Trim packages, framing, built-ins, decks. Talk the job, send a priced estimate, and collect the deposit before the lumber run. Built by a contractor, priced for a working carpenter.
Everything below is included or one tap away, no modules, no add-on pricing, no sales calls.
"Crown in four rooms, 220 linear feet, paint-grade, two closets of shelving." Say it and the AI drafts priced line items in YOUR rates: material, labor, and finish. (Pro & Crew)
Paint-grade, stain-grade, hardwood. One tap builds three tiers and the customer upsells themselves to the middle one more often than not.
The customer signs on their phone and pays a material deposit up front, so you are never floating a lumber bill on a handshake.
Attach shots of past built-ins and finished trim to the estimate. Before-and-after photos close custom work better than any adjective.
"While you're here, can you also case the windows?" One tap adds a signed change order, priced like the original, no end-of-job arguments.
Bill a custom job in chunks: deposit, rough-in, completion. Presets or custom amounts, with the running total shown on the estimate.
Three steps between the walkthrough and the money.
Walk the rooms and talk, footage, profiles, grade, finish. Type it or talk it, on Pro and Crew the AI drafts priced line items in YOUR rates.
The customer opens a clean link on their phone, signs, and pays the deposit, card, bank, or financing on big jobs.
Invoices carry pay links, reminders chase the money, and payments land straight in your bank account. We never touch your funds.
Carpentry estimates live and die on the takeoff: linear feet of trim, sheets of ply, hours of scribe-and-fit that the customer never sees. SayEstimate was built by a working contractor, so your price book holds rates the way you actually price, per linear foot by profile and grade, per opening, per built-in. Describe the job in plain language, or talk it while you walk the rooms, and the AI drafts the line items with the math shown, ready to check and send. Attach plans or photos and it reads the dimensions.
Estimates get signed electronically with the deposit paid the same minute, change orders get signed instead of remembered, and invoices chase themselves with automatic reminders. Plans start at $9.99 a month with a 14-day free trial and no credit card to start. Six languages, English and Español both included.
Finish carpentry prices by the linear foot, and the rate moves with three things: the profile, the grade, and the cuts. A single-piece paint-grade base in a square room is the floor rate. Stain-grade moves the rate up because every joint shows and there is no caulk to save you. Crown moves it up again because you are cutting compound angles overhead, and a room with eight corners costs more per foot than a room with four, even though the footage is smaller. Framing and structural work price differently, per opening, per wall, or per square foot, with lumber quoted at today's price because the market moves.
A professional carpentry estimate itemizes material and labor separately, names the grade and profile so there is no "I thought that included hardwood" at the end, carries a material deposit so the lumber is paid for before it is cut, and puts change orders in writing. On custom builds, progress billing keeps the cash flowing with the work: a deposit to start, a draw at rough-in, the balance at completion.
SayEstimate holds your rates in exactly these units, drafts the line items from a spoken walkthrough on Pro and Crew, and handles deposits, change orders, and progress billing without another app. Prefer paper? The free estimate template is here.
Deck builders · Remodelers · Handymen · Flooring · Windows & doors · Drywall, or any of the 22 trades that send estimates and want to get paid.
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