Get paid for the extras
and the losses.
The work you already did, sitting in the inbox and in your head instead of getting billed. Rory isn't finished yet. Pilot builders shape what comes first.
What's actually costing you
The extras and the losses don't live in your tools. They live in the gap around them.
Extras vanish
A change lands over email or on site. Nobody logs it. It gets buried, forgotten, and never invoiced. You did the work for free.
Losses get worn
A delay, a wait, a crew standing around. It costs you, and it never makes the file, so you wear it. No extra. Just money gone.
Emails bury what matters
Twenty actionable emails a day. A call interrupts, and that quote request sits unanswered for a week. The only safeguard is your memory.
Subbies go quiet
You send a quote request. No response. Nobody chases. The job stalls, and the request just dies.
It's your word against theirs
The extra got a quick yes, then buried itself in a thread nobody logged. When the client says they never approved it, you wear the cost.
Admin eats your nights
You finish on site, then start again at the kitchen table. Hours every week, on top of a full day, that nobody pays you for.
Where this could go
Some of the dream outcomes I'm chasing.
The extras and the losses are the sharpest ones. The rest is what falls out when fewer of those slip: evenings back, a record you can stand behind, a business that isn't only in your head. I'm still talking to the market so Rory earns its place, instead of being something I just dreamed up.
A note from me
I'm Kosta. I started Folkware in Adelaide because I kept meeting builders who were brilliant on the tools and buried off them, wearing extras and losses they never billed. I'm building Rory with builders, not for them. Get in early, and it gets shaped around how you actually work.
Founder, Folkware · Adelaide