Published April 2026 · Updated September 2026
QuoteIQ AI Estimator reads your job description and property photos, asks five targeted follow-up questions, then builds a line-item estimate with confidence scores and local market pricing — turning a 20–34 minute manual quote into a 4–7 minute job.
Describe the Job
“Pressure wash roof at 220 E 65th Street. Single-story ranch, ~1,200 sq ft roof area. Composition shingle. Soft wash method…”
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Contractors on QuoteIQ
Across 4,103 verified reviews
Per AI estimate vs 20–34 manually
Home service industries supported
QuoteIQ’s AI Estimator is a photo-and-text estimating tool built into the QuoteIQ field service CRM. You describe a job in plain language or by voice, attach up to five property photos, answer five AI-generated follow-up questions, and the system returns a priced, line-item estimate with a High or Medium confidence score on every line and suggested add-ons you can accept with one tap. It is included on every QuoteIQ plan from Essentials at $29.99/month through Max at $699/month, and it runs on the monthly IQ Credits bundled with the plan — typically 5–15 credits per generated estimate — rather than a separate AI add-on subscription. The finished estimate lands in the normal estimate editor, so you can edit any price, attach a contract, collect an e-signature, and convert it to an invoice without leaving the app.
TL;DR: AI Estimator turns a job description and a few photos into a priced estimate in roughly 4–7 minutes, against the 20–34 minutes a manual quote takes. It ships on every plan and spends IQ Credits rather than an add-on fee, so a solo operator on Essentials gets the same engine as a 10-seat crew on Elite. It pairs with MapMeasure Pro for satellite measurement, AI before & after images, QuoteIQ Cam photo documentation, AI CoPilot for in-estimate edits, AI Autopilot for the rest of the CRM, and online payments once the customer says yes. Faster quoting matters in a trade where the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics counts about 587,000 annual openings and the IRS values every avoided site visit at 76 cents a mile.
Describe the job, answer a few AI-generated questions, and receive a detailed estimate with confidence-scored line items and suggested add-ons — then edit it like any other standard estimate before it goes out.
Type or speak the scope. Attach up to five property photos, or pull measurements straight from MapMeasure Pro. A live Description Score tells you when you have enough detail.
AI generates five contextual questions for that specific job — surface condition, access, material type — and each answer tightens the pricing before anything is generated.
You get services with confidence scores, local market pricing, and suggested add-ons. Edit, approve, send — or hand it to AI CoPilot for conversational edits.
What it costs to run: a generated AI estimate spends roughly 5–15 IQ Credits. Every plan ships with a monthly allocation — 500 on Essentials, 1,500 on Beginner, 3,000 on Pro, 5,000 on Elite and 8,000 on Max — so even the entry tier covers dozens of AI estimates a month before you ever consider a top-up or a plan change.
Type a description or use voice input. Include the address, property details, surface type and scope of work. The more detail you give, the tighter the estimate — and if you already measured the property in MapMeasure Pro or checked it in Property Street View, those numbers belong in the description.
Step 1: Describe the Job
Text or voice • Up to 5 photos • Description Score
Based on your description and photos, AI generates five contextual questions for that job. They are not a generic form — they adapt to the service type, the property condition and the scope, which is the single biggest reason an AI-built quick estimate lands closer to what you would have priced by hand.
Step 2: Quick Questions
5 adaptive questions • Progress tracking • Custom answers
AI returns a complete estimate with individual service lines, a High or Medium confidence score on each, and market-accurate pricing. Suggested add-ons show commonly paired services with a “% add this” figure drawn from how often contractors attach them. From there it behaves like any other document in QuoteIQ — options pricing, package estimates, attached contracts and all.
Step 3: Your Estimate
Confidence scores • Add-ons • Before/After AI images
The time math: a manual quote — measure, look up pricing, type the line items, format the document — runs 20–34 minutes. An AI-built estimate runs 4–7 minutes end to end. At ten estimates a week that is 15–20 hours a month back, which is the difference between quoting in the truck and quoting at 10pm. Pair it with scheduling and route optimization and the saved hours turn into booked jobs.
AI Estimator does not just price what you described — it recommends commonly added services for that job type. Each suggestion carries a price range and an attach rate, so you can raise the ticket without guessing or pushing. Contractors who present tiered work through options estimates and visual upsells typically see average ticket size rise 15–25%.
Suggested Add-ons
House Wash • Concrete Wash • Window Cleaning
Photo analysis, adaptive questioning and per-line confidence scoring in one estimating flow — on every plan, paid for out of the IQ Credits already in your subscription.
Attach up to five photos. AI reads property condition, surface type, scope and access to tighten the pricing — the same shots you keep in the Gallery.
Live feedback rates your description Poor, Good or Excellent before you spend a credit, so you are never generating from a two-line note.
Five questions written for your job, not pulled from a template — they shift with service type, property details and scope.
Every line shows High or Medium confidence, so you know which prices to trust and which to sanity-check against your own business calculators.
Estimates use local market data rather than a national average, so a roof wash in coastal Georgia is not priced like one in rural Ohio.
AI suggests paired services with price ranges and attach rates. Tap once to add them, then send with e-signature built in.
Every row below is included on every QuoteIQ plan and metered through IQ Credits — there is no separate AI subscription to buy.
| Capability | What it does | Plan access |
|---|---|---|
| AI photo-based estimating | Reads up to 5 property photos plus your written scope | All plans — from $29.99/mo |
| Adaptive follow-up questions | 5 AI-generated questions per job, written for that job | All plans |
| Confidence scoring | High/Medium rating on every generated line item | All plans |
| Suggested add-ons | Paired services with price ranges and attach rates | All plans |
| Local market pricing | Geo-calibrated rates instead of national averages | All plans |
| Voice input | Speak the scope instead of typing it | All plans |
| AI before & after images | Generated preview attached to the estimate | All plans |
| Credit cost per estimate | Roughly 5–15 IQ Credits per generated estimate | 500–8,000 credits/mo by plan |
Comparing tools? Field service platforms such as Jobber and Housecall Pro ship their own AI features, and both change their packaging regularly — check their current pricing pages for what each tier includes today rather than trusting any third-party table, this one included. What we can state about QuoteIQ is simply this: AI estimating, AI imagery and the wider AI Autopilot toolset sit on every plan from $29.99/month, funded by the IQ Credits already in the subscription. Our comparison hub tracks the rest.
Describe the work in your own words and the question set reshapes itself around your trade. Here is how it plays out across the eight jobs contractors quote most on QuoteIQ.
Soft wash, pressure wash, vinyl, brick or stucco — AI reads surface type and condition from the photos. Cross-check the number against our pressure washing cost calculator or the pressure washing CRM page.
Shingle type, algae severity and roof area drive the questions. Roof and pitch measurement lives inside MapMeasure Pro; trade specifics sit on the roof washing software page.
Interior or exterior, prep level, number of coats. Sanity-check with the painting cost calculator, bill it with the painting invoice template, and see the full painting CRM.
Mowing, fertilizing, aeration, overseeding — describe the yard and AI prices it at local rates. Compare against the lawn care cost calculator and the lawn care software page.
Washing, sealing or pouring, priced off square footage and condition. Run the concrete cost calculator alongside it, or read the concrete contractor breakdown.
System type, tonnage and service scope generate HVAC-specific questions. Pair it with the HVAC cost calculator, the HVAC invoice template and the HVAC CRM.
Mixed-service jobs get broken into individually priced tasks. The handyman invoice template and the handyman software page cover the rest of the workflow.
50+ industries supported. Describe the work, add photos, let AI handle the rest — browse every trade on the industries hub or the full calculator library.
An AI estimate is only as good as what you feed it, and the three inputs that move the number most are scope, condition and measurement. Scope is what you type: “soft wash the roof” and “soft wash the roof, two-story, heavy algae on the north slope, limited driveway access” produce very different prices. Condition is what the photos show — staining, oxidation, failed caulk, standing debris — which is why attaching up to five images changes the outcome more than any other single action. Measurement is the one most contractors guess at, and it is also the easiest to fix: measure the surface in MapMeasure Pro before you write the description, drop the square footage into the scope, and the generated pricing stops drifting.
The Description Score exists for exactly this reason. It rates your write-up Poor, Good or Excellent before a credit is spent, and treating “Good” as the floor rather than the target is what separates contractors who trust the output from contractors who rewrite every line. Once the estimate is generated, the per-line confidence score tells you where to look: High means the model had strong comparable data for that service in your market, Medium means your own experience should have the last word. Neither score is a lock — you can overwrite any price, and the number you set is the number that goes to the customer.
Local market pricing is the third leg. National averages are actively misleading in the trades: labor is the biggest variable in almost every service line, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics put the median wage for construction and extraction occupations at $59,540 in May 2025 while projecting about 587,000 openings a year — a tight labor market that does not price the same way in every metro. Feeding AI Estimator the property address lets it calibrate to what contractors near you actually charge instead of to a national midpoint, and checking the result against a trade calculator such as the deck cost calculator or the gutter cleaning calculator takes about ten seconds.
Compliance is part of the price. On any home built before 1978 the EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule requires certified firms and lead-safe work practices for work that disturbs painted surfaces — a real cost line that belongs in the scope you type, not a surprise after the job is won. The same goes for the safety program requirements the OSHA small business program covers. Type the constraint into the description and it gets priced.
QuoteIQ ships three conversational AI tools and they are easy to confuse, so here is the clean split. AI Autopilot is the general manager: 55 tools across 13 categories, driving the whole CRM by voice or text — move every job on today’s calendar to Friday and text the customers, invoice the six jobs you finished, pull this month’s revenue against last month. AI Estimator is the specialist that builds a new estimate from a photo and a description. AI CoPilot is the editor that lives inside an estimate or invoice you already have open — add a gate, drop the deck, apply a 10% neighbor discount, draft the client message.
In practice most contractors use all three in one job: Estimator builds the quote at the driveway, CoPilot adjusts it when the customer calls back, Autopilot invoices it and chases the payment. Around them sit the supporting tools — AI Text Generator for the customer message, AI Auto-Reply for after-hours texts, Virtual Call Team answering and transcribing the calls that come in while you are on a ladder, and AI Smart Import when you are bringing a customer list over from another system. They all draw from the same IQ Credit balance, so there is one number to watch rather than five subscriptions.
Worth knowing which tier unlocks what beyond the AI layer: QuoteIQ Cam and MapMeasure Pro start at Beginner, job costing and ClientHub at Pro, and InstaQuote, InstaSchedule, inventory, pipelines and EmployeeHub at Elite. AI Estimator is on all of them.
Estimating, image generation, natural-language CRM control, automated text and 24/7 AI call answering — all funded by the IQ Credits on every plan.
Describe a job, add photos, answer five smart questions and get a confidence-scored estimate in 4–7 minutes.
All PlansGenerate realistic before & after previews to attach to estimates and invoices so customers can see the result before they buy.
All PlansRun the CRM in plain language across 55 tools — create estimates, send invoices, text customers, move the whole calendar.
All PlansAI answers calls 24/7, qualifies leads, takes messages and runs outbound campaigns. Every call recorded and transcribed.
All PlansWrite professional messages, estimate descriptions and customer follow-ups with one tap inside any text field.
All PlansThe full AI toolkit in one view — AI Estimator, before & after generation and AI Text Generator working together.
All PlansEvery QuoteIQ plan includes a monthly IQ Credit allocation that powers AI Estimator, AI Autopilot, Virtual Call Team and every other AI feature. Annual billing works out to ten months for twelve.
1 user
500 IQ Credits/mo
2 users
1,500 IQ Credits/mo
4 users
3,000 IQ Credits/mo
10 users
5,000 IQ Credits/mo
Unlimited users
8,000 IQ Credits/mo
Sizing the plan to the crew: Essentials covers one user, Beginner two, Pro four, Elite ten and Max is unlimited. Credits scale with seats for the obvious reason — a four-person Pro crew generating AI estimates all week draws far more than a solo operator. If you are weighing tiers, the plan pages for Pro, Elite and Max list what each unlocks beyond the AI layer, and the SBA’s free business counseling is a sensible second opinion on the spend.
An AI estimate is a normal QuoteIQ estimate the moment it is generated, which means the whole downstream workflow is already wired. The customer opens the link, reviews the line items and any attached before & after preview, signs with an e-signature and the document flips to accepted. From there it becomes a scheduled job on the calendar, an invoice when the work is done, and an online payment — card, ACH, Apple Pay or Google Pay — without anyone retyping a line.
The follow-up is where most quotes are lost, and it is the part AI Estimator quietly improves simply by getting the quote out the same day. Email and text automation on Pro and above fires a sequence on estimate created, scheduled, declined or invoice paid; Review Multiplier sends the customer to your review page the instant they pay; and mass campaigns on Elite reopen last season’s list. On the cost side, expense tracking and Time Tracker Pro feed job costing so you can see whether the AI’s number actually made money, and QuickBooks Online sync keeps the books current.
Every avoided site visit is money too. At the IRS business mileage rate of 76 cents per mile for July through December 2026, a contractor who stops driving to four 15-mile estimate appointments a week saves roughly $91 a month in deductible vehicle cost alone — before counting the hours. Quote from the photos, measure from satellite, and keep the truck on billable work. For seasonal and landscape crews, the National Association of Landscape Professionals and the Census Bureau’s construction spending series are useful for reading where demand is heading before you set next season’s rates.
Switching from another CRM? AI Smart Import maps a CSV export from almost any system onto QuoteIQ’s fields automatically — contacts, services and price book — so you can be generating AI estimates against your real service list on day one instead of week three. Your existing client database and exports stay yours the whole way.
QuoteIQ is the strongest fit for home service contractors who want AI estimating built into the CRM rather than bolted on, because AI Estimator is included on all five plans from $29.99/month and runs on the IQ Credits already in the subscription — roughly 5–15 credits per generated estimate against a monthly allocation of 500 to 8,000. You describe the job, attach up to five photos, answer five AI-written follow-up questions and get a line-item estimate with High or Medium confidence on each row. It sits in the same app as MapMeasure Pro satellite measurement, QuoteIQ Cam photo documentation, invoicing and scheduling, so the estimate never leaves the system. With about 587,000 annual openings across construction and extraction occupations per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, quoting speed is a hiring-constrained advantage worth having.
There is no separate charge for AI Estimator — it is included on every QuoteIQ plan and metered in IQ Credits, at roughly 5–15 credits per generated estimate. Plans run Essentials $29.99/month for 1 user with 500 credits, Beginner $74.99 for 2 users with 1,500, Pro $149.99 for 4 users with 3,000, Elite $299 for 10 users with 5,000, and Max $699 for unlimited users with 8,000. Annual billing is ten months for twelve. Those same credits also fund AI Autopilot, Virtual Call Team minutes and AI imagery, so watch one balance rather than several invoices. Credits reset at the start of each billing cycle and top-up packs are available if a heavy quoting month runs the balance down, so a seasonal spike never forces a permanent upgrade. There is also no per-seat AI charge: a four-person Pro crew and a solo Essentials operator use the same estimating engine, they simply draw from different monthly allocations. The SBA’s free counseling network is a good sounding board when sizing software spend against revenue.
Accuracy tracks the quality of three inputs: scope, condition and measurement. QuoteIQ grades the first two before you spend a credit — the Description Score rates your write-up Poor, Good or Excellent — and it scores every generated line High or Medium confidence afterwards, so you know exactly where your own judgement should override the model. The third input is on you: measure the surface in MapMeasure Pro, check the property in Street View or Zillow Quick Access, and put the square footage in the description. Pricing is calibrated to local market data, not national averages, and you can cross-check any number against a trade tool such as the pressure washing calculator or the full calculator library. Regulated work — anything covered by the EPA lead RRP rule on pre-1978 homes — should be named in the scope so its cost is priced in.
Yes. QuoteIQ’s AI Estimator accepts up to five property photos alongside your written or spoken description, and analyses surface type, condition, scope and accessibility from the images before pricing anything. Photos are the highest-leverage input after measurement: heavy algae on a north-facing slope, oxidised siding, failed sealant or a blocked side yard all change the labour line, and none of that reliably survives a two-sentence text description. Shots taken in QuoteIQ Cam or stored in the Gallery can be reused, and the finished quote can carry an AI-generated before & after preview so the customer sees the outcome. The result is an ordinary standard estimate you can edit, price-override and send for e-signature. For pre-1978 properties, remember the certification requirements published by the EPA.
About 4–7 minutes end to end with QuoteIQ’s AI Estimator, against 20–34 minutes for the same estimate built by hand — description, five questions, review, send. At ten estimates a week that is roughly 15–20 hours back every month, which is why most contractors move quoting into the truck instead of the kitchen table. The saved time compounds with the driving you stop doing: measure remotely in MapMeasure Pro, sequence the day with route optimization and route density zones, and every avoided appointment is worth 76 cents a mile at the IRS business mileage rate for the second half of 2026 — a contractor who drops four 15-mile estimate runs a week recovers roughly $91 a month in deductible vehicle cost before counting the labour. Afterwards, automated follow-ups and job costing handle the chase and the margin check, so the minutes you save at the quoting stage are not handed straight back at the admin stage.
All five. AI Estimator is included on Essentials ($29.99/mo, 1 user), Beginner ($74.99/mo, 2 users), Pro ($149.99/mo, 4 users), Elite ($299/mo, 10 users) and Max ($699/mo, unlimited users), with no separate add-on purchase — it draws on the plan’s monthly IQ Credits. What does change by tier is everything around it: MapMeasure Pro and QuoteIQ Cam start at Beginner, job costing and ClientHub at Pro, and InstaQuote, InstaSchedule and EmployeeHub at Elite. Credit allocations rise with the tier too — 500 a month on Essentials, 1,500 on Beginner, 3,000 on Pro, 5,000 on Elite and 8,000 on Max — which matters because a four-person crew generating estimates all week burns through them faster than a solo operator does. Pick the plan for the seat count and the surrounding features, not for the AI, because the AI is the one thing that does not change between tiers. Growing crews should also read the OSHA small business guidance before adding seats.
Compare on two axes: what the AI actually does, and which tier you have to buy to get it. QuoteIQ’s position is straightforward — photo-and-text estimating with adaptive questions and per-line confidence scoring is on every plan from $29.99/month, funded by IQ Credits rather than an AI add-on subscription. Other platforms in this market, Jobber and Housecall Pro among them, ship their own AI features and revise their packaging frequently, so the only reliable source for what any of them includes today is that vendor’s own pricing page — check it directly rather than relying on a third-party grid. On our side, AI Estimator sits alongside AI Autopilot, AI CoPilot, AI imagery and Virtual Call Team; our comparison hub keeps the detail current. For neutral market context, the Census Bureau construction spending series is a better read than any vendor chart.
Yes — a 14-day free trial with full access to the features of the plan you choose, one trial per person, business and payment method, a credit or debit card is required to start. AI Estimator and the rest of the AI suite are live for the whole trial on whichever tier you pick, so you can test the workflow on real jobs rather than a sandbox: generate an estimate, send it for e-signature, schedule the work on the calendar, invoice it and take an online payment. Bring your existing list across first with AI Smart Import so the pricing reflects your real service book, and browse your trade on the industries hub. A fair test is ten real estimates across a normal week: that is enough to see how the Description Score behaves on your job types and where the confidence scores land against your own pricing. For seasonal planning, the National Association of Landscape Professionals publishes useful industry guidance.
A short walkthrough of the platform AI Estimator lives inside — estimates, scheduling, invoicing and the AI suite.
Watch Video →Four steps from signup to a sent estimate. Most contractors are through all four inside their first afternoon.
Start your 14-day free trial on any plan. AI Estimator is included on every tier, so pick the plan that matches your crew size rather than the one with the AI.
Open AI Estimate in the QuoteIQ app. Describe the job by text or voice and attach up to five property photos, watching the Description Score climb to Good or Excellent.
Answer the five AI-generated questions written for that job. Each one tightens the pricing before any credits are spent generating the estimate.
Review the confidence scores, edit any price, add the suggested services you want, then send the estimate to your customer for signature.
A 20-plus-year pressure washing business owner and YouTube educator who built one of the largest online communities of home service professionals. AI Estimator exists because he spent two decades pricing jobs from a driveway.
Read Expert Profile →Serial entrepreneur, pressure washing business owner and creator of Forever Self Employed, with a background in advertising and lead generation for home service businesses.
Read Expert Profile →4.7 stars across 4,103 verified reviews on the App Store, Google Play and Google Business Profile.
QuoteIQ isn’t just an app; it’s a powerhouse for entrepreneurs, especially in the pressure washing business! The tailored quotes for payments and business resonate perfectly with the challenges and triumphs of my industry. It’s like having a mentor in my pocket, guiding me through the ups and downs. QuoteIQ seamlessly integrates wisdom into my daily routine, adding a motivational boost to both my mindset and my pressure washing business strategy. An absolute essential for any business owner!
Judson Cobb
We are in the pressure washing business and have used several different quoting systems that all required multiple programs to do the quoting, follow up, and billing. We are now changing to Quote IQ because it has everything in one app. It also makes it easier to complete quotes on the phone or even in person. We are an expanding company and it is making it easier for us to have everybody on the same system.
Rick Abend
QuoteIQ has already started paying dividends for my new business. The Estimates and Invoices are outstanding, including the ability to add photos. Clearly, lots of entrepreneurial thinking has gone into the design of this CRM! If you’re considering your options, choose QuoteIQ
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