Turned site-visit notes into priced quotes in 4 minutes, cutting quoting time by 88%.

ATL Electrical's sparkies were spending their evenings turning scribbled site-visit notes and phone photos into priced quotes, with a small estimating team re-keying every line against price books for office fit-outs, switchboard upgrades and large commercial jobs. The work was slow, repetitive and easy to get wrong: a missed sub-circuit or an out-of-date cable rate could quietly erode margin or sink a competitive tender. Across ATL's electrical, automation and heat-pump divisions, quote turnaround had stretched to days, and on busy weeks the backlog only grew, meaning the team's most experienced people were spending their best hours on data entry rather than winning and delivering work.

For a Christchurch trades business running a 30-strong crew around the clock, that quoting bottleneck had become a direct handbrake on revenue. Tenders for fit-outs and commercial maintenance contracts were going out late or not at all, and the inconsistency between estimators made it hard to trust margins from one job to the next. ATL wanted a production-ready, agentic assistant that could do the heavy lifting of drafting a priced quote straight from what the sparky captured on site, while keeping an experienced estimator firmly in control of anything that reached a client.

"The lads take their photos and voice notes on site, and the quote is basically drafted by the time they're back in the van. Our estimators have gone from re-keying everything against the price book to just reviewing and sending, so we're getting tenders out the door the same day instead of a week later. It's given the team their evenings back and we're winning work we'd have been too slow to chase before."