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Let the customer measure their own room, without betting a price on her tape measure
Every contractor who hears this idea has the same objection, and it is the right objection. You cannot quote off numbers a stranger read off a tape. So do not. Let the phone do it instead.
Two scans free. No card. Nothing for her to install.
Who writes about this, and who they write for
Search this phrase and almost everything on page one is furniture. How to measure your living room before you buy a sofa, how to avoid a layout mistake, how to check a doorway. Written for the homeowner, by people selling her a sectional.
The one page written for a trade is magicplan's, and it is called seven methods to take room measurements at a customer's home. At. You are still there. That is the honest shape of this whole category. The tools exist, they are good, and every one of them assumes the phone is in your hand or in your lead carpenter's hand.
Which leaves the actual question unanswered. Not how do I measure her room faster. How do I get measurements out of her house without being in it.
She measures, or her phone measures. Two different things.
This is the distinction the whole idea turns on, and nobody writing about it makes it.
If you ask a homeowner to measure, she gets a tape, reads it wrong at the corner, rounds to the nearest foot, measures to the trim instead of the wall, and sends you four numbers for a room that has six walls. You cannot price that and you should not try.
If she opens a link on a recent iPhone Pro, she is not measuring anything. She walks the room holding her phone and the LiDAR sensor measures it. Her job is to walk slowly and point the phone at the walls. The dimensions that come back were taken by a sensor, not by a person who has never held a tape before.
On any other phone there is no sensor to do it, so the fallback is photographs plus room sizes she types in. That is weaker and you should treat it as weaker. It is still better than a phone call, and the page below says exactly where the line is.
What comes back, by phone
| Recent iPhone Pro | Any other phone | |
|---|---|---|
| Who takes the dimensions | The phone, with LiDAR, while she walks the room | Her, typing the room sizes in |
| What the photographs do | Show condition, materials, obstacles and what is already there | Same, and they carry more weight because they are the reliable half |
| What you can price off it | Quantities, with the assumptions on the quote | A real range, and a firm number on the lines that do not depend on her figures |
| What you write on the quote | Priced from the capture, dated, attached | Priced from sizes supplied by the homeowner, dated, attached |
| What it is worth to you | A quote you can send | A decision about whether the drive is worth making |
Both outcomes are useful. They are not the same outcome, and a page that pretended otherwise would get you in trouble on the first job.
How one lead runs
You text her a link
No account, no download, no app store. It opens in the browser she already has open.
She walks the room
The screen tells her what to point at and what to photograph. Photos upload one at a time as she takes them, so a dropped signal in the back bedroom does not lose the first ten.
The scope is written for you
A vision model reads her photographs and a model writes out the scope brief. You correct it. Renders are generated if you want something to put in front of her.
Your prices make the number
Every line prices against your own cost book, with each quantity traceable to where it came from. The AI reads the room. It does not pick your prices.
What you still ask her for
Letting her capture the room does not mean accepting whatever turns up. The link shows you what is missing while she is still standing in the room, and going back for two photographs by text costs you nothing. Contractors who get the most out of this ask for the same few things every time.
- The wall the plumbing is on, from far enough back to see the whole wall
- Inside the sink cabinet, with the door open
- The electrical panel, and the label on the inside of its door
- Whatever she is unhappy with, close up, because that is the job she thinks she is buying
- A shot from the doorway of every room the crew has to walk through
What it costs
Two scans free with no card, so the first two leads cost you nothing but the text message. After that Solo is 79 dollars a month for one user and 20 scans. Crew is 149 for five users and 60 scans. Shop is 349 for unlimited users and 200 scans. Extra scans are 4 dollars each and nothing locks up when you run out.
A job one of your own people captures on site is not metered on any plan. That is what the seats are for. Yearly billing is two months free, and founding pricing stays locked for as long as the account is active. It closes on 30 November.
Questions contractors ask
What if she just will not do it?
Then you know that in an hour instead of after a two hour round trip. A homeowner who will not spend ten minutes on her own kitchen was rarely going to sign. Some of them come back and do it later, and those leads are worth more than the ones who never answered.
How accurate is the LiDAR capture?
Good enough to quote quantities from on a normal room, which is the test that matters. It is not a survey instrument and we do not sell it as one. The quote carries the capture date and what it was priced from, so the basis of the number is on the page.
Does she need an iPhone?
No. A recent iPhone Pro gets you the LiDAR capture. Everything else falls back to photographs plus typed room sizes, which still moves the lead forward and still tells you whether the drive is worth making.
Is she sending this to three contractors at once?
Possibly, and that is fine. You are the one who came back with a priced scope the same evening while the others were offering Thursday afternoon.
Does it connect to my CRM?
Through Zapier, yes. That is the connection we have and it is the only claim we make about it.
Can my own crew use it instead?
Yes, and those captures are not metered on any plan. Plenty of shops run it both ways, the homeowner for qualifying and the crew for the jobs that are already sold.
Try it on two leads
Two scans, no card, no setup call. Send the link to the next two leads you would have driven to and read what comes back before you decide anything about it.