Built by someone who has lived both sides.
Fourteen years commissioning plant and running site teams across the Middle East and Asia. I have sat in the office chasing the paperwork and I have been the one on the tools waiting for it. Octawerks exists because the admin was never a people problem.
Read Our Story →Three services. One
core focus.
Software agnostic, always. We work with whatever tools you already run. Published fixed prices, not an hourly guess.
NZ$600
Half a day inside your business. We time your actual quote turnaround, pull your actual days-to-payment out of Xero, and count what is currently sitting past 30 days. You get a written report with the three biggest leaks ranked by dollars.
- Yours to keep whether or not you build with us
- The full $600 comes off the build if you go ahead
From NZ$2,400, fixed
One workflow, quoted as a fixed number before we start, live inside two weeks. Built on Xero and the job software you already run.
- No platform lock-in: n8n, Zapier, Make, your existing CRM, whatever fits
- Documented, so your office can run it without calling us
NZ$350 per month, cancel any time
We watch it, we fix it when something upstream changes, and we train whoever joins your office.
- One month notice, no lock-in contract
- Monitoring and fixes before issues hit your business
From first call to live automation.
No lengthy sales process. A short path from finding the problem to having it fixed and running.
Free 30-minute call
We ask about how work actually flows through your business right now. No pitch, no slide deck.
Ranked opportunities
3–5 places where you're losing the most time, ranked by impact and effort, with hours estimated upfront.
Built on your tools
We build the fix using whatever software you already run, and test it against real jobs before it goes live.
Live in weeks
First automation running and saving time within a month. Retainer hours keep it monitored as your business grows.
The quote. The invoice. The enquiry.
Same three leaks in every trades business we have worked with.
Customer rang Friday. Quote went out Tuesday night. They had already said yes to someone else.
Enquiry lands. Draft quote ready in ten minutes. You approve it from the van. Same day, every time.
Job closed on the 3rd. Invoice went out on the 11th. Still unpaid on the 28th. Nobody has chased it.
Invoice out the day the job closes. Day 7 reminder sends itself. Day 14 escalation follows. You wrote none of them.
Three enquiries came in after 6pm. You saw them Thursday. Two had already booked someone else.
Every enquiry acknowledged inside two minutes, day or night, with the questions you need answered before you can quote.
Three trades. One problem.
Click your trade to see exactly what we sort.
New business, honest about it. Here is what you get instead of a wall of logos.
You see the numbers before you commit
The audit measures your actual quote turnaround and your actual days-to-payment. If the numbers are fine, we tell you and you keep the report.
Two weeks to something live
First automation running against real jobs inside two weeks, or you do not pay for the build.
It runs on the tools you already have
Xero, your existing CRM, your job management software. Nothing to rip out, no new licence, no lock-in.
Common questions, honest answers.
Do I need to change my existing tools?+
Almost never. We work with what you already have and remove the manual steps in between.
We tried this before and it did not work.+
Most attempts fail because the tool was chosen before the problem was understood. We start with your specific problem, build the smallest thing that fixes it, and prove it works before expanding.
My team is not technical. Will this work?+
Yes. The processes run in the background. Your team keeps using the tools they already know. The manual steps just stop happening.
How long does it take to go live?+
Most first projects go live in two weeks from when we start building. By week four most clients are already getting time back.
What does it cost?+
The audit is $600 and it is credited in full against a build. Builds start at $2,400 fixed. You get the number in writing before anything starts.
We share what we learn.
No buzzwords, no webinars. Just what works and what does not.
IBM Business Automation Workflow: What the Demo Shows, and Why It Is Not Built for a NZ SME
How to Set Up Automation for Your Small Business: The Full Technical Breakdown
You Are Not Going to Make Money in Your Sleep. But You Can Still Get Your Life Back.
Every day your team spends on admin is money left on the table.
We show you exactly where those hours are going, and which automations would get your people back to billable work. No pitch, no slide deck.
Book the audit, $600 →