Built by someone who's been on the tools.

From the wall to the laptop.

I spent years rendering and plastering across Australia. Cornices, set coats, big repair jobs, fiddly little bathrooms. Long days, hard work, the kind of job where you finish covered in white dust and you reckon you've earned every dollar.

The work itself was the easy part. The hard part was everything that happened after I packed the ute. Receipts on the dash. Job notes in my phone, on a smoke-break napkin, in my head. Quotes I meant to send before knock-off. Customers chasing me for an invoice three weeks later because I'd been too flat out to send it.

Every Sunday night I'd sit at the kitchen table with the laptop open and a pile of paper, trying to remember what I did Tuesday and how much I quoted that bloke in Frankston. Half my Sundays got eaten by paperwork. Money that should already have been in the bank was sitting in my head, waiting to be turned into an invoice.

The thing nobody had built.

I tried the usual stuff. Big accounting platforms made for accountants, not tradies. Job apps with twenty tabs of forms. Invoice templates in Word that looked like I'd printed them at the library in 1998. None of it fit the way I actually worked, which was: hands full, phone in pocket, talking to customers all day anyway.

The simplest version of what I wanted was: pick up the phone, say what I did, and have an invoice ready to go. No forms. No tabs. No spreadsheets. The customer's name, the work, the price — out my mouth and into a draft I could check, fix, and send.

Nobody had built that. So I built it.

What TradieFlow is.

TradieFlow is a voice-to-invoice tool. You talk into your phone. It drafts the invoice — customer, line items, totals, GST. You check it, fix anything wrong, and send. It connects to Xero or QuickBooks so your accountant doesn't get on your back, and to Stripe so customers can pay you with one tap on their phone.

It's tuned for Australian accents and the words tradies actually use. Gyprock, render, smoko, GST, ABN, BAS. It works offline, because half the jobs I did were in places with no reception. It handles teams, because plenty of tradies have an apprentice or an admin running things.

That's it. It's not a job management platform. It's not a CRM. It's the bit between finishing the job and getting paid — the bit that used to eat my Sundays.

Who it's for.

Plasterers. Sparkies. Plumbers. Brickies. Painters. Concreters. Landscapers. Carpenters. Roofers. Tilers. Anyone who finishes a job, walks out with mud or dust or sawdust on their boots, and then has to find an hour somewhere to write up an invoice. If that's you, this was built for you.

It's for the one-man-band running his own business out of a ute. It's for the small crew with a couple of apprentices. It's for the multi-van outfit that's grown past spreadsheets but isn't ready for an enterprise platform. Three plans cover all of that.

What's next.

The product is live. Anyone can sign up, try it free for three days, and keep using it on a paid plan if it earns its keep. No credit card to start. What gets built next is shaped by what real tradies tell us is broken or missing.

The bigger plan is simple. Make the most useful version of this tool that exists. Don't add features that don't earn their keep. Stay close to the people who actually use it. That's the whole roadmap.