Get your footing.

We're in beta with a handful of trades businesses through 2026. Hosted access at app.getfooting.com opens to the public mid-year. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment it's your turn. Can't wait? The same software is on GitHub today, ready to run on your own server.

Yes, free. Footing is open source. Run it on your own server (or hand it to your IT person) and pay us nothing. The only catch: you can't take the code and launch your own competing hosted Footing service for two years. After that, even that restriction lifts. Nothing in the license stops you using it to run your own building business, forever.

You stay logged into AroFlo, click 'Import to Footing', and we pull your clients, sites, jobs, quotes, invoices, and site photos across. A full 5-year history takes about an hour. If anything doesn't come through cleanly, we'll bring it across by CSV.

Yes. Footing installs straight from your phone's browser, no app store. Your crew can clock on, take photos, fill out forms, and sign off jobs even with no signal. Everything syncs the second they're back in range.

Yes. GST goes on every line automatically. ABN lookups validate against the ABR. Invoice numbering, BAS-friendly exports, AU date formats, AUD everywhere. Built in Australia for Australian builders, not US software with a currency switch.

Xero, both ways, from day one. Invoices and payments reconcile in the background so your bookkeeper sees what site finished the moment it's done. MYOB is on the roadmap. If you're on something else, CSV exports work today.

Sam is our AI admin assistant, built by the same team as Footing. You don't need Sam to run Footing, but you'll want it. Sam watches every job, quote, invoice and SWMS, then drafts the chaser email, nudges the subbie who's gone quiet, and flags the variation before it walks out the door. Footing was designed around Sam from day one, which means Sam gets full read access to your jobs to actually be useful, and zero authority to act until you tap approve. Nothing client-facing goes out, no money moves, no document gets signed off without your say-so. No other AU trades platform plugs an AI in this deep. And every Sam plan comes with a Footing seat for free, so the maths usually works out in your favour.

ChatGPT and Claude wait for you to ask. Sam doesn't. Sam watches your jobs 24/7 and surfaces what needs doing before you've thought to look — the overdue invoice on day 14, the SWMS expiring on Friday, the variation quote that's been sitting unread for a week. Sam also speaks trades: knows what a SWMS is, knows AU GST and BAS rules, knows how a builder talks to a tile guy versus how a builder talks to a homeowner, and drafts in that voice. Sam is built for a whole company, not one user — every seat gets their own personal Sam who knows their role, their jobs, and their inbox, and the Sams talk to each other so nothing falls between the office, the PM, and the crew on site. ChatGPT can read your data through MCP; Sam runs your admin, across your whole team. Different jobs. Plus every Sam plan includes a Footing seat, which usually pays for itself.

Yes. Footing speaks MCP (Model Context Protocol). The easy way to think about it: MCP is a USB port for AI. Open ChatGPT or Claude on your desktop, plug Footing in once, and ask in plain English — 'what's outstanding from Northbank?', 'show me every job over $20k still in quote', 'draft a follow-up for the overdue invoices'. It uses the AI you already pay for, against your real jobs, no extra subscription. If you're technical, the same connection is a JSON API for your own scripts and automations.

A small Australian team. We got tired of paying $55 a head for software that still lost variations, so we built our own and put it on GitHub. Same crew builds Sam, the AI assistant.