A photo of a pencil sketch on the back of a delivery note. That is how a lot of joinery and metalwork jobs start. It comes in on WhatsApp at 07:52, no dimensions, no material, no idea when they need it. You look at it between two other things and reply with the questions you always ask. They answer two of the four. You ask again. By the time you have enough to price it, three days have passed and the drawing is somewhere in a chat with 400 other messages.
The system takes that first photo as the start of a quote. It reads what it can from the image and the message: a rough shape, a note that says 1200 wide, the word oak. Then it asks the customer for what is missing, one message at a time. Size. Material. Quantity. When they need it. It knows your list of questions because you wrote it.
Once it has answers, it drafts a quote from your price rules. A rate per square metre for a material, a fixed charge for a finish, a minimum, a delivery band by postcode. The rules live in a Google Sheet you can edit. The draft lands in your inbox as a PDF and as a line in your quotes list, with the original sketch attached, ready to send or correct.
You still decide the number. You decide it once, with everything in front of you, instead of across six messages.
This is the kind of thing we build. It runs in your own accounts, and the customer's sketch stays in your WhatsApp. How long does your average quote take, from the first photo to the price?