Trade Time Freedom Workshop
A hands-on session with a room of other owners. I find where your time really goes and build a simple weekly plan that gets you out of the middle of everything. This is the first step.
The uncomfortable bit
Nobody in your business can do what you do. That is not a compliment.
That is why you cannot take a week off. I cut fifty hours a week of quoting, scheduling and invoicing in my own business down to under five.
Gold Coast, QLD. Working with trade, construction, transport and warehousing owners across eastern Australia.
The map
Every job and every run moves through the same twelve steps. Tick the ones that cannot finish without you.
Same twelve whether it is a job on a site or a run out of a depot. The names on the boxes change. The shape does not.
- 01
The enquiry comes in
- 02
The quote gets put together
- 03
The work is won
- 04
The work gets scheduled
- 05
The crew or the driver does it
- 06
The hours and the details come back
- 07
The numbers get keyed in
- 08
Someone checks what is actually finished
- 09
The invoice or the claim goes out
- 10
The customer approves it
- 11
The money hits the account
- 12
The short paid balance gets chased
If you counted six or more, the business cannot run a week without you. That is not a work ethic problem. It is a design problem. I map every step from enquiry to cash, count the ones with your name on them, and build the ones that do not need you - so the work stops following you home.
- 8businesses
- $40Mturnover
- $50M+in deals
Six signs the business still runs through you
- Nobody can quote it but you.
- The schedule lives in your head.
- Your mobile is the customer service line.
- The invoice waits on you checking it.
- You find out a job or a run went wrong when someone rings you.
- The same three jobs have been rolling to next week's list since June.
Faster version: sit in a meeting for one hour with your phone face down, then count the missed calls when you walk out.
That is not a criticism of how it is run. It is what happens when a business grows faster than the people running it.
Who this is for
- Trade, construction, transport and warehousing business owners, $1M+ turnover, in Australia.
- Owners still doing the quoting, scheduling and admin themselves. Job sheets or run sheets, mostly by hand, mostly at night.
- Teams that have hit their limit - crews on the road, trucks in the yard, a depot that starts at 6am. Either you build the next layer of leaders, or growth stops.
Who this isn’t for
- If it's just you, there's no second layer to build yet. Systems can wait.
- If you're still working out what you sell, systems will only lock in the wrong thing.
- If you want someone to tell you you're doing a great job, I'm the wrong bloke.
What I set up for you
Before I sell you any software, I take three things off your plate that cost nothing. Stop taking the call, send the update. Stop doing it bespoke, template it. Do it once, record it, then stop doing it. The AI comes after, and only where it earns its place. Most owners only use AI for the easy things - emails, texts and Google review replies. I set it up to run the scheduling, quoting and admin instead.
Trade Office Operating System
The 6 to 12 month build. I set up the systems and AI for real - not just advise you. A simple weekly plan, a quoting and admin process your team can run without you, and the tools that keep it all working.
Why listen to me
I’m not a tradie. I started on the factory floor cutting pipe, but I never spent my life on the tools. I’ve also built and sold a logistics business, so if you run trucks and a yard rather than crews and vans, I’ve sat in your chair too. Today I run 8 businesses doing $40M a year, and I’ve bought and sold more than $50M worth of them. I’m not the bloke who used to be where you are - I’m the bloke where you want to get to, with more moving parts than you have. I’ll show you how I do it.
Everything I build has to work in a real week - crews on the road or trucks on a run, a customer changing the job, a quote due tonight. No software you didn’t ask for. No forty page manual nobody reads.
What being in the middle costs you at sale
A business that runs without its owner sells for around seven to eight times earnings. One that runs through its owner often struggles to reach three to four, and owner-dependent businesses regularly go for 30 to 50 percent less than comparable ones. Getting out of the middle isn’t a lifestyle project. It’s the biggest single lever on what the business is worth the day you sell it.
What you walk out of the workshop with
- A written weekly plan
- A clear admin and quoting process
- A 30 day to-do list
How it works
- 01
Apply
A few short questions so I can see if the workshop is a fit for you.
- 02
Trade Time Freedom Workshop
You and a room of other owners build the weekly plan that gets you out of the middle.
- 03
Set-up
I turn that plan into real systems your team runs while the trucks are on the road.
Apply for the Trade Time Freedom Workshop
More work doesn’t have to mean more hours. Tell me where you’re at and I’ll see if it’s a fit.