The autonomous office for UK trades

Know your cut before the van leaves the driveway.

Corem8 runs the office around every job — lead, quote, dispatch, engineer split, invoice, review — and tells you what you actually made. Per job. Per engineer. Per ad campaign.

Card required through Stripe. Nothing is charged today — cancel before the trial ends and you pay nothing. Built by a working locksmith.

See how one job runs end to end ↓
Example job sheet№ 0148

Lock change — Solihull

source: Google Ads · engineer: subcontractor

Job total (ex VAT)
£320.00
Engineer split — 40%
−£128.00
Materials (office)
−£24.00
Ad cost for this lead
−£38.00
The office keeps
£130.00

→ uploaded to Google Ads as a £130.00 conversion

A worked example of Corem8's job ledger. Figures illustrative.

Proof, not promises

Corem8 runs the daily dispatch, engineer payouts and Google Ads reporting of the founder's own working UK locksmith operation. It was an office before it was a product.

01The nine o'clock office

The job's done. The customer paid. So what did you actually make?

Most trades businesses can't answer that until the spreadsheet gets opened at night — after the ads, the engineer's cut, the materials and the card fees have all taken their bite in different tools. The work is good. The office leaks.

  • DispatchJobs handed out from a phone's call history and three WhatsApp groups.
  • QuotesEstimates in one app, invoices in another, payments in a third.
  • PayoutsEngineer splits worked out in a spreadsheet at nine o'clock at night.
  • AdsGoogle Ads optimising toward phone calls — including the ones that never became jobs.
  • ReviewsFinished jobs that should have become five-star proof, and never did.
02The mechanism

One job, run end to end. Then it feeds the next one.

These aren't promises — they're the six stations every job passes through inside Corem8 today.

  1. 01

    Lead in

    Calls, SMS, email and web forms land in one place — with the source captured, down to the ad click that brought them.

    source: google ads · click ID captured

  2. 02

    Quote

    Draft the estimate — Corem8 can suggest line items from your own job history — and the customer approves it from a link. No login, no chasing.

    estimate № 0091 · approved by customer

  3. 03

    Dispatch

    Assign the right engineer, see it on the calendar, and follow the job from accepted to checked-in to complete.

    assigned · accepted · on site

  4. 04

    The split

    The moment the job closes, the money is already divided: engineer's cut, materials, office margin. Percentage, fixed, hourly or salary — per engineer, with per-job overrides.

    engineer 40% · materials · office margin

  5. 05

    Invoice & payment

    The invoice raises itself from the completed job. Send a payment link through Stripe or Square and watch the status, not your inbox.

    invoice № 2210 · payment link sent · paid

  6. 06

    Proof

    A review request is drafted for you to approve and send. And the job's margin is reported back to Google Ads as the value of that conversion.

    review requested · £130 conversion uploaded

  7. …and because Google Ads now knows which clicks became margin, your next ad pound goes where the profit was — not where the phone calls were.

03Profit truth

Most software counts jobs. Corem8 counts what you kept.

Every completed job carries its own ledger: revenue, minus the engineer's payout, minus materials, minus the ad spend that bought the lead. That's your gross. Take off card fees and expenses and you have your net. Not at year end — the moment the job closes.

Splits work the way trades actually pay: percentage of the job, fixed fee, hourly, or salary — set per engineer, overridable per job, settled in payout runs you can hand to whoever does the books.

The differentiator

Your ad account learns your margin.

When a job completes, Corem8 uploads the conversion to Google Ads natively — with the office margin as its value, matched back to the original click. So campaigns stop being judged on phone calls and start being judged on profit.

Generic CRMs count the enquiry. Corem8 tells Google what the job was worth after the engineer was paid.

job complete → margin calculated → conversion uploaded with click ID → Google optimises toward margin

04Where it comes from

Built on the tools, not in a boardroom.

Corem8 was built by Dom — a locksmith with a decade on the tools, running dispatch and subcontractors in a working UK locksmith business. The software everyone told him to use could build a marketing funnel, but none of it could answer his actual question: what is 40% of this job, and what's left for the office after the ads?

So he built the office he needed — first for his own engineers, now for other UK trades. That's why the job split, the payout run and the margin-per-campaign aren't reports bolted on at the end. They're the spine of the product.

05What's inside today

The office

Leads
Every enquiry channel in one queue, with its source attached.
Estimates
Quotes with customer approval links and AI-suggested line items.
Jobs & calendar
Dispatch, scheduling, reassignment, and job status end to end.
Inbox
SMS and email conversations kept with the customer record instead of scattered across tools.

The money

Payouts
Engineer and subcontractor splits, calculated per job and settled in runs.
Invoices
Raised from completed jobs, sent, tracked to paid.
Payments
Stripe and Square payment links, split payments, refunds.
Profit
Gross and net margin per job, per engineer, per campaign.

The growth

Google Ads
Account linked, spend tracked, completed-job margin uploaded as the conversion value.
Attribution
Click IDs and UTMs captured on every lead, so campaigns are judged on outcomes.
Review requests
Drafted for you from the job's details; you approve, it sends.

Everything listed here exists in the product today. Some features arrive on higher plans — that's detailed before you ever pay.

06The founding trades offer

Get in before your competitors' ad accounts learn what yours could.

The trial

14 days of the full product, free. Card through Stripe at sign-up, nothing charged today — cancel before the trial ends and you pay nothing.

The founder

The first 50 trade businesses are onboarded personally by Dom — a working session, not a support queue, where your first real job goes through the system end to end.

After the trial

Plans from £25 a month, ex VAT. You choose your plan during onboarding and know exactly what you'll pay before the 14-day trial begins.

We ask

Honest feedback from a real dispatch operation. If something doesn't survive contact with your week, we want to hear it.

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07Straight answers

The questions we'd ask too.

Is this just another CRM?

No. CRMs count contacts and pipelines. Corem8 is organised around the job and its money: what it sold for, what the engineer's cut was, what the office kept, and which ad paid for it. The contact management is there — it's just not the point.

Who is it for?

UK trades businesses that dispatch engineers or subcontractors — locksmiths first, because that's where it was built, but the job-split model fits any dispatch-led trade. If you pay people a cut of the job, this was built for you.

How does the 14-day free trial work?

You sign up at corem8.io, choose a plan and add a card through Stripe during onboarding. Nothing is charged for 14 days, and if you cancel before the trial ends you pay nothing. The first 50 trade businesses are onboarded personally by the founder, who sets up your first real job with you.

What does it cost?

Plans are Solo £25, Starter £49, Growth £149 and Pro £299 a month, ex VAT. You choose your plan and add a card during onboarding; your card isn't charged until the 14-day trial ends, and you can cancel before then at no cost.

Do I have to rip out my existing tools?

No. Corem8 connects to the things a trades business already runs on — Google Ads, Stripe or Square for payments, SMS — and replaces the spreadsheet-and-WhatsApp layer in between.

Where does my data live?

In the UK-operated Corem8 platform, under UK GDPR. The full posture — hosting, sub-processors, deletion — is published on our security page, not hidden in a PDF.

Something else? hello@corem8.io — you'll get the founder.

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