Big-business systems for small trades & service businesses.
You're great at the work. We make the business run like a system — onboarding, sales, hiring, the books, and a custom website where clients can book and pay online — in plain language, with no corporate fluff.
Backed by a money-back guarantee — if the advice wasn't worth it, you don't pay for it.
The work is the easy part.
Most trades and service businesses run on the owner's memory. That works — right up until you're slammed, hiring, or trying to take a week off and everything grinds to a halt.
Nothing's written down
Quality and training depend on what's in your head. New hires take months to get useful.
Feast or famine
Sales are reactive and word-of-mouth only. Some months you're buried, others the phone's quiet.
A website that doesn't book work
It looks fine, but there's no clear way to call, book or pay. Visitors leave and call someone else.
The books are always behind
You can't see what's actually profitable, and tax time is a yearly fire drill.
Hiring by gut feel
No job descriptions, no interview process — and one bad hire can cost you twenty grand.
Bookings & payments by phone tag
Scheduling, deposits and invoices happen by text and memory, so jobs and payments slip through the cracks.
The systems your business is missing.
We build the master system once, then tailor it to your industry, your size, and the way you actually work. You get senior-level work at small-business prices.
SOPs, onboarding & hiring
Documented processes, a new-hire ramp and interview guides so your business doesn't live in your head.
Sales systems & funnels
A repeatable lead-to-close process: quote templates, follow-up scripts, a real pipeline.
Project management
Job workflows, handoff checklists and scheduling that keep work from slipping.
OH&S programs
A health & safety program aligned to Alberta OHS — so you stop losing bids over paperwork.
Bookkeeping rhythm
A monthly close, a clean chart of accounts and a KPI dashboard you'll actually use.
Custom websites
A fully custom site and brand, built around your business and your clients — never a template — designed to turn visitors into calls and bookings.
Booking & payment integration
Your payment system (Stripe, Square or what you already use) built into your site: online checkout, deposits and invoices, plus booking calendars.
Structure & AI adoption
Incorporation guidance and practical AI that saves you hours on quoting, comms and admin.
Three steps. No jargon.
Low-risk to start, and you always leave with something in writing.
Free discovery call
Tell us where it hurts. No pitch, no jargon — about 30 minutes to figure out if we can help.
We diagnose
Over Zoom, on the phone, or with a site walk and job shadow — we watch how your business actually runs.
Systems + recap
We build the systems and hand you a written recap with prioritized next steps. Every time.
If the advice wasn't worth it, you don't pay for it.
We're confident in the work. If you finish a consultation feeling it wasn't worth the fee, tell us — we refund the consultation fee. No hard feelings.
The accessible alternative to big, expensive firms.
Real management training, genuine respect for people who do the work, and modern tools — pointed at the unglamorous systems that actually move your business.
Plain language, always
If a journeyman can't follow it, we rewrite it. No buzzwords, no 80-page reports nobody reads.
We know owner-run businesses
Trades crews, design studios, photographers and gyms. We build for how your business actually works, not a textbook.
Fast, AI-accelerated work
Modern tools let a sharp small team deliver the polish of a big firm — without the big-firm invoice.
Skin in the game
The money-back guarantee means our incentive is simple: deliver advice that's actually worth it.
Businesses we're already helping.
Real systems for real companies — four of the teams we're proud to work with.
Be one of our first — at a founding rate.
We're taking on a small group of founding clients at a discount in exchange for honest feedback. You get senior-level systems for less; we earn the case studies that build this firm. Fair trade?
The stuff business owners ask us.
Do you only work with the trades?
The trades are our home base. We grew up around them and build for how the work really happens. We also work with interior designers, photographers, studios and other owner-run service businesses, because the same problems show up everywhere: work living in the owner's head, and a website that doesn't bring in bookings.
We're a small shop — is this even affordable?
That's the whole point. We're the accessible alternative to firms that won't touch a business your size. Start with a single Health Check or a monthly plan, and scale up only if it's paying off.
What if I just need one thing fixed?
No problem. You don't need a subscription — book a one-off Business Health Check, a site-walk audit, or a single system package (onboarding, sales, safety, hiring, and so on).
Can you build our website, booking and payments?
Yes. Every site we build is completely custom, designed around your brand and the way your clients book and buy. We integrate your payment system (Stripe, Square or whatever you already use) right into the site for online checkout, deposits and invoices, and add online booking, so clients can book and pay without the back-and-forth.
Do you do the work, or just advise?
We build. You get real deliverables — written SOPs, checklists, templates, dashboards — plus a recap with next steps. Then we make sure they actually get used, not shelved.
What exactly is the guarantee?
If you finish a consultation feeling the advice wasn't worth the fee, tell us and we refund the consultation fee. It keeps us honest and takes the risk off you.
Where are you based?
Calgary, Alberta. We work in person across Calgary and area (Airdrie, Cochrane, Okotoks, Chestermere) and remotely with trades businesses anywhere in Alberta.
Let's make your business run like a system.
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. No pitch, no jargon — just a straight conversation about where you're stuck.
hello@larchlyneconsulting.com · Calgary, AB