A phone call, not a scope
You are asked for a price on a job you have not seen measured, so you guess, or you drive out to look.
For trades
Packages of work that arrive already measured.
A builder on Modern GBQ prices a job line by line before anyone is asked to quote. When they want your trade's price they send you a package: the labour of your trade on that job, with its hours, quantities and stage, plus the drawings they choose to share. You answer with one number. If the builder accepts it, your figure becomes the price of that work on their quote.
- Free once verified
- Builders send packages free
- Founding offer before 1 January 2027
The problem today
Why quoting for builders eats your week.
Your price, retyped
The figure you send is copied into someone else's spreadsheet, and it is not always the figure you sent.
Shopped around
Your number can be shown to the next tradie to beat, with no deadline and no record.
How it works
What you actually do.
- 1
Register and get verified
Create a free account with your business name, the trades you do, the state and suburbs you work in and, where your trade is licensed, your licence number. Our staff verify the business before any package can reach you.
- 2
Packages arrive
A builder cuts the labour of your trade from a priced quote and sends it to you, with hours, quantities, the stage of works, the suburb and state, a start window and the shared drawings. Opening a package for the first time uses one of your month's packages.
- 3
Answer with one number
Give a lump sum ex GST, your availability, how long the price holds and any notes. Unit rates per activity are optional. Revise before the deadline if you need to; every version is kept.
- 4
Get accepted
After the deadline the builder compares the answers blind and accepts one. If it is yours, your figure goes straight into their quote as a trade quote in your name.
What you get
Work that arrives already measured.
Quantities, not a phone call
Every package is cut from a quote the Grace Estimation Method has already measured, with the hours the labour pack allows for each activity. You price what is on the page.
One number is enough
Answer with a lump sum, ex GST, plus when you can start and how long the price holds. Unit rates are optional for the trades that quote that way.
Blind until the deadline
Other tradies' answers are never shown to you and yours is never shown to them. Answers shut at the deadline; the builder compares them after it.
Straight into the quote
An accepted answer replaces the labour rate for your trade on the builder's priced quote, shown as a trade quote in your business name. No retyping.
Nothing you did not ask for
You see the package only: quantities, stage, suburb and state, the start window and the drawings the builder ticked. Never the homeowner's name, street address or contact details, and never the builder's margin.
A record that follows you
Packages awaiting an answer, due soon, accepted and declined sit in your Trades workspace, and a rating builds from your work, the way it does for builders.
The usual way, and with Modern GBQ.
| Topic | The usual way | With Modern GBQ |
|---|---|---|
| What you are sent | The usual wayA phone call and an address | With Modern GBQMeasured quantities, hours, stage and drawings |
| How you answer | The usual wayA quote document, every time | With Modern GBQOne number ex GST, unit rates optional |
| Who sees your price | The usual wayWhoever the builder forwards it to | With Modern GBQThe builder only, after the deadline |
| Where your price ends up | The usual wayRetyped into a spreadsheet | With Modern GBQIn the builder's quote, in your name |
Plans
Which plan fits.
Every plan receives and answers packages the same way; the plans differ in how many packages you can open a month. Builders pay nothing to send. Plan prices in Australian dollars, GST included.
| Listed | Gold | Platinum | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | A$0 once verified | A$59 a month | A$149 a month |
| Best for | A sole trader taking the odd job | A crew that quotes every week | A contractor with several crews |
| Packages a month | 2 | 20 | Unlimited |
| Lump-sum answers, optional unit rates | Included | Included | Included |
| Your workspace, rating, notifications | Included | Included | Included |
| Founding offer (register before 1 January 2027) | A free year at 20 packages a month | — | — |
Pick yours
Trade plans.
Founding offer: a free year at 20 packages a month for trades that register before 1 January 2027.
Questions
What tradies ask.
What is the founding offer?
A free year at 20 packages a month (Gold's allowance) for trades that register before 1 January 2027. The year starts when our staff verify your business.
Do I need a licence to register?
No. Register first and add the licence number when you have it to hand. For electrical, plumbing, gas and air-conditioning, our staff check the licence at verification, and a builder cannot accept your answer until it has been checked.
Is my price inc or ex GST?
Ex GST, like every price and rate on the platform. GST is added once, by the builder, on the total the homeowner sees.
Who pays for this?
Builders send packages free. Your plan decides how many packages you can open a month: two on the free Listed plan, twenty on Gold, unlimited on Platinum.
Can I say no?
Yes. Declining a package costs nothing. Declining after the builder has accepted your answer counts against your rating, the same rule builders live by.
Will I see the homeowner?
No. You see the builder's name, because you are working for the builder, and the job's suburb and state. The homeowner's name, street address and contact details are never shared on the platform.
Put your price where the builders are.
Free once verified, two packages a month, no card. Register before 1 January 2027 for a free year at twenty a month.