The Craft Group · Built by hands. Run with systems.

Partner or sell · Canadian trades

Built by hands.
Run with systems.

We partner with and buy Canadian trade businesses, then run the back office on our own systems. The trade stays yours to run, or yours to hand over properly.

Partner with us → Sell your business →

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◇ Two ways in § 001

Stay in it, or hand it over properly.

Pick the one that sounds like you. The rest of this page will read for that path. You can switch any time.

You

Path D · Aspiring owners Want your own shop? We're looking for tradespeople ready to run a business.

01Run one with us. Our name and systems, your business. 02Build your own. Your name, your market, our tools.

See the Build program →

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◇ The work § 002

We know what a good job looks like.

Brink crew member setting a low-voltage path light beside a flagstone walk — Fig. 2.1 Path lighting · Brink, Vernon

Two techs setting a condensing unit on a rooftop pad in winter — Fig. 2.2 Rooftop HVAC · Calgary

Brink Landscaping crew beside a finished dry-stack water feature — Fig. 2.3 Water feature · Brink, Vernon

Every photo on this site is our crews on our jobs. We started in the trades. We're not going to be the people who ruin it.

◇ The systems § 003

Keep the trade. Lose the paperwork.

CraftOS The back office every company runs on

It quotes, schedules, invoices, chases receivables and posts job ads. It runs on Compound, our AI automation tool, so the same quoting, payroll and collections run across every company without adding office staff. You can use it without selling a thing. see § 006.

Quotes & estimatesDrafted from the site walk, priced from your own history.

Scheduling & dispatchOne board. Every crew. No double-bookings.

Books & payrollReconciled nightly. Payroll runs Thursday, not Sunday.

Hiring & marketingAds posted. Applicants checked against ticket requirements.

Note 3.1 Nothing goes to a customer until a person approves it. The system earns more rope one task at a time.

Owner reviewing the morning brief on his phone in the truck at dawn — Fig. 3.2 07:02 · Approving from the truck

See how Craft OS works →

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◇ The shift § 004

Same week. Different owner.

Quoting at 11pm. Payroll on Sunday. Chasing invoices. Drag the handle and watch where those hours go.

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Table 4.2 · Was Is

The kitchen table, cleared, with dinner plates and a work jacket on the chair

◇ The portfolio § 005

Two companies in. Building for the long run.

We're talking with owners across Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan right now. Not to grow fast. To grow with the right people.

Co. 01

Craft Electric

TradeResidential + commercial electrical

BasedCalgary, AB

Joined2024

Co. 02

Brink Landscaping

TradeLandscape construction

BasedVernon, BC

Joined2025

Co. 03 Looking now Good companies. Good people. Ready for what's next.

Yours, maybe.

TradeElectrical, HVAC, plumbing, landscaping

WhereAlberta, BC, Saskatchewan

Joining2026

Start a conversation →

2 companies · Actively looking in AB, BC + SK Every company runs on Craft OS

◇ Custom tools · Compound § 006

Not selling? We'll build your tools.

Custom AI tools for your business, built by people who run trade companies. Not software you have to bend around. Tools that fit how your shop already works.

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Procedure 6.3 · How a build goes

01 · Watch

A day in your office.

We sit with whoever does the paperwork and see how it really runs.

02 · Pick one

The job that costs the most nights.

One tool first. We don't sell you a system you didn't ask for.

03 · Build

Trained on your jobs.

Your prices, your suppliers, your way of doing it. Runs next to what you already use.

04 · Run it

You approve. It learns.

It drafts, you sign off. It only does more once it's been right long enough.

Built by

People who run electrical and landscaping companies.

Runs on

Compound: our AI automation tool, the same one our companies run on.

Your data

Stays yours. Leaves with you if you go.

Pricing

Scoped per build, once we've seen the problem.

◇ Ownership § 007

There's more than one way to work with us.

Partner, sell, hand it to the next person, or just use the systems. The owner who's been at it thirty years and the apprentice who started last spring both have a way in.

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◇ The first call · § 008

You'll talk to someone who's run a crew.

The first call is with one of us: someone who has owned and run a trade business. No analysts, no brokers, no deck. We'll tell you inside one call whether there's something here. If there isn't, we'll say so and you'll have lost thirty minutes.

From our operating notes On what comes next

“AI won't do the hard work for you. It just makes sure hard work wins. We build our tools from years on real jobs, and we're obsessed with getting better at our craft.”

The Craft Group

Danny Vass on a finished Brink Landscaping job, Vernon

Pl. 08 · Danny Vass, Vernon, BC

◇ Worksheet § 009

What shapes the number, before there is one.

Five answers. No name, no email, nothing saved. The real number comes from your books on a call, not from a website.

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Moves it up

A foreman who can run jobs without you. Service contracts. Clean books.

Moves it down

One customer over a third of sales. You write every estimate yourself.

Confidential either way

Find out what your business is worth to us.

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