About

A construction consultancy, built by people who have done the job.

Not a software reseller, not a generalist business coach, and not a freelance CA with a website. A commercial and systems consultancy for construction businesses in the middle of growing up.

Why we exist

The gap we kept seeing

Where this came from

Most construction businesses do not fail on the tools or the tender. They come unstuck in the gap between winning more work and having a business capable of running it, where the commercial process, the reporting and the systems were built for a company half the size.

Built inside the growth, not observed from outside it

The systems, procedures and Procore configuration behind this offering were built inside a contractor going through exactly that transition, with live projects and real money at stake. Not designed in a workshop and never tested.

Why the three services sit together

Because the same root cause turns up in all three. A commercial problem is usually a process problem, a process problem usually shows up as a systems problem, and treating any one of them in isolation is why so much consulting work quietly reverts within a year.

Who you will work with

Peter Antoniou

Founder & Principal Consultant

Peter joined a small Melbourne-based commercial builder in 2019 as Senior Contract Administrator. A family-run builder and developer working across residential, commercial, health, retirement, education and maintenance projects, it was growing fast enough at the time to be on track to triple in size.

He was given a blank canvas to build the commercial systems on, and put Procore at the centre of them: financial control and visibility first, then document management, then the reporting the business had been assembling by hand. Monthly reporting went from a day and a half to about thirty minutes, and 90 to 95 per cent of construction workflows ended up running on the one platform.

CEDRA exists to do that work for other builders. The same commercial process design, the same hands-on Procore implementation experience, offered to businesses at the point in their growth where the way they have always worked has stopped holding.

Areas of depth

Deep in one thing rather than shallow in ten: head contractor commercial management, construction business systems, and Procore.

Contract administration and commercial management for a head contractor
Procore implementation from a blank canvas, including financial management
Document control and a single source of truth across live projects
Cost reporting and forecasting rebuilt to come out of the system
Commercial process design inside a builder growing at pace

Published case study

A small Melbourne commercial builder

The builder was running on conversations, site meetings and handshake agreements. Drawings and project information were hard to track down, what the business knew sat with individuals rather than in a system, and month-end reporting was assembled by hand. Peter joined in 2019 and was given a free hand to fix it, putting financial control, document management and reporting onto a single platform. Procore published the result as a customer case study.

What changed

Monthly reporting cut by 96 per cent, from a day and a half to about thirty minutes
90 to 95 per cent of construction workflows brought onto one platform
Company-wide visibility across budgets, forecasts and project performance
Defects resolved faster through real-time collaboration on site

Read the full case study on Procore

Principles

Four things we are not willing to trade

These are the ones that get tested, usually when there is money on the table.

Practitioners, not presenters

Everything here is built by someone who has run the projects and carried the commercial risk. There is no delivery team of graduates behind a senior name on the proposal.
Designed to be handed over

Success is you needing us less. Documentation, templates and training come as standard, because a dependency dressed up as a partnership is not a service.
Independent by design

No software commissions, no reseller agreements, no referral fees. If a platform or a module is not worth it at your size, that is what you will hear.
Straight answers

If a claim has no entitlement, if a project is worse than you think, or if the work you are asking for will not help, you will be told plainly and early.

Boundaries

What we don't do

Worth stating plainly, because most of these are things other people in this space do.

We do not sell software licences or take commissions from platforms
We do not act for both sides of the same contract, ever
We do not give legal advice; we refer you to people who do
We do not take on more work than can be delivered properly
We do not produce reports nobody reads to justify a retainer
We do not lock clients into long minimum terms

Next step

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