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For every trade, from one person to hundreds

Simple.

Your GM and your admin department, run virtually.

Don’t pay three hundred grand for a GM. Just use SPEC.

Enquiry to paid in 12 taps. Count them.

Start with one problem ↓

Got problems? We’ll fix them.

Tell us about one — as long as it’s ongoing. Not a one-off, and not a busy week: the thing that keeps coming back.

Virtual GM + Virtual Admin

A virtual GM and a virtual admin department. SPEC runs both.

The GM thinking

Every morning it reads the whole business and tells you what to pull this week.

  • Safety
  • People
  • Earnings
  • Compliance

The admin

The paperwork that eats your nights, done in one place.

  • Payroll
  • Invoicing
  • Bills
  • Compliance paperwork
  • HR admin
  • Reporting

SPECit5 recommends

Claude recommends. You decide.

Every decision is backed by your own numbers — not a guess, not a rule of thumb.

It tells you what it would do and why. You say Yes or Not yet. On yes, it’s done.

Live now

Example

Set your labour rate at $105/hr — here’s why.

  • What a paid hour really costs you, once super, leave, tools, vans and the office are in
  • The hours your crew actually bills, from their own timesheets
  • The margin a healthy trade business keeps
Ready?

Switch when ready

Switch when you’re ready. Not before.

Live now

  1. Day one, nothing changesKeep your accounting system, your payroll and whatever else you run.
  2. SPEC learns themIn the background, it checks your own data against how SPEC would do it.
  3. It tells you when it’s safePlain words: ready, or exactly what’s still missing.
  4. One toggleSwitch it over. Don’t like it? Undo puts everything back.
  • No $10k–$15k setup
  • No consultants
  • No migration project

The financial option

Angus Shield — Stay in the black.

SPEC’s own books and payroll. When it’s ready for your business, it runs side by side with your current system first, and you only switch when the two match.

Arriving now

Make it simple

Make it simple, every week.

Before your COGS meeting, Claude hands you one page: what got simpler this week, and the next three things to simplify.

Live now

This week, one page · example

Got simpler

Timesheets now land on the job as they happen — no Friday chase.

Next three to simplify

  1. Quotes still retyped into invoices
  2. Two places to book leave
  3. Tickets tracked in a spreadsheet

The Simple Guarantee.

If it’s not simple, that month is free.

Tell us inside SPEC where it wasn’t simple. It gets logged, it gets fixed, and that month comes off your bill.

Got one thing that keeps coming back?

Tell us about it ↑

The Virtual GM Power Meter

The whole business, one number, every morning.

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Example business. Yours reads from your own safety, people, earnings and compliance — and tells you what to pull next.

SPECit5 is the trades edition of SPEC. See SPEC, the full edition →