Big-business systems for small trades businesses.
You're great at the trade. We make the business run like a system — onboarding, sales, safety, hiring, the books — in plain language, with no corporate fluff.
Backed by a money-back guarantee — if the advice wasn't worth it, you don't pay for it.
The trade is the easy part.
Most trades businesses run on the owner's memory. That works — right up until you're slammed, hiring, or trying to take a week off and everything grinds to a halt.
Nothing's written down
Quality and training depend on what's in your head. New hires take months to get useful.
Feast or famine
Sales are reactive and word-of-mouth only. Some months you're buried, others the phone's quiet.
Safety paperwork costs you work
No proper OH&S program means lost bids — many GCs won't hire a sub without the documentation.
The books are always behind
You can't see what's actually profitable, and tax time is a yearly fire drill.
Hiring by gut feel
No job descriptions, no interview process — and one bad hire can cost you twenty grand.
Quotes & scheduling in your head
Jobs slip through the cracks because there's no system holding the handoffs together.
The systems your business is missing.
We build the master system once, then tailor it to your trade, your size, and the way you actually work. You get senior-level work at small-business prices.
SOPs & onboarding
Documented processes and a new-hire ramp so your business doesn't live in your head.
Sales systems & funnels
A repeatable lead-to-close process: quote templates, follow-up scripts, a real pipeline.
Project management
Job workflows, handoff checklists and scheduling that keep work from slipping.
OH&S programs
A health & safety program aligned to Alberta OHS — so you stop losing bids over paperwork.
Hiring & interviews
Job descriptions, scorecards and interview guides so you stop hiring on a hunch.
Bookkeeping rhythm
A monthly close, a clean chart of accounts and a KPI dashboard you'll actually use.
Marketing, branding & web
A brand, message and website that make a small shop look like the obvious choice.
Structure & AI adoption
Incorporation guidance and practical AI that saves you hours on quoting, comms and admin.
Three steps. No jargon.
Low-risk to start, and you always leave with something in writing.
Free discovery call
Tell us where it hurts. No pitch, no jargon — about 30 minutes to figure out if we can help.
We diagnose
Over Zoom, on the phone, or with a site walk and job shadow — we watch how your business actually runs.
Systems + recap
We build the systems and hand you a written recap with prioritized next steps. Every time.
Pick the level of support you need.
Monthly plans for ongoing help — cancel anytime. Prefer one project? Everything's available à la carte too.
- Monthly check-in call
- Ask-us-anything support (48-hr reply)
- One SOP built each quarter
- Member pricing on system packages
- Weekly check-ins
- Priority support (24-hr reply)
- Ongoing system builds, month over month
- Quarterly strategy review
- Embedded weekly support
- Multiple system workstreams at once
- Quarterly planning & reviews
- On-call for the big decisions
Just need one thing? Business Health Checks, site-walk audits and one-off system packages are available without a subscription.
If the advice wasn't worth it, you don't pay for it.
We're confident in the work. If you finish a consultation feeling it wasn't worth the fee, tell us — we refund the consultation fee. No hard feelings.
The accessible alternative to big, expensive firms.
Real management training, genuine respect for the trades, and modern tools — pointed at the unglamorous systems that actually move your business.
Plain language, always
If a journeyman can't follow it, we rewrite it. No buzzwords, no 80-page reports nobody reads.
We know the trades
We build for how your business actually works — trucks, crews, job sites and all — not a textbook.
Fast, AI-accelerated work
Modern tools let a sharp small team deliver the polish of a big firm — without the big-firm invoice.
Skin in the game
The money-back guarantee means our incentive is simple: deliver advice that's actually worth it.
Be one of our first — at a founding rate.
We're taking on a small group of founding clients at a discount in exchange for honest feedback. You get senior-level systems for less; we earn the case studies that build this firm. Fair trade?
The stuff trades owners ask us.
Do you actually understand the trades?
Yes. We grew up around the trades and build for how the work really happens — site walks, crews, quoting on the fly. We don't hand you a corporate binder; we hand you systems that fit a trades business.
We're a small shop — is this even affordable?
That's the whole point. We're the accessible alternative to firms that won't touch a business your size. Start with a single Health Check or a Foundations plan from $400/month, and scale up only if it's paying off.
What if I just need one thing fixed?
No problem. You don't need a subscription — book a one-off Business Health Check, a site-walk audit, or a single system package (onboarding, sales, safety, hiring, and so on).
Do you do the work, or just advise?
We build. You get real deliverables — written SOPs, checklists, templates, dashboards — plus a recap with next steps. Then we make sure they actually get used, not shelved.
What exactly is the guarantee?
If you finish a consultation feeling the advice wasn't worth the fee, tell us and we refund the consultation fee. It keeps us honest and takes the risk off you.
Where are you based?
Calgary, Alberta. We work in person across Calgary and area (Airdrie, Cochrane, Okotoks, Chestermere) and remotely with trades businesses anywhere in Alberta.
Let's make your business run like a system.
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. No pitch, no jargon — just a straight conversation about where you're stuck.
hello@tradesecretsconsulting.ca · Calgary, AB