AI win. 

This week I plugged my services price list into Maple and built a prompt that output a pastable estimating protocol that asks me questions one at a time to determine:
- the estimate #
- the customer’s name
- what hourly billed equipment needs to be mobilized
- what hourly billed specific workers need to be mobilized, using what daily billed vehicles for transport 
- what hourly billed vehicles will be used to haul equipment including load and unload time
- what specific timed tasks need to happen on the site and what is included as part of the scope of work for each item
- how much setup time and tear down time is required
- whether it’s a multi day job
- whether the crew needs hotels and living out per diems 
- what the daily travel is from accommodations to site
- what assumptions and exceptions apply to the estimate price

All I do now is paste the protocol into a model and tell it to ask me questions about the job one by one when I am out in the field, and output an estimate. It prompts me for the answers to the questions, drafts a cost breakdown that I can review for the AI’s accuracy, and the text of a copyable email that I can paste into the body of an email to the customer. 

It’s wild. There’s not a single business in my town that deploys workers and equipment that wouldn’t instantly leverage their sales people with this. My mind is spinning. 

I even did some tests with using a model to accept photographs, pdfs or the the text of others’ service price lists, and turn them into tab delimited tables that can be pasted into estimating protocols for other businesses. Works like a dream.

One step closer to exiting employment.