Use case · Trades
In the trades a quotation usually follows a site visit - from photos, measurements on a notepad and what the customer said. Which means days often pass between visit and sent quotation, days in which the customer already has two other offers.
Typical scope: one process
What is different here
Photos from a phone, dimensions on a scrap of paper, sometimes a voice note recorded in the van. That is unstructured but complete - and today's models cope with it considerably better than classic form logic does.
Costing runs through standard items with time allowances from the trade software. The effort lies in hitting the right items, not in adding them up.
At a comparable price, whoever is there first almost always wins. A quotation that reaches the customer on the day of the site visit has a noticeably different hit rate than one that arrives four days later.
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.
Quote after a site visit and you lose orders by days, not by cents. The leverage is in the time between visit and quotation - not in costing accuracy.
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.
Quote after a site visit and you lose orders by days, not by cents. The leverage is in the time between visit and quotation - not in costing accuracy. Whether it pays for you depends on your volume - the audit establishes that.
Yes. The ones listed are those we most often meet in the trades - 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 the trades. 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.
