Contractor estimating software that drafts the numbers for you

Where do the AI’s numbers come from?

The first draft starts from national labor and material ranges for your trade — the same kind of ranges the free estimate calculators on our trade pages use — adjusted by the job size, location and description you give it. From there it learns from you: every estimate you save or send in FieldsHub becomes the baseline for the next one in that category, so a shop that always prices a 200 A panel upgrade at $3,400 will see $3,400, not a national average.

It never finalises a price you have not seen. Every line shows quantity, unit cost and markup, and the wizard’s draft is clearly labelled as a draft until you accept it. If a range looks wrong for your market, change it once and the next draft uses your number. Think of it as a fast first pass from an estimator who has read all your old quotes, not as a price oracle. The starting ranges are national labor and material averages for the trade; your saved estimates replace them as you go.

What does a three-tier estimate actually contain?

Budget, Standard and Premium are three complete scopes, not one scope at three prices. For a bathroom remodel the Budget tier might keep the layout and reuse the tub; Standard moves the vanity and adds tile to the ceiling; Premium adds a curbless shower and heated floor. Each tier has its own line items, quantities and total, so the customer compares real options and you are not negotiating a single number downward.

You can delete a tier, rename it, or start from one tier only. The customer sees the tiers side by side in the portal and picks one; the one they approve becomes the job. In our founding cohort most customers choose the middle tier, which is exactly why three tiers are worth the two extra minutes.

Download the free construction estimate template (.xlsx) →

How long does an estimate take from first visit to approval?

Ten minutes is a realistic target for a service-sized job: describe the work and add a photo at the site (two minutes), review the draft and fix any lines that do not match your pricing (five minutes), send it by text or email (one minute). The customer opens a link, reads the tiers and taps Approve — no account, no PDF to print and sign. You get a notification with the timestamp, and the approved estimate converts to a job and a deposit invoice in one tap.

Larger multi-trade bids take longer because you will review more lines, but the structure is the same: draft, correct, send, approve. The time you save is the evening at the kitchen table rebuilding a spreadsheet; the accuracy comes from the fact that every number on the page is one you chose or confirmed.