Business coaching and advice for the best version of your plumbing contractor business
Know your numbers
If you’re unsure if you’re making money on a job, then you’re probably not. Harsh but fair. It’s time to change that.
Get advice and accountability for your plumbing contracting business performance.
Bulletproof your business
Protect your plumbing contracting business from the knocks.
Learn from the best and avoid the mistakes others have made.
See the big picture for your business and how to get there.
Lead a high performing team
Attract and retain the best crew of plumbers, gasfitters and roofers in the market.
Be supported by top-notch management team: estimator, scheduler, operations and service managers.
Lead a team you can rely on.
Freedom to Choose
Work ON your business, not in it.
Take time off… or take it to the next level. Or both. Choose which calls to answer.
Financial freedom to make choices for your business and yourself.
How does your plumbing contractor business stack up?
You might think your plumbing contracting business is going well. You’re tracking key metrics in SimPRO or AroFlo. You’re running a good team of fully qualified plumbers and apprentices.
But how do you really know if your business is performing as well as it could?
Tenfold business coaches work with some of the best in the business so we know what it takes to get ahead of the competition and lead from the front.
Find out how your plumbing business stacks up – the results may surprise you.
Trusted business coach for leading plumbing contractors
You wouldn’t guess which tool to use on a commercial plumbing maintenance job, so don’t make guesses in your business.
Our business coaches identify the right intel to make informed decisions for your plumbing contracting business.
And we’ll keep you accountable to get the results your business deserves.
Take the guesswork out of your business. When you know better, you do better.
No business is immune to the changes of economic factors. At Tenfold, we help clients manage their businesses consistently by keep our finger on the pulse of market conditions that have the highest impact on their industry.
For plumbing contractors, having a good supply of labour is critical so we actively monitor the demand for qualified plumbers, gas-fitters, plumbing apprentices and refrigeration technicians.
We’re the only coaching firm that provides these insights to our trades clients. It’s why we’re the preferred coaching partner to leading plumbing contractors.
Back your business with growth experts.
There are 2 levels of fees based on your priorities: Level 1 is if your priority is to stabilise your plumbing contractor business then grow, level 2 is if you’ve already got solid base and your priority is to accelerate your growth. Fees typically range from $3,000 – $4,500 per month. This range is current as at October 2026, and you’ll get a firm price when you speak with our practice manager, Tania.
Your coaching arrangement is matched to your goals. All our coaching is one-on-one, which means your sessions are 100% dedicated to your business (not diluted across other businesses, a common drawback of group coaching.) You meet with your coach on a regular cycle: fortnightly for stabilising and growing your business, or weekly for accelerating your growth.
What you pay for coaching includes your 1:1 meetings with your coach plus the effort your coach puts in behind the scenes. Your coach continues to work on your business outside your sessions: developing strategies, running models, doing market research, developing resource plans and gaining insights from the broader team of business coaches in Tenfold. It means progress continues on your business while you’re working in your business.
As a firm of coaches, every coach has regular meetings with Tenfold’s MD, Ashley Thomson (Coaching Hall of Fame) to track results, provide strategic support and insights.
To share information about best practices, economic conditions, AI and tech innovations, industry forces and results of strategies, Tenfold coaches meet weekly for structured knowledge-sharing and accountability reviews, and we also chat online throughout the day.
Every engagement is built to return at least three times the cost of coaching in gross profit within 12 months. Most clients achieve x3 ROI in months 7 to 10.
We coach established plumbing businesses, typically with annual revenue of $1M or more. That said, if you’re not quite at that level yet, give us a call and we’ll see where you’re up to. We work best (and get the best results) for business owners who want to take their business to the next level and are prepared to put in to get there.
Most of our plumbing clients specialise in commercial maintenance, construction or high-end domestic work. They work across client sectors such as managed facilities (offices, corporate headquarters, manufacturing and production factories), health (aged care, hospitals, medical centres), education (private schools, universities), and construction (residential, commercial and industrial, office fitouts, child care centre new builds).
If you’re not sure if we’re the right fit for your business, have a chat and find out. No hard sell, just an honest perspective.
Yes. We’ve coached commercial maintenance plumbers for more than 20 years, including helping Reliable Plumbing prepare the tender that won the multi-year University of Melbourne contract. Your coach helps you pick the tenders worth chasing, price them properly, put the submission together and plan the labour to deliver the work.
If you’re new to tenders, this guide is a good place to start: The pros and cons of tenders – do you know the difference between a minefield and a goldmine?
For more of our advanced insights about how to select tenders, read: Only Bid to Win: A Contractor’s Go/No-Go Framework for Tenders
Your job management system holds the data. Your coach works out which numbers matter for your business, like labour utilisation, job profit and your chargeable rate, and uses that information to build your strategy.
We use the AI functions of Lightning and Just Ask in SimPro and AroFlo to drill down into the patterns and gaps in your business to work out where your business needs to stop profit leaking, and where you can go harder to improve your margins. We use the reports to help hold you and your team accountable to the plan.
A lot of plumbing business owners come to us after trying coaching with tradie specialist coaches or business mentors. Some plumbers have had good results but then outgrown their coach, other plumbers haven’t got what they were promised in the sales call.
Tenfold coaching is one on one. We don’t do group sessions or “kumbaya” coaching. The focus of 1:1 means you get the most value from sessions with your coach.
Outside your session your coach continues to work on your business, and they’re accountable for results.
As a firm, every coach has regular meetings with Tenfold’s MD, Ashley Thomson (Coaching Hall of Fame) to track results, provide strategic support and insights.
Our experienced coaches meet weekly for structured knowledge-sharing and accountability reviews, and we also chat online throughout the day. We share best practices, economic conditions, AI and tech innovations, industry forces and results of strategies.
Yep, absolutely. When you call us, we work out together if we’re a good fit for each other. If we are, we match you with a coach who knows the plumbing industry AND the sectors your specific business targets – commercial maintenance, construction, domestic, civil, infrastructure. You meet your matched coach in a discovery meeting where we’ll take you through key strategies for your business with the calculated profit uplift and timing of when we expect it to land in your business. Every engagement is built to return at least three times the cost of coaching in gross profit within 12 months. Most clients achieve x3 ROI in months 7 to 10.
If you decide to go ahead with us, great. All our coaching is one-on-one, which means your sessions are 100% dedicated to your business (not diluted across other businesses, a common drawback of group coaching.) You meet with your coach on a regular cycle: fortnightly for stabilising and growing your business, or weekly for accelerating your growth.
Business coaching for plumbing contractors delivers real results
Next level coaching for established plumbing contractor businesses.
Hear how plumbing business coaching works to get the right people and systems in place to for next level growth. When you get the process right, the results follow:
Speak with a growth expert at Tenfold Business Coaching today and explore what’s possible for your plumbing company.
