OpalEdge is the commercial intelligence platform built for trade businesses — helping you price confidently, protect your margins, and make better decisions. Quote domestic jobs in under a minute. Price commercial tenders in under two. Let AI work for you in the background every single day.
⭐ Launch pricing — available to the first 50 businesses only. Locked in for life.
The problem
You price the job. Buy the materials. Do the work. Send the invoice. But by the end of it — do you actually know what you made?
Most trade businesses don't. Margins get eaten by supplier price rises you didn't notice, jobs that took longer than quoted, and invoices that never got chased. You're busy — but busy doesn't always mean profitable.
For commercial contractors the problem runs deeper. Tender documents that take days to price manually. Applications for payment that need raising every month. Retention held back until completion. Variation orders that need documenting and approving. All of it landing on you, on top of the actual work.
Until now, getting proper answers meant hiring an estimator, an accountant, or a business consultant. For most trade businesses, that's simply not affordable. OpalEdge changes that.
The solution
Other apps help you stay organised. OpalEdge actually does the work — giving you the kind of commercial intelligence and project management capability that was previously only available to larger businesses with bigger budgets.
Built for domestic trades. Built for commercial contractors. Built for every trade business that wants to run smarter.
Describe the job in plain English — like you'd explain it to a mate — and OpalEdge builds a professional, accurate quote using your own price list. Every material priced up, your logo on it, ready to send. No spreadsheets, no looking things up, no late nights.
Supported trades: Electrician · Plumber · Builder · HVAC · Landscape Gardener · Carpenter/Joiner
When the customer says yes, everything carries straight across into a job — no re-entering information. Track every job from first contact to final invoice. Upload your supplier receipts as you go and OpalEdge tracks your costs in the background, automatically.
When the job's done, your invoice is ready in one click. Right next to it: exactly what you quoted, what you spent, and what you actually made. Spot where your margins are being squeezed before it becomes a problem. Most trade businesses never know this number. You will.
Upload your tender documents — PDFs, Word files, drawing packages — and OpalEdge extracts the full scope using a 9-pass QS methodology. Drawing pages are read using AI vision, pulling dimensions and quantities directly from architectural drawings. Everything is priced against your own price sheet — unmatched items go to an amber panel where you can enter prices manually or ask Edge AI to estimate them. Add your labour breakdown and the tender is complete.
Validated against a real commercial electrical tender worth £180,000–£240,000. OpalEdge returned £174,379 in materials and approximately £55,000 in labour — a total of £229,000. Squarely within the tender range. Under two minutes.
Before exporting, the built-in Risk Assessment panel calculates a LOW / MODERATE / HIGH / VERY HIGH risk rating with a suggested contingency percentage, and automatically flags LAD (Liquidated Damages) clauses in the documents. The kind of estimating and risk capability that used to require a dedicated estimator.
For contractors working on commercial projects, OpalEdge manages the full contract lifecycle from first day on site to final account — and protects your position along the way.
Raise Applications for Payment that auto-calculate from time logs, preliminaries, and supplier invoices. Track retention held and released across all live contracts. Log Variation Orders — AI-quoted or manual. Record Delay Events with Construction Act notification tracking so your entitlement to extension of time is documented.
OpalEdge also tracks your LAD exposure, flags CIS Domestic Reverse Charge with correct statutory invoice wording, and calculates a Risk Pricing score before you submit any tender — covering contract type, programme duration, client relationship, and scope uncertainty. Most trade software handles simple invoicing. OpalEdge handles the way commercial contracting actually works.
OpalEdge doesn't wait to be asked. The Margin Warning Agent checks your in-progress jobs every morning and alerts you when costs are tracking below your threshold. The Overdue Invoice Chaser detects unpaid invoices and drafts the chaser email — first polite reminder or firmer statutory notice — ready to copy and send in seconds.
Proactive Insight Cards surface specific, actionable observations on your dashboard without you digging for them. Labour Accuracy and Materials Variance cards reveal whether you're consistently over or under on estimates. Customer Payment Pattern Flags identify slow-paying clients before you take on more work from them. Premium users additionally get Price and Labour Rate Benchmarking against anonymised platform averages, and Semantic Search across all quotes and jobs via cmd+K.
AskEdge is an AI business advisor built into OpalEdge — and it's unlike anything else in the trades market. The kind of expert business advice that was previously out of reach for most small businesses, available at the touch of a button. Learn more ↓
AskEdge is an AI business advisor built into OpalEdge — and it's unlike anything else in the trades market.
For the first time, the kind of expert business advice that was previously out of reach for most small businesses is available at the touch of a button — at a fraction of the cost of a consultant or accountant.
Feed AskEdge your business documents, contracts, supplier agreements — and it gets to know your business as well as you do. Premium AskEdge remembers key facts across sessions: your growth targets, key clients, preferred suppliers, pricing strategy. It adapts to your communication style over time. Then ask it anything.
Are my prices right?
Why did I make less money last month?
Help me write a tender.
What's my LAD exposure across live contracts?
Real answers. Specific to your business. Not generic advice — your numbers, your suppliers, your situation. And after every response, AskEdge suggests the next logical question — tappable chips so you keep moving.
No other system in the trades market does this.
“Within 24 hours of using AskEdge it had already told me to change our pricing strategy. I wasn't expecting that.”
Tim Harris · R&T Harris Limited · Electrical ContractorIncluded in Premium — the plan for businesses serious about growth.
Why OpalEdge
Know your margins before you send the quote — not after you've done the job.
Upload a tender document and have a complete, accurate materials estimate in under two minutes. Bid faster, bid smarter, win more.
Professional, accurate quotes sent fast — before your competitors have even picked up the phone.
LAD exposure tracking, delay event logs, risk pricing, CIS reverse charge — everything you need to protect your position and recover every penny on commercial work.
Hours saved every week on admin, quoting and invoicing. Time you get back for the work — or the family.
The commercial insight that larger businesses take for granted — now accessible to every trade business, at a price that makes sense.
A platform that gets smarter the more you use it — built for ambitious trade businesses ready to take the next step.
What trade businesses are saying
“OpalEdge is going to save me hours every week. It's a game changer for any trade business.”
“Within 24 hours of using AskEdge it had already told me to change our pricing strategy. I wasn't expecting that.”
Pricing
⭐ Launch pricing — available to the first 50 businesses only. Locked in for life.
“You deserve the same commercial clarity, the same quality of insight, and the same tools as a large company. We're here to give you that edge.”
Matt Brocklesby · Founder, Opal Business Solutions
About
Growing up on a small family farm taught me early what it means to run a business where every hour and every decision matters. After 20 years as a commissioned officer in the British Army — leading teams, improving systems, and helping organisations run better under pressure — I founded Opal Business Solutions with one goal: to give small trade businesses the kind of support that was previously only available to much larger companies.
The arrival of AI changes everything for small businesses. For the first time, genuinely powerful business advice, commercial insight, and intelligent automation are within reach — not just for companies with big budgets, but for every ambitious sole trader and small contractor who's working hard and wants to work smarter.
OpalEdge is built on that belief. You deserve the same commercial clarity, the same quality of insight, and the same tools as a large company. We're here to give you that edge.
Join the trade businesses already using OpalEdge to quote faster, price commercial tenders accurately, protect their margins, and grow with confidence.
Start your free 14-day trialLaunch pricing — first 50 businesses only. Locked in for life. No charge until trial ends. Cancel anytime.
Give your business the Edge.