Practical guides for estimating desks.
Being straight with you: this section is being written. Below is what is coming and roughly what will be in it. The one thing available today is the sample quote pack, and it is the most useful of the lot anyway.
What is in the sample quote pack?
The complete output for the worked example used across this site: quotation QT-2026-0847, the dimensioned elevation, the cutting list with its nested cut plan, and the glass and hardware schedules. The job is six 2400 × 1800 two-track sliding windows — 216.15 kg of aluminium, 23.21 m² of glass, 35 stock bars at 11.2% off-cut.
It is worth having even if you never speak to us — it is a reasonable benchmark for what a complete quotation set should contain before it goes to a contractor.
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What is being written.
- Guide
How to build a section library the AI can price
Codes, weights per metre and the fields that actually matter — a template you can fill in whether or not you buy anything.
In progress - Guide
Cut optimisation without the folklore
Why a flat 15% wastage allowance costs you money, and how nesting across a real bar length changes the number.
In progress - Guide
What a fenestration quotation should contain
The lines a contractor expects to see, the ones that protect your margin, and the ones that cause arguments later.
In progress - Glossary
Fenestration estimating terms, defined
Daylight opening, interlock, rebate, DGU build-up, running metre — plain definitions for whoever is new on the desk.
In progress - Template
Rate card starter sheet
The structure we load during setup, published so you can get your numbers in order first.
In progress
The pages that already answer most of it.
What an AI Estimator is
The definition, the comparison table against estimating tools, and the honest answer on replacing your estimator.
Read →How a rollout runs
The four steps, what the AI needs from you, and where your data lives.
Read →Twenty questions
Concept, mechanics, fit, setup, commercials and data — including the awkward ones.
Read →See it run on one of your own enquiries.
Send us a real enquiry — a PDF, a drawing, a WhatsApp message. We will quote it live on the call and you keep the output either way.