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Packages

Three ready-made tools, fitted to your business in weeks.

Each one grew out of software that runs a real business every day. You pay for fitting it to yours, which takes weeks rather than months, because the hard part is already built.
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From $3,900 to set up, then a monthly fee. Prices in Canadian dollars.

Every name, figure and date in these pictures is invented. The screens are the real software.

Which one is yours

"I have three prices for the same job and no way to tell which one is actually cheapest."

Bid sheet

"Everything gets written down twice. Once on paper at the job, once again in the office."

Site forms

"A customer asked me to prove who is trained and I spent the afternoon in a filing cabinet."

Staff training

Bid sheet

Stop picking the quote that only looks cheapest.

Three suppliers quote the same job three different ways. This lines them up on the same rows, shows you what each one left out, and re-prices their bid as if they had included it, so the one that looks $4,000 cheaper stops looking cheaper.

Three bids on the same rows. Where one supplier left something out, it is priced back in at the cheapest competing figure, so the totals compare like for like. This screen is from BuildTrack, the home builder system the package comes from.

Who it is for

Home builders, renovators, facilities and property managers, farms, and anyone who collects three prices before spending money.

What is included

  • Six trades to compare across, set up with your own names for them.
  • Ten comparison rows in each trade, which is enough for a full package of work.
  • Three people signed in.
  • Reading the numbers off a supplier PDF into a draft you check before it is saved, up to a hundred documents a month.
  • A written note of which bid is really cheapest and why.

Where it stops

  • It lines the bids up and re-prices them. Choosing who wins is still yours.
  • It does not contact your suppliers or chase them for a missing price.
  • It reads what is written in a quote. It cannot tell you a supplier is wrong about the work itself.
  • Reading a PDF gives you a draft beside the document it came from, and nothing is saved until you have checked the numbers. It is built and tested, and on the builder it came from every bid was still typed in by hand, so treat it as time saved rather than a step you can stop watching.

Every package says on the card where its limit is, so you never run out of room in month two.

Extras

  • An extra trade to compare across$250
  • Reading a supplier PDF beyond the first hundred a month$0.80 a document

    Charged only on what you go over by.

What to bring

  • Three quotes for the same job, from the last year. Scans or photos are fine.
  • The trades you buy most often, in the words you use for them on site.
  • One job where the cheapest quote turned out not to be the cheapest.
  • Who reads the quotes today and who signs off the spend.
To set up
$4,500
Then
$290 a month
Starting the day it goes live, not the day you pay.
Ready in
About three weeks

We confirm what it will do for your business, and the price, in writing before anything is charged.

Site forms

Your crew fills it in on site. It lands in the office signed.

Your crew fills the inspection in on their phone at the job. Every answer saves on the phone as they go, so a dead zone or a closed tab loses nothing, and the photos finish sending themselves when the bars come back. It lands in the office signed, dated, with the photos attached, and prints as a clean PDF.

The phone screen is the site walk in the compliance console, the system this package comes from. Behind it, a finished form as the office receives it: signed, dated, photos attached.

Who it is for

Trades, transport yards, farms, utilities, safety consultancies, and anyone whose staff fill in paper on site.

What is included

  • Eight forms, built from the paper ones you use today.
  • As many crew as you like, at no extra cost per person.
  • Photos taken on one bar of signal, shrunk on the phone and sent when it comes back.
  • Every finished form prints as a clean PDF with the signature and the date on it.

Where it stops

  • You tell us the questions and we build the form. Building a brand new form from scratch is not yet something you can do without us.
  • It does not schedule who fills what in, and it does not chase them.
  • The answers and the photos survive with no signal, but sending the finished form still needs a connection. Your crew press send when they are back in range, and nothing they typed is lost in the meantime.

Every package says on the card where its limit is, so you never run out of room in month two.

Extras

  • An extra form$250
  • A printed day pack$450

    Cover sheet, a route card in walking order, one sheet per person to interview, and a photo log. Paid once.

What to bring

  • The paper forms you use now. Photographs of them are enough.
  • Which eight matter most, if you have more than eight.
  • Who fills each one in, and who reads it afterwards.
  • One hour of somebody who actually fills them in, not only the office.
To set up
$3,900
Then
$290 a month
Starting the day it goes live, not the day you pay.
Ready in
About two weeks

We confirm what it will do for your business, and the price, in writing before anything is charged.

Staff training

Training your staff finish, with proof for the insurer.

Assign a course, your staff work through it on a phone, they pick up where they stopped, and it only counts as done when they pass the quiz. Then you can print proof for an insurer that a named person did it on a named date.

A lesson on a phone, and the grid the office sees: every person, every ticket, what is current and what is running out. The grid is from the compliance console.

Who it is for

Trades, retail groups, transport firms, care providers, and safety consultancies who resell training.

What is included

  • Five courses built with you from whatever you train on today.
  • As many staff as you like, at no extra cost per person.
  • A certificate with a name and a date on it, for every pass.
  • A reminder when somebody is coming up for doing it again.
  • A download an auditor will accept, showing who did what and when.

Where it stops

  • Renewal reminders are built, but they are not yet sent on their own to a timer. Somebody still sends them.
  • The courses are yours and ours together. We do not resell a course library built by anybody else.

Every package says on the card where its limit is, so you never run out of room in month two.

Extras

  • An extra course built for you$850
  • A course drafted out of your own handbook$450

What to bring

  • Whatever you train people on today, even if it is a folder of handouts.
  • The list of your staff and what each of them does.
  • How often each course has to be done again.
  • Who is allowed to sign off that somebody is trained.
To set up
$4,500
Then
$450 a month
Starting the day it goes live, not the day you pay.
Ready in
About three weeks

We confirm what it will do for your business, and the price, in writing before anything is charged.

Side by side

The three, on one table.

The three packages compared: set-up fee, monthly fee and ready time.
PackageTo set upA month
Bid sheet$4,500$290
Site forms$3,900$290
Staff training$4,500$450

How a package works

Four steps, and most of them are ours.

1

Choose one

Ask about it, or buy it when card payment is on.

2

Send what you have

The list under "What to bring" on the card.

3

We fit it

Your names, your forms, your words.

4

It goes live

In about two to three weeks, on your own address.

Not quite right?

Need something none of these do?

That is a project. Tell us about it, or start with a fit check if you want a written plan first.
Start a projectGet a fit check

Fit check, $390Two written pages: what to build, what it would cost, and whether you need us at all.

A projectDesigned and built for your business, at one fixed price in writing.