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PG Automations · The Op3ro System

One login. Forty-three screens. Your entire stack.

PG Automations is the company. Op3ro is the software it builds. Below are the three things that quietly cost a contracting business the most money — what each one costs you now, and exactly what the system does about it.

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Problem 01

Half your job list is buried in a group chat.

Someone types “can you order the blocks for Mooney Mooney before Thursday” into Slack at 6pm. It scrolls away. Nobody makes a task. On Thursday the crew turns up and the blocks aren’t there, and that’s a day of four blokes standing around.

Op3ro AI sits on top of the chat your team already uses — Slack, Teams, or ours. It reads the thread, creates the task, assigns it, sets the due date, attaches the photo for context and links it to the job. Then it replies in the thread so everyone can see it landed.

Team chat · Mooney Mooney build

6:04 pm

@Jakob can you get the retaining wall blocks ordered for Mooney Mooney before Thursday — photo attached

Site photo attached to the chat message

Op3ro AI · Task created

Order retaining wall blocks

Assigned
Jakob
Due
Thursday 21 Aug
Attached
1 photo
Linked to job
#1042 Mooney Mooney

Posted back to the thread — nobody had to open another app.

Problem 02

An estimator, a procurement guy and a project manager. For one quote.

Someone does the takeoff. Someone else rings four suppliers for current prices. Someone else builds the cost sheet, then the proposal, then works out the day-by-day so the crew knows what happens when. Three people, five to seven days, and the client has already had two other numbers.

The way it works now

Estimator

Procurement

Project manager

3 people · 5–7 days · and the quote still went out third

On Op3ro AI

Takeoff · site plan

EXISTINGDWELLINGDRIVEDECKRETAINING WALLLAWNGARDEN BEDRL 43.60RL 42.1018.2m12.4m6.8m4.1m84 m²

Quantities off the drawing, or measured on site with the phone.

One person · under an hour · and it went out first

It knows where the job is, so it prices materials from suppliers near it. The proposal that lands in the client’s inbox includes renders of what their place will look like when it’s finished. And the day-by-day plan it writes doesn’t sit in a document — it installs straight into the project schedule your crews work from.

Problem 03

You quoted eighteen hours. It took twenty-six. You found out at BAS.

Subcontractors invoice for what they say they worked. Team members log what they remember. Nobody compares any of it to what the job was quoted at until the quarter closes, and by then it’s four jobs deep.

Every job carries the hours it was quoted at. Timesheets, GPS arrival times and subcontractor invoices get checked against it automatically. When someone bills six hours for a job the ute was parked at for four, you know that week — not next quarter.

Op3ro · Labour variance · this month
PersonJobEst.ActualVarianceCost
subcontractor#104218.024.5+6.5 hrs+$520
#103812.015.0+3.0 hrs+$240
#10359.07.8−1.2 hrs−$96
#103122.026.5+4.5 hrs+$360
#10296.06.00.0 hrs$0

Flagged this month: $1,024 over quoted labour

Cross-checked against vehicle GPS arrival and departure times.

Two ways to buy

Replace the stack, or fix one thing.

Both start with the same audit. Which one you need depends on how much of your current software actually works.

The Op3ro System

You have nine subscriptions that don’t talk to each other and you’re paying per seat for all of them. Op3ro replaces the lot with one system you own outright. Every problem above, solved in one place, and the licensing cost goes with it.

  • One login instead of nine
  • No per-seat pricing, ever
  • You own the data and the system
  • Every process connected, so the AI works off your real data

One-time build + hosting.

Operations Consulting

You’ve got software that mostly works and you don’t want to rip it out. Fair enough. We build AI that sits on top of what you already run and fixes the one or two processes that are actually hurting — inside Simpro, ServiceM8, Xero, HubSpot, Slack, whatever you have.

  • Keep your existing tools and licences
  • We fix one process properly rather than all of them badly
  • Live in one to two weeks
  • Start with the audit and find out which process is worth it

Or come and watch it run for a day in Sydney before you decide. →

From $3–6k. You keep paying your existing licences.

The difference is simple. Consulting fixes a process. Op3ro replaces the stack — and the monthly bill that comes with it.

Op3ro AI Reception

What can your receptionist actually see?

Anyone can put a voice AI on a phone number. The difference is what sits behind it — an integration that syncs a thin slice of the customer record, or the database the schedule and the quotes already live in.

A bolt-on receptionist

Sits on another platform, connected by an integration

  • Caller’s name and number, if the sync ran
  • Whether they have an open job
  • The SMS thread from Tuesday
  • The quote you sent last week, and whether they opened it
  • The invoice that’s twelve days overdue
  • Where the crew is right now
  • What was done on the last visit
  • Real availability — it can only request a booking

It can take a message. That’s about it.

Op3ro AI Reception

Same system as everything else — no integration in between

  • Every call, SMS and email with that client, going back
  • The open quote, when it was sent, whether it was opened
  • Invoice and payment status
  • Live crew location and ETA
  • Full service history against the property
  • The actual schedule — so it books, it doesn’t request
  • Job notes, photos and access instructions

It answers like someone who works there.

This isn’t a better model. It’s the same model with access to your business.

A live call

It already knows why they’re ringing.

This is a call in progress. Nothing in it was looked up through an integration — it is all the same database the crew works from.

Live+61 4·· ··· 918 · 0:34Take over call

Caller

Hi, it’s ——— from Ocean Street.

Op3ro AI

Hi — good to hear from you. I can see you’re on the fortnightly garden maintenance and you’re next booked for Thursday morning. There’s also a quote we sent last Tuesday for the retaining wall that’s still open. What can I help with?

Caller

It’s about the retaining wall — any chance you can do it cheaper?

Op3ro AI

I can’t change pricing myself, but I’ll flag it for Pat and have him call you back today. I’ve made a note against that quote so he’s got the context.

Guardrail: pricing changes — not permitted

Join any call live, at any point. The AI hands over mid-sentence and the customer never gets transferred.

Happened automatically

  • Call transcribed and saved against the client
  • Callback task created for Pat, due today
  • Note attached to quote #Q-2291
Guardrails

You decide what it’s allowed to say.

Every rule is a setting, not a prompt you hope it follows. It refuses inside the call and tells the customer a human will come back to them.

  • Quote prices over the phoneOff
  • Offer discounts or price matchesOff
  • Commit to a date inside 48 hoursOff
  • Book into an open slotOn
  • Discuss an overdue invoiceOn, politely
  • Escalate to a human on requestAlways on

Most businesses turn pricing off and booking on. The point is that it’s your call, not the model’s.

Why it matters

Missed calls are the cheapest money you’re leaving behind.

1 in 4

calls to trade businesses go unanswered during work hours

Industry estimate

78%

of customers hire whoever responds first

Industry estimate

24/7

it answers at 6:40pm on a Sunday, which is when emergency work rings

The first two figures are widely cited industry estimates, not our own measurements. The only numbers we present as ours are the ones from Flawless Gardens.

The system itself

Five of the forty-three screens

Recreated in the browser from the live account — dashboard, routes, quoting, inbox and Op3ro AI. Client names blurred.

portal.yourbusiness.com.au

Dashboard

Last 12 months

Jobs completed

1,003

all time

Crew efficiency

88%

booked vs paid hours

Avg client lifetime

3.8 mo

$1,586 LTV

Recurring due

6

3 overdue by 14d+

Revenue by month

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M
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J
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This year Last year

Recurring due

Garden Maintenance · 2 weeks

22d overdue240 min$300

Maintenance · 2 weeks

19d overdue300 min$360

Lawn Mowing · 2 weeks

14d overdue40 min$70

Live account. Client names blurred.

What your current stack costs

Indicative Australian list pricing, 2026. Your invoices will differ — change the numbers to match yours.

Job management$1,140

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.

Op3ro AI

Op3ro AI sits across all of it.

Because every process lives in one system, the AI works from your actual data — your jobs, your quotes, your timesheets, your client history — instead of a generic template. That’s the part a stack of separate subscriptions can never do.

AI receptionist

Answers, qualifies and books while your crew is on the tools.

Task creation

Turns a call, an email or a site note into the job that follows it.

Auto scheduling

Rosters the week to vehicles by capacity, skills and geography.

Route optimising

Orders the run so the day costs less fuel and fewer hours.

Crew working on site with the system running on a phone

Every screen exists because a job cost us money

How it starts

Nobody replaces everything on day one.

We start with the one process that is costing you the most, prove it with your own numbers, and only then move to the next. The audit is where that decision gets made — on evidence, not on a pitch.

Work out your number