Advise
Price for a business, not a wage
Your true cost per hour, pricing that recovers overhead and holds margin, and a plan to diversify beyond a single builder and start winning your own direct work.
For carpentry business owners
Business advisory for carpenters ready to stop being just a subbie.
Plenty of carpenters run a busy business that depends entirely on one or two builders, priced as a subbie with no real margin and no pipeline of their own. We help carpentry business owners price properly, diversify beyond a single builder, and build the systems and direct pipeline to run their own jobs.
The reality
Where carpentry businesses get stuck
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One or two builders away from no work
Almost all the work comes from a couple of builders. It is steady until it is not — when one slows down, changes their crew, or pushes your rate, there is nothing of your own to fall back on.
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Priced like a subbie, not a business
Taking the rate the builder offers, with no overhead recovery and no margin beyond your own wage. The day rate has not moved in years while everything else has gone up.
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Variations and scope creep eat the job
Extra work gets done on a handshake and never makes it onto an invoice. The job that looked fine on paper finishes with less margin than it started, because nothing was priced or claimed.
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No way to win your own direct work
You want to run your own jobs — renovations, fit-outs, direct-to-client — but there is no website, no pipeline, and no system to quote and manage them. So you stay on the tools for someone else.
How we help
How we help carpentry businesses
Advise sets the direction, Build ships it, Automate compounds it. One team, applied to the way carpentry work is won, priced, and delivered — for builders and direct clients alike.
Build
Your own pipeline, your own jobs
Local SEO and a site that wins renovation and fit-out searches, a CRM with a real pipeline, and quoting and variation SOPs so direct work is profitable and under control.
Automate
Systems so you're off the tools
Instant lead follow-up, an AI quoting assistant, and automated scheduling and follow-up, so running your own jobs does not mean drowning in admin every night.
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 carpentry ask first.
Most of our work is for one builder. Where do you start?
With the risk and the pricing. We make sure the builder work is priced to actually make money, then build you a second income stream — your own direct clients for renovations and fit-outs — so you are not one relationship away from a quiet month.
How do you stop variations eating our margin?
With a simple variation process: extra work gets scoped, priced, and approved before it is done, not on a handshake. We set up the quoting and variation SOPs so the margin you priced in is the margin you keep.
Can you actually help us win direct-to-client work?
Yes — that is the Build layer. A site that ranks for renovation and fit-out searches in your area, a pipeline and CRM to handle the leads, and the systems to quote and run the jobs without it all routing through you.
Do I have to buy all three layers?
No. Start with one — usually Advise, to fix pricing and the plan. Most carpenters add Build once they are ready to chase their own work, and Automate when the admin starts to bite.
One call. No pitch deck.
Carpentry business stuck as a subbie? Let's build something of your own.
Thirty minutes, no charge. We'll look at your pricing, how exposed you are to a single builder, and how to start winning your own work, whether or not you work with us.