Teamwork Alternative for Trades & Construction

Teamwork Deliver plan starts at approximately $15 AUD/user/month (billed annually), providing task management, time tracking, milestones, and basic reporting. The Grow plan at roughly $24 AUD/user/month adds workload management, project health tracking, and advanced budgeting. For a 20-person team on Grow, annual costs are around $5,760 AUD, which is reasonable for the feature set. However, Teamwork true cost emerges when you need the full suite. Adding Teamwork Desk for helpdesk ($20 to $40/user/month), Teamwork CRM ($8 to $20/user/month), and Teamwork Spaces for documentation ($5 to $8/user/month) can triple the per-user cost. Client users are free on Projects, but accessing them through Desk or CRM adds to the seat count. For a 20-person agency using the full Teamwork suite, annual costs can reach $20,000 to $35,000 AUD. A custom Clever Ops solution consolidates project management, client communication, documentation, and CRM functionality into a single platform. The integrated approach eliminates suite-stacking costs and provides a unified experience rather than four loosely connected products.

From kickoff to launch: discovery in week one, working prototype by 2 weeks, and full delivery within 4-8 weeks. We run your Teamwork alternative tailored for trades & construction businesses build in fortnightly sprints so you can test and give feedback at every stage.

Yes. Most businesses use a fraction of Teamwork's features. We identify the capabilities you rely on daily, then build custom equivalents that work exactly the way your team expects tailored for trades & construction businesses. Common features we replicate include Client project management, Time tracking, Billing integration, and more - but tailored to your specific processes rather than Teamwork's generic approach.

Ease of use is a core design priority. A custom system strips away the feature bloat that makes Teamwork overwhelming and presents a clean, focused interface. Your team sees only what matters to their role, using language they already understand.

Teamwork provides solid data export capabilities. CSV export covers tasks, time entries, and project metadata. The Teamwork API is well-documented and provides structured access to projects, task lists, tasks, comments, files, time entries, milestones, and notebooks. Client user data and permissions are also accessible via the API. Migration from Teamwork begins with extracting project structures, task hierarchies, and time tracking data. Milestone dependencies and task list ordering are preserved. If you use Teamwork Desk, CRM, or Spaces, each requires a separate extraction process. We map Teamwork project templates to custom workflow templates and rebuild any board views or Gantt configurations in the new system. Teamwork migrations typically take four to six weeks for teams using Projects alone, extending to six to ten weeks for teams using the full suite. The parallel running period is two to three weeks for Projects-only migrations and three to four weeks for full-suite transitions. Time tracking data migration is straightforward as Teamwork stores this data cleanly.

Support starts the moment we deploy and never stops being personal. 3 months of included post-launch support gives your team confidence during the transition from Teamwork. Ongoing plans are affordable and flexible - scale up or down as your needs change.

A custom system is built to scale. Double your team, enter new markets, launch new products - the platform handles it without the pricing cliffs Teamwork imposes at each tier. Incremental enhancements keep the system aligned with your strategy as you grow.

Switching from Teamwork to another SaaS tool often trades one set of limitations for another - you are still renting, still paying monthly, and still constrained by someone else's product decisions. A custom solution eliminates the entire category of SaaS limitations: no subscription fees, no feature restrictions, no vendor lock-in. For mid-market Australian businesses with specific workflow requirements tailored for trades & construction businesses, custom development provides dramatically better long-term value.