Voice AI for the Trades Economy

452,000 trade businesses. 15 hours a week buried in admin. One AI that does the paperwork.

Australian tradies lose almost two full working days every week to quoting, invoicing, scheduling, and chasing payments — at the kitchen table, at 9pm, instead of earning. Raduga Tech builds voice AI that automates the admin, so every sole operator runs like a company with a full back office.

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452,820
Registered construction businesses in Australia
ABS, June 2025
98%
Are small businesses or sole traders with fewer than 20 employees
Builders Institute, 2025
15 hrs
Per week spent on admin instead of billable work
ABS / ASBFEO
$74K
Per year in lost billing capacity for a single tradie at $95/hr
Industry analysis, 2026

Every AI company is chasing enterprise. Nobody is building for the people who actually build things.

Construction is the largest small business sector in Australia — 17% of all registered businesses. These aren't companies with admin teams. They're electricians, plumbers, builders, and HVAC techs running the entire operation solo or with a handful of staff.

They spend 10–15 hours every week on quoting, invoicing, scheduling, chasing payments, and compliance paperwork. That's almost two full working days not earning revenue. At $95–$120/hr, the maths is brutal: the admin costs more than a full-time employee would, but it's invisible because the tradie absorbs it with their evenings and weekends.

68% of sole traders still do bookkeeping by hand. Quotes get written on the back of receipts. Invoices go out days or weeks late. Payments slip through the cracks. The existing tools — ServiceM8, Tradify, Jobber, simPRO — help, but they're all screen-based apps that demand time a tradie on site simply doesn't have.

$74,000 /yr
Lost billing capacity per tradie at $95/hr with 15 hours of weekly admin. Revenue that gets replaced by unpaid paperwork.
68%
Of sole traders still do bookkeeping by hand. Shoeboxes of receipts, faded dockets, and a panic catch-up the week before BAS is due.
30 → 5 min
Time to build a quote with automation vs by hand. Multiply that across 8–15 jobs a week and the hours recovered are the point.

Voice is the only interface that works when your hands are full.

Raduga Tech builds AI that automates trade business admin by voice — quoting, scheduling, invoicing, payments — designed for the way these businesses actually operate.

01 — Voice-first

Talk, don't tap

Natural Australian English. Tradies log jobs, send quotes, and check schedules by talking — while driving, on site, or between jobs. No screen, no typing, no app to stare at.

02 — Trade-specific AI

Built for the domain

Generic AI doesn't know a progress claim from a variation. Our models are built on trade workflows, Australian compliance, and the language tradies actually use.

03 — Full workflow

One action, full workflow

Say "log a job for Sarah, Monday, hot water system" and Bazza creates the job, schedules it, sends the customer a confirmation, and queues the invoice. No double entry. No admin.

Version 1.0

Hey Bazza — the AI back office for every Australian tradie.

Not a pitch deck. A working product. Hey Bazza is a voice AI assistant that automates the admin that eats tradie evenings and weekends — jobs, quotes, scheduling, payments, customer communication — entirely by voice.

Voice job management

Log jobs, create quotes, update status, check schedules — entirely by voice. Works hands-free while driving, on site, or between jobs. No screen, no typing.

Invoicing and payments

Generate invoices, track payments, send reminders — automated and integrated with Stripe. The end of chasing payments from the kitchen table at 9pm.

Scheduling and customer comms

Bookings, calendar management, customer confirmations, and follow-ups — automated from a single voice command. One action triggers the full workflow.

On the roadmap: AI receptionist

Phase 2 extends Hey Bazza to answer inbound customer calls

When a tradie can't pick up — taking enquiries, booking jobs, and sending confirmations automatically. Addressing the $8 billion Australian businesses lose annually to missed calls.

Done-for-you automation, delivered by the people who build the product.

A paid five-day diagnostic that maps exactly where your hours and margin are going — then fixed-scope builds that fix it. Starting with the written list of what we will not automate.

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Consultations from 21 October 2026 · Book online in two minutes

Australia is the starting line. The trades economy is global.

The admin burden on small trade operators isn't unique to Australia — it's a structural problem in every market where construction is dominated by small businesses. The same pain exists in the US, UK, Ireland, and Canada.

Our model scales: localise the voice AI for regional language and compliance, deploy on the same infrastructure, and reach operators in Texas, Dublin, or Toronto who have the exact same problem.

Australia's $242 billion infrastructure pipeline and 300,000-worker shortfall make it the ideal proving ground — high demand, acute pain, and a tech-forward small business culture that adopts faster than most.

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Australia — Launch market

452,000 construction businesses. $242B infrastructure pipeline.

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United States — First expansion

Texas-first. Largest construction market in the world.

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United Kingdom & Ireland

English-speaking trades with identical pain points.

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Canada

Infrastructure boom. Strong small trades sector.

Let's talk.

Partnerships, press, conference meetings, or just curious — we'd love to hear from you.

Phone — Amela Peric
Location
Australia