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📐 Price a Job From the Materials List

Turn the way you already price work into an app that sends, chases, and closes quotes on its own. These prompts build the whole estimate loop: a price book you control, a builder that does the arithmetic, a link the customer accepts with one tap, and the follow-up that happens whether or not you remember.
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Price a Job From the Materials List

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I underprice materials because I do the sums in my head on site. Build me a material takeoff app. For each job I want a materials list where every line has the material, quantity, unit of measure, unit cost pulled from my price book, a waste percentage set per material, and the resulting cost. Add delivery and disposal as their own priced lines so they stop being absorbed. Total the materials cost and show it as a share of the whole job value. Keep the supplier price on each material with the date it was last checked, and warn me when I am costing from a price older than a month. Add an AI agent that compares this takeoff against similar jobs I have already done and flags any quantity that looks far out. Automate a scheduled weekly check that lists any material whose supplier price has not been reviewed recently. Two logins: an estimator who builds takeoffs, and an owner who maintains the supplier prices.

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Price a Job From the Materials List

Turn a measurement into a costed materials list with waste factors, delivery, disposal, and live prices from your own price book.

// the spark catches · intelligence awakens · the answer unfolds

Materials are where thin margins disappear. This turns a measurement into a costed list, with the waste factor and the delivery you always forget.

What's Included

  • A materials list per job with quantity, unit, unit cost, and a waste percentage.
  • Delivery and disposal priced in rather than absorbed quietly.
  • Live supplier pricing pulled from your price book instead of memory.
  • An assistant that flags a quantity that looks wrong against similar past jobs.

How To Use

  1. Set the waste factor per material. Ten percent on everything is a guess.
  2. Include delivery and disposal every time, even when it feels small.
  3. Re-cost from the price book on the day you quote, not the day you measured.
  4. Compare the finished job against the takeoff so the next one is sharper.

Add the people cost with the labor cost estimator, and keep the source numbers current in the price book manager.