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A bathroom fitter takes a call, and the caller wants a number. The honest answer is "I need to come and look at it," which is true and also the moment a good proportion of those callers ring someone else.

The alternative most trades fall back on is a number off the top of their head. That is worse: it is either too high and loses the job, or too low and gets held to it eight weeks later when the materials came in dearer than remembered.

A guided questionnaire that asks the fifteen questions a fitter would ask anyway — room size, strip-out or makeover, spec level, tiling height, floor type — and prices the answers against a real materials list and Northwest England day rates.

The architectural decision that matters most: the language model only asks the questions. It never sees a price and never does the arithmetic. Costing runs in a deterministic engine against a priced catalogue, so the same answers always produce the same number and every figure can be traced back to a named supplier listing.

The estimate builds live as the call goes on, broken into labour, materials, plant and contingency, with a "show how this was built" trail behind it. The fitter can read the range out loud with a straight face because they can see exactly where it came from.

The caller gets a provisional range before they hang up, and the fitter gets a job sheet already filled in for the site survey. The number is explicitly provisional and subject to survey, which is the honest framing — this replaces the guess, not the visit.

To a real number

~1 min

Materials priced

50

LLM does the maths

£0