Fergus is job management software made for trade businesses, started in New Zealand and used by plumbers, electricians, builders and other trades across New Zealand, Australia and the UK. A job moves from enquiry and quote to scheduled work, time sheets and materials, and then to an invoice that usually lands in the firm's accounting system. The status board shows where every job is. What it does not do is answer the questions the boss asks on a Friday afternoon, such as how much work is finished but not billed, or which quotes went cold.
Agentic CMMS connects Fergus to the AI agents your team already uses. Ask in Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, and the agent reads jobs, quotes, time sheets and invoices in Fergus. With write access approved, it can also create jobs and record time, so the office spends less time chasing paperwork.
What your AI agent can do with Fergus
- Find work to bill. "Which jobs are finished on site but not yet invoiced, and roughly what are they worth?" The agent combines time, materials and job status.
- Check quotes that went quiet. "Which quotes over $2,000 have had no reply for two weeks?"
- Review time sheets. "Who has not submitted time for yesterday, and which jobs were they on?"
- Look at a customer's history. "What have we done for the Wellington body corporate this year, site by site?"
- Create a job from a phone call. "New job for a hot water cylinder replacement at 9 Kauri Street, customer Jane Ngata, urgent." The agent sets the customer, site and description.
- Watch job margins. "Which jobs last month used more labour hours than we quoted?"
- Plan the week. "Which jobs are scheduled for the apprentices next week, and who is supervising each one?"
Fergus with your other systems
Fergus sits beside your books, payroll and sometimes another job system. Connect them and the agent answers across all of them:
- Check that every Fergus invoice reached Xero and that payments and credit notes line up.
- Compare Fergus time sheets with the pay run in Employment Hero before you approve wages.
- Bring together jobs from Fergus and simPRO when your group runs both after a merger.
- Reconcile supplier bills in MYOB with the materials recorded on each job.
Built for the boss and the office
Trade businesses are busy, and the owner is often on the tools as well as running the books. A plain-language agent saves the evening session at the laptop. Each person approves their own agent, apprentices can stay on read-only access, and owners decide which roles may create jobs or record time. Every action goes into the activity log, so nothing changes without a name next to it.