Nobody has the full picture.
Job files, emails, spreadsheets and the accounts each hold part of it. You get one picture of where the time and margin actually go.
You’re not short of ideas. You’re busy, the money isn’t there, and every decision still lands on the same few desks. You’ll see where your time and margin go, fix what pays back first, and your team stays in it.
Not sure where you stand? Are we ready for AI?
Yes. You don’t need a list of tools. You need to know which part of the business costs you most, and where to start.
Job files, emails, spreadsheets and the accounts each hold part of it. You get one picture of where the time and margin actually go.
The business relies on one or two people to remember what changed, who owes what and which job needs a look. That gets it out of people’s heads and into a process.
Slow quotes, late reports and chasing. It doesn’t look like a technology problem, and often the fix isn’t technology at all.
Sometimes it’s a build. Sometimes it’s training, or a simpler process fix first. You’ll know which, and why.
Enquiries, quotes, job packs and sign-offs get to the next person on their own.
Drawings, certificates and paperwork land in the right place under the right name, and anything missing gets flagged.
Job costs come to you every week, checked, while there’s still time to act on them.
This is for established UK construction businesses, roughly £750k turnover and up. That’s a guide, not a rule.
Contractors, housebuilders and developers, QS and cost consultants, surveyors and project managers, manufacturers, merchants and hire companies. You have one person who knows how the work really gets done, and time set aside for them to work on it.
You’re happy with the margin you’re making. You want software dropped in without changing how the work gets done. Or you’re not willing to look honestly at where the time and money go. Sole traders and small owner-run trades aren’t a fit either. If that’s you, you’ll hear it on the first call.
Before anything gets built, the cost comes out of your own records: hours a week, times what those hours cost you, times the weeks in a year. If the numbers don’t stack up, you hear that and nothing gets built. Every step is priced on its own, so you’re never signed up to the lot on day one.
Wherever work gets done twice, waits on someone, or only one person knows how to do it. In a construction business that’s usually enquiries, estimating, paperwork, cost reporting, compliance and handovers.
The date is agreed when you book it. If something is outstanding from your side, you hear it there and then and the date moves in writing.
Usually, yes. It starts with the tools and files you already have. If your setup is part of the problem, you’ll hear it, but you won’t be pushed onto a new platform to start with.
You work it out before you spend anything. Hours a week, times what they cost, times the weeks in a year. That’s what leaving it alone costs you. If the fix doesn’t beat that, you’ll hear it and nothing gets built.
The first step is a short questionnaire and one conversation. After that it takes one person who knows the work, not the whole team. And it starts with the job that eats the most hours, so the first thing you get back is time.