Five of the things we actually build, running right here. No sign-up, no email, no "book a demo". Two of them are genuinely live — you type, they think, you get real output. The other three are walkthroughs, and we've labelled them that way because pretending otherwise would be the exact thing we're trying not to be.
An enquiry lands the way customers actually write them: vague, at 9pm, missing half of what you need. This drafts the quote off your price list so you approve and send instead of starting from a blank page after dinner.
*The call-out fee only applies weekends, or between 5:30pm and 8am. Weekday daytime jobs don't get one. Try the emergency example — it's a Saturday, so watch what it does.
Overdue in Xero, so a polite one goes at seven days, a firmer one at fourteen, and one from you personally at twenty-one. It chases money you've already earned, which is why it usually pays for itself in the first month.
Forty applications arrive. You read four. This is the one we've already built and run — it screens against the criteria you wrote down, ranks them, books the interviews and keeps every candidate in the loop so you're not the bad guy who never replied.
Press Run a hiring round and watch it move.
One email, 7am Monday. Money in, money out, jobs done, leads in, and the two things that need you this week. This one saves you nothing. It's on the list because owners who get it stop wondering what's going on in their own business.
You're up a ladder. The phone rings out. Thirty seconds later they've got a text, and they haven't rung the next name on Google. Two hours of work, the cheapest thing we build, and the one that starts the most relationships.
Nobody else puts this table on their own website, which is exactly why it's on ours. Rough Australian numbers, first year.
| Option | First year, roughly | The honest catch |
|---|---|---|
| Do it yourself Zapier / Make + a weekend or ten |
$600 – $2,400 in tools | Cheapest by far — if you enjoy this stuff and your evenings are free. When it breaks at 7am, you're the support desk. |
| Hire a person part-time admin, ~15 hrs/wk |
$27,000+ / year, every year | Flexible and human — and the right answer for judgement work. For the repetitive stuff, it's the most expensive option on the table and it takes leave. |
| A Lume build e.g. three automations + Silver care |
~$14,400 yr 1, ~$8,900 after | Only worth it when the hours say so — which is what the calculator on the home page is for, and why it's allowed to tell you no. |
Fifteen minutes on the phone. We'll tell you which of these — if any — is worth your money. Sometimes the answer is none of them, and we'll say that too.
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