Stop Spending Your Evenings Quoting: How Aidtrade Helps Busy Tradies Save Time

If you’re like most trades business owners, your workday doesn’t end when you leave the job site.

After a full day on the tools comes the admin—reviewing notes, calculating labour and materials, preparing estimates, and responding to customers. Before you know it, another evening has disappeared behind a laptop.

The good news? Quoting doesn’t have to be this time-consuming.

Aidtrade was built to help trades businesses generate estimates in minutes instead of hours, allowing you to spend less time on paperwork and more time growing your business.

The Hidden Cost of Manual Quoting

Preparing a quality estimate takes time.

Industry estimates suggest that trades businesses spend between 30 minutes and two hours preparing a typical estimate or quote, depending on the complexity of the project. Larger residential or commercial jobs can take even longer.

Now consider if your business prepares:

• 5 estimates per week
• 10 estimates per week
• 20 estimates per week

That’s several hours every week spent completing repetitive pricing calculations.

Over the course of a year, those hours quickly add up.

Generate an Estimate Anywhere, Anytime

With Aidtrade, quoting becomes as simple as opening an app.

Whether you’re:

• On a job site
• Sitting in your ute between jobs
• Speaking with a customer over the phone
• Working from the office
• At home catching up on admin

Simply log into Aidtrade, click “New Estimate” , answer a series of guided questions, and the platform instantly generates a detailed estimate for your review.

No spreadsheets.

No calculators.

No starting from scratch.

AI That Uses Your Business Logic

One of the biggest misconceptions about AI is that it simply guesses.

Aidtrade works differently.

Rather than generating random prices, the platform uses your business’s own:

• Labour rates
• Material costs
• Product pricing
• Mark-ups
• Pricing rules

This means the estimate reflects how your business prices work—not how AI thinks it should.

The result is a realistic estimate that’s ready for you to review, edit if required, and send to your customer.

Faster Responses Mean Happier Customers

Aidtrade isn’t just useful back at the office.

Imagine a customer calls asking:

“Roughly how much would it cost to install a new switchboard?”

Instead of saying:

“I’ll work it out and call you back.”

You can generate an estimate while you’re still speaking with them.

Or perhaps you’re conducting a site inspection.

Rather than returning to the office to prepare a quote later that night, you can generate an estimate before you even leave the customer’s driveway.

Customers appreciate quick answers—and businesses benefit from faster speed to lead.

Save Hours Every Week

Many businesses find that estimates which previously took 30–60 minutes can be prepared in just a few minutes, with the final step simply being your review before sending.

The time savings are significant.

For example:

• 10 estimates per week
• 30 minutes saved per estimate
• 5 hours saved every week

That’s more than 250 hours every year —equivalent to over six full working weeks.

Imagine what you could do with that extra time.

More Than Just Faster Quotes

Aidtrade helps businesses do more than simply speed up estimating.

The platform also helps you:

• Reduce repetitive admin
• Create more consistent pricing across your team
• Respond to enquiries faster
• Improve the customer experience
• Spend less time behind a computer and more time running your business

The Future of Quoting

AI isn’t here to replace the expertise of trades professionals.

It’s here to remove the repetitive, manual work that slows businesses down.

By combining AI with your own business’s pricing logic, Aidtrade helps generate estimates faster, while still keeping you in complete control of the final price.

Whether you’re on-site, in the ute, over the phone or in the office, Aidtrade helps you produce professional estimates in minutes—giving you back valuable time to focus on what matters most: growing your business.

You can start your 30-day free trial with Aidtrade.ai today and add an instant price estimator to your website and campaigns in minutes.