Use case · Construction & building services
In construction and building services a quotation hangs off a bill of quantities with hundreds of line items, and the costing has to separate own work, subcontractors and material. Done by hand that takes days - and items still get missed.
Typical scope: one process
What is different here
GAEB if you are lucky; otherwise a PDF that used to be a GAEB. The item structure is prescribed and must not be altered - you bid on the item, not on your own way of describing the work.
Whatever is not done in-house has to be enquired about and priced in. Those enquiries run in parallel with your own costing and are the most common reason a quotation is only finished on submission day.
They are costed but not counted in. Miss the difference and you submit an arithmetically wrong bid - which only comes to light during evaluation.
If yours is not listed, that is not an exclusion. Where no interface exists, we build one - that is the most demanding part and it is our trade.
In construction a quotation is a formal document with a prescribed structure. Errors in it are not expensive, they are disqualifying.
The difference
A person does itThe system does it
How it runs today
How it would run with us
What it gets you
Where it does not fit
If every enquiry is a one-off and there are no comparable jobs, there is little to gain here. The benefit comes from repetition, not from intelligence.
In construction a quotation is a formal document with a prescribed structure. Errors in it are not expensive, they are disqualifying. Whether it pays for you depends on your volume - the audit establishes that.
Yes. The ones listed are those we most often meet in construction and building services - a list, not a precondition. Where no interface exists, we build one.
Read access to the quotations closed over the last twelve months - that is where the system learns your costing logic, not from a formula. Access to the ERP, or at least a regular export of jobs and prices. A contact in sales who has two to three hours a week for questions during the first weeks. Nothing more is needed to start.
Across 30 real past enquiries the draft falls within your usual price tolerance in at least 80 % of cases. Every unclear item is flagged - nothing is quietly guessed. No quotation leaves the building without a person releasing it.
4 to 6 weeks to the first productive run.
The draft is produced independently; the release is always a person. A quotation is a binding document - it never leaves the building unseen.
If every enquiry is a one-off and there are no comparable jobs, there is little to gain here. The benefit comes from repetition, not from intelligence.
This page shows the fit in construction and building services. The process itself is sector-independent - what matters is whether it repeats.
Quotations in generalYou tell us where your time goes. We put it in writing: what is worth automating, and roughly what that costs.
