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construction quote software for tradespeople and small firms

The quotes that went silent get a follow-up that sounds like you wrote it. Because you read it before it goes.

What happened to the quote you sent last Tuesday?

For your own business, or as a service you charge other businesses like yours for.

Nobody runs this lab yet. Take it, give it your hours and your prices, and it is yours.

your-business.exampleYour businessit runs under your name, on your domain

How it would run

3 magiks · the sheets are examples
01
Who has gone quiet
02
Write the follow-up
03
What made them sign
example · not real dataInvented for this page. Every collection starts empty; the first run writes the first row.

The job

Tradespeople rarely lose jobs because they priced them wrong. They lose them because the follow-up on last Tuesday quote never went out. In a small firm, sales tracking is a notebook, a pile of PDFs and the memory of whoever is on site, and it is the first thing to go when the week fills up. Construction quote software solves half of that: it produces the document, it chases nobody. This lab takes the other half, the half that pays, and it never writes to your customer without you reading it first.

What it would know about your business

Put there once, read by every magik.

Put there once by you, read by every magik, corrected when reality moves. Full on day one, unlike the collections below.

resource base
Your quote templates
Rates and terms
Your tone of voice
01Who has gone quiet
02Write the follow-up
03What made them sign

What it would keep

Worth more in month six than in week one.

The collections belong to the lab, not to any single magik. Every magik reads them and every run adds to them, which is why this lab is worth more in month six than in week one.

example · not real data
Quotesas it would fill up
ClientAmountSentSilent for
Kitchen, Mr Perrin4,850 €21 Jul18 d
Fencing, Les Ormes1,290 €30 Jul9 d
Bathroom, Ms Castel6,400 €2 Aug6 d
a sample, truncated

Invented for this page. Your Quotes collection starts empty and fills as you work.

Follow-ups sentstarts empty

Under your own brand

It wears your name, not ours.

The same lab, under your name, your colours and your logo. Your customers never see ours.

taquet.ai
AskMOJO
your-business.example
Your business
The same lab under two brands: only the logo, the address and the colour change.
Your colours, in one field.
Your logo and your favicon, on every public surface.
Your own address, on a verified domain.

On the Pro plan, and not needed to take a lab. A fully bespoke theme exists as an upgrade, hand built rather than self-serve.

What it would plug into

GmailGoogle Sheets

And whatever you already use: any tool available through an API or an MCP server, connected with your own account.

Why not another web app built for your trade

Built around your business, not the average one.
What it knows, what it keeps and what it does are yours to write, and two businesses running the same idea end up with two different labs.
Its sources are not a closed list.
A vertical tool ships with the sources its vendor chose, and that is the ceiling. A lab can be pointed at the ones your business actually runs on, connected from your own accounts, and everything they bring back lands in your collections, which you own and can take with you.

A tool built for exactly your job, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This is for the jobs nothing covers, or the ones spread across three tools today.

Questions · 9

How do you follow up politely, without sounding like a debt collector?

By giving the customer a reason to reply rather than a reminder that they owe you an answer: naming the job, saying what is still available, giving a date after which the price moves. The lab writes that from your quote and your own way of writing, and you read it before it goes.

What about the other way round, when a customer chases me for a quote?

That is the same collection read from the other end: which requests you received, which ones you have not priced, how long they have been sitting. A quote you never sent is a job lost more quietly than one refused, and it is the easiest kind to see coming.

Does a text message work better than an email?

Nobody here is going to invent a figure to answer that. What the lab does is write the text at the length of the channel you already use with that customer, short for a message, longer for an email that has to stand alone. Sending it is still your move.

Would the follow-up go out to my customers on its own?

No. The lab spots the quotes that went quiet and writes the follow-up; you read it and you send it. In a trade where a quote turns on trust, a follow-up sent unread costs more than a quote forgotten.

Will it read like a template?

It is written from your quote, your rates and your own way of writing, which you put in once. It names the job it is about, not your request. And the follow-ups that ended in a signature stay in a collection, which gives the lab something to aim with next time.

How would it know a customer has gone quiet?

From your quotes and what happened after them: a reply, a signature, nothing. Three weeks of silence is a fact, not a guess. You are the one who says from when a quote counts as dormant, and that rule is a resource you write.

How many times would it chase the same quote?

As many as you decided, and that number is a rule you write, along with when to stop. Stopping matters as much as starting: a quote chased four times has become an annoyance, and the customer who did not answer twice has usually answered.

Would it draw up the quote itself?

No. Pricing a job means knowing the site, the access and what your supplier charged you this month, and that is your work. This idea starts once the quote has gone out, at the moment it goes quiet, which is where the money is actually lost.

Why this rather than a tool built for my trade?

A tool built for exactly tradespeople and small firms, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This lab is for the jobs no tool covers, or the ones spread across three tools today, and it runs under your name.

Who is playing this idea

Every audience is still open.

Nobody has taken a square on this idea yet. You declare your audience when you take the lab (“roofers in Brittany”, “plumbers around Paris”), and two people can start from the same idea on two different audiences without getting in each other’s way.

The shape behind it

Applies Consulting Studio to this job.

Sound like your week?

And it wears your name, not ours.

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