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Construction,
made easier to run.

For builders who run the jobs and the admin. Get paid for all of it, and get your evenings back.

No pitch, just a yarn about how you run.

Shaped by long conversations with builders, from joiners on their own to the people running Tier 2 commercial jobs. What they told us

The reality.

Right now, you hold it all in your head.

Six jobs on the go. Every extra, every delay, every promise made on site, carried around all day and sorted out after dark.

  • No idea what this job is actually making until it closes.

  • Chasing subbies, dates and answers across five different tools.

  • A cost blowout nobody flagged, and the margin that went with it.

  • More time running the chaos than building anything.

The bigger picture.

Running a construction business is a royal pain. And it's getting harder, not easier.

A decade of new systems moved the admin around and sent the industry a bill.

Ten years ago

A builder ran on three things.

  • A phone
  • A spreadsheet
  • Email

Today

Six systems, and someone to keep them all in sync.

  • Job management
  • Accounting
  • Estimating
  • Timesheets
  • Safety
  • Document control

And email still carries half the real information about any job. Usually it's the owner keeping it all straight, after hours.

The bill

$200,000
a year in variations one builder never billed.
$25,000
callout that slipped past its claim deadline, sitting in an email thread.
Where these numbers came from

Carrying the admin should be the tool's job, not yours. That's what Folkware is for.

See where this goes: a Tuesday in 2030 Read the full piece (opens on HEY World in a new tab)

What changes.

A building business that's calmer to run, and better to own.

A day that runs like that, in 2030
  • Paid for the extras and the losses, not just the original job.
  • Seeing a job go off the rails before it does.
  • Nothing slipping, so you can switch off at night.
  • The business out of your head, so the team can run it.

What we make.

Two tools. One holds the job, one runs it.

Take either on its own. Run both and nothing falls between them.

Rory's inbox on a phone: the money at risk on each job, and the replies waiting on you.

Works with the tools you've got.

Rory

A contract administrator on every job, 24/7.

Rory reads every email, drawing and site note against the job. It catches the extra agreed four replies into a thread, drafts the variation and the notice inside the window, and writes the chase before the job stalls. You tap okay.

So every job keeps moving, the admin stops coming home with you, and you get paid for all the work you do.

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Footing's dashboard: what needs you today, the money owed and overdue, and the jobs waiting on others.

One record per job.

Footing

The construction business operating system.

Footing puts every job, claim, subbie and dollar on one record: the quote, the schedule, budget against actual, the claim and who's inducted. Office, site and the books run on the same numbers, nothing to stitch together.

So you know where every job is at, see the margin before close-out, and claim the stage the day it's done.

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Kosta, founder of Folkware
Kosta, founder. Adelaide.

From Adelaide, let's talk.

The business should hold up as well as the work does.

I'm sitting down with builders across Australia to learn how they really run, so what we build comes from the job, not from guesswork. If that's you, I'd love to hear from you.

Tell me how your week really goes.

Kosta

Proudly built in Australia.