You’re standing at the property. You can see the work. You’re taking measurements and talking through what the customer wants.
How much of that estimate can you finish before you leave?
That’s the question behind the work I’m doing with Richmond Contractors.
I’m working on an Airtable estimating app that gives on-site estimators a more direct way to capture job details and build an estimate while they’re at the property.
The “after” side of the image shows the actual app interface. The surrounding scene is AI-generated.
The goal: less work to recreate later and a faster path to a customer-ready estimate.
An estimator should be able to open a job, enter the information, and keep moving. That means designing around what they need in the field:
Customer and property information together.
A clear place to add materials.
Job details captured while they’re fresh.
An obvious next step when something still needs pricing or review.
Every detail that has to be rewritten, explained over the phone, or tracked down later adds work between the site visit and the finished estimate.
And when several estimates are waiting, that work piles up.
This build starts with how the estimator actually works: what they need to enter, what they need to look up, and what would help them finish more of the estimate on-site.
We’re still developing the workflow. The test will be whether it helps estimators complete estimates faster, with the information needed to price the work accurately.
If your estimators spend the day visiting jobs and the evening rebuilding those visits into quotes, where could better tools help?
That’s the kind of work I do at InsideOut Strategic Growth Co.