Builders and multi-trade businesses
Standardise quoting and job costing across crews and sites.
Matey Labs
AI built for the work that keeps the built world standing.
Matey Labs helps the businesses behind the trades put AI to work on real jobs: quoting, compliance, materials and admin. Built in Australia, on the job data tradies already trust Matey with.
Now taking early design partners in Queensland.
Grounded inNational Construction CodeFair WorkABSQBCCXeroQuickBooks
The problem
The trades are short of people. They're drowning in paperwork.
- 141,000more construction workers Australia needs today
- 936,000more needed by 2035
- 1 in 2apprentices never finish their trade
Source: Master Builders Australia, Future Workforce Blueprint.
The knowledge needed to do the job is everywhere and nowhere. General-purpose AI wasn't built for any of it.
Code clauses in PDFs
NCC 2022 · Volume Two.pdf
Prices in supplier spreadsheets
price-book-FINAL-v3.xlsx
Award rates on government sites
Building and Construction Award
Compliance rules in legislation
QBCC Act 1991 · Schedule 1B
Matey Labs is fixing that.
What we're building
An intelligence layer for construction work.
Matey turns how a job really runs into structured data: the scope, materials, labour, compliance and payment. Matey Labs puts that understanding to work for the businesses around the tradie.
One jobScopeMaterialsLabourCompliancePayment
In the app today
Made for
The businesses that power the trades.
If your business quotes, supplies, insures or supports trade work, the same job data can work harder for you.
Insurance builders and claims teams
Faster, consistent scopes and quotes for repair work.
Trade suppliers and merchants
Connect price books straight into the quotes tradies send.
Franchise groups and trade networks
Give every operator the same smart back office from day one.
matey · mcpIllustrative
// tools/call
scope_job({
audio: "voice-note.m4a",
state: "QLD"
})
// result
4 line items · 58 h · $28,400
✓ Deposit capped at 10%
✓ Home warranty appliesSoftware partners
Plug trade-aware AI into your product through our API and MCP server.
Built on open, trusted sources
Honest about where every answer comes from.
Matey's intelligence starts from public data. On top of that, it uses your own data.
Supplier price filesPast quotesReal job outcomes
National Construction Code
Australian Building Codes Board
CC BY 4.0Modern award pay rates
Fair Work Commission
Public dataConstruction price indexes
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Public dataLicensing and contract rules
QBCC
Public data
Matey gives guidance, not legal or certification advice. Always confirm compliance with your certifier.
How we work with you
Start with a real problem. Ship something measurable.
- 1
Find the job
We pick one workflow that's costing you time or margin.
- 2
Build on your data
We connect your systems, price books and processes.
- 3
Measure it
We agree what “better” means up front.
Time to quoteWin rateMarginCompliance errors - 4
Own what you build
Your data and workflows stay yours.
Why Matey
We started with the tradie, because that's where the work is.
Matey is the AI back office used by Australian tradies to quote, invoice and get paid. Every quote and job makes the system smarter about how construction work actually gets done. Matey Labs brings that to the businesses that power the trades.
Jamie & Barry, co-founders
Built by Pivot Labs in Brisbane and Auckland.
What we stand for
01
Craft deserves support.
People who sweat the details deserve tools that help them do their best work.
02
Do it once, do it right.
Accuracy first. A wrong quote costs more than a slow one.
03
Built for the site, not the boardroom.
If it doesn't work in a ute at 6am, it doesn't ship.
04
Open about our sources.
We show where an answer comes from.
Matey Labs
Help us build the future of trade work.
We're working with a small group of design partners to shape Matey Labs. If you run a building, insurance, supply or trade business, let's talk.