Advise
Find the margin
Job-level profitability, pricing with proper contingency, and a plan that protects cash flow across long projects and staged claims.
For building and construction owners
Business advisory for builders who want margin, not just turnover.
Builders run huge numbers on thin margins: long projects, progress claims, subbies, and fixed-price risk. We help building and construction businesses tighten pricing and cash flow, manage subcontractors properly, and build the systems to scale without the owner carrying every job.
The reality
Where building businesses get stuck
- 01
Big turnover, invisible margin
Millions move through the books and very little is left. Cost blowouts you can't see until the job closes out, because profitability is never tracked at the job level.
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Cash flow on a knife's edge
Funding materials and wages for weeks before a progress claim lands. One slow-paying client or one delayed claim and the whole month is tight.
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Subbies or employees, and the ATO is watching
Long-running subcontractors who work only for you, no clear structure, and a sham-contracting exposure most builders have never had checked.
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The owner is the bottleneck on every site
Quoting, scheduling, supplier issues, and on-site problem-solving all route through you. The business cannot take on more without breaking, or burning you out.
How we help
How we help building businesses
Advise sets the direction, Build ships it, Automate compounds it. One team, applied to the way building work is priced, claimed, and delivered.
Build
Systemise the operation
Quoting and scheduling SOPs, a CRM and pipeline, and the team structure to run multiple jobs at once without the owner standing on each one.
Automate
AI on the admin
Automated reporting, instant lead follow-up, and scheduling, so your time goes into running the build, not chasing paperwork and progress updates.
Why we can actually do this
Built by an operator who has run a real business, not just advised on one.
Scale360 was founded on thirteen years of building, scaling, and exiting a real operating business. We give advice we have had to live with, and build the systems we have had to run.
- 13+ yrs
- Building and exiting a real operating business
- 170+
- Staff led at peak
- ASX200
- Clients delivered for
Questions
What builders ask first.
We turn over millions but keep very little. Where do you start?
Job-level profitability. Most builders track the business at a whole-of-company level and can't see which jobs make money until close-out. We put reporting in place so margin is visible per job, then fix pricing and contingency so the cost blowouts stop eating the result.
Can you check our subcontractor exposure?
Yes. Long-running subbies who work only for you, with no clear structure, is a sham-contracting risk most builders have never had reviewed. We assess the exposure and help you structure the relationship correctly before the ATO does it for you.
How do you help with cash flow on long projects?
We structure progress claims, deposits, and payment terms so you're not funding materials and wages for weeks before a claim lands, and we build the financial reporting that warns you before a slow-paying client makes the month tight.
Will this work for a builder, not just a service trade?
Yes. The model is the same — find the margin, systemise the operation, automate the admin — but applied to the way building work is priced, claimed, and delivered: staged claims, fixed-price risk, multiple jobs at once, and subcontractor management.
One call. No pitch deck.
Building business doing the numbers but not the margin? Let's look.
Thirty minutes, no charge. We'll look at where margin leaks, how cash flow is structured, and your subcontractor exposure, whether or not you work with us.