Custom software for small business
Your crew fills in the form on site. It lands in your office signed, dated, with the photos attached.
That is one thing we built. We make the software small businesses actually run on: quotes, jobs, bookings, records, the daily running of it. The price is agreed in writing before anything starts, and what we build is yours to keep whether you stay with us or not.
A first call is thirty minutes and free. No build is charged before you have the price in writing.
Not ready to talk yet? A fit check is $390: two written pages back in three working days, and it comes off in full against any build you start with us within sixty days. What a fit check covers.
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Hazard controls in place at the work site
- What to look at
- Guards fitted on the bench grinder and the chop saw. Eye wash within ten seconds' walk. Extension cords off the floor in walkways.
- Good looks like
- Guards in place, eye wash unobstructed and dated within the month.
- Gap looks like
- A guard removed and set aside, eye wash blocked by stock.
Notes
Chop saw guard fitted. Eye wash station blocked by a pallet of filters. Cord across the walkway at the parts bench.
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Every name, figure and date on this screen is invented. The layout is exactly what the software does.
Four businesses so far, and no two of them in the same trade. What they had in common was a spreadsheet holding the place together and one person who understood it.
[ 01 ] Recent work
Four businesses. Four problems no ready-made tool solved.
See all the work →[ 02 ] Why people come to us
The awkward part is the part nobody sells you.
buildtrack — bid comparison
| Comparison row | Bow Valley Trussquoted 12 Jun 2026valid to 31 Jul 2026 | Wheatland Framingquoted 14 Jun 2026valid to 30 Sep 2026 | Springbank Structuralquoted 15 Jun 2026valid to 15 Aug 2026 |
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| Floor system | 24,180.00 | 22,940.00 | 23,900.00 |
| Roof trusses | 31,450.00 | 30,180.00 | 31,100.00 |
| Engineered beams | 9,060.00 | 9,140.00 | not quoted |
| Wall packages | 18,300.00 | 17,650.003 lines | 18,600.00 |
| Delivery and crane | 2,450.00 | 1,900.00 | not quoted |
| Tall wall details | 1,020.00 | 980.00 | not quoted |
| Quoted total, before GST | 86,460.00 | 82,790.00 | 73,600.00 |
| Priced back inat the cheapest competing figure | — | — | +11,940.00 |
| Adjusted total | 86,460.00 | 82,790.00Lowest adjusted | 85,540.00 |
What actually differs
- Springbank Structural did not price engineered beams, delivery and crane, or tall wall details. Priced like for like they are $2,750.00 above Wheatland Framing, not $9,190.00 below.
- Wheatland Framing split the wall package into three lines — main floor, upper floor, garage. They are compared here on one row.
- Bow Valley Truss is the only bid that includes a crane day. The other two quote delivery only.
Ask before you award
- Springbank Structural — are engineered beams excluded, or supplied by others?
- Springbank Structural — is delivery to Airdrie inside the wall package price?
- Wheatland Framing — does the tall wall allowance cover the 18 ft great room?
- Bow Valley Truss — what is the rate if a second crane day is needed?
Every name, figure and date on these screens is invented. The layout is exactly what the software does.
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job-site forms running on one engine, so your twenty-fifth is a short job
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reports where the file you download cannot disagree with the screen
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ways to lay out a training lesson, all of them usable from a keyboard
[ 03 ] How it works
A free call, a price in writing, then it gets built.
The whole thing, week by week →A first call
30 minutes, free
A price in writing
Within a day
We build it
1 to 8 weeks
It goes live
On your own address
We look after it
Only if you want
You talk to the person who builds it
One builder, start to finish. Nobody hands you on, and nothing gets lost between the person who listened and the person who typed.
One price, agreed before anything starts
Half when you say yes, half the day it goes live. If you ask for something later that was not in the written note, we price it and you decide first.
It is yours
It is kept in a private locker you hold the keys to, in accounts in your own name. If you ever want to take it elsewhere, you take it. There is nothing to pay to leave.
[ 04 ] What we build
Three shapes, and most jobs are one of them.
What a build involves →[ 05 ] Ways to work with us
Have it built, take something already built, or learn to build it.
[ 01 ]
A custom build
Software built for your business and nobody else. We work out what it needs to do, agree the price in writing, then build it.
[ 02 ]
A ready-made tool
Something we have already built, set up for your business. Live in weeks rather than months, because most of it exists. Every one of them says on the card where the limit is.
[ 03 ]
Sessions
One to one, on your screen, until you can do it yourself. You finish with something working that your business actually uses.
Not sure which
Or start with a fit check.
A written two-page plan within three working days: what you should build, roughly what it costs, what you should buy off the shelf instead, and whether you need us at all.
$390, once
Three working days
The whole $390 comes off any build you start with us within sixty days.
What a fit check covers →After it is live, keeping it running and keeping it changing starts at $290 a month. You do not have to take that to own your software. See what everything costs.
[ 06 ] Before you say yes
The things people ask us first.
What if you get hit by a bus.
Fair question. Your software sits in an account in your own name, not ours, and it is built with ordinary tools any competent developer can pick up. If we disappear you are inconvenienced, not stranded.
Why not just use one of the website builders.
Often you should, and we will say so on the call. They stop being the right answer when the job you need doing is not a page, it is a process. Holding a deposit. Chasing an order. Knowing whose ticket expires next month.
How do I know the price will not move.
Because the price is set after we have worked out what you need, not before. You get it in writing and nothing starts until you have read it. Ask for something later that was not in the note and we price that separately, before it is built.
What happens when something breaks at eleven at night.
Whoever found it presses a button on the screen they were looking at, circles what is wrong with a finger, and sends it. We get the page without having to ask which one they meant. Small ones are usually fixed by morning.
Sometimes the honest answer is a tool you can buy for forty dollars a month. We will tell you that on the call, and you will not have paid us anything.
Start here
Tell us the part of your week that is worst.
Which door to use
The full brief
About ten minutes, and it means the first call starts halfway through instead of at the beginning. We read every one ourselves and reply within two business days.
One email
A couple of sentences is plenty. The mess is the useful part, so write it the way you would say it.
Not ready yet
Take one email a month instead. No sequence, no chasing, and one click stops it. Get the monthly email.