For small trades

Every job you don't quote is one someone else did.

The quote assistant sits on your website and asks what you would ask on a site visit. By the time you look at your phone, the job is written up and the quote is drafted.

Starting…
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Scripted demo, so it plays the same every time. Three trades run here; the build covers all eight. Open the working prototype.

$40,154 of work a year, for a business taking 12 jobs a week with 30% never priced. Put your own numbers in

You are not losing work because you are bad at the job. You are losing it in the days between "my sink is leaking" and having enough detail to put a number on it.

3 callsto price one small job
6pmwhen the quoting finally starts
The restnever get a number at all

If you have paid a lead site by the click before, the quote assistant is not that. Every job lands with you, once, and nobody else is bidding on it before you have called back.

What the gap costs you

Put your own numbers in.

Three sliders. The arithmetic is on the page so you can check it.

12

Everything: the phone, the web form, texts, word of mouth.

30%

The ones that go quiet because you never got the detail.

$650

What a typical job invoices at, before materials.

Work you could reasonably have won
$40,154
Jobs left unpriced a year187
Won at one in three33%
Year one, build plus running$4,800
Recovering even a third of those enquiries covers the $3,000 build in under a month, then keeps running at $150 a month.

The figure above is money invoiced, not profit. The one-in-three win rate is deliberately conservative. Use your own if you know it. An estimate to start a conversation, not a forecast.

What changes

Same job. Different Tuesday.

One leak, reported at the same minute, on two different Tuesdays.

Today

  1. 8:40am"My sink is leaking", and a phone number.
  2. 11:15amYou ring back between jobs. No answer.
  3. 3:30pmThey ring back. You are under someone else's floor.
  4. 5:05pmThird call. You finally have the pipework and the access.
  5. 6:00pmThe quoting starts. From memory, on a phone.
  6. WednesdayA price goes out. They have booked someone else's van.

With the assistant

  1. 8:40amThe same sentence. It asks what you would have asked.
  2. 8:44amThe job is written up. They have a reference number.
  3. 12:30pmYou read it between jobs. The quote is already drafted.
  4. 12:32pmTwo minutes of edits. Sent.

Your evening is your own.

Those two Tuesdays are an illustration of one job, not a measured average.

Price

Shown, not quoted.

The quote assistant costs one build fee and a small monthly. No charge per job, because charging you more when it works better is a bad deal for you.

The quote assistant

$3,000one-time build
+ $150/mo for hosting, model usage, and keeping it running

No minimum term, cancel with 30 days' notice. Priced in USD; if you invoice in another currency we will confirm the number on the call.

  • Questions tuned to your trades, in your words
  • Reads the photos, so it stops asking what it can already see
  • Written-up jobs delivered to email, text, or an inbox
  • Quote drafting built on the quotes you have already sent
  • Your branding, on your domain
  • You own the code at handover
Typical delivery2–4 weeks
The call itselfFree
Book a 30-minute call

If it is not the right fit

We will tell you on the call.

The quote assistant works when jobs arrive as messy descriptions and the price depends on detail: repairs, trades, small installers, property maintenance. It works badly when every job is identical, or when you already close everything on the phone in two minutes. If you already run job-management software, this sits in front of it. It does not replace your scheduling or invoicing, only what happens before a job exists in that system.

How it ships

  1. 01A 30-minute call with Tiago, the person who builds it, not a sales team.
  2. 02We build it on your trades and your past quotes. About two hours of your time, all in.
  3. 03You see it running in week two and get a full round of changes before any customer sees it.
  4. 04It goes on your site and the code is yours. Stop paying us and it keeps running.

The quote assistant is one build. If something else in your week runs on phone tag and memory, that is the same conversation. Tell us what is slow and we will say whether it is worth building.

The obvious questions

Asked before, answered plainly.

01I already pay for Jobber, Housecall Pro, or something like it.

That software is good at scheduling, invoicing, and holding a job once it exists. What it hands you at the request stage is still a name, a service type and a sentence. The detail that sets the price is still missing, so you are still the one ringing back to ask for it. The quote assistant sits in front of that gap. It asks the follow-up questions, reads the photos, and hands you a job already written up. Your scheduling and invoicing do not change.

02I already have a contact form.

A contact form collects a name and a sentence. The gap it leaves is the reason you make two follow-up calls per job. The quote assistant replaces the form and closes that gap before the customer leaves your site.

03My customers will not talk to a chatbot.

Neither would we. The quote assistant is a short form with a few follow-up questions attached. The customer types one description, taps three answers, and reads a summary before it sends. Three steps, no back-and-forth, nothing that looks like a chat window.

04I do not want software pricing my work.

The quote assistant does not price anything. It drafts line items from quotes you have already sent, then waits. Nothing reaches a customer until you have read it, changed what you want, and pressed send. If you delete the draft and type your own number, that is a normal Tuesday.

05What if it asks something daft.

The quote assistant is capped at four questions and told never to ask for anything already answered or already visible in a photo. When it cannot work something out it says so. The job arrives with a "still unknown" list instead of a confident guess. You see everything it asked and everything the customer answered, so nothing reaches you as a surprise.

06Half my work comes in by phone, not a form.

The calculator counts every job, whatever way it arrived, because that is the size of the problem you actually have. The fix is not the phone call. It is what happens after it. Give the caller the same link: read it out, text it while you are still talking, or put it on your voicemail greeting. The questions get asked and the job gets written up whether it started as a form, a text, or a call you took standing in a driveway. The build does not read your texts or answer your phone for you. Starting a job from a message instead of a link is something we can build, but it is not in the price above.

07Could I not just use ChatGPT, or get someone to build it.

You could have something asking questions in an afternoon. What takes longer is teaching it your trades, capping how much it asks, reading a photo before it asks about what is already in it, and drafting a price from the quotes you have actually sent rather than a generic average. That part has to be built and then kept working. If someone can do that for you, good. The question either way is whether it still runs, still belongs to you, and is still worth having in a year.

08What happens if I stop paying, or you stop trading.

Either way, the quote assistant keeps running. You own the code at handover, not a licence to it. The monthly covers hosting, model usage and support. Cancel it and we help you move the thing onto your own hosting rather than switching it off. Compare that with a subscription: stop paying and the request form, the history and the portal stop working the same day. The same holds if we stop trading. The codebase is in your hands from handover, so there is nothing to release to you and nothing to recover.

09Where does my customers' information go.

Customer information goes to you. Jobs are delivered to your email, your phone, or an inbox on your own domain. We do not resell leads and there is no shared marketplace behind this. You are not buying a directory listing. Your past quotes train your build and nobody else's. What a customer types, and any photo they attach, is processed by our own system to write the job up, and is stored in North America. If your business needs a named provider or a particular region, we can build to that. A data processing agreement is available; ask for it on the call.

Next step

Tell us what is slow. We will tell you if the quote assistant fixes it.

Thirty minutes, no deck, no follow-up sequence. Bring last month's jobs and we will work through them on the call.

Good fit if you take five or more jobs a week, your work varies enough that you cannot publish a price list, and you are the one writing the quotes.

  • Unbuild Lab will say no if the numbers do not work. It is cheaper for both of us.
  • You leave the call with a fixed price, not a proposal to wait for.
  • If you want it, the build starts that week.
Fixed price. You own it. Book a 30-minute call