Example projectWeb appAIFrontier model
Quoting assistant from site photos
Hypothetical. Not a client, not a result.
// The problem
Estimators write quotes at night from site photos and voice notes, looking up prices from memory, and quotes go out days late.
// What we would build
An assistant that reads the site photos and notes, proposes quote lines from the company's own price book with the reasons, and leaves the estimator to adjust and send. It uses a frontier model through its API, the fastest start, since quotes carry little sensitive data.
// What is in it
- Photos and voice notes from the site visit, uploaded from the phone
- Proposed quote lines from your own price book, with the reason for each
- The estimator adjusts, approves and sends; nothing goes out on its own
- An evaluation set of past jobs and their final quotes, run before every change
// Stack
- Frontier model API
- Python
- Next.js
- PostgreSQL
- DigitalOcean
// estimate
- Build
- ≈ US$85,000 to US$130,000, delivered within 21 weeksCAD 121,000 to 185,100
- Hosting
- ≈ US$218 a monthCAD 310 a month
- Support
- ≈ US$1,000 a monthCAD 1,425 a month
Prices in your currency are estimates from today's Bank of Canada rate. All invoicing is in CAD or USD.
- AI route
- Frontier model
- Model running cost
- ≈ US$42 a monthCAD 60 a month
Timeline by milestone
- Discovery
- 2.9 to 3.4 weeks
- Specification and evaluation plan
- 0.4 weeks
- Design approved
- 2.4 to 3.4 weeks
- Core features
- 1.4 to 1.9 weeks
- Full build
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
- Working pilot
- 3.9 to 6.4 weeks
- Testing and fixes
- 0.9 to 1.9 weeks
- Launch
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
- Production
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
How it is paid
- Deposit 20%
- CAD 24,200 to 37,020
- Discovery 2%
- CAD 2,420 to 3,702
- Specification and evaluation plan 10.2%
- CAD 12,342.00 to 18,880.20
- Design approved 2%
- CAD 2,420 to 3,702
- Core features 6.2%
- CAD 7,502.00 to 11,476.20
- Full build 4.1%
- CAD 4,961.00 to 7,589.10
- Working pilot 30.7%
- CAD 37,147.00 to 56,825.70
- Testing and fixes 2%
- CAD 2,420 to 3,702
- Launch 2%
- CAD 2,420 to 3,702
- Production 10.8%
- CAD 13,068.00 to 19,990.80
- Holdback, 30 days after launch (10%)
- CAD 12,100 to 18,510