Automation examples · Building, trades & construction

What could you automate in a building or trades business?
Five builds we keep seeing pay for themselves.

These are the five automation patterns we most often build for Australian building, trades & construction businesses, with our published pricing against each. For the three most relevant to your business specifically, the free quiz takes about three minutes.

How to read these

Every example on this page is a pattern we have built or scoped for Australian businesses. The prices are our published fixed bands, not estimates invented for this page, and you will not find made-up hours-saved figures here. Where a build pays for itself, we say how in plain terms and let you do the maths on your own numbers.

Example 1 of 5

The project report that assembles itself

This is our named case study: a Melbourne construction PM firm rebuilt its monthly Project Control Group reporting on Claude, inside its own Microsoft 365 tenant. A three-hour report now takes about thirty minutes, and a person still reviews every pack.

BUILD FROM $4,000 + GST, SUPPORT FROM $200/MONTH

Real published numbers: three hours down to thirty minutes, per report, every month.

Example 2 of 5

The quote drafted from the site visit

Photos, measurements and notes turned into a structured draft estimate in your format, priced from your rates, ready for the builder to check and adjust. The judgement stays with you; the typing does not.

BUILD FROM $4,000 + GST, SUPPORT FROM $200/MONTH

Quoting after hours is the most common complaint we hear from trades and builders.

Example 3 of 5

The paperwork chase for subbies and suppliers

Insurances, SWMS, dockets and outstanding documents tracked per job, chased automatically, filed when they arrive, escalated when they do not. The site keeps moving because the paperwork stopped waiting on a phone call.

BUILD FROM $4,000 + GST, SUPPORT FROM $200/MONTH

Compliance paperwork is a per-job repeating obligation, which makes it ideal automation material.

Example 4 of 5

Claims, variations and invoicing on rails

Progress claims assembled from job data, variations logged and documented the moment they happen, invoices raised and chased without anyone retyping numbers between systems.

BUILD FROM $4,000 + GST, SUPPORT FROM $200/MONTH

Undocumented variations are where margin quietly leaks on most jobs.

Example 5 of 5

The job inbox that sorts itself

Quotes routed to the estimator, invoices to accounts, site photos filed to the right job, urgent issues flagged. An inbox manager runs inside your own tenant and files as it goes.

BUILD FROM $4,000 + GST, SUPPORT FROM $200/MONTH

Count the minutes your team spends forwarding email to the right person, then multiply by every working day.

Where the time actually goes

The usual suspects in building, trades & construction

When we ask building, trades & construction businesses where their week disappears, the same answers keep coming back. If more than two of these sound familiar, there is probably a build on this page that pays for itself.

The next step

These are the generic versions.
Three minutes gets you the specific ones.

The quiz asks seven questions about where your time actually goes, shows your three most relevant examples on the spot, then an Evisent engineer reviews your answers and sends a full roadmap. Free, and "nothing worth automating yet" is a real outcome. Prefer the governance and delivery view? See AI for building, trades & construction.

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