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Free tool · Admin Audit

Admin Audit Calculator

Most tradies have no idea how many hours a week they actually spend on admin. Answer 5 quick questions. We'll show you exactly where the time goes and where automation pays off fastest.

  • How many hours a week admin really eats
  • What those hours cost you a year at your rate
  • Your top 3 time leaks, ranked
  • Where automation pays off fastest

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~1 min

5 quick questions

Instant

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What's an hour of your time worth?

What you charge on the tools. We use this to calculate the dollar cost of your admin.

From 30 minutes a job to 2

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“Pat at ServiceScale helped my business extremely well. By helping us cut down admin time and post inspection work from 30 minutes a job to 2 minutes a job. He also set us up to maximise the technology and software we were using, and introduced us to some other software that made our lives and work much easier and more efficient and productive.”

Tom Davidson

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Common questions

FAQ

It's a directional estimate, not a forensic audit, and that's the point. Most tradies underestimate how long admin actually takes and how often they do it. The level options are based on what we hear from real Australian trade businesses every week.

It's the share of that specific task that can realistically be automated today with off-the-shelf tools. Quote follow-ups are 90% automatable because an SMS sequence handles it. Writing quotes is 55% because pricing decisions still need a human, but AI-assisted line items + templates cut the rest. The numbers reflect what we've actually seen working.

You save the hours. Whether that becomes money depends on what you do with them. Put the recovered hours back into billable work or sales and yes, that's the dollar figure. Use them for actual time off (also valid) and the value is your sanity, not your invoice book.

Start with whatever your audit flags as your single biggest leak. Usually that's quote follow-ups or invoice reminders, both 85–90% automatable and cheap to set up. Book a consult and we'll wire up the highest-impact one in a week.
Next step

Now you know where the time goes. Want help getting it back?

Book a consult. We'll wire up the highest-impact automation from your top leak in under a week.

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