AI estimate builder: from field photos and notes to a branded quote
Your tech walks the job, snaps photos and talks through what they see. The AI drafts a clean, branded quote from your own price book, and you review it before it goes out.
Quotes are where jobs are won or lost
Speed matters with estimates. The company whose quote arrives first, clear and professional, often gets the job. But writing quotes is slow: back at the truck or at the kitchen table at night, retyping notes, looking up prices, and formatting it all so it looks right. Every hour between the visit and the quote is an hour for the customer to call someone else.
An AI estimate builder closes that gap. The tech captures the job on site, and a draft quote is ready to review before they've reached the next address.
How it works
- On site, the tech takes photos and adds notes, typed or spoken: the equipment, the problem, what needs replacing.
- The AI drafts the quote using your price book, your labor rates and your usual options, with clear line items the customer can understand.
- It shows what it couldn't confirm from the photos and notes, so nothing is guessed silently.
- You or the tech review it, adjust anything, and approve it. Nothing is sent without a person signing off.
- The customer gets a branded quote with your logo and terms, and quote follow-up can take it from there.
Built from work we've already done
We've built this kind of engine before. CheckBids, one of our own products, reads photos and written descriptions of damaged cars and turns them into an itemized repair plan with prices, hours and a confidence rating. An estimate builder for your trade uses the same approach, trained on your prices and the way your business quotes.
What makes a good estimate builder
- Your numbers, not generic ones. It works from your price book and labor rates, so quotes match how you actually charge.
- Good, better, best options if that's how you sell, laid out the same way every time.
- Honest gaps. If the photos can't show something, the quote draft says so instead of guessing.
- A person always approves it. The AI speeds up the writing; you stay in charge of the price.
A custom build
Because every trade and every price book is different, the estimate builder is a custom build. We scope it after your free audit, based on the kinds of jobs you quote, how you price them, and the tools your team already uses.
What we need from you
- Your price book or a set of recent quotes
- Your logo, terms and any standard options you offer
- A handful of real jobs with photos, so we can test it on your work
CheckBids
Reads a listing's photos and text, prices the repairs, adds the tax, title, and fees buyers forget, and returns one number: the most the car is worth paying.
Estimate builder questions
Will it price jobs on its own?
No. It drafts the quote from your price book, and a person on your team reviews and approves every quote before it reaches a customer.
What if the photos don't show everything?
The draft lists what it couldn't confirm, so your tech can fill in the gaps instead of discovering them later.
Does it work with my field-service software?
We confirm exactly what we can connect to during the free audit, before you commit. If a direct connection isn't possible, quotes can still be sent as branded PDFs or links.
Is this the same as CheckBids?
It's built the same way. CheckBids turns car photos into repair estimates; an estimate builder for your business does the same for your trade, using your own prices.
What does it cost?
The audit is free. It's a custom build, scoped and quoted after your free audit. You'll know the exact price before anything is built. See all packages.
Get your free AI audit.
Tell us about your business. In a 30–45 minute audit we'll show you where you're losing calls, time and money, and which AI agent would pay off first. No obligation.
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