Find the work
TenderPilot searches live UK public-sector tenders by trade, CPV code and location. Pick your trade and the opportunities are listed, ready to bid.
Price it from the drawings, line by line
AI take-off measures the plans and builds the material and labour breakdown, with supplier pictures of the materials and the working shown, so every line can be checked before it goes out.
Send a proposal the client says yes to
The client opens a link: letter, scope, the materials with their pictures, investment, payment milestones and programme of works, and accepts online.
Run the site: RAMS, diary, snags and tasks
RAMS drafted from the job, then the site diary, snagging, RFIs and crew tasks, all logged against the same job record.
Invoice it, get paid, see the profit
Deposit, stage and balance invoices come straight from the quote. Payments and receipts land on the job and roll up into your accounts.
Sign it off and hand it over
Certificates, sign-offs, site documents and signed terms go into one handover pack for the client. Then ask for the Google review.
Construction software for UK builders
Find the work. Win the quote. Run the job.
EstiMate is the whole job in one app: TenderPilot finds the work, AI take-off prices it from the drawings, the quote wins it, and the same job record runs through contract, site, invoices and accounts to a signed-off handover.
See a sample quote and how its take-off is checked Watch the same job on a phoneBuilt by Dave Groom, a builder in Cheshire.
One record, one set of numbers, from enquiry to final account. Built for UK contractors: SMM7/NRM2 measurement, VAT, CIS, retention, JCT-style payment applications and variations.
If you're running out of hours in the week, it's usually the pricing, the paperwork and the chasing done after a day on site. EstiMate puts all three on the same job, so they take minutes instead of your evenings.
Built and priced on real Tatton Projects jobs before launch.
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Watch it work.
Real screens from the real app — no mock-ups. Each film is yours to download for LinkedIn, Instagram or TikTok.
Find the work
TenderPilot — live UK tenders and every council's planning register, searched for you.
Win the quote
AI take-off from the drawings, a branded quote the client accepts online, deposit paid on the spot.
Run the job
Contract, programme, site diary, snagging and variations — every decision logged against the job.
Hand it over
Snags signed off, completion invoice raised, handover pack and warranties in the client's hands.
Who is behind EstiMate
Built by Dave Groom, a contracts manager who priced from the spreadsheet this replaced.
Dave started as a tradesman, ran sites and contracts for main contractors, then founded Tatton Projects, a design-and-build firm in Altrincham, Cheshire. EstiMate ran Tatton's own jobs first.
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Built forBuildersElectriciansPlumbers & heating engineersRoofersJoinersPlasterersLandscapers & groundworkersKitchen & bathroom fittersDecoratorsMain contractors & fit-out firms
Six products. One job record.
Not twenty tools and a spreadsheet. The tender becomes the quote, the quote becomes the contract, the contract becomes the programme, the invoices and the accounts — and the same job hands over at the end.
From the boardroom to the building site.
Whether you're a director overseeing a portfolio, a contracts manager winning tenders, an estimator pricing jobs, or a tradesperson quoting on site — EstiMate gives every level of your business the tools to work faster, look more professional, and win more work.
Find the work
TenderPilot inside EstiMate — the work finds you before anyone else quotes it.
Find Tenders
Live UK public-sector and posted tenders, searchable by keyword, CPV code and location — and refreshing automatically so the list is always current.
Local applications
Every council's planning register, searched live: approved domestic and commercial applications in your patch, scored by value and ready to letter with your logo and QR code.
AI bid writer & Evaluator
Extracts the questions from the tender pack, drafts your responses from your answer library and scores them the way the panel will.
Also in this stage: Alerts & map · Bid pipeline · Answer library & submissions
Win the work
Quotes that look the part, priced from the drawings and sent in minutes — and they close themselves.
AI take-off & quote writer
Upload drawings and the spec — or describe the job — and the AI drafts a measured scope, materials and labour for review, cited to the sheet.
Material & labour breakdowns
Categorised materials and labour with automatic subtotals, margin and VAT — domestic or commercial itemised modes.
Supplier RFQs & merchant comparison
Send the materials list to merchants and subbies by link, collect their prices, and let the AI pick the cheapest compliant package.
Also in this stage: Optional extras clients pick · Send by WhatsApp or link · AI Visualiser · Drawing revisions & scope gaps · Customers & CRM
Run the job
Contracts, programme, site records and variations — the whole build in one place.
Contracts & e-signatures
Generate a full build contract from the quote, send it, client signs online. Both parties get a copy.
Site diary, RFIs & quality
Daily site records with weather and workforce, RFIs, non-conformance reports and quality inspections — dispute-proof documentation.
Snagging with drawing pins
Drop numbered snag pins straight onto your drawings, attach photos, assign trades and track every snag to sign-off.
Also in this stage: Programme & planner · Variations without re-signing · Walk-rounds, voice notes & photos · Progress reports clients love · 360° virtual tours · Site Crew app & live notifications · Workers, subbies & onboarding
Site documents & compliance
The paperwork a site needs before anyone picks up a tool — generated, not typed.
RAMS & trade documents
RAMS, COSHH, toolbox talks, permits to work, site inductions, timesheets and more — generated in minutes, not evenings.
Construction Phase Plan & site pack
The CPP and a complete site document pack for the job, kept up to date as the scope changes.
Progress certificates & subcontracts
JCT/NEC-style interim valuations and back-to-back trade packages drafted from the job.
Also in this stage: Legal toolkit & case file · Builder's calculators · Branded professional PDFs
Get paid & do the accounts
Know where every pound is while the job is still running — and have the year-end done by the time it finishes.
Deposits, milestones & invoices
Deposit on acceptance, stage invoices with card payment, overdue flags and automatic chasing by email and WhatsApp.
Business, Reports & Accounts
Revenue, win rate, margin and slow payers — then P&L, VAT return, CIS and aged debtors built from the same ledger, ready for year-end.
Xero, QuickBooks & Sage, in step both ways
Connect your own accounting app. Invoices, bills, receipts, fuel, wages, PAYE, CIS and subbie payments go across; anything entered there comes back into Accounts, Business and Reports. Nothing goes twice.
Also in this stage: Receipts, supplier invoices & fuel · Bank import & reconciliation · Cost control & automatic margin · Equipment & fleet · Mileage at HMRC rates · Bring your business in
Hand it over & run the business
Finish properly, keep the client, and let the app handle the back office.
Handover pack
Certificates, documents, the signed-off snag list, the site diary and warranties compiled into one completion pack for the client.
Warranty tracker
Every warranty logged with reminder dates — turn finished jobs into service revenue instead of forgotten paperwork.
Construction Copilot
Every morning: which quotes to chase, which payments are overdue, which snags and renewals need action — on your dashboard and in your inbox.
Also in this stage: AI marketing studio · AI business advisor · Refer & Earn
One job, start to finish.
Twelve screens, about fifty seconds: from finding the tender to the stage payment landing.
Tender Dashboard
Find, win & produce UK construction tenders — with AI
Active bids
4
Pipeline value
£2.46M
Win rate
67%
TenderPilot finds the work before you quote it.
Live UK public-sector tenders and posted private work, searchable by trade, CPV code and location and refreshing automatically — plus every council's planning register turned into local leads you can letter. Search is free. Members unlock contact details and the AI bid tools.
- Find Tenders — live public-sector & posted tenders by trade, CPV and location
- Local applications — every council's planning register, scored and lettered
- AI Assistant & Evaluator — drafts and scores your bid
- Bid pipeline, deadline alerts, map and answer library
- Team seats, and post your own tenders free
£29/mo add-on for EstiMate Pro · £49.99/mo on its own · £149.99/mo for a team of 5· included in Commercial & Corp. No EstiMate subscription needed.
RankPilot gets you found before anyone searches for a quote.
Where you rank on Google Maps for the searches that matter, what ChatGPT and Gemini say when someone asks for a firm like yours, and a website audit that reads your site the way AI crawlers do — with every fix written for you. Reviews, Business Profile posts, citations and a monthly report. The local SEO agency, as software.
- Google Maps rank tracking for the searches customers type, checked weekly
- AI answer tracking: who ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity recommend instead of you
- Website audit and fix kit: wording, structured data, FAQs, robots.txt and llms.txt, written from your profile
- Review link with QR code, Business Profile checklist and four posts a week drafted for you
£19/mo add-on for EstiMate Pro · £34.99/mo on its own · included in Commercial & Corp. We run it on our own businesses first.
Four questions, one dashboard
Where do you rank?
Google Maps position for every tracked search, and who is above you.
What does AI say about you?
Named, cited or ignored, engine by engine, with the sources they trust.
What is wrong with the website?
Twelve checks scored out of 100, read exactly as AI crawlers read it.
What should you do this week?
A prioritised plan: biggest impact, least effort, with the fixes written out.
Your lads clock in. The office paperwork does itself.
The app for the people on site. Everything they do lands in EstiMate, where it belongs, and nobody types it twice.
- Clock in with GPS: and the timesheet writes itself, ready for wages, PAYE, CIS and the accounts
- Mileage from where they've been: trips, road miles and travel time, straight into HMRC mileage reports
- Materials, receipts and expenses: ordered from site, into the office inbox and the job's costs
- Snags, drawings and site forms: pinned on the drawing, read receipts on RAMS, incident reports with photos
- Photos, video, 360° and messages: straight onto the job, with the office one tap away
Built for the site. Ready in your pocket.
Works on iPhone, iPad, Android and desktop — quote anywhere, anytime.
Sarah Mitchell
Loft plastering · Bristol
James Thornton
Extension render · Bath
Emma Clarke
Bathroom wet room · Clifton
David Patel
Stud partitions · Bristol
Manage jobs on the go
Walk-rounds, voice notes, photos, receipts and fuel — straight from the kerb.
Professional.
Trusted. Signed.
Send a contract, client signs online — both get a copy in seconds.
A304 — Loft Plastering
Sarah Mitchell · Quote
Full quote builder on iPad
Materials, labour, margins, VAT — calculated automatically.
AI that works like a senior estimator
It reads the drawings, prices the job from merchant quotes, remembers what you charged last time, spots what the architect changed, and chases the money while you're on site. Review, adjust, send.
How it compares
What the usual trade apps do, and the building work they don't
EstiMate next to the three apps UK builders ask us about most, using each one's own website.
Starting price
EstiMateFree, then £15.99 a month per businessTradify£34 per user a monthPowered Now£28 a month for one user, + VATYourTradebase£29 a month + £15 per extra userQuotes and estimates
EstiMateYesTradifyYesPowered NowYesYourTradebaseYesInvoices and card payments
EstiMateYesTradifyYesPowered NowYesYourTradebaseYesJob scheduling
EstiMateYesTradifyYesPowered NowYesYourTradebaseYesXero and QuickBooks (two-way on EstiMate)
EstiMateTwo-wayTradifyYesPowered NowYesYourTradebaseYesAI take-off: reads your drawings and prices them
EstiMateProTradifyNot listed on their websitePowered NowNot listed on their websiteYourTradebaseNot listed on their websiteQuote becomes a build contract, signed online
EstiMateYesTradifyNot listed on their websitePowered NowNot listed on their websiteYourTradebaseNot listed on their websiteRAMS, COSHH and site documents
EstiMateYesTradifyNot listed on their websitePowered NowNot listed on their websiteYourTradebaseNot listed on their websiteSnagging list and handover pack
EstiMateProTradifyNot listed on their websitePowered NowNot listed on their websiteYourTradebaseNot listed on their websiteTenderPilot: live UK tenders and planning-application leads
EstiMateTenderPilotTradifyNot listed on their websitePowered NowNot listed on their websiteYourTradebaseNot listed on their websiteRankPilot: get found on Google Maps and in AI search
EstiMateRankPilotTradifyNot listed on their websitePowered NowNot listed on their websiteYourTradebaseNot listed on their websitePriced per business, not per user
EstiMateYesTradifyNot listed on their websitePowered NowNot listed on their websiteYourTradebaseNot listed on their website
Only with EstiMate. TenderPilot, RankPilot and AnswerPilot are EstiMate's own products. They come with EstiMate or direct from us, and they aren't part of, or sold through, any of the other apps in this table.
Each company's ticks, notes and prices come from its own website, checked 12 November 2026. A dash means we couldn't find the feature on their site; it may exist under another name, as an add-on or through a partner. Spotted a mistake? Tell usand we'll correct it.
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Free
£0
Try it on real jobs before you commit.
- 3 jobs per month
- Material & labour breakdowns
- Watermarked PDF download
- Builder's calculators (5/day)
- Search TenderPilot tenders free
- Phone app: walk-rounds, voice notes & site photos
- Refer & Earn programme
- Customer records
- Quote sharing, contracts & invoices
- Business, Reports & Accounts
EstiMate
Unlimited jobs, quoting, contracts, invoicing, site documents and the accounts — cancel any time.
- Everything in Free — unlimited jobs
- Branded PDFs, no watermark
- Quote sharing: accept, decline, amend & optional extras
- Build contracts & e-signatures
- Customers & CRM, planner, calendar & programme
- Live Projects — milestones & payment tracker
- Client invoices, card payments & automatic chasing
- Receipts, supplier invoices & real-cost tracking
- Bank statement import & reconciliation
- Business, Reports & Accounts — P&L, VAT, CIS, year-end
- Xero, QuickBooks & Sage kept in step both ways — invoices, bills, receipts, fuel, wages, PAYE & CIS
- Mileage log & HMRC mileage reports, daily to yearly
- RAMS, COSHH, toolbox talks, permits & site document pack
- Variations & additional works
- Warranty tracker & equipment log
- AI marketing studio & reminders
- Materials catalogue & QR code on every document
EstiMate Pro
Everything in EstiMate plus the full AI suite, snagging, 360° tours, handover packs, the legal toolkit, Construction Copilot and priority support.
- Everything in EstiMate
- AI quote writer — unlimited uses
- AI Takeoff — drawings & spec to a priced, sheet-cited take-off
- Quote memory — learns your prices from every quote
- Import old quotes & books with AI
- Supplier RFQs & AI merchant comparison
- Drawing revision comparison & scope-gap RFIs
- AI Visualiser — site photo to finished render
- Drawings & plans — upload, annotate & send
- Snagging, progress reports & 360° tours
- Handover pack & completion sign-off
- Cost control — budget vs spend, purchase orders & retention
- Progress certificates (JCT/NEC) & subcontracts
- Drone surveys & media library
- Take deposits online on acceptance
- Legal toolkit & AI dispute case file
- Construction Copilot — daily brief & auto follow-ups
- Site Crew link for each job
- Workers & subbies: onboarding forms fill their profile, tickets & expiry reminders, timesheets, wages & CIS
- EstiMate Crew app add-on — £29.99/mo, unlimited crew
- TenderPilot add-on — £29/mo
- Priority support
EstiMate Corp
For teams, multi-branch contractors, developers and enterprise — priced to your operation.
- Everything in EstiMate Pro
- TenderPilot included — no add-on to buy
- Multiple team members, shared jobs, bids & templates
- Subcontract & progress-certificate workflows
- EstiMate Crew app included, unlimited crew
- Multi-branch reporting
- Dedicated account manager & custom onboarding
- Priority support
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EstiMate Commercial
Upload the client's drawings and job spec — the AI reads them and builds your full materials take-off, costings, labour and a draft tender or quotation. TenderPilot included.
- AI reads drawings & specifications
- Automatic materials take-off & quantities
- Labour & cost breakdowns
- AI-drafted tender / quotation
- JCT/NEC interim progress certificates
- Back-to-back subcontract drafting
- Export any job as PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint
- TenderPilot included — find and bid on opportunities
from £99 / month
Go CommercialTenderPilot
Find tenders and local planning applications, then bid with AI. Pay for it on its own, add it to Pro at a reduced rate, or get it included with Commercial and Corp.
- Search & post tendersFree
- Add-on for EstiMate Pro members£29 / mo
- TenderPilot on its own — one user£49.99 / mo
- Team — 5 users included£149.99 / mo
- EstiMate Commercial & CorpIncluded
Real jobs, real values.
EstiMate was built inside a working contracting company. These are jobs it has delivered, from £110K to £400K, and what each one asked of the software. The app itself is used by builders nationwide, across the United Kingdom.
Questions builders ask
Straight answers.
Is EstiMate free to use?
- Yes. The Free plan is £0 and runs three jobs a month with real quotes, invoices and contracts, no card needed. EstiMate is £15.99 a month and EstiMate Pro, with the AI suite and Copilot, is £39.99 a month. There are no contracts.
How does AI take-off from drawings work?
- Upload your drawings and specification. EstiMate measures the quantities, builds a priced bill with the working shown, marks up the plans so you can check every item, and turns it into a branded quote your client can accept online.
Does EstiMate work with Xero, QuickBooks and Sage?
- Yes, on EstiMate and above. Connect your own Xero, QuickBooks or Sage and the two stay in step both ways: invoices, supplier bills, receipts, fuel, crew expenses, wages, PAYE, CIS and subbie payments go across (with CIS and PAYE held back recorded as owed to HMRC), and payments, bills, invoices and spending entered there come back into EstiMate's Accounts, Business and Reports. It syncs every night and whenever you press Sync now.
Does EstiMate handle UK VAT, CIS and the reverse charge?
- Yes. Quotes and invoices handle 20%, 5% and 0% VAT and the domestic reverse charge, CIS deductions are applied on subcontractor payments, and the accounts keep a CIS register and a VAT return helper.
Can my clients accept quotes and pay online?
- Yes. Clients open a link with no login, accept or decline, ask for changes, pay a deposit by card and e-sign the build contract. Invoices carry pay-by-card links and are chased automatically when overdue.
Does EstiMate work anywhere in the United Kingdom?
- Yes. EstiMate is used by builders and trades across the United Kingdom, from Manchester and Cheshire to London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Cardiff, on the web and on iPhone. It is built in Manchester by a working contractor.
Who is EstiMate built for?
- Sole traders and small firms: builders, electricians, plumbers and heating engineers, roofers, joiners, plasterers, landscapers and groundworkers, kitchen and bathroom fitters, decorators, and main contractors and fit-out firms.
Who is EstiMate not for?
- It is not a directory for homeowners looking for a builder: it is software for the firm doing the work. And it is built for UK firms: prices are in pounds and the VAT, CIS and reverse-charge tools follow HMRC rules, so a firm working outside the UK will find it a poor fit.
More in the full FAQ.
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