Why voice?
Typing doesn't work when you're holding a spanner. Most on-site quoting ends up as “I'll email it tonight”, and tonight turns into three days later. QuickPrice's voice-to-quote flips that: you describe the job while you're standing in front of it, the app prices it, and the quote's in the customer's inbox before you've loaded the van.
Voice input is particularly strong for plumbers mid-job, roofers on scaffold, heating engineers checking flue runs, and electricians in tight cupboards. If you can talk through the job, you can quote it.
What the AI does with your voice
The voice recording is transcribed and passed to the Gemini-powered AI quoting engine. From an unstructured voice description (“two-day bathroom refit, rip out the suite, new shower, basin, toilet, re-tile the walls, all new pipework”), it extracts:
- The trade category (plumbing, bathroom fitting, etc.)
- Materials and quantities with appropriate wastage
- Labour days / hours based on scope complexity
- Trade-specific line items (tanking, second fix, commissioning , the things customers don't know to ask for)
- VAT at the correct rate
You review the line items, tweak anything that's off, and send. The customer gets a branded PDF with your logo, VAT number, and payment terms.
Tips for clearer voice quotes
The more context you give, the better the result. A good voice description includes:
- Scope summary, what the customer wants done, in plain English
- Materials spec, “porcelain tiles” not just “tiles”; “25kW combi” not just “boiler”
- Access notes, loft access, scaffold required, awkward pipe runs; these affect labour time
- Any customer-supplied items, so they come out of the materials total
You can combine voice with photos and video in the same quote , voice is often the fastest way to add nuance that images can't capture.
Privacy and data handling
Voice recordings are transmitted to QuickPrice's backend, transcribed, and processed by the AI pricing engine. We don't store raw audio beyond what's needed to produce the quote, drafts are retained in your account while the quote is pending, then the underlying audio is purged.
We use paid AI APIs that don't feed your data into model training. Your job descriptions, voice notes, and customer details stay yours. TODO: link to dedicated privacy/AI data handling page once written.