Estimates that start from the spec, not a blank sheet
Paste the job description or upload the spec: AI drafts the line items grouped by trade, using your prices. Send each chapter to your subcontractors through a link, add your margin — invisible to the client — and send. The client accepts and signs in the app, and that estimate becomes the budget the project is measured against.
Why estimates always get done in a hurry
The estimate is the document that decides the margin on the whole job — and it almost always gets written at night, after site hours. Hours retyping the spec line by line into Excel, digging through a two-year-old file to see how you priced similar work, redoing the totals after every change. And every estimate you lose is time gone.
The mechanical part — transcribing, chasing prices, adding up — a machine can do. The part that matters — whether that price holds, what to include, where to leave room — stays yours. Tabiquo splits the two: AI prepares the draft from your company's own data, you apply the judgment. And a signed estimate doesn't end up in a drawer: it's the number the project gets measured against.
What you can do with Tabiquo
From the client's request to a signed estimate, without typing anything twice.
From text to line items
Paste a description or upload the spec as a PDF: AI turns it into estimate line items grouped by trade. A draft to correct, not a form to fill in.
Your prices, not a generic database
Proposed items draw on the prices you've already quoted similar work at, with your company's default margin and VAT applied.
Chapters and trades
Line items are organised into chapters, with subtotals per trade and a total with VAT. The structure the client understands and the project later reuses.
Get your subcontractors to price it
Send each chapter to its subcontractor on its own link, by WhatsApp or email. Each one enters their prices line by line — no login, and they never see the rest of the estimate.
Your margin, invisible to the client
Apply one overall margin and it spreads across every line item. The client only ever sees the final price: the percentage and the cost show up nowhere.
A clean PDF, ready to send
One amount per line and the VAT added up once at the end, on your letterhead. Email it or share it straight from the app.
Client signature in the app
The client accepts from their phone, with the signature attached and the date recorded. Only the authorised contact can sign — not whoever has the link.
Change orders and line-level adjustments
Job changed? Record additions or deductions per line item, each with its own approval, and the updated total sits next to the original.
Import and export in BC3
Load a BC3 (FIEBDC-3) file and it becomes a draft estimate to review; export any estimate as BC3 to exchange it with other measurement and estimating software.
Who estimates with Tabiquo
Construction companies
Teams that live on estimates won at the right price and can't afford to get the margin wrong in a rush.
Renovation contractors
Teams that quote a lot of similar jobs and want to stop starting from scratch every time.
Technical offices
People who receive specs to transcribe and spend more time retyping lines than pricing them.
Back office
People who invoice against the accepted estimate and need change orders and deductions written down, not remembered.
Why stop estimating in Excel
Excel adds up, but it doesn't remember your prices, doesn't get your subcontractors to price the work, doesn't get the client to sign, and doesn't know the job has changed.
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The estimate goes out in hours, not evenings: AI does the transcription, you make the calls.
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Prices come from your own history, not rebuilt from old files every time.
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Each subcontractor prices its own chapter from a link, without seeing the rest; their prices come back into the estimate with your margin already added.
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Acceptance is a signature with a name and a date, not an "ok" in a chat thread.
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Change orders get a number and a signature, instead of becoming end-of-job arguments.
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The signed estimate becomes the budget: project costs are tracked against it while the job is still running.
Frequently asked questions
AI proposes the prices — should I trust it?
No, and it isn't designed that way. AI prepares a draft using your company's prices and margins; every line can be reviewed, corrected or deleted before sending. No estimate goes out on its own, and every generation is logged.
Can I get my subcontractors to price it without sending them the whole estimate?
Yes. You split the estimate by chapter and send each subcontractor only theirs, on a link by WhatsApp or email. They enter their prices line by line without logging in, and when you import them they land back on their line items with your margin already applied.
Does the client see my margin?
No. The margin is one overall percentage that marks up each line item internally; the estimate the client receives shows only the final price — never the percentage or the cost price.
Do you work with BC3 / FIEBDC-3?
Yes. You import a BC3 file and it becomes a draft estimate to review; and you export any estimate as BC3 to exchange it with other measurement and estimating software.
How does the client sign?
In the app: they see the line items and the total, then accept and sign from their phone. The signature and date stay attached to the estimate, and only the client's authorised contact can sign.
What if the job changes after signing?
You record a change order — an addition or a deduction — with its own items and price. The client approves it too, and the updated total always sits next to the original.
Can I start from a PDF spec?
Yes. Upload the document and AI extracts the work and turns it into line items. It also works if you simply paste the text of an email or a client's request.
Your next estimate, without the blank sheet
Bring a real spec and we'll show you what comes out. Thirty minutes, no strings.