If you run a small shop, quoting probably looks like this. A photo lands on your phone. A fence line. A gate. A cabinet. A cracked part. You know the number in your head, then you get pulled onto the floor, and the text sits unanswered until tonight. The customer already moved on.
That is not a “you need software” problem. You already have the photo. You already have the prices. You already have ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok, or you can get one of those in an afternoon. The gap is a saved instruction that knows your rules, so a first-pass quote exists in minutes, in your voice, before you walk back to the truck.
What “done” looks like
After two weeks you should be able to:
- Drop a customer photo into the tool you already use
- Get back a quote that includes the line items you always forget (trip, teardown, hardware, tax)
- Edit two numbers, not rewrite the whole thing
- Send it from your phone the same day it came in
You still send the number. The tool drafts. If the draft is wrong, you fix the instruction, not the customer.
How we actually do this with you
Shop Walk, free, 30 minutes. We stand where the photos come in. We pick one job you already quote from pictures. Not five. Not a platform. One job. We leave with a written next step, not a slide deck.
Counter Setup, $497. If that job is real, we set up the off-the-shelf tool you already pay for (or the one you pick: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok). We put your pricing rules in a saved instruction. We run it on three of your real photos before we leave. You keep the instruction. There is no login we own.
If the walk shows a bigger workflow than a setup, we say so. We do not sneak a custom platform into a quoting problem.
What goes in the instruction
This is the kind of thing we write with you, in plain language, not code:
You quote [job] for this shop. Use only these prices: [materials], [labor per hour], [trip fee], [minimum]. If the photo is unclear, list what you need instead of guessing. Write the quote like [owner name] texts a customer: short, no jargon, one total at the bottom. Never invent a discount.
Then we test it on a photo that already has a real quote attached, so we can see where it is high, low, or missing a line. That test is the whole point. A pretty prompt that has never seen your work is theater.
What we will not do
- We will not sell you a quoting platform
- We will not train a custom model on your photos
- We will not send quotes to your customers for you
- We will not claim hours saved we have not measured in your shop
If you want that walk: info@scientiamtech.com. Say you quote from photos. We will take it from there.