Scope it, sign it, bill it in stages, and keep every change order on paper. Built by a contractor, priced for a GC who is the office and the superintendent both.
Everything below is included or one tap away, no modules, no add-on pricing, no sales calls.
"Demo, framing, electrical rough-in, drywall, paint, trim." Describe the project and the AI drafts priced line items in YOUR rates, organized the way you build. (Pro & Crew)
Deposit, rough-in, drywall, final. Progress billing with presets or custom draws, deposit credit applied, and a running "billed X of Y" on the estimate.
Every "while you're at it" becomes a priced, e-signed change order in one tap. The scope stays on paper and so does your margin.
Upload the plan set and the AI takes off quantities and drafts line items. Big PDFs? Pick just the pages that matter.
Collected vs. costs vs. margin, per client and per job. Know which projects make money before you bid the next one like it.
Up to 8 people on the Crew plan, $59.99 a month flat. Everyone works under your company name, and you decide who sees the money.
Three steps between the walkthrough and the money.
Walk it and talk it, or upload the plans. On Pro and Crew the AI drafts priced line items in YOUR rates.
The owner opens a clean link, signs, and pays the deposit, card, bank, or financing on big jobs.
Progress invoices go out at each stage with pay links, reminders chase the money, and payments land straight in your account.
A small GC runs on three documents: the scoped estimate, the draw schedule, and the change order. Lose control of any one of them and the job eats your margin. SayEstimate was built by a working contractor, so all three live in one place: the estimate is scoped by trade with the math shown, the draw schedule bills itself as stages complete, and change orders get priced and signed on the owner's phone the day the scope grows, not remembered at the end.
Owners sign electronically, deposits and draws land straight in your Stripe account, and the client portal gives them one link with every document and the running balance, which quietly ends the "what did I pay you for" phone calls. Plans start at $9.99 a month with a 14-day free trial. Six languages, English and Español both included, for your subs and your owners alike.
General contractors price a project one of two ways: fixed price or cost-plus. Fixed price wins jobs because owners like certainty, but it only works when the scope is genuinely nailed down, every allowance named, every exclusion listed, because the GC eats whatever the paper does not cover. Cost-plus, actual costs plus a management fee of typically 10 to 20 percent, is honest on messy remodels where nobody knows what is behind the wall, but it demands clean records, because the owner will ask, and the GC who can produce every receipt in one tap wins that conversation.
Either way, the cash flow lives on the draw schedule. A healthy residential draw schedule collects a deposit at signing, then bills at real milestones, demo complete, rough-in passed, drywall hung, final, so the owner's money arrives just behind the work, never far ahead of it and never far after. Allowances deserve their own lines with honest numbers, because a lowballed allowance is just a fight scheduled for later. And every scope change, no matter how friendly the conversation, becomes a signed change order the same day.
SayEstimate runs the whole loop: scoped estimates with allowances itemized, draw schedules that bill automatically, change orders signed on a phone, receipts scanned to the job, and profitability per project. Prefer paper? The free estimate template is here.
Home builders · Remodelers · Carpenters · Electricians · Plumbers, or any of the 22 trades that send estimates and want to get paid.
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