Process Optimisation & Automation for Trade Businesses
Quotes that never get followed up. Time tracking on paper. Site documentation that has to be sorted in the office every evening. These aren't software problems — they're process problems. Innovectus optimises them first, before automating anything at all.
What Trade Businesses Most Often Come to Us For
Four topics that come up in almost every first conversation with trade businesses from the region.
Automatic quote follow-ups
Open quotes are automatically followed up after a few days — with a friendly, unobtrusive reminder instead of no response at all. No quote goes cold anymore.
Digital time tracking on the job site
Also driven by legal recording requirements: working hours are captured directly on site, instead of being reconstructed from memory on Friday.
Photo & voice documentation straight from the job site
Photos and voice messages are automatically transcribed, assigned to the right project and filed in the site diary — without hours of manual sorting in the office.
Pre-qualifying applicants
Especially important given the skilled-labour shortage: incoming applications are pre-qualified, so only the right candidates end up on the owner's desk.
Why Trade Businesses Optimise First, Instead of Automating Right Away
Many trade businesses have already introduced new software at some point — an industry program, an app, a time-tracking tool. Yet the underlying problem often remains, because it wasn't the software that was the issue, but the process behind it.
That's why Innovectus starts with analysis: Where is time actually being lost on site and in the office? Which systems already exist and just need to talk to each other? Only then is it decided what gets automated — with a fixed quote that isn't exceeded afterwards.
„The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." — Bill Gates
Frequently Asked Questions from Trade Businesses
Which trade businesses is this suitable for?
Mainly for businesses with 20 to 200 employees — from plumbing and electrical firms to renovation companies — where quotes, documentation or time tracking still cost too much manual work.
Do I have to replace my existing trade software?
In most cases, no. Existing systems such as industry software, spreadsheets or time-tracking tools are connected to one another instead of being replaced.
What does automating a single process cost, e.g. quote follow-ups?
That depends on the scope. After the free initial analysis, you get a fixed quote that is not exceeded afterwards.
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