The AI photo estimator · auto body shops
How the AI estimator writes a collision estimate.
When a job can legitimately go more than one way, the Quoter drafts every route and hands them to you as peers, with no recommendation. Picking one is a judgment about this car, this customer and this insurer, and that judgment is yours.
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Read this before you judge it
Most of an estimate isn't a choice at all. On the job below — a rear hit that moved the quarter — 11 lines get written, and 8 of them are identical whichever route you take. The bumper still comes off. The body panel still gets pulled. The scan still happens. Only 3 lines actually change.
8 lines identical·3 lines move
Any tool that presents a repair as three wildly different worlds is selling you drama. The honest version is narrower, and less impressive-looking, and true.
The Quoter · the job on the bench
Rear hit, offside. Bumper cover scuffed, tail lamp cracked, rear body panel moved, and the quarter panel creased above the wheel arch. The quarter is where the routes split.
Tap a route to see its estimate. There's no recommended one — that call belongs to the shop.
Why we don't tell you which one
- We can't see the carA photo shows the cover. How far the crease traveled, how the metal behaves under a hammer — that's your tech with his hands on it.Your tech decides
- We don't know the dealWhose claim it is, what the customer wants, what this insurer has been doing lately, how loaded your bench is this week. All of it changes the answer.Your shop decides
- It's your name on itThe shop carries the repair, the warranty and the liability. A tool that picks for you is a tool taking a decision it can't stand behind.You decide
What the Quoter does do
- Drafts all three, in fullEvery route written out as a whole estimate. None of them a summary of the others.
- Writes on what the base time leaves outThe not-included operations go on every route, so nothing quietly falls off the ticket.
- Checks the 8 that don't changeThe lines that are the same whichever way you go have to be right on all three.
- Stops, and waits for a personNothing reaches your customer until somebody at your shop taps Approve. The bots draft. You decide.
The estimate above is an illustration of how routes are presented — a sample job with sample operations, not a quote, a price list, or advice about how to write or bill an estimate. Your estimator writes your estimates.
Want to watch it draft routes on one of your own jobs? Twenty seconds — name, business, cell.
Get my demo →What happens after you tap it
- You tap send. Name, business and cell. Nothing else, and no card.
- A real person reads it. One of our specialists — people who have worked a shop floor — not a call center.
- You get a home page of YOUR business. Your name, your services, your bots answering the chat — a real home page for your business, not the whole site. Hand-built, not generated: it takes 12 to 48 hours, and a page built from your business name, to look at now.