You are not short of work. See what is leaking between enquiry and payment.

Starts with an example business. Move the sliders to match yours. All figures in USD.

Lost each month, likely (USD)
/ month
lost per year
cash stuck at any one time

An estimate. Assumes you win 3 in 10 enquiries when you quote fast, lose 5% of those for each day a quote waits after day one, and 3% of finished work is never billed or billed short. Late payers take about 21 extra days. The audit replaces every guess with your own jobs and invoices.

Enquiry to quotewon by someone who quoted faster
Quote to jobjobs won each month
Job to invoicenever billed, plus waiting to be billed
Invoice to paidwaiting on late payers
Money lost for goodMoney that arrives, just late
35%
of small businesses are waiting more than 14 days past due to be paid GoCardless Pursuing Payments 2025, 800 AU/NZ businesses
51%
of small businesses are waiting longer for payment than they were a year ago GoCardless Pursuing Payments 2025
24 days
average wait from invoice issued to invoice paid, small business Xero Small Business Insights, 2026
Why we exist

Built by people who have lived both sides.

Darryl Tong
Founder, Octawerks

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.

These days I do not build alone. Hameed, a graduate of NTU in Singapore, is my solutions architect and co-pilot on every project we take on. He turns what comes out of a client conversation into the actual system, and makes sure it still holds up long after we have moved on to the next build.

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What we do

Find it. Fix it.
Keep it fixed.

We find where your business loses money between enquiry and payment, fix the biggest leak with AI on the software you already use, then keep it running. Fixed prices at every step.

The step most businesses skip.
It costs them dearly.

Step 1 · Start here
Audit
We find where the money leaks.

We trace every job from enquiry to money in the bank: how fast quotes go out, how long finished work sits unbilled, how long customers take to pay, and what is past 30 days. You get your three biggest leaks, each with a dollar figure and a fixed price to fix it.

  • If we don't find at least 3x the fee in leaks, you don't pay
  • The full fee comes off your build
  • The report is yours to keep
Step 2
Build
We fix the biggest leak.

One workflow, at a fixed price agreed before we start. AI does the chasing: replying to enquiries, drafting quotes, raising invoices and following up payment.

  • Live inside two weeks, or you don't pay for the build
  • Built on the software you already run, no lock-in
  • Documented, so your office can run it without us
Step 3
Care
We keep it fixed.

We watch every workflow, fix it when something upstream changes, and train whoever joins your office.

  • Problems fixed before they reach your customers
  • New staff trained on the system
  • Monthly, one month notice, no lock-in contract
Start with the audit
How we work

From first call to live automation.

No lengthy sales process. A short path from finding the problem to having it fixed and running.

Step 01
Discovery call

Free 30-minute call

We ask about how work actually flows through your business right now. No pitch, no slide deck.

Step 02
Written plan

Ranked opportunities

3–5 places where revenue is leaking, ranked by dollars recovered, with a fixed price to fix each one.

Step 03
Build & test

Built on your tools

We build the fix using whatever software you already run, and test it against real jobs before it goes live.

Step 04
Live & supported

Live in weeks

First workflow live and recovering revenue within a month. Care keeps it monitored as your business grows.

See it happening

Every quote, invoice and job. Live.

Every build now comes with a dashboard that shows exactly where things stand right now. No calling to ask if the invoice went out.

  • Updates as it happens. Status changes the moment it changes, not when you remember to check.
  • Built around what you track. Quotes, invoices, jobs, deliveries, whatever matters to your business.
  • No extra software to buy. It's part of the build, same as everything else.
See a sample dashboard
portal.yourcompany.co.nz
Outstanding
$4,280USD
Paid this month
$18,650USD
In transit
6 jobs
INV-1042$1,180USDPending
INV-1041$960USDPaid
INV-1039$2,140USDOverdue
FAQ

Common questions, honest answers.

What does the AI actually do?+

The unglamorous work. It reads enquiries and drafts the reply, builds quotes from your pricing, raises invoices when jobs close, and writes the payment reminders. You set the rules and approve what matters. Nothing goes out you have not signed off on.

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 credited in full against a build if you go ahead. You get a fixed number in writing before anything starts.

Start with the audit
Put a dollar figure on it

Somewhere between enquiry and payment, revenue is going missing.

The audit finds it and puts a dollar figure on it: slow quotes, unbilled work, unchased invoices, ranked by what they are costing you. And your team gets their hours back while the money comes in faster. No pitch, no slide deck.

Start with the audit