Tell it the job; it hands you the estimate. Talk it in from the truck — rough is fine — and it drafts a professional estimate, asks when it's unsure, and learns your prices as you go.
Three free estimates a month. No account, no card, nothing to install.
Sam tells it the job.
Watch the estimate come back.
Runs the actual pipeline — not a recording.
The real problem
Nobody loses these jobs on price. They lose them on silence. The crew that answers first with a real number wins so often it feels like cheating. BeatTheBid exists so that crew is you — on every lead, from the truck, the roof, anywhere.
Why speed wins
Same lead, same minute. Two crews.
The lead doesn't wait. First with a number takes the job — BeatTheBid is the reason it's you.
How it works
You tell it what you heard. Everything else follows — all from your phone. Watch the screen on the left.
The lead calls, texts, or flags you down at the yard. Whatever you learned, tell it the way you'd tell your crew — "backyard cedar, she says about 80 feet, wants the old one out." Type it or talk it in; rough is exactly right. Add the photo if the customer sent one.
Your outline turns into line items. If something you didn't cover changes the price, it checks — proposes, never quizzes: "figuring 85 ft at $35 a foot with tear-out — holler if that's off." One word back and it keeps drafting. No forms, no fields, no dashboard.
The estimate lands on your phone: the job summed up, line items, a reply written. Fix anything, tap send — your customer gets a branded estimate page with your name on it. Every number you correct and every question you answer teaches it how you price. The tenth estimate nearly writes itself.
The part they see
You talk the job in; they tap through the result. Not a number scribbled on a card — a branded estimate page, texted to their phone, your name on it. This one works. Try the options.
| 6-ft cedar privacy, installed~120 linear ft · concrete-set posts | $2,520 – $3,240 |
| Tear-out & haul-away, old fence~120 linear ft | $680 – $860 |
Your customer taps between options you offer; the price follows. Go ahead — it works.
What it does for you
Most of your competition quotes a $5,000 job with a number scribbled in a text — days later. This lands on your customer's phone minutes after the call: your name, your prices, options they can tap through, a number they can say yes to.
It reads like the most buttoned-up outfit in town. That's who they hire.
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Not an app you download and not an account you create — a web address that's yours, that just works when you open it.
The honest comparison
The two things it isn't — and the one thing it is.
Logins, dashboards, forms to fill — software to learn. Built for people who sit at desks. You're on a job site; that's the whole problem.
Thumbtack, Angi and the rest: $15–80 a lead, one of five bids on their screen, and you still write the quote yourself. The customer belongs to them.
Something you tell the job to. It checks when it's unsure, prices it off what it's learned from you, and hands back an estimate with your name on it — your customers stay yours. It learns how you price as you go, and keeps running on your phone.
No demo, no call
Pricing
Start free, right now. Pay when it's earning its keep.
Good questions
From you — that's the point. Your link goes on the yard sign, your Facebook, your Google profile, in a text to anybody who asks for a price. BeatTheBid isn't a lead list; we don't sell leads and we never send you strangers. Every quote goes out, under your name, to your customers.
Whatever you learned, the way you'd tell your crew. Type what you heard on the call, talk it in as a voice note, add the photo the customer texted you — rough is exactly right. About a minute later the estimate's on your phone: line items, a range, a reply written and ready to send.
No. Open it and tell it a job — that's the whole setup. No software to install, no rate card to fill out, no account to create, nothing to learn. It learns the rest as you go.
It learns them as you go — there's no setup. It starts with sensible numbers for your trade, and when something's unclear it checks with you propose-and-confirm style: "figuring 85 ft at $35 a foot with tear-out — that right?" Every question you answer and every number you correct before sending teaches it. A few jobs in, it prices like you. Keep a rate card? We load it and it starts smarter.
You fix it before you send it — every estimate goes out from you, and every number you correct teaches it. And it's an estimate, not a final quote: a real range that wins you the door. You firm it up after a site look, same as you do now.
No. They get a text with a link to their estimate — branded to your business, your name and number on it. No app, no account, nothing to install on either end.
Three estimates a month are free — no account, no card. Unlimited is $99 a month flat and your first month is free, so you can watch it run on real leads before a dime moves. No contract; you stop by just stopping. For scale: the lead sites charge $15–80 for one shared lead you still have to quote yourself.
No. The whole thing runs on your phone. The estimate arrives as a text; you read it, fix anything, and send it — from the job site, the truck, anywhere.
Fencing, concrete, landscaping, tree, junk removal, painting, decking, remodeling — anything where a customer describes a job and you ballpark it. Your page, your prices, your name on every estimate.
Then you sent fewer estimates and paid the same flat number — and the month one big job lands, you paid the same flat number too. If it's not earning its keep, stop. The free first month exists so you can watch it run on your real leads before a dime moves.
Nothing to set up, no account, no card — three estimates a month are free. Tell it a real job the way you'd tell your crew and see what comes back. It learns your prices from the first one. If it earns its keep, unlimited is $99 a month and the first month's free. Rather talk to a person first? hello@beatthebid.com.
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