What happened to the quote you sent last Tuesday?
For your own business, or as a service you charge other businesses like yours for.
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| Client | Quote | Amount | Sent | Silence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mme Ferrand | Kitchen refit | 14 200 € | 21 July | 22 days |
| Les Tilleuls building | Hall repaint | 3 800 € | 28 July | 15 days |
| M. Ceccaldi | Bathroom, full | 9 600 € | 2 Aug | 10 days |
| Boulangerie Petit | Shopfront | 6 100 € | 6 Aug | 6 days |
33 700 euros waiting on a reply. The kitchen has been silent for three weeks, and three weeks is where a quote stops being a project and becomes a memory.
Hello, The quote for the kitchen refit went out on 21 July and I want to be sure it reached you. If something needs adjusting, the price or the schedule, tell me and I will rework it. I have room in the calendar from the week of the 15th, and the material prices hold until the end of the month. Marc Your Company
Eleven quotes signed this year, read together
Nine of the eleven were signed after a follow-up, not after the first send. The average gap between the quote and the signature is nineteen days. A quote that gets no follow-up before day twenty is, in your own numbers, a quote that dies.
What the signed ones had that the others did not
| TraitTrait | SignedSigned | LostLost |
|---|---|---|
| A start date in the quote | 9 of 11 | 2 of 14 |
| Two options instead of one | 7 of 11 | 3 of 14 |
| Follow-up before day 21 | 9 of 11 | 4 of 14 |
The one that does not fit
The shopfront job signed in four days at full price with no follow-up at all. It was the only quote sent the same evening as the visit. That is one case, not a rule, but it is the only one in the file where speed did the work.
What to change: put a start date on every quote, and set the reminder at day fourteen rather than day thirty.
Tradespeople rarely lose jobs because they priced them wrong. They lose them because the follow-up on last Tuesday quote never went out. In a small firm, sales tracking is a notebook, a pile of PDFs and the memory of whoever is on site, and it is the first thing to go when the week fills up. Construction quote software solves half of that: it produces the document, it chases nobody. This lab takes the other half, the half that pays, and it never writes to your customer without you reading it first.
Put there once, read by every magik.
Put there once by you, read by every magik, corrected when reality moves. Full on day one, unlike the collections below.
Worth more in month six than in week one.
The collections belong to the lab, not to any single magik. Every magik reads them and every run adds to them, which is why this lab is worth more in month six than in week one.
| Client | Amount | Sent | Silent for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kitchen, Mr Perrin | 4,850 € | 21 Jul | 18 d |
| Fencing, Les Ormes | 1,290 € | 30 Jul | 9 d |
| Bathroom, Ms Castel | 6,400 € | 2 Aug | 6 d |
Invented for this page. Your Quotes collection starts empty and fills as you work.
It wears your name, not ours.
The same lab, under your name, your colours and your logo. Your customers never see ours.
AskMOJOOn the Pro plan, and not needed to take a lab. A fully bespoke theme exists as an upgrade, hand built rather than self-serve.
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Google SheetsAnd whatever you already use: any tool available through an API or an MCP server, connected with your own account.
A tool built for exactly your job, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This is for the jobs nothing covers, or the ones spread across three tools today.
By giving the customer a reason to reply rather than a reminder that they owe you an answer: naming the job, saying what is still available, giving a date after which the price moves. The lab writes that from your quote and your own way of writing, and you read it before it goes.
That is the same collection read from the other end: which requests you received, which ones you have not priced, how long they have been sitting. A quote you never sent is a job lost more quietly than one refused, and it is the easiest kind to see coming.
Nobody here is going to invent a figure to answer that. What the lab does is write the text at the length of the channel you already use with that customer, short for a message, longer for an email that has to stand alone. Sending it is still your move.
No. The lab spots the quotes that went quiet and writes the follow-up; you read it and you send it. In a trade where a quote turns on trust, a follow-up sent unread costs more than a quote forgotten.
It is written from your quote, your rates and your own way of writing, which you put in once. It names the job it is about, not your request. And the follow-ups that ended in a signature stay in a collection, which gives the lab something to aim with next time.
From your quotes and what happened after them: a reply, a signature, nothing. Three weeks of silence is a fact, not a guess. You are the one who says from when a quote counts as dormant, and that rule is a resource you write.
As many as you decided, and that number is a rule you write, along with when to stop. Stopping matters as much as starting: a quote chased four times has become an annoyance, and the customer who did not answer twice has usually answered.
No. Pricing a job means knowing the site, the access and what your supplier charged you this month, and that is your work. This idea starts once the quote has gone out, at the moment it goes quiet, which is where the money is actually lost.
A tool built for exactly tradespeople and small firms, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This lab is for the jobs no tool covers, or the ones spread across three tools today, and it runs under your name.
Every audience is still open.
Nobody has taken a square on this idea yet. You declare your audience when you take the lab (“roofers in Brittany”, “plumbers around Paris”), and two people can start from the same idea on two different audiences without getting in each other’s way.
Applies Consulting Studio to this job.
And it wears your name, not ours.
The bundle describes a lab that does not exist yet : the jobs it would do, and an example of each output.
Open Knowledge Format : plain markdown, re-importable into any agent. No account, no lock-in.
Your site notes become the report: what was decided, who owes what, by when. Written before the next meeting.
GmailYour grant file is checked before you send it, so it does not come back three weeks later because one paper is missing.
Web searchThe customer describes the noise. They get a plain explanation, a price range and whether it can wait. Before they call three other garages.
The estimate is drafted and the job is logged, without you writing it twice.
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