Estimating & Pricing
ESTIMATING AND QUOTING TOOLS FOR UK BUILDERS
Safeguard the project. Keep your evenings.
AI-enhanced estimates and quotes, tailored to your own rates — from a 90-second estimate figure for rapid enquiries to a polished branded quote your client can easily approve with a single tap.
The Issue
Quoting eats into your time, and you end up waiting on customers.
Accurately pricing a project can consume an entire evening. In that time your client is left waiting—or worse, proceeding with a competitor's quote before you've even had a chance to respond. Ultimately you both share one objective: a quick, transparent estimate that shows whether a full, detailed quote is necessary. BuildHub steps in exactly at that moment.
How It Works
A RAPID ESTIMATE FIRST. A DETAILED QUOTE ONLY WHEN WARRANTED.
BuildHub splits the task into two parts, so you don’t waste evenings on quotes for jobs unlikely to materialize.
Quick Cost Evaluation
A Low/Mid/High classification to evaluate the job in just minutes.
Reach a decision
Is a complete quote worth it? Now you both understand.
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Make the victors a strong branded statement.
The Cost Forecast
ESTIMATING — AN ACCURATE FIGURE IN JUST 90 SECONDS.
Choose the job type, input the headline measurements, answer a few site-related questions, and you'll receive a reliable budget estimate — all during your first visit, without committing a single evening to it.
Scope, not a number
A Low/Mid/High range (around ±10%) ensures you’re not tied to one figure before you’ve finished your measurements — letting you avoid the "but my friend mentioned £40k" conversation.
Built around your rates
Tailored regional multipliers and specification rates that mirror your unique business profile rather than a generic calculator output.
All accounted for
A standard scope of work for every project type is pre-installed, ensuring that building regulations and structural elements are always accounted for.
Multi-stage projects
Combining an extension and a loft conversion on the same property? Capture all costs in a single estimate.
QuoteWizard Tool
QUOTING — THE AI ANALYSES YOUR DRAWINGS, REMOVING THE NEED TO REWRITE INFORMATION.
When a project is viable, the QuoteWizard guides you from the initial brief to a finalized quote in just four steps. Unlike typical quoting tools that present a blank form, BuildHub analyses your specific plans and automatically prepares the quote for you.
Overview
Review the job summary, scope of work, exclusions, and any private AI directives.
Documents
Upload your plans, elevations and sections, and choose the brochures to include in the bundle.
Covering Letter
Compose a letter with AI assistance or refine a draft you already have — the choice remains yours.
Quote Summary
A comprehensive, itemised quotation with an automatically generated payment schedule and validity period.
AI created from your designs
Upload the plans and the AI creates a detailed, line-item quote you can quickly edit — removing the need to start from scratch.
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You retain control.
Each line is editable, the payment schedule is generated automatically, and you set the validity period.
Profit Margin Summary
Know your margin before you hit send.
View cost versus sell on every 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-only perspective
The sole quoting tool created to protect your profit, not just your wording.
When the Job Requires Humans, Not AI
COMPLEX PROJECT? HIRE PROFESSIONAL ESTIMATORS — SAVE 20%.
Some projects demand more than speed — they demand certainty. Major refurbs, complex structural unknowns, tenders where the margin for error is slim. For those, we've partnered with My Build Estimate, the UK estimating specialists. Every estimate is hand-prepared by their in-house estimators and quantity surveyors, priced for your region and branded with your logo — so the document your client sees is yours.
BuildHub users receive an exclusive 20% discount on their Estimate service. We don't take a penny of it — we negotiated the discount and pass all of it on to you.
Retrieve your code
Your exclusive discount code is on this Estimating page within BuildHub.
Upload your drawings
Email drawings and project documents to My Build Estimate, quoting the code.
See your price
They approve your quote at the discounted BuildHub rate.
They start work
Accept, and their estimators hand-prepare your estimate for you.
Real people, every line
In-house estimators and quantity surveyors manually examine your drawings and specifications. No outsourcing, no software-generated output.
Your brand, not theirs
The final estimate features your logo and contact details, ready to send directly to your client.
From £240 plus VAT
Your 20% BuildHub discount has been applied. Express turnaround available when a tender deadline looms.
Discount offered by My Build Estimate exclusively for BuildHub users; valid only for their Estimate service. Prices exclude VAT and depend on project type and the number of drawings. The 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 amended or withdrawn at any time.
Your Templates. Your Prices.
SET IT UP YOUR WAY — THEN WATCH IT ACCELERATE.
Use the pre-configured templates and pricing lists to start fast, or create your own — defining the scope of works, inclusions and exclusions for all job types. The more you use it, the better it learns your pricing and preferences, ensuring each quote is completed faster than the previous one.
- Your customised price lists and rate cards
- Job-specific scopes of work, with inclusions and exclusions
- Ready-made templates to launch projects instantly
- Gains efficiency the more you use it
The Client Experience
Turn a one-person operation into a £10M enterprise.
Your client receives a tailored estimate and quote in their personal portal — with clear and transparent pricing, your drawings and brochures attached, payment milestones defined, a countdown showing 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 — reflect your branding, colours and identity
- Include drawings and brochures with every quote
- Clearly defined payment milestones
- One-tap acceptance with branded PDF download
Client Dashboard
Your brand. Their journey. Expert from the first contact.
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