Estimating & Quoting
ESTIMATING AND QUOTING SOFTWARE FOR UK BUILDERS
Win the job. Keep your evenings.
AI-supported estimates and quotes, built on your own rates — from a 90-second budget figure to a professional branded quote your customer can accept in one tap.
The Problem
QUOTING IS SLOW FOR YOU, AND FRUSTRATING FOR THEM.
Pricing a job properly can swallow an entire evening. Meanwhile your customer sits in silence, wondering if it's even worth the wait. The truth is you both want the same thing first — a quick, honest ballpark to decide whether a full quote is worth doing at all. BuildHub starts exactly there.
How It Works
A FAST ESTIMATE FIRST. A FULL QUOTE ONLY WHEN IT'S WORTH IT.
BuildHub splits the job in two, so you never spend an evening quoting work that was never going to land.
Quick Estimate
A Low/Mid/High range to qualify the job in minutes.
Decide
Is it worth a full quote? Now you both know.
Full Quote
Turn the winners into a firm, branded quote.
The Estimate
ESTIMATING — A CREDIBLE NUMBER IN 90 SECONDS.
Pick the job type, drop in the headline dimensions, answer a few site questions, and you've got a budget figure you can stand behind — on the first visit, before you've spent a single evening on it.
Range, not a number
A Low/Mid/High range (around ±10%) so you're never pinned to one figure before you've measured up — and you sidestep the "but my mate said £40k" conversation.
Built on your rates
Your own regional multipliers and spec rates, so the number sounds like you, not a generic calculator.
Nothing missed
Standard scope-of-works for each job type is pre-loaded, so building-regs and structural items never get forgotten.
Multi-section jobs
Extension plus loft on the same property? Price it all in one estimate.
The QuoteWizard
QUOTING — THE AI READS YOUR DRAWINGS, SO YOU DON'T WRITE IT TWICE.
When a job's worth pursuing, the QuoteWizard walks you from brief to finished quote in four steps. Most quoting tools just give you a blank form. BuildHub reads your actual plans and drafts the quote for you.
Brief
Review the job summary, scope, exclusions and any private AI instructions.
Documents
Attach your plans, elevations and sections, and choose which brochures to bundle.
Covering Letter
Draft a letter with AI, or polish your own — your call.
Quote Detail
A structured, line-item quote with an auto-built payment schedule and validity period.
AI from your drawings
Attach the plans and the AI drafts a structured, line-item quote you simply edit — instead of starting from a blank page.
Covering letters, handled
Generate a fresh letter from the job context, or have the AI tidy your own wording for tone and grammar without rewriting it.
You stay in control
Every line is editable, the payment schedule builds itself, and you set the validity period.
Profit Margin View
KNOW YOUR MARGIN BEFORE YOU PRESS SEND.
See cost versus sell on every single line, with a margin-health indicator and per-section subtotals — so you never win a job you'll lose money on. It's there for your eyes only, and never shown to your customer.
Builder-only view
The only quoting tool that protects your profit, not just your prose.
Your Templates. Your Rates.
SET IT UP YOUR WAY — THEN WATCH IT GET FASTER.
Use the built-in templates and price lists to get going in minutes, or define your own — setting the scope of works, inclusions and exclusions for every type of job you do. And the more you use it, the more it learns your pricing and your preferences, so each quote takes less time than the last.
- Your own price lists and rate cards
- Custom scope of works, inclusions and exclusions per job type
- Built-in templates to get started in minutes
- Gets faster the more you use it
The Customer Experience
MAKE A ONE-MAN-BAND LOOK LIKE A £10M FIRM.
Your customer gets a branded estimate and quote in their own portal — the price clear and up front, your drawings and brochures attached, the payment stages laid out, a validity countdown, and a one-tap Accept. Plus a clean, branded PDF to download and keep. Professional from the very first click.
- Branded portal — your logo, your colours, your name
- Drawings and brochures attached to the quote
- Payment stages laid out and clear
- One-tap Accept and branded PDF download
Customer portal
Your brand. Their experience. Professional from the very first click.
FROM FIRST ENQUIRY TO SIGNED QUOTE — WITHOUT THE EVENINGS.
Start free on a real project. Full features. No credit card.
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