Estimating and Pricing
ESTIMATING AND QUOTING SOFTWARE FOR UK BUILDERS
Secure the project. Preserve your evenings.
AI-enhanced estimates and quotes, tailored to your specific rates — ranging from a quick 90-second estimate figure for quick enquiries to a polished branded quote that your client can approve with a single tap.
The Challenge
QUOTING TAKES A LOT OF TIME FOR YOU, AND WAITING FOR CUSTOMERS.
Accurately pricing a project can take up a whole evening. In the meantime, your client remains in the dark, or worse, going ahead with a competitor quote before you have even gone back to them. Ultimately, you both share a common goal: to receive a swift, transparent estimate that helps determine if a detailed quote is necessary. BuildHub begins right at that point.
How It Functions
AN EXPEDITED ESTIMATE FIRST. A DETAILED QUOTE ONLY WHEN IT'S JUSTIFIED.
BuildHub divides the task into two parts, ensuring you don’t waste evenings on quotes for jobs that were unlikely to materialize.
Rapid Cost Assessment
A Low/Mid/High classification to assess the job in just minutes.
Make a decision
Is a complete quote worthwhile? Now you both understand.
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Transform the victors into a strong, branded statement.
The Cost Projection
ESTIMATING — A RELIABLE FIGURE IN JUST 90 SECONDS.
Select the job type, enter the headline measurements, respond to a few site-related questions, and you'll have a reliable budget estimate — all during your initial visit, before dedicating a single evening to it.
Scope, not a figure
A Low/Mid/High range (approximately ±10%) ensures you're not stuck on a single figure until you've completed your measurements — allowing you to avoid the "but my friend mentioned £40k" discussion.
Constructed around your rates
Customized regional multipliers and specification rates that reflect your unique business profile rather than a standard calculator output.
Everything accounted for
The standard scope of work for each project type is pre-installed, ensuring that building regulations and structural elements are always taken into account.
Multi-phase projects
Combining an extension and a loft conversion on the same property? Include everything in a single estimate.
The QuoteWizard
QUOTING — THE AI INTERPRETS YOUR DRAWINGS, ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR REPEATED WRITING.
When a project is viable, the QuoteWizard guides you from initial brief to finalized quote in just four steps. Unlike typical quoting tools that present a blank form, BuildHub analyzes your specific plans and automatically prepares the quote for you.
Summary
Examine the job summary, scope of work, exclusions, and any private AI directives.
Files
Upload your plans, elevations, and sections, and select the brochures you'd like to include in the bundle.
Accompanying Letter
Compose a letter using AI assistance or refine a draft you already possess — the choice is yours.
Quote Overview
A detailed, itemized quotation featuring an automatically generated payment timeline and duration for validity.
AI generated from your designs
Upload the plans and the AI generates a detailed, line-item quote that you can easily modify — eliminating the need to begin from scratch.
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You maintain control.
Each line can be modified, the payment schedule generates automatically, and you determine the duration of validity.
Profit Margin Overview
UNDERSTAND YOUR MARGIN PRIOR TO HITTING SEND.
View cost versus sell on each individual line, complete with a margin-health indicator and subtotals by section — ensuring you never secure a job that could result in a loss. This information is solely for your reference and will never be disclosed to your client.
Builder-exclusive perspective
The sole quoting tool designed to safeguard your profit, not merely your wording.
When the Job Needs People, Not AI
COMPLEX PROJECT? BRING IN PROFESSIONAL ESTIMATORS — AT 20% OFF.
Some jobs justify more than speed — they justify certainty. Big refurbs, structural unknowns, tenders where the margin for error is thin. For those, we've partnered with My Build Estimate, the UK estimating specialists. Every estimate is prepared by hand by their in-house estimators and quantity surveyors, priced to your region, and branded with your logo — so the document your client sees is yours.
BuildHub users get an exclusive 20% discount on their Estimate service. And we don't take a penny of it — we negotiated the discount and pass all of it on to you.
Get your code
Your exclusive discount code is on this Estimating page inside BuildHub.
Send your drawings
Email your drawings and project documents to My Build Estimate, quoting the code.
Get your price
They confirm your quote at the discounted BuildHub rate.
They get to work
Accept, and their estimators prepare your estimate by hand.
Real people, line by line
In-house estimators and quantity surveyors go through your drawings and spec by hand. No outsourcing, no software output.
Your branding, not theirs
The finished estimate carries your logo and details, ready to go straight to your client.
From £240 + VAT
With your 20% BuildHub discount applied. Express turnaround available when a tender deadline is looming.
Discount provided by My Build Estimate exclusively for BuildHub users; applies to their Estimate service only. Prices exclude VAT and vary by project type and number of drawings. Code must be quoted at the point of enquiry and cannot be applied retrospectively. One discount per project; not combinable with other offers. My Build Estimate is an independent company; the discount may be reviewed or withdrawn at any time.
Your Templates. Your Pricing.
CONFIGURE IT YOUR WAY — THEN OBSERVE IT SPEED UP.
Utilize the pre-configured templates and pricing lists to start quickly, or create your own — outlining the scope of works, inclusions, and exclusions for all job types. The more you engage with it, the better it understands your pricing and preferences, ensuring that each quote is completed faster than the previous one.
- Your personalized price lists and rate cards
- Tailored scopes of work, inclusions, and exclusions for each job type
- Pre-designed templates to launch your projects in no time
- Increases efficiency the more frequently you use it
The Client Journey
TRANSFORM A SOLO OPERATOR INTO A £10M ENTERPRISE.
Your client receives a customized estimate and quote in their personal portal — with clear and transparent pricing, your drawings and brochures included, payment milestones detailed, a countdown for validity, and a one-tap acceptance option. Additionally, there's a polished, branded PDF available for download and retention. Professionalism starts from the first click.
- Custom portal — your branding, your colours, your identity
- Attach drawings and brochures with the quote
- Clearly defined payment milestones
- One-tap acceptance and branded PDF download
Client dashboard
Your brand. Their journey. Expert from the initial interaction.
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