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Systems for trade & outdoor construction · NZ & AU

The systems behind construction businesses that run properly.

We build the system that quotes your jobs, keeps your crews on schedule and protects your margin. WorkArc works inside Fergus and Xero, and we keep improving it every month as the business grows.

Win more work, run jobs tighter, protect your margin. Built inside Fergus and Xero.

3-minute diagnostic
01  What we are

What a marketing agency is to marketing, WorkArc is to the systems that run your business. We come in, learn how the operation actually works, then build the quoting, job tracking and reporting around it, and keep improving it as you grow.

Works insideFergusXero
Connects toHarperPlusHubSpotSalesforceGoHighLevelSlackWhatsAppGmailOutlookGoogle CalendarCalendlyGoogle DriveDropboxNotionmonday.comMailchimpStripeMYOBQuickBooksZapierand more →

From the detail of one job to the whole business: see everything, deal with only what needs you

Aerial view of an Auckland suburb with several outdoor-construction jobs under way
02  Where owners spend the day
Every job in view. Only one needs you.
Five jobs running, four on track. The one that isn’t, flagged with why.
Most owners are stuck down here.
Chasing a job detail across three systemsQ-2291 · line 4 of 11
You should be up here.
Five sites runningMonday, 7:40 am
Or here.
On site, checking on the crewJob 2291 · day 3 of 5
03  The Job Arc

Four stages. One system.

Every job moves through the same arc, from pegs in the grass to paid. We build the part of the system that carries it through each stage, on the data you already keep.

Looking down on an overgrown Auckland backyard before work starts: long grass, a cracked old path, flax and an old deckDay 0

Win the work

Quotes go out in minutes, priced from your own book, with margin set before the client sees a number.

Quote Q-2291$23,085
Built in8 min
Sales viewNext step ready
A mini digger clearing an Auckland front yard, with broken pavers and a pile of basecourseDay 9

Run the job

Crews, materials and timing stay aligned. Clients see where their job is up to without ringing the office.

Crew3 · booked Mon
Scoria 6.2 m³Delivered Tue
Client updateSent Fri
A hardwood deck being built against a weatherboard house, with the pergola posts up and a new slatted fence behindDay 16

Protect the margin

Live cost against quote on every open job, flagged while there’s still time to fix it.

Labour57 of 52 h
Margin30.9% vs 34.0%
Job 229110% over · flagged
A finished front yard: a pale paver path, native planting, new lawn and a slatted timber fenceDay 26 · Paid

Control the WIP

What’s live, late or at risk, and what it’s worth, in front of you every Monday. Nobody builds a spreadsheet.

Live jobs12
Work in progress$384,600
Quotes gone quiet$270k to chase
04  What it’s worth

Measured against how it was.

A few of the places it shows up first, and what changes when it does.

Quotes out the same day.

Under 10 min a quotePriced from your own book and checked, down from 45 to 90 minutes each.ArcQuote

No quote left to go quiet.

12 months of quotes back in viewEvery open quote and lead in one view across your job system and CRM, and quotes that went cold up to a year ago back in front of you.ArcChase

Clients stop ringing.

80% fewer status callsThey can see where their job’s up to for themselves, any hour of the day.ArcPortal

Problems caught while you can still fix them.

Flagged the same day, 3 hrs a week backOverruns and unpriced variations show up while the job’s live, and the job-checking and Friday spreadsheet are gone.ArcPulse + ArcReport

Your business, plugged in.

Your job system, Xero and CRM, connectedA won quote becomes the job, the crew booking and the materials order. Nothing gets typed in twice.ArcSync
  • Fergus
  • Xero
  • HarperPlus
  • HubSpot
  • Salesforce
  • GoHighLevel
  • Slack
  • WhatsApp
  • Gmail
  • Outlook
  • + 11 more
Free  15 questions · 3 minutes

Where is your business quietly bleeding margin?

An honest read on where a business your size loses time, cash and margin, and the first thing we’d fix.

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05  The system

Seven parts. One WorkArc system.

We start with the parts that pay back fastest, usually quoting, margin and follow-up, then add the rest as the business needs them.

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06  How we work together

Not software you manage.
A function you hand over.

  1. A quick callThirty minutes on how the business runs today. No pitch.
  2. We map your operationWhere time and margin leak, and what to build first.
  3. We build it, then keep improving itAround how you already work, sharpened every month.
  4. You run lighterCloser to a key hire than a subscription, without the salary.
07  Insights

Straight answers for owners.

Short, practical reads on quoting, margin and getting more out of the systems you already pay for.

08  Ready when you are

Book a call.

Thirty minutes. We look at how your business runs today and show you exactly what we’d build first. We work with a small number of businesses at a time.

Take the diagnostic