Anna Marie Saplad, construction coordinator and AI automation specialist Construction coordination · South East Queensland

You became a builder to build.
Not to chase paperwork.

I'm Anna Marie Saplad — a Procore-certified construction coordinator whose AI assistant handles the chasing. RFI logs, pipeline dashboards, certificate registers and Friday owner reports — built around your jobs in 10 business days. Scroll down and I'll show you what that feels like.

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The problem

You didn't get into building to do admin.

RFIs, stat decs, sub chases, owner updates — the pile on your desk grows faster than the house does.

5,771 QBCC complaints last yearHours of site time lost weekly
What it costs

Every gap in the paperwork lands on site.

An RFI aged 14 days can idle a crew for 2–3 days. That's $5,000–$7,000 gone while everyone stands around waiting.

$5–7k per aged RFI1–2 no-show days a month
The meeting

Then a coordinator walked in — her AI twin right behind her.

I'm Anna. Procore-certified coordinator. My AI twin and I build automations that chase the paperwork — so builders can focus on building.

Procore-certifiedAI-powered workflows
The system

Dashboards, logs and alerts — running on their own.

Pipeline dashboards, RFI aging flags, certificate expiry alerts, Friday owner reports. A five-area system, built around your jobs in 10 business days.

Five-area audit frame$1,800 setup — fixed
The result

You focus on building. The admin moves itself.

Builders on the retainer recover 3–5 hours a week and roughly $34,500 a year in preventable losses — for $2,400 a month.

≈ $63k–106k year-one value$28.8k a year, fixed
Work with me

Let's close your coordination gap.

Start with the free public-data industry audit — or book the Setup Project and have your systems running in two weeks.

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The offer

The Coordination Gap — a process audit for QLD builders

Most sample audits use invented companies. Mine audited the Queensland residential building industry itself — every figure below is sourced from the QBCC Annual Report 2024–25. The same five-area frame is what I run on your business.

$31.4Mnon-completion insurance claims approved under the QLD Home Warranty Scheme, 2024–25
5,771defective / incomplete work complaints lodged with the QBCC
864unlicensed contracting investigations — the #1 offence (46%)
1,223Directions to Rectify issued, plus 3,682 licensing audits completed
801 + 274early-dispute-resolution cases and QCAT review applications — most begin as information gaps, not bad work
$63k–106ktypical year-one value recovered for a builder on the Standard Retainer, against a $28,800 cost

The five-area audit frame

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1. Project pipeline visibility

Non-completion is what an invisible pipeline looks like at the end state. I put in a one-page pipeline dashboard per project and a 10-minute weekly update habit.

3–5 hrs/wk back
Gap

2. Paperwork pipeline health

RFI log with 7/14-day aging flags; a payment claim calendar locked to each contract's BIF Act billing dates.

$5–7k saved per delay event
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3. Permit & inspection coordination

Regulators are actively checking — trackers can't live in someone's head. Permit/inspection tracker with 48-hour reminders before every booking.

No $400–600 rebooks
Gap

4. Sub coordination

Sub register with Certificate of Currency expiry alerts at 30/14/7 days. Rule enforced: no current certificate = no site access.

Caps uncapped liability
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5. Reporting frame

Most builder–owner disputes begin as information gaps, not bad work. Friday owner update + Friday internal weekly report.

1.5 hrs/wk + dispute protection

The top 3 highest-leverage fixes — ranked by impact, not effort

Certificate of Currency register

Half a day to build. Removes the biggest uncapped liability on a builder's books.

RFI log + payment claim calendar

The cash-flow fix. Protects $5–7k per delay event and preserves your BIF Act rights.

Monday 2-week lookahead to subs

One weekly email that eliminates most no-show losses.

Year one, the frame typically saves and recovers $63,000–$106,000 against a $28,800 retainer — it pays for itself at least twice over, before counting dispute protection.

Work With Me — Setup Project $1,800 Read the full audit yourself →
How it works

Audit. Build. Run.

No jargon, no lock-in, nothing switching over until it's tested. You keep running jobs the whole time.

Step 1 · The Audit

Find the gaps

I review your current admin setup across the five areas — pipeline, paperwork, permits & inspections, sub coordination, reporting — and hand you a gaps report with fixes ranked by impact.

Included in the Setup Project
Step 2 · The Setup Project

Build the system

Pipeline dashboard per project, RFI log with aging flags, payment claim calendar locked to BIF Act dates, sub register with COC expiry alerts, Friday reporting frame. Live in 10 business days, tested alongside live work before anything switches.

$1,800 one-off, fixed
Step 3 · The Standard Retainer

Keep it running

Procore-certified coordination done for you: the chasing, flagging and weekly reporting, with AI automations doing the remembering. Your phone stays quiet.

$2,400 / month · $28,800 a year
The honest maths

Where do your admin hours go?

Three sliders. This is what the coordination gap costs a business like yours, every year.

$86,400 your admin time + delay events, per year. The Standard Retainer is $28,800 a year — the maths tends to make the decision for people.
Pricing · AUD

Certified coordination, without the $135k salary.

A full-time onshore Contracts Administrator averages $135,000 + super in Queensland right now. You're not paying less for less here — you're paying a Philippine cost base for the same certified work. That's geography, not quality.

Fixed scope · 10 business days

Setup Project

$1,800

Five-area process audit plus the full build: pipeline dashboard per project, RFI log with 7/14-day aging flags, payment claim calendar locked to BIF Act dates, sub register with COC expiry alerts, Friday reporting frame for owners + internal.

Most builders land here

Standard Retainer

$2,400/mo

Ongoing Procore-certified coordination, chasing and reporting. AI automations do the remembering — alerts, flags, reminders. Friday owner updates + internal weekly report. $28,800 a year, fixed.

Honest comparison

What the alternatives cost

Onshore Contracts Administrator: $135,000 + super (QLD market average, Seek-sourced)
Onshore junior hire: ≈ $100,800
Onshore part-time casual: ≈ $57,600
Working with me: $28,800 — a saving of ≈ $28,800–$72,000+ per year on labour alone.

Honest note: a full-time CA also handles procurement and contract negotiation, which sit outside this retainer. What I take off your plate is the coordination, chasing and reporting slice — the part currently falling through the cracks.

Full Services & Pricing on Notion →

Questions builders actually ask

No software to learn. No jargon. Just systems.

Every answer below assumes you never want to see a line of code in your life. You won't.

Do I need to learn new software?

No. The systems are built around tools you already use — email, spreadsheets, or Procore if you have it. You get a one-page dashboard and a Friday report. The chasing, flagging and reminding happens in the background, run by me and my AI automations.

What do you actually take off my plate?

The coordination, chasing and reporting slice: RFI logs with aging flags, payment claim calendars locked to your contract's BIF Act billing dates, subcontractor certificate-of-currency tracking, 48-hour inspection reminders, and the weekly owner update. Procurement and contract negotiation stay with you.

How is this different from hiring a contracts administrator?

A full-time onshore CA costs around $135,000 plus super in Queensland. The Standard Retainer is $28,800 a year for the slice that's currently falling through the cracks while your PM runs site. The difference is a Philippine cost base — not quality. I'm Procore-certified and my five-area audit frame is published publicly so you can check the method before spending a dollar.

What do the AI automations actually do?

They do the remembering humans drop when things get busy: certificate expiry alerts at 30/14/7 days so no uninsured sub steps on site, reminders 48 hours before every booked inspection, RFI aging flags at 7 and 14 days, and a Monday 2-week lookahead email to your subs. Nothing for you to log into, update or maintain.

Who is this for — and who is it not for?

It's for small-to-mid residential builders in South East Queensland whose admin is eating site time — paperwork piling up, subs going quiet, owner updates slipping. If you need full-time procurement and contract negotiation, you need an onshore CA, and I'll tell you that straight.

About

The coordinator is human.
The assistant never sleeps.

I'm Anna Marie Saplad — a Procore-certified construction coordinator based in the Philippines, working with small-to-mid residential builders across South East Queensland. Years of coordination and operations work taught me how jobs actually run; AI automation is how I make the admin side run itself.

My AI twin and I build the automations (n8n, Make, Zapier) that do the chasing while you're on the tools — RFI logs, certificate alerts, payment claim calendars, Friday owner reports. You get the same certified work at a Philippine cost base. That's geography, not quality.

Bolt — Anna's white AI assistant: a white humanoid robot with Anna's face and hairstyle, white hard hat, glowing amber visor and headset

Bolt, the AI Assistant

Anna's assistant & automation engine for back-office work

Meet Bolt. Bolt runs the boring. I run the build. My AI automation engine works the back office 24/7. Under the hood — real workflows, built on n8n:
🤖 Homeowner email triage
Every email to your dedicated inbox gets read, classified (question / defect / urgent), and logged — with a draft reply prepared and an instant acknowledgement sent to the homeowner. Nobody waits two days for "we've received your email."
📸 Friday owner update, drafted for you
Every Friday, Bolt pulls the week's photos and milestones, drafts a progress update, and lands it in your inbox for approval before it goes to the owner. Consistent updates, zero Sunday-night writing sessions.
📜 COC register + expiry alerts
Subbie certificates are saved straight from email to Drive, logged in a register, and monitored daily. Expiry coming up in 30, 14, or 7 days? You get an alert before it becomes a compliance problem — not after.
⭐ Procore vendor rating
Subbie performance tracked and rated, so your next tender decision is based on data, not memory.
⚡ Lead management
Speed-to-lead auto-replies (webhook → instant homeowner acknowledgement + builder alert), a 2-day follow-up sequence that nudges until status changes, and won-job kickoff that creates the Procore project and sends the welcome pack automatically.

These are examples of what Bolt can do. What you actually get depends on your package — we'll sort that out together when we talk retainer.

See the workflows in my portfolio →
Field notes

Plain-English answers for QLD builders

Short, useful reads on the admin side of building in Queensland. No fluff, no jargon — the same questions builders actually search for.

Cash flow · BIF Act

How to chase a payment claim in QLD without torching the relationship

The 15-business-day payment schedule rule, and the calendar habit that protects your rights before you ever need them.

Sub coordination

The Monday email that kills subbie no-shows

One 2-week lookahead, sent at the same time every week. The cheapest system you'll ever run — and why it works.

Risk

Certificate of Currency: the half-day register that caps your liability

Expired certificates on site are a state-wide pattern, not a one-off. Here's the register and the 30/14/7-day alert cadence.

You build. The paperwork moves itself.

Start by reading the free public-data industry audit — the same five-area frame I'd run on your business. Or skip ahead and book the Setup Project: systems live in 10 business days, $1,800 fixed.

Prefer email? anna.m.saplad@gmail.com