Who we help · Trades
Run the crews. Stop running every job.
You started this trade to build things, not to quote every job, chase every change order, and be the only one who knows where each crew should be. Let's get the business running without you on the truck.
Sound familiar?
The challenges we hear most in trades
Every quote runs through you
Estimates wait on your desk because nobody else prices a job you'd actually stand behind. Win rate and margin both swing on how busy you are that week.
Bid it tight, lose it in the field
The estimate looked profitable, then labour ran over, materials moved, and the change orders never got billed. You don't see the real job cost until the job's long done.
Scheduling lives in your head
Crew assignments, truck loads, and start dates only make sense to you. One sick foreman or a delayed inspection and the whole week unravels with you on the phone fixing it.
Typical outcomes
What changes when trades starts to flow
+12 pts
gross margin recovered on jobs
2x
estimates out the door per week
90%
crew time on billable work
Use case · Trades
We finally see job cost against the estimate while the job's still open, so we catch the overrun and bill the change order before it eats the profit. I'm off the quoting treadmill and the crews still hit their dates.
Founder
Mechanical contractor, Langley · ~$9M
+11 pts
margin on completed jobs
3 days
faster quote turnaround
40%
fewer callbacks and rework
How VITO helps
The levers that move trades
Design & Estimating
Turn enquiries into accurate, fast, winning quotes and proposals.
Learn more →Scheduling & Capacity
Schedule for flow: fewer interruptions, fewer setups, more output from what you have.
Learn more →Pricing & Margin Recovery
Recover margin that's quietly leaking through pricing, rework and scope creep.
Learn more →KPI & Daily Management
Make performance visible with the numbers and daily rhythms that drive it.
Learn more →Financial Visibility & Ownership
See the numbers that matter clearly enough to lead with them, not guess.
Learn more →Quality Management System
Protect the customer and the business with quality that holds under pressure.
Learn more →Why VITO
Why VITO gets the trades
Mike treats your business as one value stream: the quote that wins the work, the crew that delivers it, and the invoice that gets paid. He finds the one constraint capping your growth, then installs the ownership and cadence so it runs without you standing on every job.
- ✓Estimating-to-actuals job costing so you price tighter and protect margin
- ✓Scheduling and crew utilization that holds up when you're not in the office
- ✓A weekly number-driven cadence your foremen can actually run
Ready when you are
Ready to unlock your value stream?
Start with a value-flow review and get a clear read on where growth is getting stuck, and what it takes to set it moving.