A drawing, a material list, and a price that has to hold
Drawings and cut lists attach to the job rather than living in an inbox, and time goes on as the work happens.
What actually happens, and where it lands
- A drawing arrives by email
Dropped onto the job, read, summarised and filed against it. It is on the work, not in somebody’s inbox that nobody else can search.
- Quoting it
Materials and labour as line items on the job the quote came from. The PDF that goes out has your name on it and the figures came from one place.
- In the shop
Hours clocked against the job by the person doing it, and photographs of the awkward joint that everyone will argue about later.
- The next one like it
You can see what the last one actually took, rather than what you hoped it would take. That is the difference between an estimate and a guess.
Three things that are different here
Estimating gets a memory
Time is clocked against jobs, so "what did that job really cost us" has an answer. Most shops in this trade price the next one off instinct because the last one was never measured.
Drawings live with the work
A revision that arrives on a Thursday goes onto the job, gets read and summarised, and is searchable by what it said. Not "RE: RE: FW: updated drawing v3 FINAL".
One price, one record
The quote is the job, priced. There is no second document quietly disagreeing with the works order after somebody changed a length.
What it would not do for you
It does not do nesting, cutting lists or material stock. It holds the drawing and the numbers you put on the job; the CAD side stays wherever it is now.
See it with your own work in it
Half an hour, screen shared, with a couple of your real jobs typed in first. Tell us what you do and a few times that suit you this week.
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