Advise
Price the build, bank the margin
Job-level pricing with proper contingency for variable work, a plan to grow the recurring maintenance base, and cash-flow structure that survives long projects and staged payments.
For landscaping business owners
Business advisory for landscapers who want margin, not just a full diary.
Landscaping is big, variable jobs on thin quotes, weather that wrecks the schedule, and a maintenance round that never quite becomes real recurring revenue. We help landscaping business owners price the work properly, build a predictable pipeline and a recurring maintenance base, and put systems behind the quoting and scheduling.
The reality
Where landscaping businesses get stuck
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Big jobs, blown-out quotes
Quoting a large construction job by feel, then watching materials, labour, and while-you-are-here extras eat the margin. By handover the profit you priced in has quietly disappeared.
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All build, not enough maintenance
Every project ends and the search for the next one starts again. The maintenance round — predictable, recurring, scheduleable — is an afterthought instead of the base that carries the business between builds.
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Weather and seasonality run the calendar
Rain stops work, summer is chaos, winter slows to a crawl. Without a pipeline and a maintenance base, the weather decides your revenue instead of you.
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Cash tied up in long projects
Funding plants, materials, and wages for weeks before a progress payment lands. One slow-paying client or one delayed stage and the month is suddenly tight.
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How we help
How we help landscaping businesses
Advise sets the direction, Build ships it, Automate compounds it. One team, applied to the way landscaping work is quoted, built, and maintained.
Build
A pipeline and a maintenance base
Local SEO and a site that wins design and construction searches, a CRM with a real pipeline, and a maintenance-contract offer and system that turns finished gardens into ongoing revenue.
Automate
Systems behind the schedule
Instant lead follow-up, an AI quoting assistant, and automated maintenance scheduling and reminders, so the recurring round runs itself and quotes go out the same day.
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 landscaping ask first.
How do you help us price big, variable construction jobs?
We start with your true cost per hour and a pricing method that builds in contingency for the unknowns — access, weather, ground conditions, scope creep — instead of absorbing them. The goal is a quote that still has margin in it at handover, not just at sign-off.
We are mostly construction. How do we build recurring maintenance?
Deliberately. Every garden you build is a maintenance client you can keep. We build the offer, the pricing, and the scheduling system so maintenance becomes a predictable base that carries the team between projects — not an afterthought.
Can you help with the cash-flow crunch on long jobs?
Yes. We structure deposits, progress claims, and payment terms so you are not funding materials and wages for weeks, and we set up the reporting that warns you before a slow stage makes the month tight.
Do I have to commit to a long contract?
No. Most owners start with one discovery call and a fixed-fee engagement scoped to a single outcome. You see the plan and the number before you commit, and add Build or Automate when the foundations are ready.
One call. No pitch deck.
Landscaping business full but not getting ahead? Let's look at why.
Thirty minutes, no charge. We'll look at how you price builds, where the recurring maintenance revenue is hiding, and how cash flow is structured, whether or not you work with us.