About BayQuote
Who's behind this, and why it exists.
I'd waited days myself for a landscaping quote on my own house, and figured it was just bad luck, until I heard the same story from a few different friends, working on totally unrelated projects. They'd call around for a patio or a yard cleanup, and then just wait. Sometimes a full week would go by before a landscaper got back to them with an actual number.
That stuck with me, so I started looking into how contractors actually put a quote together. It's not that the work is hard: walk the site, figure out the scope, do the math against your own price list, then type it all up and send it. But that's exactly the kind of task that gets pushed to the end of a long day, and the customer just moves on to whoever calls them back first.
I build software for a living, and I'd seen firsthand how much faster AI could make work like that: turning something that used to take real time into something that takes seconds. It seemed like a good fit for exactly this problem: read a few site photos and a contractor's own price book, and draft the quote automatically instead of making them build it from scratch after a full day of physical work. So I built BayQuote to do that.
Most quoting software built for the trade tries to run a contractor's entire business: scheduling, invoicing, crew dispatch, the works. That's a lot of software (and a lot of monthly cost) if what you actually need is a faster, more professional way to get a price in front of a customer before someone else does. BayQuote does one thing well: turn a few site photos and a quick description into a professional, itemized quote your customer can accept from their phone, often before you've even left the driveway. Just quoting, done properly. No scheduling, no CRM, no per-seat math.
It's early, and I'm building it myself, in the open. If you're using BayQuote and something's confusing, broken, or missing, I'd genuinely like to hear about it. I read every email that comes in.