Synthetic demonstration. Do not enter real client or project data.
Unit 2B Renovation / Site visit to reviewed quote
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Intake

Two unfinished files go in. A measured record and a finished control book come out, with every number carrying where it came from.

The folder this job already lives in

Shared drive / Projects / Unit 2B Renovation / Intake
  • PDFcapture-export-unit-2b.pdfThe measured export off the phone walk. Sketch, dimensions, photos, notes.1.8 MBNot readclick to open
  • XLScontrol-book-DRAFT-rev-a.xlsxSomebody started typing this by hand on Tuesday and stopped.44 KB8 of 18 rows filledclick to open
  • IMGsite-photos (14 files)Sitting in a phone roll, attached to nothing.22 MBUntagged
  • DWGarchitect-set-A2.pdfThe drawing set. Nothing in the office connects it to the quote.6.1 MBNot linked

Click a file to open it and see what is actually inside. Drag it onto the panel to run it through.

Drag a file here

Run a file through

In a live deployment this is where the export off the phone lands, straight out of the capture app or the shared drive. Here it runs against invented fixtures.

Where the export comes from

One person walks the space with a phone. No tripod, no laser, no second trip. The app turns the walk into a measured record with the photos and notes still attached. Plenty of companies already do this and then hand the export to somebody who retypes it.

magicplanWalk a space with a phone, get a measured floor plan
CubiCasaPhone scan converted into a floor plan
PolycamLiDAR and photo scanning on a phone
CompanyCamJobsite photos, tagged to the project automatically
HoverExterior measurements built from smartphone photos
Matterport3D capture of an existing space
Togal.AI / STACKTakeoff quantities pulled off plan PDFs

The capture tool does not matter. They all end at the same place: a file nobody has time to turn into a quote.

Where it goes afterwards

Nothing here replaces the system you already pay for. The reviewed record pushes back out to whatever you run the business on.

  • Jobber
  • QuickBooks
  • Buildertrend
  • JobTread
  • Procore
  • Housecall Pro
  • Google Drive
  • a shared folder and a spreadsheet

The gap was never the software. It was the person in the middle retyping between two things that both already had the answer.

Next: what it caught on the way through

Five things in this job that a person filling in a spreadsheet would have missed, each traced back to the photo or the past job it came from.

What we found