--- type: "Answer" title: "Can an AI employee write my estimates?" description: "Yes. How an AMTECH AI employee measures plan sets, drone photos and site pictures, prices the work from your book and sends the estimate, working shown." resource: "https://amtechai.com/questions/can-an-ai-employee-write-my-estimates" tags: - "answer" status: stable generated: { by: amtech-employee/website, at: "2026-11-09T20:36:17Z" } verified: - { by: "human:ben", at: "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z" } --- # Can an AI employee write my estimates? Yes. Your AMTECH AI employee's Takeoffs teammate measures the plan set, the drone photos or the pictures from a walk-through at scale, prices every line from your own price book, writes the estimate in Jobber or as a PDF, sends it and follows it up. Your AMTECH AI employee's Takeoffs teammate measures the plan set, the drone photos or the pictures from a walk-through at scale, prices every line from your own price book, writes the estimate in Jobber or as a PDF, sends it and follows it up. It shows you every line and what it could not measure, and the number goes out when you say yes. Book a call: https://amtechai.com/schedule-demo?business= Custom agents with guaranteed results from $1,200/mo. Or pay as you go from $50/mo. Works with: Your price book, CompanyCam, EagleView, Jobber, Google Drive, Gmail. ## Watch an estimate get written from photos The crew sent photos of the house on Sage Court on Tuesday. Can we price the repaint? Takeoffs measured the walls, trim and doors from the photos at scale, and priced the prep and two coats from your book. No photo showed the back porch ceiling, so it is marked. - Read the crew's photos and notes - Measured walls, trim and doors at scale - Priced the trim and the prep from your book - Waiting for your yes to send the estimate Here are the drone photos of the roof on Canyon View. Can you price a re-roof? Takeoffs measured each plane from the drone photos, with pitch and waste, and priced it from your book. Research found the county's re-roof permit and added it as a line. - Read the drone photos and the address - Measured each plane with pitch and waste - Added the county's re-roof permit - Waiting for your yes to send the estimate ## How an estimate gets written 1. **The plans, the photos or the address arrive** A plan set lands in your inbox, a crew member uploads CompanyCam pictures, or a customer sends only an address and Takeoffs pulls the satellite imagery, and your employee starts the estimate the same hour. 2. **Takeoffs measures at scale** It reads the scale from the drawing or the photo, measures each area, length and count, and writes down the scale it used so you can check any line. 3. **Every line is priced from your book** Materials, labour and your markup come from your own price book and your past jobs, never from a national average, and Research looks up anything the book does not hold. 4. **You check the number and send it** The estimate reaches you with what Takeoffs could not see marked plainly, such as the flashing behind a gutter, so you know which lines to check on site. ## Related questions and pages - [Estimates from plans and photos](https://amtechai.com/services/estimates-from-plans-and-photos): The package: Takeoffs, Research and your employee, set up to estimate from day one. - [Can an AI employee follow up every lead for me?](https://amtechai.com/questions/can-an-ai-employee-follow-up-every-lead): What happens to the estimate after it goes out. - [Can an AI employee connect to the software my business already uses?](https://amtechai.com/questions/can-an-ai-employee-connect-to-my-software): How it reads your price book in the system you keep it in. - [Roofing](https://amtechai.com/industries/roofing): Roof planes measured from EagleView reports and drone photos. - [General contractors](https://amtechai.com/industries/contractors): Full plan sets from BuildingConnected, measured and priced. ## Name your business, and price the next job. On a call with Ben, your employee asks for one plan set or a few photos and prices the first job while you watch. - **Pay as you go:** Your team on your real work, then pay as you go. - **Custom agents:** Set up with you, with guaranteed results, from $1,200 a month. ## What owners ask next ### Can it estimate before anyone visits the site? Yes. From an address alone Takeoffs measures roofs, lawns, beds and driveways on satellite imagery, so the customer has a price the same day and your crew visits only the jobs worth a visit. ### How does it know my prices? From your own records. Your employee reads your price book, your past estimates and your invoices, asks you about anything that does not add up, and uses your numbers from then on. ### Can it estimate from photos alone, without plans? Yes. Photos from a walk-through or a drone work, and Takeoffs names the scale it measured at and the parts of the job no picture showed, so you know which lines to check on site. ### Which trades does it estimate for? Roofing, painting, landscaping and general contracting today: roof squares and pitch, wall and trim areas, beds and hardscape, and the full scopes on a plan set. ### Who is responsible for the number? You are. Every estimate shows its working line by line and goes out under your name, under the rules you set. ## Ask your own team. Name your business and book a call. Your agents answer by doing the first piece of the work on it. ## Sources - The work shown on this page illustrates the AMTECH application; it is not a customer's job. 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