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Construction & trades work, with the whole job under control
Construction & trades businesses need one place to keep labour, purchases, changes, site work and job costs under control.
Overview
What these businesses have in common
Construction work moves. Dates change, drawings change, site conditions change, crews move between jobs and the scope rarely stays exactly where it started. The commercial job still needs to keep up with all of it.
WorkGuru is built for businesses that need more than a simple field-service app. It keeps quoting, project work, labour, purchasing, documents, variations, invoicing and job costs together so the office, workshop and site are feeding the same picture.
That can mean a fitout contractor, a design-and-construct business, a modular builder, a specialist trade or a civil project team. Use the industry pages below to see the version that is closest to the way you work.
The work
What is different about construction work
The plan changes after the job starts.
Site access, drawings, other trades, weather, client decisions and hidden conditions can all move the work without moving the original budget.
The same job is split across office, workshop and site.
Estimating, fabrication, purchasing and field crews may work differently, but they still need to feed the same project record and job cost.
Small variations become real money.
Extra labour, materials and subcontractor costs are easy to lose when they sit in messages, notebooks and memory instead of the job.
Industries
Find the page for your kind of work
Every one of these runs on the same platform. The differences are in how it is set up.
Commercial Fitout
Fitout projects where trades, materials, site dates, variations and client changes all need to stay connected to the commercial job.
Design & Construct
Projects that cross design, workshop and site, with changes in one part affecting labour, materials and delivery everywhere else.
Modular Builders
Factory and site work on the same project, with long-lead purchasing, multiple trades, transport and client changes to coordinate.
Specialist Contractors
Project-based specialist trades that need flexible job control without forcing every type of work into the same rigid workflow.
Electrical Contractors
Commercial electrical projects where labour, materials, equipment, subcontractors, drawings and variations all affect the job result.
HVAC
Commercial HVAC work where equipment, duct, pipe, crews, subcontractors and commissioning need to stay with the same project.
Pipework and Ducting
Fabricated pipe and duct work where workshop production and site installation both need to roll back into one project cost.
Civil Engineering
Civil projects where crews, plant, subcontractors, purchasing, site changes and progress need to stay visible across longer-running work.
Landscaping
Project landscaping where crews, materials, subcontractors, plant and variations need to stay tied to each construction job.
Outcomes
What changes when it is all in one place
Know where every live job stands.
See what is underway, what is waiting and where labour and costs are building without chasing the whole team for an update.
Keep variations attached to the commercial job.
Record changed scope and extra work where the original quote, labour, purchases and invoice already live.
See labour and purchasing before they become history.
Keep site hours, workshop time, supplier spend and subcontractor costs visible as the project moves.
Invoice from the work that actually happened.
Keep the operational record current so accounts is not rebuilding the job from emails and spreadsheets at billing time.
Proof
Businesses like these already run on it
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The flexibility of the app has been a huge benefit. It lets us direct work more efficiently and empowers people to do more.
Mark Twomey, CEO, Watershed Group NZ
FAQs
Construction questions
What construction businesses is WorkGuru designed for?
WorkGuru suits project-based contractors that need stronger control of quoting, labour, purchasing, variations, documents, invoicing and job profitability.
Is WorkGuru suitable for high-volume residential service work?
It can manage jobs and field work, but businesses centred on many short residential service calls may be better served by a field-service-first platform.
Can WorkGuru manage workshop and site work on the same project?
Yes. Fabrication or preparation work and site delivery can stay on the same project with their labour, purchases, tasks and costs.
Can we track variations and job costs as the project changes?
Yes. Changes, extra work, labour and purchases can stay with the project so management can compare the live job with what was originally allowed for.
See how WorkGuru fits your construction or trade business.
Show us the jobs you run, where the work happens and what usually gets messy. We will show you how WorkGuru keeps it together.