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Galaxera for carpenters & builders

Variations, materials and a dozen decisions a day.

Two variations quoted on site, materials ordered against the job, and the client kept in the loop.

The enquiry gets answered while you're on the drop sawThe receptionist takes the call you can't, gets the job, the address and how urgent it is, and texts you the rundown instead of leaving you a missed-call badge.

Quote the variation while it's freshPrice a change from your phone and send it before you've left the site, so it's agreed in writing before the work happens rather than argued about at invoice time. Prices lean on what you've already quoted and won.

The job changes, the price doesn't get updated, and you wear it.

The call you missed

Carpentry jobs move. The client adds a bit here, changes their mind there, all agreed standing in the sawdust. Then the invoice goes out at the original price because nobody wrote the variations down, and the difference comes out of your pocket.

What it’s costing you
right now.

No product in this section. Just the three things that quietly take money out of a trade business like yours.

Scope creeps a favour at a time

It almost never arrives as a formal variation. It's "while you're here, could you just…", said four times over a fortnight, each one too small to make a fuss about. Then the invoice goes out and the conversation about who agreed to what is one you're having from memory.

You're the bank until the claim gets paid

Materials go on your card, the crew gets paid on Thursday, and the client pays on their own schedule. The work is all there. The cash to cover Thursday is somewhere behind it.

A long reno turns into a folder of loose paper

Six months, one client, forty decisions, three quotes, a dozen variations and two hundred photos spread across a phone, an email account and a notepad in the ute. Finding the one that settles an argument takes an evening.

What it does for carpenters & builders.

Six answers, in the order a week actually runs: win the work, price it, get paid, run the job, run the crew, know the numbers. Each one is tied to something the product ships.

The enquiry gets answered while you're on the drop saw

The receptionist takes the call you can't, gets the job, the address and how urgent it is, and texts you the rundown instead of leaving you a missed-call badge.

Quote the variation while it's fresh

Price a change from your phone and send it before you've left the site, so it's agreed in writing before the work happens rather than argued about at invoice time. Prices lean on what you've already quoted and won.

Invoice as you go, and let the chasing run

One job can hold two invoices, a deposit now and the rest later, so a long renovation can be billed progressively rather than all at the end, and late accounts are followed up by text and email without you having to ask twice. You stop being the one who has to ring.

Everything agreed lands on the job

Notes, photos and material lists sit on the job record, so what was agreed on site is written down instead of remembered. The supply list on an accepted quote carries onto the job, so what you priced is what you order.

Chippies' hours, approved not guessed

Your carpenters and apprentices log their own time on a free portal, you approve it, and payslips come out of the approved hours with the PAYG estimated and the 12% super default applied.

Whether the reno actually made money

Money in from paid invoices, materials recorded against the job, what the crew earned, from real payslips, and the profit that falls out. On a six-month job that's the difference between a good year and a busy one.

The four that run the week.

Phone AI Receptionist

Answers the calls you can't take, and books the job while you're on the tools.

Open

Quoting

Get the quote out the same day, before the customer rings someone else.

Open

Invoicing

Invoice the day you finish, and let Galaxera do the chasing.

Open

Job Management

Every job, every detail, in one place instead of across three notebooks and a group chat.

Open

And the other 10,
on the same plan.

Those four plus these 10 is the whole product — 14 of them, and the three trade plans carry an identical feature set. You choose seats and phone time, never features.

Nothing rings out

Mobile AI Voice Assistant
Talk the variation through on the drive home and have it drafted before you walk in the door, rather than reconstructing it at nine.
Unified Inbox
The architect's email, the client's text and the supplier's call about one renovation, in one list instead of three apps.
AI Reply Drafting
The reply is already written. Read it, change what you want, send.

Priced and billed

Plan Takeoff, Measuring & Roof Design
Count and measure off the architect's drawing to build a materials list, instead of scaling a printed plan with a ruler at the kitchen table.

The week, the crew, the numbers

Team Management
Rosters, timesheets, payslips and leave, without a shoebox of paperwork.
Reporting & Analytics
Materials and wages recorded against the job they went on, so a long build shows what it returned rather than what it felt like.
Xero Integration
The books keep up with a job that runs half a year. Invoices out to Xero, payments back from it, nobody re-typing a six-month build in June.

More work coming in

Automated Follow-ups
The chasing that makes you money, done on a schedule instead of when you remember.
Website Creation
A proper website for your business, built from details you've already entered.
Marketing
Finished joinery sells the next job. The finished shots go to Facebook and Instagram with words already on them. You check them, you post.

Two setup notes. Email reaches the inbox once you forward it to your Galaxera address — connecting Google lets Galaxera send as you, never read your mail. And Instagram posting needs an Instagram Business Account linked to your Facebook Page; Facebook works on its own.

What sits outside it

Publishing your website is a one-off $99 build, not part of the subscription. Going live — connecting the receptionist to your number, publishing a social post, finalising a payslip — needs a paid plan rather than the free trial. And projects, progress claims and retention are Builder-plan features that never appear on a trade plan. Everything named on this page is on all three trade plans.

Every product in full

It does the work.
You’re still the boss.

Galaxera runs 64 AI features across the business: answering the phone, drafting, summarising, pricing, scheduling, writing your posts and your marketing emails. Every one of them is pointed at a single job, briefed on your business, and does nothing you haven't switched on.

Each one does a single job

64 separate AI features, not one chatbot asked to do everything. The quote drafter works out what the job involves and is never shown a price. The prices come afterwards, off your own rates. The reply writer reads the conversation so far and what your business does. The call summariser writes down what was said. Narrow jobs are the ones AI is actually good at.

Briefed on your business, not a generic model

The ones that write for you get the part of your business they need before they write a word: your services and hours, your saved rates, your own wording. Pricing goes furthest. It leans on what you have quoted before, weighted toward the quotes that were accepted and away from the ones that were declined, so the number that comes back is yours getting sharper rather than a guess.

It drafts. You send

Quotes, invoices and replies get written, and then they wait. None of them reaches a customer until you tap send. The messages that do go out on their own are the ones you switched on yourself: the invoice chases, the booking reminders, the review requests. Turn any of them off whenever you like.

Metered and on the record

Every call is metered against your business and written to a cost record: tokens, dollars, how long it took, whether it worked. There is a daily ceiling too, and once it is reached new calls stop. You are never guessing what the AI did or what it cost you.

Carpenters & Builders ask us this.

Quote the variation from your phone while you're still on site and send it for the client to accept, so the change is agreed in writing before the work happens rather than argued about at invoice time.

Yes. The supply list you put on a quote carries onto the job when the quote is accepted, so what you priced is what gets ordered.

Yes. Invoice the same job as many times as the job needs, so you bill as you go instead of carrying materials and wages to the end of a twelve-week renovation. You decide what each invoice covers rather than a schedule splitting the contract for you, and the overdue ones get chased without you asking.

If the drawing is scaled, yes. Scale it once, then trace runs and areas or tap the repeating items to count them, and the quantities carry onto the quote with a waste percentage if you add one. Commercial work billed on a schedule of values, with cumulative progress claims and retention, is a Builder-plan thing rather than a trade-plan one.

No, and nor does the crew side. Every plan carries the same fourteen; the price difference is owner logins and monthly receptionist and voice time. Your carpenters' timesheet portal costs nothing on any of them, however many you put on it.