Still Spending Hours on Estimates? Your Competitor Isn’t
June 16, 2025 4 minutes
You just wrapped up a client visit and the jobsite walkthrough.
Now, instead of grabbing lunch or calling a client back, you're hunched over a laptop, toggling between handwritten notes, Word documents, Excel templates, and a reference estimate from six months ago. By the time your estimate is ready, your competitor may have already sent theirs and won the job.
In residential and SMB construction, speed isn’t just an advantage—it’s a necessity. But for most contractors, estimating is still manual, error-prone, and time-consuming.
Let’s break it down:
Even if you’re great at estimating, your tools are slowing you down. The average contractor can only push out 1–2 solid bids per day. That limits your growth, not because of skill, but because of process.
EmendoAI turns your jobsite walkthrough video or spoken scope into a fully scoped, professionally branded estimate in under 10 minutes.
1. Record a Video or Speak Your Scope: Walk through the site and describe work areas as you go.
2. AI Extracts Scope, Items & Quantities: NLP + AI Vision parses your voice + visuals.
3. Estimate Gets Auto-Generated: Materials, markup, tax, and branding applied.
4. Review, Edit & Send: Edit line items, preview PDF, and send to client instantly.
Once accepted, EmendoAI’s estimate doesn’t just sit in your inbox; it can be fed directly into your:
That’s zero double entry and full alignment from bid to build to bookkeeping.
Let’s say you send 30 estimates a month.
That’s 300+ hours/year saved. Enough to take on 2–3 more jobs per week, grow your crew, or just breathe easier.
Most estimating tools assume you're at a desk. EmendoAI assumes you're on a ladder, in your truck, or walking a site. That’s why AI Estimate works straight from your phone—no spreadsheets, no PDFs to copy over.
EmendoAI gives you enterprise-grade automation without taking away your contractor-level judgment.
You don’t need a bigger team—you need smarter tools. Try AI Estimate and go from walkthrough to winning bid in under 10 minutes.
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With EmendoAI, turning a quick walkthrough into a polished, branded estimate is only the beginning. Our AI-powered platform also helps contractors like you:
You don’t need more apps. You need one that thinks like a foreman and works like a full-time admin.
👉 Curious how it all connects? Take a look at the full EmendoAI experience here
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