Time back
Off the tools by six, not by nine.
Get hours a week back from quoting, admin, and reporting.
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You're not short of work. You're short of hours.
AI does one thing: it gives you time. We staff your back office with an AI crew that does the quoting, the paperwork and the chasing — on wages, on your roster — and what you do with the hours they give you back is up to you.
The AI Readiness Audit
$1,500 + GST for MBA members · $2,100 + GST standard
What is AI?AI does one thing, and one thing only —
AI does one thing, and one thing only —
it gives you time.
Every job AI takes off your plate — the quoting, the paperwork, the chasing — hands back the one thing you can't buy more of. What you do with that time is up to you. More jobs quoted. Earlier knock-offs. A business that doesn't need you in every tiny detail.
The best employee you'll ever put on —
and the whole crew costs less than one first-year apprentice.
One who quotes at midnight without complaint. Reads every page of every drawing set and never gets tired. Chases progress claims at dawn. Works 24 hours a day and never takes a sick day.
No such person exists. So we built the crew.
We recruit them. We induct them. You put them on the roster. We keep them sharp.
Staffing the Back Office
You don't hire 'a construction'. You bring in the trades.
The sparky, the chippie, the plumber — specialists, each with a defined job, all working under your supervision. Your back office works the same way now. Pick the roles you need:
Every role joins the same way it would on site: you recruit them, we induct them on your jobs, your quotes, your standards — and then they're on the roster.
Every role works for a weekly wage — a fraction of what the same job costs in salary, and you'll see the exact figure in your staffing plan. And like everyone else on site, they fill in a timesheet: what they did, and the hours they handed back — every week.
On the job
01
The Plans Checker
Reads every page of every drawing set and spec overnight, and flags the 'builder to confirm on site' traps, the clashes and the missing scope before they cost money.
On the roster02
The Estimator
Turns the checked plans into a costed estimate with your margins by trade group. Anything unresolved becomes a provisional sum or an exclusion, never a guess.
On the roster03
The Gatekeeper
Runs site sign-in from a QR code on the fence: who's on site, inductions acknowledged, fit-for-work ticks, and a register you can hand to anyone who asks.
On the rosterIn training
01
The Quote Chaser
Follows up every quote you've sent, politely and persistently, so work doesn't go cold in someone's inbox.
Joining the crew soon02
The Claims Chaser
Keeps progress claims moving so cashflow doesn't depend on you remembering to chase.
Joining the crew soon03
The Bookkeeper's Offsider
Preps and chases the paperwork your bookkeeper is always waiting on.
Joining the crew soon04
The Buyer
Reads supplier invoices and price lists, keeps your rates book current, and flags price rises before they eat a quoted job.
Joining the crew soon05
The Variations Clerk
Papers every change before work proceeds — starting from the conversations where changes actually happen.
Joining the crew soon"Every new starter on your site gets an induction. Your crew's no different — except this one only needs inducting once."
Every role comes with a written position description — what it does, what it never does, and when it checks with you. It flags, you decide. It drafts, you approve. And every role works for your office staff, not instead of them.
Want the detail on one of them? See how AI estimating works for builders.
You're the boss. They do the paperwork. You keep the hours.
Recruit your first role — book the AI Readiness AuditA sett is a foundation stone. Laid once, it's yours for good.
That's the model. We find the two or three roles that'll move the needle fastest in your business — quoting, admin, chasing, whatever's actually costing you — and put them on your roster. They stay as long as they're paid, same as everyone else on site. What's laid once and yours for good is the induction: everything your crew knows about your business — your standards, your rates, your way of doing things — captured in writing and owned by you from day one.
Your crew works at your address — crew.yourbusiness.com.au. And if we ever part ways, the induction goes with you. No hostage data. No lock-in contract. Month to month.
Most builders think using AI means becoming a tech expert. It doesn't. It means having access to someone who already is. That's what Sett is — the starting point, not the finish line.
What you actually get
Six outcomes worth paying for.
Not features. Not tools. Outcomes you can feel in the business by Friday.
More jobs won
Quote first, not last.
Faster, sharper tender responses win more work.
Protect margin
Catch it in the drawings, not on site.
Errors caught before they cost you.
Risk off the table
Know a scam before it costs you.
AI-enabled impersonation and vendor risk, managed.
Know your numbers
See it coming, not after it's gone.
Real-time visibility on which jobs are running under margin.
Be the builder they find
No clear story online. No reviews it can read.
Show up when someone — or an AI tool — searches for the best builder for the job.
A day in the life
This is what AI looks like when it's working.
Boring, quiet, and on time. A heads-up before the trades clash. A quote out the door before the competition has opened the tender.
Your Crew · Schedule
nowHeads up: brickwork delivery slips 9 days
Resequence trades now to hold the handover date?
ResequenceLater
The Estimator · Quote ready
14 Miller St — new build
Generated in 14 minutes · $612,400 +GST
This is what AI looks like when it's working. Boring, quiet, and on time.
The evidence
A big, receptive, under-served industry.
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Rework and defects typically cost 6–12% of contract value on Australian construction projects — much of it traced to errors and omissions in documentation, caught far too late.
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45% of construction firms globally report zero AI implementation — a large, receptive, under-served industry.
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Nearly 9,000 Australian building companies have collapsed in the last three years.
How it works
Four steps. Done for you.
01
We assess
Find where you're losing time, money and sleep.
02
You recruit
Pick the handful of roles that pay off fastest.
03
We induct
We load each role with your jobs, your quotes, your plans and your standards — the same site induction every new starter gets.
04
On the roster
The role works on, week in, week out — on wages, like everyone else on your books. And if we ever part ways, the induction goes with you.
The Foundation Check
Every recommendation passes the Foundation Check before it reaches you.
We don't guess, and we don't repeat what a vendor tells us. Everything we recommend — every tool, every role — is verified, tested, and independently double-checked first.
We map your actual problem.
Not a generic checklist — the specific hours you're losing and where.
We shortlist real candidates.
Roles worth recruiting — not just the loudest vendor with the biggest marketing budget.
We verify before we recommend.
Pricing, security, fit, and whether you can leave it cleanly — confirmed directly, never assumed.
We induct your first role.
Loaded with your jobs, your quotes, your standards — and, where practical, put to work in our own businesses before it ever reaches yours.
We double-check our own advice.
A second, independent AI pressure-tests the first — then a human makes the call.
We stay accountable after.
Every role on your roster gets checked against real results at 30, 60 and 90 days.
"You check the set-out before you pour. So do we."
Built by a software strategist.
Proven with an award-winning builder.
Darrell Weekes
Founder
Former Director of Strategy at Attaché Software, the Australian accounting and payroll software company — years spent making technology earn its keep inside businesses that couldn't afford for it to fail. Now he does the same for builders.
Developed with a builder at the table
Every role on the roster was designed and tested alongside Colin Jewell, Managing Director of Jewell Builders, Goulburn — winner of nine major building awards, including the 2022 National Trust Heritage Award. Colin's rule was simple: if a role can't survive a real job, it doesn't go on the roster. Every role is put to work on real jobs before it's offered to anyone else.
"Every role on the roster was designed with a builder at the table — not just sold to one."
AI Readiness Checklist
Free
Ten questions. Five minutes. See exactly which outcomes you're leaving on the table.
Start the checklistAI Readiness Audit
$1,500+GST
We map your whole business — whether you've got AI tools running today or none at all — and hand you a staffing plan for your back office: which roles to recruit, in what order, and a position description for each. If you want it, we induct them for you. And the staffing plan is yours either way — every position description, in writing, whether you go further with us or not.
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