Built to Scale Cycle One Victoria, BC

Your tools should work
as hard as you do.

Technology should take work off your plate, not add to it. Spend one afternoon with Vancouver Island's trades and construction owners, set up the tools we run ourselves, and leave with the digital operating plan most firms never get around to making.

Buy a ticket · $150 See how the afternoon runs

When: Thu 29 Oct 2026
Where: 838 Fort Street
Hours: 12:00 to 4:30
Room: 30 seats
Ticket: $150

Why This Exists

Back to the work that matters

Lost hours

Every hour on admin is an hour away from the job, the crew, and the clients and subs whose trust keeps the phone ringing. For most owners, that paperwork follows them home at night.

Hours back

We share the playbook we run ourselves and set it up with you in the room. More of the admin runs without you, and your time goes back to the people and the work that built the business.

One afternoon to get there. Here's how it works.

What You Can Expect

What sets this afternoon apart

Built by people in the trades

Operators and builders who do this work every day, not consultants describing it from the outside.
Something to take home

A one-page playbook from every room, made to be pinned up in the office and used on Monday, not filed.
Your business, not a case study

Bring your laptop and your real problems. You work on your own business instead of watching someone else’s.
Nobody sells to you

No pitch from the stage, not from the hosts or the sponsor. Just what works, what it cost, and what didn’t.
Thirty seats, not three hundred

An exclusive room, small enough to ask anything and focused enough to change how you run the business.
Proper food and drinks

A premium lunch from local kitchens, Island-roasted coffee all afternoon, and drinks upstairs to close.

The afternoon

Thursday 29 October, 838 Fort Street

12:00

Arrive and lunch

Lunch from a local kitchen, coffee, and time to meet the room before anyone speaks.
12:40

Where the hours go

Where trades firms lose time and money, with the source on every number. Then a quick read on your own business.
1:20

Owners who’ve done it

Owners who built their own tools, on what worked, what it cost and what broke. Then one workflow built live on stage.
2:20

Three hands-on workshops

Groups of 10 rotate through three rooms: set up your own tools, take the admin off your plate, and learn when to build your own.
3:50

Your Monday morning

Pick the three moves you’ll make first, and take home the playbook to make them.
4:30

Drinks upstairs

Drinks on the patio. Stay and talk, or head home.

Who This Is For

The operators and builders of Vancouver Island

Landscaping
Construction
Plumbing
Electrical
HVAC
Roofing
Marine
Restoration
Millwork
Painting & decor
Pest & building science
Property development

This is your room if

You own or run a Vancouver Island trades or construction firm.
You make the calls on what the business spends and what it adopts.
You are curious about what this technology does, and tired of being sold it.

It is not, if

You are looking for a vendor pitch. No one sells from the stage. Not the hosts, not anyone else.

What Your Business Gains

What changes after one afternoon

Clarity

Know where you stand

Get a simple score for how your tools and admin run today, and your next move. Then point every hour at what matters most.

Where it happens: the 12:40 session and the first workshop
Velocity

Get your hours back

Watch the quoting, billing and chasing that eat your week get automated, then take the setup home.

Where it happens: the live build and the second workshop
Authority

Build on the trust you’ve earned

Hear how one trades owner built his own app, and learn when building is the wrong call.

Where it happens: the owner panel and the third workshop
Momentum

Keep it going without us

Leave with the playbook, the tools and the people to keep building long after the doors close.

Where it happens: your Monday morning, and every week after

What You Take Home

Ready to put to work on Monday

A business assistant, set up for you

Set up on your own laptop in the room, loaded with how your business works, and ready to help with quotes, emails and job notes from Monday.
Our playbook, now yours

A one-page playbook from each workshop: the steps we run ourselves, tested on real trades work.
A build plan

The steps behind a real trades app, and how to tell when not to build.
People worth knowing

Experts to call when you’re stuck, and owners who face what you face.

Our Commitment

The gap we’re here to close

Technology alone does not change a business. People do, when they see it working for someone like them. So instead of a vendor with a login and a promise, we put owners in a room with peers who have already done it, and done it on the job site.

Built to Scale is where the Island's trades owners come to get ahead, together. Not a conference or a pitch, but an afternoon learning the playbook from people doing the same work. You leave with the setup, the connections and the plan to build what comes next.

Real problems. Real solutions. Real conversations.

Who's Behind It

The people running the day

They build these tools and use them in their own firms.

Lead producer and workshop host
Josh Nash
Aurisen Solutions (opens in a new tab)
Strategy and implementation. 15+ years in technology and project management.
Co-producer and workshop host
Matteo Sotelo

Livmora Solutions (opens in a new tab) Awdon (opens in a new tab)

Automation workflows. Builds tools to streamline tedious processes.
Workshop host
Dave Chappelle

SiteLogger (opens in a new tab) Cohort Zero (opens in a new tab)

Software engineer. 25+ years in leadership and software development.
Event support
Linh Hoang
Awdon (opens in a new tab)
Eight years in workflow improvement.
Virtual support
Aman Monga
Livmora Solutions (opens in a new tab)
Software engineer. Automation workflows.
Partnerships
Lautaro Cepeda
VIBE (opens in a new tab)
Partners and introductions.