Built for busy trades & labour businesses
Plumbing, electrical, building, landscaping, HVAC, civil and other trades and labour businesses run on the skill and reputation of the people doing the work. But once a trade business hits the $1M-$5M+ mark, and especially once it starts winning larger commercial, government or head contractor work, the way the business runs has to change and develop better systems and processes.
BusinessRx works hands-on inside Australian trade businesses to build the operational backbone that supports bigger jobs, tighter compliance and steady growth - without you needing to hire a full-time ops manager, compliance officer or admin lead to do it.
We are not consultants who hand you a report and expect you to do it all yourself. We do the work: extracting what’s in your head, documenting it properly, setting up the systems, and training your team to run it without you.
Does this sound familiar?
If more than a couple of these are true, your operations are likely costing you time, money or
sleep.
You are the only person who fully understands how a job gets priced, approved,
delivered and invoiced end to end
Cashflow is a mess, too many clients still haven’t paid, and you don’t have clear reporting
Invoices to commercial clients or head contractors get queried, delayed or rejected because paperwork or evidence is missing
Variations get done and priced after the fact or not approved in writing before the job
proceeds
Your bookkeeper cannot take on job-level admin because the process has never been
documented or they don’t have capacity
You’re paying for, or about to pay for, a job management system without a clear plan for
what needs to go into it
You don’t have a website, or it doesn’t reflect the work you’re actually capable of
winning
Growth feels risky, because you’re not confident the business would run smoothly
without you in it every day
Growing trade businesses moving from tools to team
You’ve gone from a one-person operation to running crews, subbies and multiple jobs at once, and the business still runs on what’s in your head rather than documented, repeatable process.
Businesses where aged debtors, invoicing gaps or messy financial data disrupts cash flow.
We review your Xero setup to work out why aged receivables may be too high and rebuild the reporting and tracking your business needs to see cash position clearly. A SOP of the new processes is created so the improvements hold once we step back.
Subcontractors to head contractors and government-linked work
You’re delivering work under a head contractor like one of the big Tier 1 construction companies or a state or federal panel arrangement, and the compliance load (purchase orders, variations, timesheets, compliance certificates, anti-slavery, people and WHS documentation) has outgrown what you can track manually.
Trade businesses implementing a job management system
You’re adopting or switching to a jobs management platform and need help getting your processes documented and your data organised before go-live, not worked out after.
Established trades wanting to reduce owner dependency
You want to step back from the finance, compliance and admin side of the business, bring on a bookkeeper or virtual assistant, and know the business will still run properly without you holding it all together
Also check out our Critical Roles Continuity service.
Please note: our services are delivered remotely by default; travel time and costs apply for any on-site work.
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