Trade Contract OS
Build a million-dollar profit trade business — with AI doing the brand and the estimating.
12 months. A small group. Two AI engines built into your business in the first 60 days — one running your brand, one clearing the estimating bottleneck.
5 spots. 12 months. One outcome.
A hand-selected group of trade business owners building toward a million-dollar profit — with AI doing the work AI can do, so you can do the work only you can do.
| Program | Trade Contractor Operating System (TCOS) |
| What | 12-month group coaching — build a million-dollar profit trade business |
| Who | Trade contractors $50k–$500k/month, 5+ staff, viable business model |
| Duration | 12 months · 45-day love-it-or-leave guarantee |
| Start | First week of June 2026 |
| Spots | Small group — hand-selected for fit |
| June Exclusive | AI Brand Engine + AI Estimating Engine — built with you in months 1 and 2. Plugged into SimPRO, Xero, your inbox, LinkedIn and your website. Brand running while you sleep. Estimating bottleneck gone. |
3 teams of 10. $6–9M revenue. $1M+ net profit.
That's the destination model: 3 teams of 10, $2–3M revenue each, 10–15% net profit. Two valleys sit between you and that number — and the walls don't move.
Outgrowing the founder
Systems running on the owner's memory. Bodies thrown at problems. Cash flow gripped tight. Owner has fingers across everything.
Outgrowing the team
What got you here won't get you there. Margin slipping. Tied to a few key people. Pipeline depends on 1–2 sources.
The 3 C's — non-negotiable.
Before the 27 modules, every TCOS client goes through the same onramp — three conditions that have to be in place before the systems can actually stick. This is the work most programs skip. It's why most programs don't work.
Free Up 4 Hours a Week
If you don't have 4+ hours a week to work on the business rather than in it, nothing we install will stick. We start here. Most owners free up 5–8 hours in the first two weeks.
Know Your Numbers
GP %. Breakeven. Net profit this month. Which jobs are making money and which are bleeding it. Most owners can't answer these — not because they're bad at business, because the reporting isn't set up.
Weekly Rhythm
A weekly team meeting. A monthly numbers review. A 6-week sprint cycle where the team knows what's being worked on, why it matters, and what success looks like.
Which constraint are you fighting?
Every trade business is constrained on one of three axes. The June build is purpose-built for the first one — because it's where most $2M–$10M trade businesses are stuck.
Demand
Not enough work — or wrong work. Brand is invisible. Estimating is clogged. Quote follow-up doesn't happen. June AI build targets this.
Capacity
Work in, but not flowing out cleanly. SOPs missing. People underperforming. Margin slipping mid-job. Phase 2 territory.
Profit Engine
Busy but broke. Clarity missing. Pricing wrong. Cash trapped in WIP. Owner identity stuck on the tools. Phase 2–3 territory.
Two AI engines.
Built into your business in 60 days.
In the first two months we build two AI engines inside your business. The Brand Engine runs your marketing without a marketing team. The Estimating Engine clears the single biggest bottleneck in most trade businesses — the queue of quotes sitting on someone's desk. Hands-on. You build it. We guide it.
AI Brand Engine
Most trade contractors have no consistent brand. Posts go up when the owner has time. The website is 4 years old. There's no proof, no story, no authority — just a logo and a phone number. That makes you look like every other trade business in your area, and forces you to compete on price. The June AI Brand Engine fixes that — without you writing a single post.
- Reads your last 12 months of meetings, jobs and case studies — pulls the stories worth telling
- Drafts LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook posts in your voice — 3-5 a week, ready for one-click approval
- Builds case studies from your real jobs — before/after numbers, customer wins, problem solved
- Writes website copy and lead magnets that speak to the customer you actually want
- Drafts replies to comments and DMs so the conversation keeps going while you're on the tools
- Tracks what's landing and what isn't — so the brand gets sharper every week
AI Estimating Engine
Estimating is where most trade businesses lose money. Quotes pile up. Specs take hours to read. The estimator is overloaded, jobs go out under-priced, variations get missed, and the win rate is whatever it ends up being because no one tracked it. The June AI Estimating Engine clears the bottleneck.
- Reads a spec in 4 minutes — scope, exclusions, risks, what to watch out for before you price
- Builds a first-draft estimate against your historical pricing — labour, materials, margin, contingency
- Drafts your good/better/best quote in your branded format — ready to send same day
- Builds your quote follow-up sequence automatically — Day 1, Day 3, Day 7, Day 14
- Tracks hit rate by job type, customer and estimator — so you know which work to chase
- Catches variations as they happen — drafts the variation, prices it, sends it for approval
Clear the demand-side constraint. Everything else gets easier.
Brand is your demand machine. No brand, no consistent inbound. You're stuck chasing referrals and tendering against people who undercut you.
Estimating is your demand-to-revenue converter. A clogged estimating function strangles every other system in the business. You can have all the leads in the world — if quotes don't go out fast and accurate, nothing happens.
Fix these two and you've cleared the demand-side constraint for most $2M–$10M trade businesses. That's why June is built around them. Delivery, People, Finance and Leadership get worked on in Phase 2 and 3 once the demand engine is humming.
The TCOS Roadmap — 27 modules across 3 systems
Work bottom to top. Start with the 3 C's, then progress through Know → Grow → Scale. You don't need all 27 — the TCOS Diagnostic™ identifies which 2–3 will move the needle most for your business right now. The June AI build accelerates 5 modules in parallel, in your first 60 days: PS2, PG1, PG2, PG3, PK3.
| Level | Consistent Pipeline | Operations | Profit You Deserve |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCALE$5M+ · 10–15% net | PS1 Predictable Pipeline PS2 Authority Brand PS3 Scale Your Reach |
OS1 Build Leaders OS2 Document The Machine OS3 Scale The Structure |
MS1 Strategic Planning MS2 Profit Machine MS3 Design Your Legacy |
| GROW$2M–$5M · 8–12% net | PG1 Attraction Engine PG2 Capture & Convert PG3 Estimating Excellence |
OG1 Roles & Accountability OG2 Ops Dashboard OG3 Deliver At Profit |
MG1 Price For Profit MG2 Profit Dashboard MG3 The Owner Shift |
| KNOW$0–$2M · 5–8% net | PK1 Find Your Target PK2 Craft Your Message PK3 Quote Smart: Win More |
OK1 Map Your Team OK2 Hire Right OK3 Workflow Basics |
MK1 True Cost MK2 Cash Flow Control MK3 Reclaim Your Week |
| 3 C's Foundations | F1 Free Up 4 Hours | F2 Know Your Numbers | F3 Weekly Rhythm |
| Pre-Gate · The Profit Check — GP covers overheads. The model produces profit. If not — fix this first. | |||
3 phases. 6-week sprints. Compounding results.
By the end of Phase 1:
- 4+ hours a week freed up — working on the business, not just in it
- TCOS Insights live — job-level profitability, cash position, margin by work type
- Weekly operational rhythm installed — team aligned, 6-week sprint locked
- Your $1M+ Profit Business Model designed and mapped
- AI Brand Engine live — drafting and publishing 3–5 pieces of content a week in your voice
- AI Estimating Engine live — reading specs, drafting quotes same day, follow-up automated
- Never more than 1 week from knowing if you're on or off track
Every 6 weeks, we repeat: Diagnose → Select → Sprint → Track. Every week you get:
- Live group coaching — teaching, Q&A, implementation support
- Personal guidance from Peter and the TCOS coaching team
- Full access to the TCOS training portal — all 27 modules
- The group community — post a question, get unstuck fast
- Monthly workshops, skill sessions, masterminds and hotseats
- Move from GROW to SCALE level modules
- Build Leaders, Document The Machine, Scale The Structure
- Hit your first $100k+ profit month — and map the path to $1M+ per year
- Build a business that's an asset, not a job
12 months. Everything in.
Guided build of your Claude AI brand engine. Pulls stories from your meetings, drafts LinkedIn/Instagram/Facebook in your voice, writes case studies, drafts website copy. Includes the TCOS Brand Prompt Pack and a 90-day content calendar.
Guided build of your Claude AI estimating engine. Reads specs in 4 minutes, drafts good/better/best quotes against your pricing, automates follow-up, tracks hit rate. Includes the TCOS Estimating Prompt Pack.
Your financial dashboard powered by AI. Job-level profitability, labour recovery, cash position, margin analysis — pulled from SimPRO and Xero, explained in plain English.
Built in month one. Your personal roadmap — where you are now, what the destination looks like, exactly what needs to happen to get there.
Our constraint-identification tool. Run every 6 weeks so you're always working on the highest-leverage problem in the business.
All 27 modules across Consistent Pipeline, Operations, and Profit You Deserve. Every playbook, template and tool. Yours for 12 months.
Live Zoom every week. Teaching, implementation, direct coaching from Peter and the TCOS team. Every session recorded.
No 12-month plans that gather dust. Focused 6-week cycles — clear target, proven system, measurable result. Repeat.
45-Day Love It or Leave It
Try TCOS for 45 days. If it's not delivering enormous value — for any reason — no questions asked. Full refund.
Results Guarantee
Implement the system and don't get the results — 23% increase in profit, 10+ hours back — and I'll buy it back. You keep it anyway.
5 spots. Hand-selected.
Here's who June is for.
This is for you if
- Trade business doing $100k+/month (or on a clear path)
- 10+ staff
- Viable business model — doesn't need to be profitable today, just fixable
- Ready to build profit, not just chase revenue
- Coachable — prepared to change how you operate
- Prepared to let AI do the work it can do — so you can do the work only you can
Not for you if
- You want someone to run the business for you
- Your business model is fundamentally broken
- You're not coachable — looking for validation
- You think AI is a gimmick
- You want a quick fix without changing anything
- You're more comfortable busy than profitable
How to join — 3 steps
Take the TCOS Scorecard
5-minute diagnostic at betterbackoffice.com.au/resources/tcos-diagnostic-scorecard. Identifies your biggest profit leak right now.
Email Peter
Send your scorecard to peter@betterbackoffice.com.au and say: "Get me started for June."
Gameplan Call
We walk through your scorecard, build your first 6-Week Sprint, and if we're a fit, you're enrolled before June week one.
Get me started for June
5 spots · 12 months · $1,800/mo · 45-day guarantee