Spades Labour Hire.

Spades Labour Hire, a prominent player in the construction labour market in Australia, wanted to digitize the business processes involving their clients, workers, and admin staff. The idea was to deliver unique offerings for an already saturated labour market of Australia via digital means. That’s when John Macedo contacted Nisarg Shah at Nimblechapps with a very raw idea.

In an abstract there were plenty of small things which was giving if not severe then chronic pain to various stakeholder. Each stakeholder had their fair share of grievances with the existing industry practices. John being a labour himself in past had so many stories to share, so much so that; he, after years of quitting the labour work and being a contractor, still remembered few of horrid episodes as a labour. That there was the real force of inspiration for him to build something like this. We ourselves have never got an opportunity to work for any such project in particular and Construction industry in general. So, all we could do was to keep talking to John to listen to his stories. Then we asked for the details of few of his long time clients and tried to talk with them, and finally with the workers. That’s how we found out what were we supposed to solve...

• Realtime messaging between all the stakeholders
• Worker directory with standard hourly rates categorized under Location and Season.
• Construction site check-in, checkout facility with Location Monitoring
• Automatic attendance monitoring system
• Daily work log submission with approval mechanism and direct invoicing
• Integration with various government portals and accounting software.

• Work Breakdown Structure
• Low + High Fidelity Wireframes
• User Experience Design
• User Interface Design
• Web App Design Integration
• Mobile App Design Integration
• Database & Dataset Design
• Backend API Development
• Third Party Integrations
• Web App Development
• Mobile App Development
• Quality & Assurance with Automation and Load testing
• Store Launch and Server upload
• Periodic Maintenance & Enhancement

To say the least we are working with John in developing Spades Labour Hire as white labeled solution so that other Labour Hire Agencies like Spades could opt for SaaS from Spades Labour Hire. John receives the payments on timely manner and the verification of the workers are super easy and streamlined. Shift roster is the most peaceful part according to John, where he and his team struggled the most. There is no duplication of invoices anymore and workers don’t have to suddenly change the jobsite. According to John he believes that the biggest advantage the system gave him is of scale. His stats show that last 3 years (i.e. post system development) he scaled up the business 3 folds, just because he doesn’t have to worry about managing people on the sheet of paper and doesn’t have to calculate invoices in excel sheets every month. John is overall happy and says that it was the best decision to choose Nimblechapps, a top custom app development company for this app development project. Workers feel that Spades Labour Hire is the most organised Labour Hire firm they have got a chance to work with so far; thanks to the digital ecosystem they have built. Clients also feel that this way of doing hiring and payments is the most effective and transparent way. According to them the best part is that they do not panic anymore when they need urgent workforce on demand, and they also don’t need to provide any stipulated time period commitments. They don’t need to make tons of phone calls, they just go to the app search for the talent and put a request to hire. That’s all about it. For workers the best part of the system is that they know well in advance where the job site is, what needs to be done and whose approval to get. Previously all of this was being done by three different people and at time lacked coordination. Spades has become a goto agency for the workers and clients both.