Estimate Engine
You sent the quote.
Then, silence.
The homeowner collected three quotes. Yours was fair. But two weeks went by, nobody followed up, and the job went to whoever called back. Estimate Engine chases every quote you send: a polite check-in at 24 hours, another at 3 days, a last word at 7 days, and it stops the instant they reply or approve.
You quote the work. It gets you the answer.
$149/month, no contract. $99/month as a Review Engine add-on.
Count last month's unanswered quotes. That's the number.
Think about what you quoted last month: the deck repair, the exterior repaint, the shingle job. Now count the ones that never answered. Not a no, not a lost bid, just silence. Most trades never find out whether those jobs were winnable, because after the quote goes out, nobody's job is to ask again.
Following up feels awkward, so it doesn't happen. That's the whole gap. The homeowner isn't ignoring you; they're busy, the quote slid down their inbox, and the first contractor who nudges them politely gets the yes. Estimate Engine makes that nudge automatic, professional, and relentless in the most courteous way possible: three messages, then it lets go.
On a $1,500 job, one revived quote pays for this service for most of a year. Your monthly report shows the revived dollars, so you never have to take our word for it.
Polite, brief, and in your name.
Your customer gets a text from your business with the estimate and a link to view and approve it online. If they go quiet, the follow-ups start: day one, day three, day seven. Any reply stops the sequence and lands with you. An approval stops it too, and we send you the good news right away.
Sending options instead of one price? Offer up to three (good, better, best) and the customer picks one right on the page.
Day 1, their phone
Day 4, your phone
Running this week, in three steps.
- 1 A 15-minute call. We set up your account, confirm how the messages read in your business's name, and send a test quote to your own phone so you see exactly what customers will see.
- 2 Quote like you always do, plus sixty seconds. After you price a job, enter the name, number, and amount in a simple form on your phone. Or text the details to us and we enter it for you. That's the whole job.
- 3 The system does the asking. The estimate goes out by text with an approve-online link, the follow-ups fire on schedule, and every reply or approval stops them cold. Once a month you get the report: quotes sent, followed up, approved, and the dollars revived by follow-up.
Priced so one revived quote embarrasses it.
Standalone
$149/month
No setup fee, no contract
- Every quote texted with an approve-online link
- Three polite follow-ups: 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days
- Stops instantly on any reply or approval
- Up to three quote options, customer picks one
- Monthly report: quotes revived and dollars recovered
- Month to month, cancel with one email
With Review Engine
$99/month add-on
One system, one invoice
- Everything in standalone
- Approved quote to finished job to Google review ask, automatically
- One combined monthly report
- One local company to call about all of it
Built for trades that quote in the hundreds and thousands.
Roofers, painters, landscapers, renovators, deck and fence builders, paving crews: real money rides on every estimate, and every unanswered one hurts. If you fire off two quotes a year, you don't need this. If you send a few every week and the follow-up never happens because you're on the tools, this is the hire that never forgets.
We're the same Collingwood company behind Review Engine and Missed-Call Text-Back. Getting the call, answering it, quoting it, and getting the review are one funnel; we patch the leaks at every stage. See everything we do.
Estimate follow-up, asked and answered.
Isn't this spamming my customers? +
No. Every follow-up answers a quote the customer asked you for. It is a maximum of three polite messages, they only go out between 8am and 9pm, every text carries an opt-out, and the sequence stops the instant the customer replies or approves. This is the follow-up you would do yourself if you weren't up a ladder.
What do the follow-ups actually say? +
Day one: 'Just checking in on your $1,450 estimate. Any questions before we get you scheduled?' Day three: 'Following up on your estimate. Reply with any questions, or approve when you're ready.' Day seven: 'Last check on your estimate. Should we close it out, or are you still considering? Either reply works.' Professional, brief, and in your business's name. After the third message it goes quiet for good.
How much work is it for me? +
About sixty seconds per quote: customer name, phone number, amount, one line about the job, in a simple form on your phone. Prefer zero seconds? Text us the details and we enter it the same day. There is no software to learn and nothing to install.
What happens when the customer replies or approves? +
The chase stops instantly, either way. Replies come to you to handle like any customer text. Approvals happen online: the customer opens the estimate, sees the amount (or picks one of up to three options you offered), and taps approve. We send you the good news the moment a chased quote gets approved.
How do I know it's actually making me money? +
Your monthly report counts it plainly: quotes sent, quotes followed up, quotes approved, and the number we care about most, quotes approved after a follow-up went out, with the dollars attached. If the follow-ups revive nothing, you'll see that too, and you can cancel with one email.
Is there a contract? +
Month to month, cancel with one email. If you also run our Review Engine, Estimate Engine is a $99/month add-on: the same customers flow from approved quote to finished job to Google review ask, one system, one invoice, one local company answering for all of it.
Somewhere in last month's quotes, there's a yes waiting.
One call, running this week. You see every message before your first quote goes out.
Call (705) 539-0398Or book a 15-minute call, or start with the free audit and we'll tell you honestly if you even need this.