Get Out Of Day-To-Day Firefighting,
Without Losing Control.

Builders Escape helps established, profitable builders get their time back by steering their business away from being owner-dependent. Businesses we work with become less chaotic, easier to run, and better at keeping their team happy.

James Brown, CEO of Biztech Guru, standing with arms crossed and smiling at the camera, highlighted by yellow accent lines on a clean dark background.
James will be at APB events throughout 2026.
If you’re a builder attending and you want to:
  • step back without losing control
  • reduce day-to-day chaos
  • build consistency across projects

Builders We’ve Worked With

Is This You?

You’ve built a company that’s really started hitting its stride.

You’ve got a good team. You’ve progressed (or you’re on the path) to having a PM take project management off your plate.

You’ve got a decent contracts admin too, keeping things moving.

So you should be starting to get time back to focus on bigger things like:

  • more consistent marketing
  • smoothing out your sales experience
  • getting a better grip on your numbers

But for some reason…it’s not happening yet.

Site problems pop up daily and pull you back in. The office team is trying their best, but things keep slipping through the cracks.

And you end up being the last-minute saviour. Again.

And again.

Who We Are

Builders Escape, by BizTech Guru, has helped a bunch of high-performing, often award-winning builders to get their business running in a way that doesn’t need so much of the owner’s time.

To be clear…

We don’t dabble in this stuff.
We’re not ‘hoping’ it works.
We’ve walked this path many times before.

It’s what we specialise in.
It’s what we’re known for.

How can we be so confident?

James Brown, the founder, learnt his lessons young, doing stupid things like working 100+ hour weeks after taking over a family business back in his 20’s.

After burnout paid him a visit, he chose to do things differently.

He went from running a business with a team of 15 built around him that needed him seven days a week…to building an award-winning business that didn’t need him working in it anymore.

Now, James and the team help successful builders reach that same endgame.

Is This for You?

Solving this piece of the puzzle can make a life-changing difference to how your business runs… and how much of your time it needs.

Maybe you want to scale.

Maybe you’ve spotted a business opportunity you want to explore.

Or maybe you just want more time with your family.


Whatever the reason:

You deserve to have a business that runs without you.

Focusing on getting your time back isn’t about being selfish or thinking you’re better than anyone else. It’s about recognising the huge opportunity cost of running your business how you have been, and opening up a world of opportunities for what you could really be doing with your time instead.

Want to chat about what this might look like for your situation?

Luke Davies

"James instantly got our business and understood our problems and what we wanted to achieve. He then made sure that the time we spent together was very focused on the main things that would make the greatest difference."

Luke Davies
Founder - Davies Construction
Hamish White

"90% of the business was in my head, and I'm not the person that should be doing systems. James helped us set up the systems and frameworks for our team.

My biggest advice to anyone is to just get started, knowing that where you end up is going to look wildly different, but if you don't have systems, you don't have a business."

Founder, Sanctum Homes
Guy Smallacombe

“It was a great experience working through the Systemising process with James Brown.

James was professional, easy to work with and clearly cared about helping us get the best result.

We’re really happy with what we achieved and the systems we now have in place.”

Guy Smallacombe
CEO, Smallacombe Building Group
Ray O_connor

"Working with James has been a great experience.

He brings care, professionalism, and a clear, practical process that helped extract and systemise our key workflows, giving us more clarity and confidence in our day-to-day operations at Premier Building Solutions.

I’m very happy with the outcome and highly recommend him to builders looking to improve and systemise their business."

Ray O'Connor
Managing Director, Premier Building Solutions