Proofs and artwork

Which proof did they
actually approve?

Version four goes out over email. The client says yes to something. Nobody is certain which file, and the reprint comes out of your pocket. The fix is not more careful emailing — it is a record that cannot be argued with.

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The trail

Approval, file and timestamp
on one record.

A proof goes out as a link, not a login. The client taps approve from wherever they are, and the moment they do, the file locks and the job moves to production.

Their name, the time, and the exact file are stamped to the job. When someone says they never approved that, the answer is on the screen — which usually ends the conversation before it starts.

No login

they approve in ten seconds

A link they can open on a phone in the ute. Every extra step between the client and the approve button is another day the job does not move.

Locked

production works from the signed file

Once approved, that version is the one production sees. Nobody cuts from an old file because it was the one still open on the desktop.

Versioned

every round kept, not overwritten

Round one to round four all stay on the job with who asked for what, so a change that gets reversed later is traceable rather than remembered.

Why it matters

The reprint is the cost
you never quoted for.

Vinyl, laminate, the panel, the labour to strip and refit, the install slot that now has to move — a reprint eats a job's whole margin and part of the next one.

It is almost never a production mistake. It is a record-keeping mistake that shows up in production, which is why fixing it in the record is the only fix that holds.

The rest of the family

Same build, shaped for
a different trade.

Each one is the same idea — your quoting, your jobs, your invoicing, in one system you own — fitted to how that trade actually works. Built in Brisbane by Kindra AI.