Run the numbers before you talk to us.
No email gate, no lead form in front of the result. Put in your own enquiry volume and cost per estimator and the answer is on the screen.
Your quoting month, to scale.
- Hours released each month
- 280 h
- Estimator-months that frees up
- 1.6
- Quotations the same team could handle
- 1,056 / month
- Value of the time released
- AED 15,100
Capacity, not revenue. This shows the estimating hours your team gets back and what they could quote with them — it does not promise you will win those jobs. The maths uses 10 minutes a quotation, the slow end of the 5–10 minute range, and that window already includes the human review every quotation gets.
Why capacity compounds and headcount does not.
Every estimator you hire adds one estimator's worth of hours, once, three months after they start. An AI Estimator adds capacity the day your rate card is loaded, and the second one costs a conversation rather than a visa, a desk and a salary review.
That difference is the whole argument, and it is worth being precise about what it does and does not mean. It does not mean your revenue multiplies. It means the ceiling on how many enquiries you can answer stops being the number of hours your estimating desk has.
Where the hours actually go
Most fabricators discover that the released time does not go into quoting more of the same. It goes into the enquiries that were previously not worth the effort — the fiddly one-offs, the tender with forty item types, the customer who wants three options priced. Those were always being declined quietly.
The second-order effect
Quoting the same day changes your hit rate on its own, because you are first. We are not going to put a number on that, because your number depends on your market. But every fabricator we have worked with mentions it before we do.
What we will claim
A quotation that takes four to six hours manually takes five to ten minutes, review included. The take-off arithmetic is deterministic and repeatable. The cut plan is nested rather than allowance-based.
What we will not claim
A guaranteed return. A conversion-rate uplift. A certification we do not hold. A customer name we have not been given permission to use. Ask us for any of these and we will tell you the same thing in person.
What we would like
One real enquiry, thirty minutes, and your estimator in the room — because they are the person who will spot in ten seconds whether the take-off is right.
Want this breakdown in writing?
Email me the breakdown
We will send the capacity maths written out — the assumptions, the arithmetic and the sample quote pack for the worked example used across this site.
Being straight about this: the emailed breakdown is written by us, not generated from the numbers you typed above — that is a feature we have not built yet. What you get is the method, the sample pack, and a reply from a person if you have questions about applying it to your factory.
The awkward questions about ROI.
Is 10x realistic?
As capacity arithmetic, yes: a quotation that took five hours and now takes ten minutes is a thirty-fold change in the hours it consumes, and the calculator above shows what that does to throughput at your headcount. As a promise about your revenue, no — and we will not make it. Winning more work depends on your prices, your market and your follow-up. What we can say with a straight face is that you will be able to answer every enquiry that comes in.
Why does the calculator not show a payback period?
Because a payback figure needs a price, and pricing is a conversation we have after you have seen it run on your own enquiry — not a number we put on a page to anchor you. The capacity maths is the honest half and it is the half that is entirely yours: those are your enquiries, your hours and your cost per hour.
Where does the 10 minutes come from?
It is the slow end of the 5–10 minute range we see in practice, and it already includes the human review. We use the slow end deliberately — a calculator that flatters itself is not much use to anyone deciding whether to buy.
What if our quotations take less than four hours already?
Then change the input and the maths still works. Plenty of fabricators quote a repeat product in forty minutes. The gain is smaller per quotation and it shows up somewhere else instead — in the complicated enquiries you currently decline, and in the ones you answer on the day rather than the week.
Does the hours-released figure assume we cut staff?
It does not assume it, but it does not rule it out either — that choice is yours. The hours this frees up can go either way: some fabricators keep the team and quote more, others run leaner, because the AI handles a complex enquiry as reliably as a simple one. Factories doing that often run with up to 80% fewer estimators for the same volume. The calculator above shows you the hours; what you do with them is your call.
The other half of the maths needs your enquiry.
Book the demo, bring one real job, and we will show you the take-off on your own product instead of ours.
Take the sample quote pack.
The full quotation, elevation, cutting list and glass schedule for the worked example on this site. One email field, no call unless you ask for one.