Present the Estimate Before You Leave the Driveway.
An estimator works from a desk while your salesperson is still on-site, building the number in real time so you hand it over in person, not three days later after the job's gone to whoever got there first.
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In thirty minutes, we'll look at how your estimates get built today. If we can tighten that process, we'll show you exactly how — no pitch deck, no pressure.
The bottleneck is not your salespeople.
They walk the job, measure the scope, and tell the customer they'll follow up. That's the moment the estimate needs to be ready — not later. Instead, they drive back to the office and build it after the appointment's over.
While they are building, the scope is already changing. The customer wants to add the shed, strip the metal, or price out all their options. Every revision is another request in their inbox, another interruption, another hour lost.
Most firms average three days to return an estimate. Busy ones take two weeks. Your salespeople aren’t slow, but they are stuck executing a task that shouldn’t be theirs.
The estimate is built during the appointment.
Your estimator builds from what you already know about the job. Your salesperson arrives with a number in hand.
Scope changes in real time. They call the desk, add the shed, run that metal option. It comes back before they reach the driveway.
It's sitting in your estimating software, ready to hand over. No callback. No follow-up email. No competitor getting there first.
$3,000 a month. Working in your estimating software.
That's the flat monthly cost, the same number from the ad. Below is exactly what it's made up of and what it replaces.
I ran this same problem before I built the solution.
We ran a team of five salespeople. Fewer than half our appointments ended with an estimate in the customer's hand.
I put an estimator at the desk in Buenos Aires behind that team. He built every estimate from the office. My salespeople tweaked the scope on-site, called him for options, and presented before they left the driveway.
In-person presentation rate went from 45 to 90 percent. Same sales team, executing their roles.
The friction disappeared, and the close rate followed.
Erik Trefzger, founder
What an estimator costs.
Salary: $6,400 per month
Taxes, benefits, overhead: about $1,900 per month
All-in: $8,300 per month
One monthly invoice: $3,000 per month
No additional costs
All-in: $3,000 per month
Most estimator placements run close to $3,000 a month. Final cost depends on experience and scope.
- —Builds your estimates from the desk
- —Works your hours, same day as your crew
- —Works in your estimating software
- —Recruited and vetted
- —Payroll, HR, and compliance handled
- —Replacement guarantee
Local estimator based on published national averages for cost estimators. OfficeTwo figure is the monthly cost of an estimator working with your team.
We don't outsource estimating. We build capacity behind your own team.
Your estimator works full-time on your jobs, on your schedule, in your software. We keep payroll, HR, and compliance off your plate.
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