We make the business side of the trades make sense.
Trade Secrets Consulting is a Calgary firm that helps small and mid-sized trades businesses build the systems they never had time to build — so the business runs as well as the work does.
Great in the field, held back by the office.
The trades are full of brilliant operators who are held back by one thing — and it's almost never the work itself. It's the business side. Quality lives in one person's head. Sales swing from feast to famine. Safety paperwork quietly costs you bids. Hiring is a gut-feel gamble, and the books are always a month behind.
We started Trade Secrets Consulting because we kept seeing the same gap. The big consulting firms either won't touch a business your size, or they bury you in an 80-page binder nobody reads. Trade software sells you a tool, then leaves you to figure out the system on your own.
We're a small Calgary team — co-founders with business and management backgrounds who grew up around the trades — and we built the accessible alternative: big-business systems, written in plain language, at a price that actually makes sense for a one-to-twenty-five-person shop. And we back it with a money-back guarantee, because the only way this works is if it's genuinely worth it to you.
Four rules we don't break.
Plain talk
No consultant-speak. If a journeyman can't read it and use it on Monday morning, we rewrite it until they can.
Systems over advice
We don't just tell you what to do. We build the SOPs, checklists, templates and dashboards — and make sure they actually get used.
Skin in the game
The money-back guarantee keeps our incentive dead simple: deliver work that's worth more than you paid, or you don't pay for it.
Build once, tailor many
We adapt proven systems to your shop instead of reinventing the wheel — that's how a small team delivers big-firm polish without the big-firm invoice.
Owner-operated trades businesses across Calgary & area.
From solo operators who just incorporated to established shops with 25 on the crew — plumbing, electrical, HVAC, landscaping, framing, concrete, roofing and mechanical. We work in person across Calgary, Airdrie, Cochrane, Okotoks and 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@tradesecretsconsulting.com · Calgary, AB