Shedula was built on a building site, not in a boardroom.
Andrew Woodard runs Ridge Renovations in Perth. Shedula started as the system he built to fix his own Sunday nights.
“I used to build the month schedule in a colour-coded spreadsheet, then retype it into a branded Word doc for every job — always at night, after everyone else had gone home.”
The problem was never the building. It was the coordinating.
A bathroom is not one job. It is demolition, plumbing, electrical, waterproofing, screed, tiling, glazing, cabinetry, stone, plastering and painting — eleven trades who each need to turn up on the right day, in the right order, knowing exactly what they are there to do. Run five of those at once and the actual work of a renovation business stops being building and starts being coordinating.
The tools on offer did not match that. The service-job apps are built for six callouts a day, not a twelve-week bathroom. The big construction platforms are built for volume home builders who live in estimating. Everyone in the middle — the renovation builder running four to ten jobs with a dozen subbies across them — ends up back in a spreadsheet, a group chat and a Word document.
Every feature here exists because a job went wrong.
Clash detection exists because a tiler and a plumber were booked on the same day on the same job, and nobody noticed until one of them was standing on the driveway. The email invite for subbies exists because the crew quietly stopped using the last system that made them create an account. Flat pricing exists because a tool that charges per seat quietly punishes you for adding the client to the job — which is the exact thing that stops them ringing you.
The PDF quote import exists because retyping a scope you have already written is twenty to thirty minutes of your life, on every single job you win.
It runs a real business every day.
Shedula is not a demo or a prototype. It is the system Ridge Renovations runs on in Perth right now — live jobs, real clients, real trades. If something does not work on a real site, it gets fixed that week, because the person who wrote it is the person standing on the site.
That is the whole reason it exists, and it is the reason it is being opened up to other renovation builders rather than kept in-house.
Your jobs deserve better
than a spreadsheet.
Shedula is finished and running on real renovation jobs in Perth every day. Sign-ups open shortly — and your first schedule will take less than 10 minutes.
Want to know the day sign-ups open? Email me and I’ll tell you first.