Custom homes and spec builds without a back office: signed contracts, draw billing, selections on paper, and every receipt filed to the job. Built by a contractor.
Everything below is included or one tap away, no modules, no add-on pricing, no sales calls.
Upload the plans and the AI takes off quantities and drafts priced line items in YOUR rates. Pick just the pages that matter from a big PDF. (Pro & Crew)
Foundation, framing, dry-in, mechanicals, finish. Bill each draw on schedule with pay links, and watch "billed X of Y" climb on the estimate.
Upgraded countertops, moved walls, added windows. Every owner decision becomes a priced, signed change order the same day it is made.
Photograph every supplier receipt and the AI files vendor, total, date, and category to the right project. Cost tracking without the shoebox.
Collected vs. costs vs. margin per build. See what the last house really made before you price the next one.
The client portal shows the owner every signed document, every draw, and the running balance. Fewer status calls, calmer builds.
Three steps between the plans and the money.
Upload plans or talk the scope. On Pro and Crew the AI drafts priced line items in YOUR rates, allowances and all.
The owner signs on their phone and pays the initial draw, card, bank, or financing where it fits.
Draws invoice at each stage with pay links, reminders chase the money, and payments land straight in your account.
Big builder software assumes you have an office manager, a bookkeeper, and a project coordinator. A small custom builder has a truck and a phone. SayEstimate was built by a working contractor for exactly that operation: the contract gets signed on the owner's phone, the draw schedule bills itself at milestones, selections and changes become signed paper the day they happen, and every receipt gets photographed into the job's costs from the driver's seat.
The owner gets one portal link with every document and the balance, which answers most questions before they become phone calls. You get job profitability per build, a Monday digest of what is owed, and reminders that chase draws politely so you do not have to. Plans start at $9.99 a month with a 14-day free trial. Six languages, English and Español both included, for owners and subs alike.
Residential construction runs on draw schedules. Whether the money comes from the owner's bank or a construction loan, the build is billed in stages tied to visible milestones: foundation poured, framing complete, dried in, mechanicals roughed, insulation and drywall, finish, and final. Lenders inspect before they release a draw, which is why clean, numbered invoices matter, a draw request that reads like a business document gets funded faster than a text message with a number in it.
The margin, meanwhile, lives and dies on allowances and changes. Every custom build carries allowances, flooring, lighting, appliances, tile, and every one of them is a place where the owner's Pinterest board meets your contract. An honest allowance protects everyone; a signed change order the day the selection goes over is what keeps the relationship friendly in month four. The builders who get hurt are the ones carrying five verbal changes in their head at framing and trying to bill them at closing.
SayEstimate keeps the draw schedule billing itself, turns every selection change into a signed document in one tap, files receipts against the build, and shows the real margin per house. Prefer paper? The free estimate template is here.
General contractors · Remodelers · Carpenters · Roofers, or any of the 22 trades that send estimates and want to get paid.
14 days free · No credit card to start · From $9.99/mo after · Cancel anytime
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