For owner-operator tradies

You don't have a leadership team. You are the team.

Office Hours is a virtual leadership team for trades. Ask one messy business question - cash flow, quoting, hiring, slow payers - and a virtual CFO, COO and CMO weigh it up, then your CEO hands you one clear next step. So you stop carrying every call on your own, and your nights are your own again.

One team, one plan, one next step, your call.

Reserve a founding spot - $197 $197 refundable deposit - it becomes your first two months.

Built in Australia, for Australian trades.

Office Hours dashboard: today's briefing with cash runway, active office hours showing CFO, CMO and COO takes on an apprentice hire, and Xero and ServiceM8 integrations
The morning briefing - concept screens from the current build.

The problem

You're good at the job. The business is the hardest part.

The tools, the trade, the actual work - you've got that. It's the questions that don't switch off:

Should I put on an apprentice, or will that tip me over?
Am I charging enough, or leaving money on the table?
Can I cover wages this week if that invoice lands late again?
Do I chase the big job, or look after the regulars who keep me going?

Big calls. Real money. And no one in the room to talk them through.

The reality

Going it alone is the risky part.

Map of Australia
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businesses are operating across Australia right now.
ABS, 2025
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are trade and construction businesses - the biggest industry by number. You're in big company.
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of Australian businesses are small, under 20 staff - most run by one or two people.
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make it past their first year. Fewer than half are still trading at three.
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~1 in 4
business insolvencies are in construction - more than any other industry.
ASIC, 2024-25
Still trading after 3 years
With staff61%
Solo operators43%
ABS, 2025

The businesses that last have a team behind the big calls. Office Hours puts that team in your pocket - on call, day or night.

Sources: ABS Counts of Australian Businesses (released 2025) and ASIC insolvency statistics (2024-25). Figures shown are indicative and will carry full citations and links at launch. Business "exits" are not all failures. Survival figures compare employing and non-employing businesses.

How it works

Three steps. No spreadsheet required to start.

1

Tell your new executive team what's on your plate.

A decision you're stuck on, a worry that's been nagging, or just "what should I be focusing on?" Plain English, no spreadsheet to fill in first.

2

Your executive team weighs it up.

Your finance, operations and marketing specialists look at it from their corner and work through the trade-offs, not just an easy answer.

3

You get one plan.

Your CEO pulls it together into one plan: what to do, who owns it, and the next step. One way forward, not five browser tabs.

What you get

One messy question in. One plan out.

A real example: your CFO, COO and CMO each weigh in, then your CEO settles it on one plan - with the next step. The call stays yours.

An example - one plan

"Should I take on an apprentice this financial year?"

CFO

The money: hire now - the cash buffer is strong, and an apprentice wage stacks up at sub-tradie rates.

COO

Operations: start them in February - it's quiet enough to bed in training before the season peaks.

CMO

The work: demand looks real and the timing is the risk - wait for the Q3 pipeline to confirm before committing.

CEO synthesis
Hire from February at $52k loaded cost. CFO and COO aligned; the CMO's timing risk is covered by the Feb start.

Meet your team

Four executives, on call.

Each one looks after a part of the business that usually keeps you up at night.

CEOChief Executive OfficerThe one plan
I take everyone's input and land on one plan, lined up with where you want the business to go, so you're not left juggling opinions on your own.
CFOChief Financial OfficerThe money
My job is to keep an eye on the money - cash flow, pricing, whether you can afford that next hire. Tell me your numbers, or connect Xero when you're ready.
COOChief Operating OfficerThe operations
Operational headaches is where I step in - staffing, plant/equipment, apprentices versus qualified tradies, getting more out of your days. I can work from what you tell me, or tools like ServiceM8.
CMOChief Marketing OfficerThe right work
I'm your marketing guru, I help you win the right work - where your leads come from, what to charge, and how to stand out in your patch.

Why it works

Less noise. One plan.

Office Hours gives small business owners the strategic thinking only large companies can afford.

A whole team. One answer.

Four executives look at your problem from every angle - finance, operations, marketing - then your CEO settles it into a single clear call. The depth of a boardroom, the simplicity of one decision.

Built for owner-operator tradies.

Not generic tips scraped off the internet. It knows how a trade business runs - the quoting, the cash flow, the slow payers - and the executive thinking big firms pay six figures for.

Not just another AI chatbot.

A chatbot fires back one quick, confident-sounding reply with nothing behind it. Office Hours weighs the decision up from every angle and shows you the assumptions and trade-offs behind the call, so you can trust the answer.

Your data, your decisions.

It works off your real numbers, the call is always yours, and your business data is never used to train AI models. For tax, law or your specific finances it tells you to see a professional - it helps you think, it doesn't replace your accountant.

Before you start

A few honest things.

No accounting connection needed to start - plain-English answers first, add your numbers when you're ready.
Built by an Australian who has supported construction and trade businesses for more than 15 years.
Information and frameworks, never regulated advice - the call is always yours.
Built in Adelaide, South Australia - independent and Australian-owned.

Keep the business strong. Get your time back. Take the weight off.

Twenty founding spots. A $197 refundable deposit locks $299 a month for life - and becomes your first two months at launch.

Reserve a founding spot