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The plan that survives contact with a Tuesday

Work, people and equipment scheduled against real constraints, reshuffled in seconds when something changes, and visible to everyone who needs to know.

Typically costs
£48k–£140k
Live in
1430 weeks
Price yours properlyThree minutes, and it asks for nothing

Planning and scheduling

6 parts

01Where this usually starts

Your schedule lives in one person's head and a whiteboard. When a van breaks down or somebody calls in sick, replanning the day costs an hour of phone calls, and the customers you are about to let down find out last.

02What changes

What you end up holding.

  • 01A schedule that already knows who is qualified, who is free, what equipment is available and how long the drive takes
  • 02A change absorbed in seconds, with everyone affected told automatically
  • 03Customers given a time they can rely on, and warned before they are let down rather than after
  • 04The day's work on the phone of the person doing it, updating as it happens
  • 05A straight answer to how much more you could take on before you have to hire

A morning that replans itself in seconds, and an honest answer to how much more work you could take on.

03The pieces

What a system like this is usually made of.

You will not want all of it on day one, and you should not pay for all of it on day one. The estimator lets you choose, and shows what each one adds.

The schedule

Work placed against people, skills and equipment, with real constraints applied.

Sensible routes

Journeys planned on real roads and real traffic, so the day can actually be driven.

How much more you could take

An honest view of spare capacity, and when you will need to hire.

Reminders and no-shows

Reminders that cut people failing to turn up, and a cancelled slot offered straight to the waiting list.

What the engineer carries

The day's work, the history and the paperwork on their phone, working with gloves on.

Certificates and expiry dates

What is lapsing, in time to do something about it.

The sort of detail that matters

  • Nobody scheduled onto a job their ticket does not cover
  • A change absorbed in seconds
  • Photos and readings captured on site
  • Signed off before the van leaves

04How it would run

14 to 30 weeks, in five phases you approve one at a time.

  1. 01

    Getting to the truth

    A written account of how your work really runs today, what the current way is costing you, and what your new system has to do about it.

  2. 02

    Shaping it

    Every screen and every decision your system will make, in front of you and signed off, with your live date fixed at the end of it.

  3. 03

    Building it

    Your system takes shape week by week in your own account, with something you can click on and try at the end of every fortnight.

  4. 04

    Proving it

    Your own people put it through real work with real records, and everything they find is fixed before anybody depends on it.

  5. 05

    Going live

    Your team moves across trained, with their history intact, on the date fixed months earlier.

What happens in each of them

05Asked most often

The questions that come up.

Can it plan around qualifications and certificates?

Who holds which ticket, when it expires, what a job legally requires, and who may not attend it. The booking is refused at the point one of your people tries to make it, rather than discovered on the morning.

Does it work out sensible routes?

On real roads and real traffic patterns rather than straight lines, so the day you are handed is a day that can actually be driven.

What happens when the plan changes mid-morning?

You move the job and everything downstream rearranges itself. Engineers see the new order on their phones, customers get the new window, and whatever is now at risk is in front of you while there is still time to act.

06The rest of it

Most projects are two or three of these at once.

Put a date on it.

Half an hour with whoever would build it gets you the shape of the work, a figure you can take to your board, and the week it could start. No deck, no discovery fee, no follow-up sequence.