Every joist, bearer, bracket and stirrup, ready to quote. Built by a deck builder for deck builders, so you stop burning hours on tyre kickers.
Draw it once and the estimate covers all of it.
Screenshots from the Hub planner.
Draw the outline on screen, or scan the space with LiDAR on an iPhone Pro.
Then pick your frame and your boards. H3 timber, H4, Clickdeck and Spanmor are already in there, so the estimate starts from the frame you would actually build.
Roddy has reviewed every recipe in the Hub and used them on hundreds of jobs. They have been checked, updated and worked on, and every mistake taught us something.
Every recipe already has a square metre rate, based on the material needed for every square metre, and the labour time for every task. You can update both on your own quotes.
The logic behind the Hub has been used in the industry for ten years, calculating average hours and time for every type of build, from framing to flooring.
Timber decking, composite decking, framing, handrails, screens and pergolas. Pick one and it drops into your quote, with the materials and the time to build it.
A prebuild is a ready-made build. Take this timber deck. Its prebuild holds every material needed for one square metre of it, and the time it takes to build that square metre.
Set the size of your deck and the Hub multiplies it out.
Every material needed for one square metre, and how much of each.
The labour time for every task in that square metre.
The Hub prices both and gives you the rate per square metre. Build your own recipes the same way.
Most builders have never had to write down how to calculate a deck, and nobody teaches you how to quote everything. So it is already done for you.
The recipes, the rates, the frames and the boards. Nothing to build before you can start.
Open the help session, see the process and where to find things.
No training needed. No six month setup. You can also create your own builds.
If the client never replies, you have lost ten minutes and nothing else. If they go ahead, take a deposit that covers your time to:
The Hub gets you to the estimate quickly, so you spend your time on the jobs that go ahead.
Use the planner on your phone. Scan the site, get the estimate and send the quote before you leave the driveway.
Tradies see no prices and no financials. You set what each person sees.
When the crew tick tasks off, the Hub tells you when to invoice. At the desk, on web and iPad, you get the reports, job profitability and the numbers.
Roddy has used a lot of CRMs and a lot of other software over the years. We took the good things from each of them and combined them, so you can design, plan, estimate and manage a job in one spot.
The estimate, the quote, the schedule, the crew, the client and the invoice, all on the one job.
Build progress, photos from site and messages, in one link. Quotes, plans and invoices sit there too, so the client stops ringing to ask where things are up to.
Group your crew into teams, see who is on which job, and book work onto a day. Your crew see their own schedule on their phone.
Give the crew tasks on the job. Tick one off and the job percentage moves, and the Hub tells you when it is time to invoice.
Photos, notes and client updates on the job. Write what happened, add the photos, and post it to the client.
Your crew write down their start and finish on the job. You see the hours and approve them.
And the rest is there too. Invoices that follow job progress, purchase orders, reports and P&Ls, and team permissions.
If you are starting out with one or two jobs, this is the office most builders never get around to setting up. Here is what changes.
| Now | With the Hub |
|---|---|
| Quotes built at night from scratch | Draw it. The estimate is there. |
| Jobs run off texts | One job card with notes, photos and tasks |
| Invoices raised when you remember | Progress prompts the invoice |
| Clients ringing for updates | Clients see updates in their portal |
| No idea which jobs made money | Job profitability in front of you |
Roddy Oliveira. 3D artist and carpenter. Draftsman since 2007, carpenter since 2015. Ten years inside Sydney decking companies, estimating, ordering and leading hand on site. A project manager running four to six teams.
The Hub holds what those years taught: what to do, what not to do, how to frame and how not to.
We are testing it with five builders we know and trust this October. Register your interest and we will tell you when it opens.
We are opening the Hub to a small group of builders first. We reply personally.