and the system prices it off live supplier rates, writes the proposal and drops the won job straight into the schedule.
Progress claims
A day a month, every month, forever.
Scope, hours and materials pulled from three places, then chased. Miss the cut-off and you carry it another thirty days.
Certificate assembling
Issued- Site photos6 attached
- Test resultsPass · 0.32Ω
- SignatureSigned on site
Certificate of compliance
Assembled before the crew leaves site.
Photos, test results and sign-offs assemble into the certificate as the work happens, issued before the crew leaves site.
Double entry
The same number keyed into three systems.
Excel to job system to Xero. Every re-key is a chance to be wrong, and nobody finds out until the claim is queried.
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
$2,628 /mo
$31,530 a year
On Op3ro
$150 /mo
94% 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
- Takeoff from drawings
- Field quotes by voice
- Progress claims assembled
- Variations tracked
- Earn versus burn margin
- Compliance and tickets
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.
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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 Simpro / Procore.
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 job system on day one is how projects fail.
Our estimating is too specific to automate.
It is not the maths that is specific, it is the judgement. We automate the takeoff, the rate lookup and the document assembly, and leave the judgement with your estimator 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.