Now live for iOS & web

Speak the job.
Send the quote.

Talk through the job like you would to the customer standing in front of you. GafferMate turns it into a branded, itemised quote in your own prices — checked and ready to send before you're back in the van.

Built from your own prices
Works with no signal on site
iOS app, Face ID login
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Carter & Son Building07xxx · carterbuilding.co.uk
QUOTEGM-0412
Demolish & clear existing wall
1 sum @ £320.00
£320.00
New brick wall, 6.0m × 1.8m
10.8 m² @ £185.00
£1,998.00
Waste removal & skip
1 each @ £240.00
£240.00
Subtotal£2,558.00
VAT (20%)£511.60
Total£3,069.60
How it works

Three steps. No paperwork.

Everything happens between arriving on site and getting back in the van.

1

Speak it

Hit the mic and talk through the job like you're explaining it to the customer standing next to you. No forms, no dropdowns, no typing with cold hands.

2

Check the maths

GafferMate builds the quote from your own price list and shows the working for every calculation — nothing's a black box, and anything it's had to estimate is flagged.

3

Send it

The customer gets a branded, itemised PDF quote on their phone. They accept or decline in a tap — you get notified the second they do.

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The work nobody invoices

What is quoting costing you?

Quoting is admin you never bill for. Drag the sliders — your numbers, not ours.

Count the ones that never came off, too — you still did the work.

4

Measuring up, working it out, typing it up, chasing it.

45 min

Your day rate divided by the hours you actually work it.

£45
Quoting is costing you£6,480a year in unbilled time

144 hours a year — about 3.6 working weeks

GafferMate is £359.88 a year. Set it against £6,480 and decide for yourself.

These are your figures, not ours — we’ve not measured anyone’s time and we won’t pretend we have. GafferMate simply does the working out for you: it takes the job off your voice or your drawings, prices it from your own rates, and tells you what you’ve left out.

What it actually does

Everything a real quote needs — nothing it doesn't

No feature you don't need on site. Every one of these is built for the tools trade already uses — your own price list, your own paperwork, your own numbers.

Talk it, don't type it

Speak the job out loud and get a professional, branded, itemised quote in your own prices — ready before you're back in the van.

12.4m² floor ÷ 0.36m² per box34.4 boxes
+10% cutting waste38 boxes
38 boxes @ £42.00£1,596.00

No price list yet? Just snap one

Photograph a stack of old quotes or invoices and GafferMate reads them — not just your prices, but how long each job took you and how many were on it. That's the bit nobody else captures, and it's what stops the app guessing your labour.

Said it wrong? Say it again

Voice-edit any quote after it's built — or hold the mic on a single line and say "make that twenty bags at sixty quid". Change a quantity, a rate, a description, without re-doing the job.

It reads the architect's drawings

Send over the plans and it takes off quantities from the written dimensions — telling you which sheet each one came from, and saying so plainly when a dimension isn't on the drawing rather than inventing one.

It won't let you forget the foundations

Before the quote lands it checks its own work: walls with nothing under them, a roof structure with no covering, a staircase with no balustrade. The things that cost you money months later, caught before the customer sees it.

Your customer gets a builder's estimate

You work in seventy lines. Your customer sees a dozen headed sections with a figure against each — foundations, roof coverings, second fix — the way you'd hand it over on paper. Same money, one page.

Know what you're owed

One screen: what's outstanding, what's gone past your terms, and the one nobody expects — work you've had accepted and never invoiced. Mark it paid without opening the job.

Customers sign off from their phone

They get a quote link, accept or decline in a tap, with the UK cancellation-rights notice built in automatically. You're covered.

Quote to invoice, one tap

An accepted quote becomes an invoice instantly — CIS deductions and the VAT domestic reverse charge worked out for you.

Designed on site, not in an office

Built for the site, not the office

Every screen is built for one hand, bright sun, and gloves that don't come off between jobs.

Readable in full sun

High contrast, big text — no squinting at a screen with the sun behind you on a scaffold.

Built to hit first time

Every button's a proper target, not a tiny tick-box you have to stab at with a cold thumb.

Keeps working with no signal

No bars in the loft or the basement? Speak the job anyway — it queues and builds the quote the second you're back online.

iOS app with Face ID

One glance and you're in. No typing passwords with dusty hands between jobs.

On-screen, at a glance

Built thumb-first

Every primary action sits inside a target big enough to hit with a gloved thumb on the first try — not shrunk down to fit a desktop layout.

Pricing

One plan. £29.99 a month.

Everything unlocked, no tiers to work out. First 14 days are free — no card needed to start.

£29.99/month
First 14 days free, no card needed. Cancel any time after.
Every feature unlocked — voice quoting, calculators, structural takeoff, invoicing
No card needed to start your trial
Import your own price list in minutes
Cancel any time, no questions
Start your free 14-day trial

Then £29.99/month. Cancel any time.

Questions

Straight answers

Is this just AI guessing my prices?
No. GafferMate only prices from your own price list — the rates, materials and labour costs you've set up. If it has to estimate something you haven't priced, it flags that clearly on the quote instead of quietly guessing.
What if I've got no signal on site?
Speak the job anyway. GafferMate queues it and builds the quote the moment you're back online — nothing's lost.
Can I fix a quote after it's built?
Yes — voice-edit it. Say what needs to change and the quote updates, no re-doing the job from the mic.
Does it handle CIS and VAT reverse charge?
Yes. When an accepted quote becomes an invoice, CIS deductions and the VAT domestic reverse charge are applied automatically where they apply.
What happens when a customer accepts?
They accept or decline from their own phone. Acceptance includes the UK cancellation-rights notice by law, and you're notified the moment they respond.
My books are in QuickBooks — is that a problem?
No. Connect QuickBooks once and your quotes go across as estimates and your invoices as invoices, so you're not typing anything twice. GafferMate is the bit that works out what goes on the quote — your own rates, how long the job takes you, and what you've forgotten. QuickBooks stays where your books live.
How does it know how long a job takes me?
You tell it, once. When it has to guess a duration it says so on the line and asks — how many days, and who's on it, because two craftsmen and a craftsman with a labourer are different money. It remembers, and it never asks again. Photograph a few old quotes and it learns your times from those instead.
Does my customer see every single line?
Only if you want them to. By default a big job is grouped into a dozen headed sections with a figure against each, the way you'd write it out by hand. One tick shows them the full breakdown instead. The total is identical either way.
What happens after the 14-day trial?
It's £29.99 a month, cancel any time. No card is taken to start the trial, so there's no surprise charge — when the 14 days are up, quoting pauses until you subscribe, and everything you've built stays saved.
Ready when you are

Stop writing quotes at the kitchen table

Speak it on site, send it before you've packed the van up. Free for 14 days, no card needed.

Start your free 14-day trial