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 transformational.

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 — Seamless automation

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 — taking enquiries, booking jobs, and sending confirmations automatically. Addressing the $8 billion Australian businesses lose annually to missed calls.

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.

Location
Australia