The hours from Friday
Weekly sheets are filled in from memory. The total is usually right, the split across jobs rarely is. That makes every cost review an estimate.
Practice / Your industry
Trades businesses
The work happens on site and in the workshop, the admin usually in the office. Gaps open up wherever recording, syncing and responsibility are not cleanly settled.
The working day
The terms
come from you.
Electrical, plumbing and heating, joinery, painting, roofing, metalwork, tiling. Businesses between three and fifty people, where the work happens outside and the admin happens in the evening.
JobSite
CustomerClient
LineTrade
AppointmentCall-out
DocumentDelivery note
An example mapping. Your business defines its own terminology.
Where effort accumulates
A useful start
has a reason.
These situations help you recognise the work. We use your actual processes to find which apply to your business.
Variations nobody can find again
It is agreed on site, by phone or with a nod. At the final invoice the evidence is missing, and the argument starts.
Delivery notes in the van
Materials go straight to site. If the delivery note stays in the van, the basis for a dependable check is missing when the invoice arrives.
The boss as the only overview
Where each job stands is known by one person. When they are out, on site or ill, the business does not stop. The answers do.
A possible overview
Two sites need a decision today.
3variations with no written agreementdrafts are ready
11 dayswith no entry on one sitematerial has been delivered
2timesheets missing from yesterdaysuggestion prepared
An illustration with fictional figures. Sources and responsibilities belong in the individual implementation.
06 · The night before
While nobody was in the workshop.
The picture of the business above does not fall out of the sky. It is the result of two and a half hours in which nobody was there.
- 05:41 Agent · inbox Four delivery notes pulled from the merchant portal, three of them assigned to a site.
- 05:58 Agent · inbox One delivery note fits two live sites. No entry made, it goes on the list of open questions.
- 06:14 Agent · jobs One site with no entry for eleven days noticed. Material is delivered, no date is set.
- 06:22 Agent · billing Three variations found that were agreed verbally on site. Confirmation drafts written, nothing sent.
- 06:33 Agent · time Hours from yesterday missing for two people. Suggestion prepared from the schedule and the material draw.
- 06:40 Agent · checks All checks have run. The previous quarter stays locked; nothing there is changed any more.
- 08:12 Human · you You unlock the door and read one sentence. Two sites need a decision, the rest is done.
None of this had to be started by anyone. And none of it was entered in a way you cannot follow.
Interaktive Veranschaulichung. Vorgänge, Zeiten und Zahlen sind fiktiv.
07 · A morning to play through
What should be on the desk first today?
Four typical gaps between the site, the van and the office. Pick one, and NoMoreTools shows what it does, the limit it holds and the result for the business.
From the signal to the decision
- What the agent does
- Pick a starting position on the left.
- The fixed rule
- The rule that applies appears once you choose.
- The visible result
- The visible result appears once you choose.
No starting position chosen yet.
The order of work
Which work
helps first.
Business guidance for a first scope, rather than a blanket instruction to rebuild an entire industry.
What can wait
Open items
Who owes you what, and since when.
The picture of the business
One sentence instead of eleven reports.
Include the failure cases
Warranty lasts longer than memory
Whatever gets asked about a site in three years has to be filed today so that it can be found then. Photos, delivery notes, variations, sign-off, all on the job, not in a folder with a similar name.
Outside, every movement counts
Anything that takes longer on site than a paper sheet will not be used. Recording has to work with dirty hands and poor reception, or it was built for nothing.
Hours are sensitive
Time recording quickly becomes a sore point inside a business, and legally it is its own ground. We build it so that it describes the job, not the person, and we settle the frame before building, not after.
Your first stage
Start where
the work improves.
For Trades businesses, we choose a bounded first outcome with your team. Existing specialist systems can stay where they fulfil necessary requirements. We compare time relief, payments that can end and the cost of the new way of working.
The workshop gives you priorities and a roadmap. You can continue internally or with support from Markus Kirchmair. The choice of model and agent follows the task, with data and rules retained outside an individual chat.
Explore the workshop →Ready for the next change
Keep the work simple.
The first view should show the next relevant decision. Reasoning and sources remain accessible. We leave out unnecessary features and make actual progress visible.
When a rule changes, agents can help investigate the impact, prepare the adjustment and update tests and documentation. A qualified person assesses the result and its adoption.
Try a change →Your first step
Say yes
to less.
Less unnecessary software. More room for your work. Let’s find the useful first step.