Estimates Built by AI, From Scope to First Draft Quote
When pricing is needed, Build Concierge prices the labour to date, pulls together materials and subcontractor costs, estimates the new work from the scope, and assembles a first draft quote, ready for your estimator to review rather than build from scratch.
No more estimates taking days because the information lives in five different places. No more pricing that changes depending on who did it. No more skilled estimators spending most of the week on copy and paste.
The problem
Estimating is skilled work, but most of the time it takes is not skilled at all. Before an estimator can price anything with judgement, they have to gather: what labour has already gone in, what materials and subcontractor costs have landed, what the scope actually asks for, and what the new labour and materials will be. That information sits across the job, the accounts system, supplier emails and someone's notes.
So a quote that should take an hour of thinking takes a day of collecting. And because everyone gathers and lays it out slightly differently, the same job can come out at a different price depending on who picked it up. Your best estimators, the people you actually want applying judgement, spend most of their week assembling numbers instead.
The hard part of estimating is the judgement. The slow part is everything that comes before it.
What the automation does
When a job needs pricing, a chain of automations does the gathering and assembling, and hands your estimator a first draft to work from.
- Prices the labour to date. It pulls together the labour already recorded against the job.
- Gathers the costs in. Materials and subcontractor costs are collected from where they already live.
- Estimates the new work. New labour and materials are estimated from the scope of what is being asked for.
- Assembles the draft quote. The totals are brought together into a structured first draft quote.
- Hands it to the estimator. The draft arrives ready to review and refine, not build from a blank page.
THE ESTIMATOR STILL OWNS THE NUMBER
This does the gathering and the first pass, consistently and in minutes. Your estimator still applies the judgement, adjusts the pricing, and decides what goes to the customer. It removes the donkey work, not the expertise.
What you get
- A structured first draft quote in minutes instead of hours
- Estimators spending their time on judgement, not data gathering
- Every quote built the same way, whoever picks it up
- Consistent pricing that does not depend on who did it
- Faster quotes out the door, so you win work before the customer cools off
The slow, repetitive part of estimating disappears. Your estimators start from a complete first draft instead of a blank page, quotes go out faster and more consistently, and your most skilled people spend their time where it actually adds value.
Ways to run it
Every business quotes differently, so the automation flexes to match:
Full first draft
It gathers everything and assembles a complete draft quote, ready for review.
Labour and costs to date only
If you would rather price the new work yourself, it can pull together just the work and costs already on the job.
Priced from your rates
New labour and materials are estimated using your own rate card, so the draft reflects how you actually price.
Consistent format every time
Every quote comes out in the same structure, so they are easy to review, compare and hand between estimators.
What you need
Just three things:
- Build Concierge connected to your job management system
- Your rate card, so new labour and materials are priced your way
- How you like a quote laid out, so the draft matches your format
We support you in connecting to your job management system. You share how you price and how you like a quote structured, and we build the gathering and the draft around that, so what lands in front of your estimator already looks like your work.
Getting set up
Step 1: Talk to us
Show us how you build an estimate today, and where the time actually goes.
Step 2: We build it with you
We set up the gathering, the pricing rules, and the draft quote format.
Step 3: Test it live
We run real jobs through it, check the drafts come out right, then switch it on.
Most businesses are up and running within days.
Common Questions
No. It builds the first draft. Your estimator reviews, refines and decides what actually goes to the customer. Nothing is priced or sent without a person.
From the scope of the job, using your own rate card. The estimate reflects how you price, and your estimator adjusts anything that needs judgement.
From where they already live: the labour recorded against the job, and the materials and subcontractor costs already logged. It gathers them so nobody has to hunt.
Yes, that is the point. Every draft comes out in the same structure and pricing basis, so quotes are consistent no matter who picks them up.
Think about how many hours your estimators spend gathering numbers rather than pricing. This hands that time back and gets quotes out faster, which is often the difference between winning and losing the work.
Ready to give your estimators a head start?
Get in touch with the Build Concierge team and we’ll set it up around the way you work.
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