AI ESTIMATING FOR GENERAL CONTRACTORS

Walk the job.
Leave with the estimate.

Forge turns a recorded walkthrough into a structured, trade-by-trade scope and a priced estimate — in minutes, not the night before you were going to send it. Built for remodelers running $5M–$10M a year, not hobby crews.

20+MIN SAVED PER WALK
1WORKFLOW
0TYPING
MINUTESTO A PRICED SCOPE
THE PROBLEM

Estimating still means a night of typing.

You walk the job. Then you get home and turn a voice memo and a notes app into a scope of work and a line-item bid — by hand. One missed line item and you’re eating the cost, or fighting for a change order.

Forge does that part while you’re still standing in the kitchen.

4 tools detected
Voice Memo01
Notes App02
Spreadsheet03
Buildertrend04
fragmented workflow
CAPTURE

Walk the Job. We'll Handle the Notes.

Start a job walk and Forge records everything — audio up to 90 minutes and photos you can voice-tag on the fly. Say "Photo: kitchen sink wall" and it's indexed automatically.

  • Audio recording up to 90 min
  • Voice-tagged photo capture
  • All media stored under one project
Recording…02:14

Latest tag

“Photo: kitchen sink wall”

Kitchen
Bath
Hallway
AI ENGINE

Raw Walk → Priced Estimate in Minutes

Forge's AI doesn't guess. It organizes your walk into a scope broken out by trade and a priced, line-item estimate — flagging anything it's not confident about so you check it, not guess at it.

  • Scope + questions organized by area
  • Line-item estimate priced by trade
  • Uncertainties flagged, never assumed
Scope by Area
Kitchen
4 tasks
Bathroom
3 tasks
Electrical
2 tasks
2 Open Questions
EXPORT

One Tap to Buildertrend-Ready

Review the AI output, make edits inline, apply your markup, then export. Copy formatted notes directly to Buildertrend, download a PDF packet with photos, or send a PM handoff email.

  • Inline editing — add, delete, reorder
  • One-tap copy to Buildertrend
  • PDF + photo packet download
  • PM handoff email template
PDF
Scope summary
Tasks by trade
Photo packet
PM handoff email
Copy to Buildertrend
HOW IT WORKS

From Walk to Estimate in Three Steps

Walk it.

Hit record on your phone and walk the job. Talk like you would to your PM. No forms, no "what type of meeting is this" screen first.

Forge structures it.

In minutes, Forge turns the walk into a scope broken out by trade and a priced estimate — flagging anything it's not confident about so you check it, not guess at it.

Review, then send.

Edit any line, apply your markup, export straight to Buildertrend, PDF, or CSV. Nothing leaves Forge until you approve it.

SEE IT WORK

Watch Forge structure a real job walk.

Press play on an actual scope-walk recording and watch it turn into a trade-by-trade scope and priced estimate in real time — right here, no sign-up required.

01 transcript

Press “Try a sample walk” to replay a recorded kitchen-remodel walkthrough.

02 scope by trade
03 priced estimate

Want to see it on one of your own jobs instead?

Book a live walkthrough →
NOT ANOTHER PHOTO APP

CompanyCam and tools like it are great at documenting a job once you’re building it. Forge is built for the walk before that — the one where you have to turn what you saw into a number the client can sign.

Record the walk. Forge hands you the scope and the estimate. That’s the whole difference.

Speed wins jobs. Walk the house, get in your truck, and the estimate is already built by the time you’re back at the office — same day, sometimes the same meeting. The next three bids haven’t even gone out yet.

RESULTS

Two weeks to three days.

Harris & Sons Construction cut estimating time 75%, prevented a $40,000 scope-dispute loss, and grew projected revenue 60% — in their first 90 days on Forge.

75%

less time estimating

$330K

Forge-attributed revenue

$40K

scope-dispute loss prevented

FROM THE FIELD

“It was good, I’m impressed. It was super quick and pretty accurate. I just talked into it, and all the scopes it spat out were pretty darn good.”

— Will L., General Contractor, trial user

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