AI Photo Estimator for Contractors
Turn jobsite photos into a reviewable draft estimate. URBLD's AI reads the photos, drafts scope, line items, assumptions, exclusions, and clarifying questions — your team reviews, edits, and approves before anything is sent.
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Turn jobsite photos into a reviewable draft estimate. URBLD's AI reads the photos, drafts scope, line items, assumptions, exclusions, and clarifying questions — your team reviews, edits, and approves before anything is sent.
- Roofing companies
- HVAC companies
- Plumbing companies
- Electricians
- Landscapers
- General contractors
- How the feature works
- Who it's built for
- How it connects to the rest of URBLD
- FAQs and related pages
- One connected record across CRM, jobs, and billing
- AI receptionist and follow-up built in
- Field, office, and AI on the same thread
- Trade-specific workflows, not a generic CRM
- E-signature, PDF, and payments included
- Replaces 6+ disconnected tools
What is an AI photo estimator?
An AI photo estimator helps contractors turn jobsite photos into a draft estimate. URBLD analyzes up to 10 jobsite photos, drafts scope of work, line items, assumptions, exclusions, and clarifying questions, then saves a reviewable draft your team edits before sending.
Photo-to-draft is only the first step
AI Photo Estimator creates the reviewable draft. Estimate Operations is the broader URBLD estimating workflow that handles sending estimates, view tracking, follow-up automation, recovery, contract conversion, and pipeline management.
See Estimate OperationsUp to 10 photos → reviewable draft estimate
Upload up to 10 jobsite photos. URBLD's AI returns scope of work, line items (material / labor / equipment), assumptions, exclusions, and clarifying questions — saved as a draft your team edits before sending.
AI-Generated Draft Estimate
Draft generated from up to 10 jobsite photos. Default 15% markup applied. Every line item is editable before sending.
How AI Photo Estimator works
From a jobsite photo to a reviewable first draft — then into the rest of your URBLD workflow.
1. Capture up to 10 photos
From a device camera or gallery, on phone, tablet, or desktop. Photos are stored against the AI estimate record.
2. Pick the trade — or let the AI detect it
Choose from 15 trade prompts or skip the choice and let the AI detect the most likely trade from the photos.
3. AI drafts the estimate
Scope, material/labor/equipment line items, assumptions, exclusions, confidence scores, and 3–7 clarifying questions.
4. Review and edit in the viewer
Adjust scope, line items, quantities, unit prices, markup, and totals. Nothing leaves your team without review.
5. Export, attach, or convert
Download or print the draft as a PDF, attach it to a customer, job, or follow-up, or convert it to an invoice.
15 supported trades, each with its own focused prompt
Pick a trade so the AI knows what to focus on — or skip the choice and let the AI detect the most likely trade from the photos.
What the AI returns on every draft
Structured output your estimator can read, trust, and edit — not a freeform paragraph.
Project name
A short descriptive title inferred from the photos.
Detected trade
The primary trade category — auto-detected or matched to your selection.
Overall confidence score
0–100 score reflecting confidence in the draft as a whole.
Per-section confidence
Separate scores for materials, labor, scope, and dimensions.
Scope of work
A narrative description written as a professional scope.
Line items
Material, labor, and equipment items with quantity, unit, unit price, and line amount.
Assumptions
What the AI assumed when it could not see something directly.
Exclusions
Items explicitly not included in the draft (e.g. permits, structural).
3–7 clarifying questions
Specific questions the contractor should answer to refine the draft.
AI notes
Risk factors, observations, and recommendations.
Default 15% markup
Applied automatically to the subtotal — fully editable.
Reviewable total
Material + labor + equipment + markup. Nothing is final until your team approves.
Built for sales reps, estimators, and field crews
Estimating starts in the field. Reps capture photos during inspection, the office estimator reviews and adjusts, crews document change orders mid-job, and managers standardize draft quality across the team.
- Faster first draft — quicker than starting from a blank estimate
- Fewer blank estimates left untouched after a site visit
- Better photo documentation tied to every draft
- Easier handoff between sales reps and office estimators
- More consistent scope quality across new estimators
- Less manual line-item building from scratch
AI helps you move faster. Your team stays in control.
Every output is a draft, not a final quote. Contractors edit assumptions, quantities, pricing, labor, materials, markup, and totals before anything goes to the customer.
- • Drafts always require review before sending
- • Photo quality affects what the AI can see
- • Hidden conditions may require physical inspection
- • Pricing and quantities should be verified by your estimator
- • Final approval remains with the contractor
Where contractors use it
Real workflows where photo-to-draft replaces hours of manual scoping.
From photo to a reviewed draft — and into your URBLD workflow
AI Photo Estimator handles the first three steps. The rest of the customer lifecycle — sending, follow-ups, contracts, jobs — runs across other URBLD modules linked below.
Today the AI Estimate viewer supports PDF download/print and Convert to Invoice. Sending, view tracking, automated follow-ups, contracts, and pipeline reporting live in the linked URBLD modules.
What it does not replace
Honest limits keep estimates trustworthy and your customer relationships intact.
Professional judgment
Estimators validate scope, quantities, and pricing before anything goes to the customer.
Hidden-condition inspection
Photos show what's visible. Tear-off discoveries, structural issues, and concealed damage still require physical inspection.
Final pricing approval
Your team applies margin, taxes, terms, and local pricing rules. AI does not auto-approve quotes.
Estimate Operations
Sending, view tracking, follow-up automation, recovery, and contract conversion live in Estimate Operations — not in the photo estimator.
Contracts, job costing, production
Contracts, e-sign, job costing, scheduling, and production management are separate URBLD modules.
Real Results
Up to 10
Photos per draft
15
Trades supported
3–7
Clarifying questions per draft
100%
Editable before sending
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers about how URBLD runs the business end-to-end.