Build contractor estimates that win the job

Price labor, pull materials with real price history, stack your margins, and send a professional estimate as a PDF, Word document, or spreadsheet. Free to start — you don't need an account until you save.

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How it works

Step 1

Price the labor

Use effort presets or rate × hours. Your hourly rates and presets carry across every estimate, so two jobs quoted a month apart stay consistent.

Step 2

Pull real material prices

A catalog with append-only price history and 30- and 90-day averages. Estimates snapshot the price the day you add it, so a catalog update never quietly rewrites a quote you already sent.

Step 3

Stack your margins

Overhead, contingency, and profit are an ordered list that compounds in the order you set. Keep any of them off the customer copy — your totals stay exact either way.

Send something that looks professional

Every estimate exports as a PDF, a Word document, or an Excel spreadsheet — so you can send it, edit it, or hand it to a client who wants the numbers in a sheet.

  • PDF, Word, and Excel export on every plan
  • Shareable client link your customer can accept or decline
  • Change orders tracked as their own document, not edits to the original
  • Your logo, business name, and license number on the customer copy (Pro)

AI that drafts and checks your work

Describe the job in a sentence and get a full draft — labor broken out by task, materials matched to the catalog, and the things first drafts forget: permits, disposal, delivery, waste factor. Then run a review before you send it, and it will tell you what's missing.

Draft

Turn a one-line description of the job into a structured estimate you can edit.

Review

A second pass over a finished estimate that flags what's missing or mispriced.

Price check

Verify a material price against a live web search when the catalog looks stale.

AI credits are included on every plan, free included. See what each plan gets →

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