QLD Construction grant · $5,000 · opening soon

Gold Coast builders: get ready for the $5,000 AI grant.

Queensland is about to hand construction businesses $5,000 for business software and training. There aren't many, and it's expected to run as a ballot. You lodge it from your own login the day it opens. We build the AI back-office it's designed to cover, grant or not. Little to nothing out of pocket for eligible businesses.

No date published yet, and it's expected to run as a ballot. We don't lodge grant applications, you submit yourself, and we build the system it funds.

Opening soon
$5,000

Construction Business Advancement Grant

Flat $5k for business management software and training. Statewide, limited numbers, expected to run as a ballot. Date and fine print not published yet, so being ready early is the edge.

Available today
Free

Digital advisory support

Free workshops and up to 5 hours of one-on-one digital and AI advice per business, live right now through the government's ASBAS program. Real help you can use while the grant lands.

Watch this space
$7.5k

Business Basics grant

$7,500 with no co-contribution, funds website and marketing work. Currently between rounds. We'll flag you the moment it reopens so you're ready for that one too.

What the money builds

An office that runs itself while you're on the tools.

The grant funds the setup. What you get is an AI back-office trained on your business, doing the admin that eats your nights and drops your jobs.

Catches the calls you miss

Up a ladder at 3pm and the phone rings out? It answers, takes the details, books them in, and texts you the job. That missed call was someone else's job by tomorrow.

Quotes from a voice note

Walk the job talking into your phone, or send it a couple of site photos, and a proper quote comes back drafted. You check it and hit send from the ute.

Chases the money

Invoice drafts itself off the quote and whatever changed on site, then chases the unpaid ones on its own. The cash that sits in inboxes for three weeks starts landing.

Builds your reviews

Asks the happy customer for a review at the right moment, one tap for them. Your stars grow, and they're real, no gating, no hiding the grumpy ones.

How it works

The grant funds business software. That's exactly what we build.

01

See what you're leaking

Run the free 60-second check. It shows you the jobs your missed calls are dropping and the hours your paperwork is stealing, grant or no grant.

02

You lodge the grant yourself

When the round opens you submit from your own login. We don't run grant applications, and nobody can lodge one for you under the rules. We tell you straight what it funds and where you stand.

03

We build your back-office

We set up and train your AI back-office on your business, live in about 14 days. The grant is designed to cover the build for eligible businesses, and it's from $497/mo after.

Built for Gold Coast builders

What a Gold Coast builders business actually deals with.

Local and seasonal. On the Gold Coast a builder is running one of three jobs: house-and-land in the northern corridor around Coomera, Pimpama and Ormeau, custom homes on Hinterland acreage around Tamborine and Bonogin, or renovations on the ageing brick-and-tile through the central suburbs. Storm season from roughly November to March is the one that hurts, wet weeks blow out slab pours and frame stages, and every delay drags the next progress claim and client update with it.

Your stack and job volume. Builders don't live in ServiceM8 like the service trades. You're on estimating-led software, Buildxact or Databuild for resi, Buildertrend or simPRO at the bigger and commercial end, with Xero or MYOB underneath, and the QBCC layer over the top: a written contract on domestic work over $3,300, home warranty insurance on residential jobs, and staged claims under the BIF Act. This is the deep, low-volume, high-value end, so the load isn't call volume, it's document weight per job.

What we would set up first. First build is quote and variation drafting from a voice note or a site photo, because the margin leaks where a variation gets agreed on site and never written up, so it never makes the invoice. Then the system protects cash by getting progress claims out on time inside the BIF Act windows, where a claim to the principal can fall due in as little as 10 business days, and up to 15 for a head contractor, and a late claim strangles a job worth hundreds of thousands. Missed-call textback still catches new enquiries, it just isn't the headline for a builder. G'dai Mate builds and runs the lot from $497 a month, month to month, and the data stays yours.

Local to you

Built for Gold Coast trades, not a Melbourne office.

Most of the mob doing this are remote agencies wiring up generic tools from interstate. We're Brisbane-based, your data stays onshore and stays yours, and the system learns how your business actually runs. We work with builders and trades right across the Gold Coast.

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He helped me reprocess more than 1,000 invoices with AI to pull the data for our expense and profit report. Before, I was overwhelmed, and it would have taken me forever. He can always find a way to lighten the work and the mental load.
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Invoice & expense processing
1,000+invoices processed
The $5,000 grant

The grant funds business software. We build you exactly that.

Government money or not, an AI back-office catches one missed call and it's paid for itself. See what your business is leaking this week, free, in 60 seconds.

See what you're leaking. Free 60-second check

Free to run the check. The AI back-office is from $497/mo, and the grant is designed to cover the build for eligible businesses. We don't lodge grant applications.

Straight up about the grant

The Construction Business Advancement Grant hasn't opened yet and the government hasn't published the date or the full eligibility rules. We can't promise you'll get it, nobody can. What we can do is get you assessed and your application fully prepared, ready for you to submit the instant it opens, which is what counts when spots are limited.

The grant funds recognised business software and training. We set that up and train your crew, then the ongoing AI back-office runs on a simple monthly plan once the setup's done. The compliance and records are yours, the system just makes logging and finding them dead easy.

If it turns out you don't qualify, we'll tell you straight, and point you to the free advisory support that's available right now instead.