Five steps from a site visit to a sent quote
Measure up on site, answer the questions in the van, send the quote before you get home.
Set your labour rates
One blended hourly rate is enough to begin. Add rates by trade — bricklayer, roofer, electrician — and optional charge-out rates whenever you like. Later changes never alter a quote you have already sent.
Describe the job
Pick the build type, then answer the questions that matter for it: dimensions (internal or external, metres or feet), roof, walls, openings, ground, services and finish level. Answer "I don't know" to anything specialist and the estimate carries a visible assumption instead.
See the estimate build itself
The engine measures the building, applies construction assemblies to get a bill of materials, adds waste, aggregates and rounds to packs, converts work into hours with documented productivity, and prices every line — your prices first, dated catalogue allowances second. Anything that genuinely needs a design or a supplier quote becomes a provisional sum you can see and edit.
Review the commercial side
Overheads, contingency, profit (markup or margin — both shown), VAT treatment and validity are explained the first time you review a quote, and never applied silently. Readiness checks tell you what is missing before a firm quotation can go out.
Send, and let the customer respond
One explicit action creates the branded PDF and a secure customer page. The customer can ask a question, request changes, decline, or accept. Courteous reminders go out on your schedule and stop the moment they reply.
What the AI does — and doesn't
If you type a description of the job, BuildLegend can suggest a template and pre-fill answers for you to confirm. It can help with wording. It never calculates a quantity, a labour cost, a total or VAT: those come from versioned, tested functions with stated assumptions.