Estimatic AI

Estimatic AI is an AI book generator tool. AI estimating software for contractors that builds line-item quotes from the user's costbook, live supplier pricing, and local labor rates, with blueprint reading and review before sending.

Estimatic AI is an estimating assistant built for contractors who already know what their materials and labor should cost. Rather than generating prices from a generic national average, it works from three inputs the business controls: the contractor's own costbook, live supplier pricing, and local labor rates. A user describes a job in plain language (a deck size, framing, steps, an upgrade option) and the tool returns a structured estimate with line items, markups, and alternates. It also accepts blueprints and drawings as context, which matters for trades where scope is easier to read off a plan than to type out. The product sits inside Contractor+, the company's broader field service app, so an estimate can move into jobs, scheduling, and invoicing without re-entry. That integration is the main reason to choose it over a standalone estimator. Reviewers on the homepage come from HVAC, plumbing, roofing, remodeling, landscaping, pressure washing, and handyman work, and several mention switching from Jobber or Housecall Pro because those estimates felt generic. The workflow the tool is designed around is review-first: the AI drafts line items and markup, and the contractor checks and edits before anything goes to the client. Best fit is a small to mid-sized trade business that bids regularly and has opinions about its numbers. A shop with a maintained costbook and known labor rates gets the most out of it, because the output quality tracks the input quality. Contractors with no cost history will find the drafts thinner and will need to correct more. Anyone wanting a fully autonomous quoting system that sends without human review is looking at the wrong category of tool; this one assumes a person signs off. The company publishes comparisons against Handoff AI and Simplywise, and a speed and accuracy test of eight AI estimating tools, so buyers weighing options have some third-party-ish reading to do before committing.