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Guides for trade businesses doing their own software and admin with AI: how each piece is built, how hard it really is, and what comes after the prototype.
Build your own trade software#
- Can you build your own job management app with AI? An honest guide for tradies Yes, AI tools can build a tradie website, a quote calculator or an invoicing app. How hard each piece is on a 1 to 5 scale, what it costs to run, and what comes after the prototype.
- How to build a tradie website with AI (and when to pay someone instead) A website is the easiest thing a tradie can build with AI. The pages it needs, which tools to use, what it costs a year, and the mistakes that stop it showing up on Google.
AI for trade admin#
- Simpro Lightning: what it costs at renewal, and your options if you want to switch Simpro Lightning adds an AI layer to Simpro and AroFlo at a 25 percent uplift on existing contracts, and once it is on it cannot be turned off. What you get, what it costs, what to ask before renewing, and how to move your data if you decide to switch.
- How to connect Claude or ChatGPT to your job management and accounting software Claude and ChatGPT can read your real jobs, quotes and invoices once you connect them to your business software through MCP. What MCP is, which trade and accounting apps support it, and how to do it safely.