Price it.
Send it.
Keep the margin.
Walk the site, drop the docs, or just describe the job — quote ready in minutes.
The bottleneck
You're not short of work.
You're short of time.
Good builders and subcontractors aren't short of work. Referrals come in. Repeat customers call. New builds need a number. The phone keeps ringing — demand isn't the problem.
Time is. Construction is the fastest-paced industry there is — first quote in usually wins, and “we need it yesterday” is the standard pace. But every job needs hours of reconciling first: photos, WhatsApp threads, scribbled measurements, supplier prices, dimensions only in your head. That sit-down step — turning the chaos into a number you can stand behind — is what's holding you back.
In an ideal world you'd have a quantity surveyor on a shelf, doing the maths while you focus on delivering. But QSs cost a bomb — and in this game, the winners aren't the ones with the biggest team on the books. They're the ones who get through their work and keep the overhead lean.
Focus on the job, serve your customers, close the laptop.
The honest reality — your margins
Your bank balance isn't your margin.
Most builders and subcontractors judge success by what's in the business account — high means smashing it, low means underpricing the next job to keep the lads going. The real number is project-level profit: what's making money, what's leaking. And every variation you did for free, because submitting one takes longer than doing the work, is margin walking out the door.
QS Pilot tracks profit and loss per project and lets you price a variation on-site — sent to the client, captured in the final account.
Stop working for free.
The whole app
Your business, four screens.
No menus to learn. No setup wizards. Open the app and you’re already where you need to be.
Home
Every project, every status, on one screen.
Projects
Swipe through. Log spend, add extras, close out final accounts.
Spend
Where the money's going, before it runs out.
Docs
Drop receipts, plans, invoices. Route them when you’re ready.
From brief to finished quote
From the brief to a quote that wins.
However the job lands, you get a priced, itemised quote you can stand behind — in minutes. Then QS Pilot keeps protecting that margin, all the way to final account.
Price the job, your way.
Bring the brief however it comes — photos with typed measurements, a tender doc or drawing shared from email or WhatsApp, or just type it. QS Pilot reads all of it and drafts a priced schedule of works, line by line — rate-book rates dropped into place, anything missing priced from first principles.
Make every line yours.
Tap any line to see why it’s priced that way — right down to the labour, materials and plant build-up behind the rate. Swap the whole line for one of your own rates, or change just the labour, materials or plant part, without rebuilding the quote. QS Pilot even flags what you might’ve missed, and you can chat any line through until you’re happy. Your quote, your numbers.
Send a quote that looks the part.
Export a branded schedule of works in a tap — every line itemised, payment stages laid out, your logo on top. Not a two-line text, not a Word doc the customer has to ring you to understand. A quote that does the selling for you.
Then it protects the margin you won.
The quote’s just the start. Log spend in seconds as it goes out — receipts, invoices, day rates — and see it against budget at a glance. Capture variations on site and get them signed off the same day. At the end, QS Pilot rolls it all into a final account with your profit shown. The margin you priced in is the margin you keep.
The calculator
What's 80% of that time back worth to you?
Two numbers. We'll show you what 80% looks like.
That's 8 hours a week back — for meeting clients, inspecting sites, winning the next job. The work that actually grows the business.
From the founder
I've watched this happen for ten years.
The same story, over and over. Someone brilliant on the tools sets up their own company, grows it, turns over real money — and the commercial side runs them ragged. Not for lack of ability — it's just a discipline of its own, and not one you learn on the tools.
The people who know this discipline sit on the other side of the table — main contractor and client QSs whose job is to negotiate your margins down. I've been one of them for over a decade.
I've also spent the last two years using AI tools to augment my own QS work. I'm not going to pretend they're magic — they get you 80% of the way there in a fraction of the time. That's leverage, and big firms have been quietly compounding it for years.
QS Pilot puts that leverage in your hands. The bottleneck for businesses your size isn't the work — it's the admin around the work. This is the first tool in a much bigger plan. The people who join us now shape what comes next.
Everything you get
Everything that moves the needle.
Free for 30 days, then £49 a month.
- 01
A managed UK rate book — plus your own rates
Thousands of UK rates curated by commercial professionals — and the catalogue keeps growing. Missing a rate? Email us and we'll add it. Your own day rates and supplier prices are one tap away on any line.
- 02
Capture the job however suits you
Walk the site and snap photos. Drop in a tender doc, drawing or spec PDF, or just type the job out. QS Pilot reads all of it and structures it into a quote.
- 03
A first-draft quote, priced before you touch it
Line items dropped into place from the rate book. Where there's no match, QS Pilot does a rate search or builds from first principles. Half the battle — laying out the scope and knowing what to price — done.
- 04
Interrogate every line item
Tap any item. Ask why the rate is what it is. Get a list of things you might've missed. Chat through the assumptions until the line reads right — paste the answer straight into the customer email if you want.
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See exactly how each rate is built up
Toggle between the measured rate and the labour / materials / plant split behind it. See where the cost is coming from, and swap any one part — different supplier, different team, different rate — without rebuilding the quote.
- 06
Track your margin, live
See the labour / materials / plant split on every job, live. Catch a loss-making job before you've spent £10k, not after.
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Customer-ready quote PDFs
Branded, itemised, sent from the site. No re-typing on Monday morning, no Word docs at the kitchen table.
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Variations and final account, captured as you go
Every extra and variation logged on site, sent to the customer the same day, rolled into a final account statement at the end. You stop forgetting the paper trail that stops you getting paid.
- 09
30 days, on the house
GuaranteeUse QS Pilot free for 30 days. No card required to start. If it's not for you, walk away — we don't even know your card number.
- 10
Ed prices a job with you, free
GuaranteeIf, after your first paid month, you don't feel QS Pilot is paying its way — Ed personally gets on a call and prices your next job with you. A decade of QS expertise, applied to your live work, free.
Pricing
Try it free for 30 days. Then £49/mo.
No card up front. If after your first paid month it isn't paying its way, I'll personally price your next job with you on a call.
- Unlimited quotes & projects
- Photo capture + document share from email & WhatsApp
- AI line-item extraction
- Managed UK rate book, refreshed quarterly
- Your own rates drop in and override the defaults
- Branded PDF export with your logo
- Variations & final account workflow
- Live cost tracking & profit margins
- iOS now · Android coming
Our promises
FAQ
The stuff you're about to ask.
Is this actually going to replace a real QS?
How does the free trial work?
Can I pay yearly instead of monthly?
What's the "I'll price a job with you" guarantee?
What if QS Pilot gets the numbers wrong?
Is the rate book really kept up to date?
Does it work without signal on site?
Is my data safe?
I'm setting up on my own — is this app right for me?
I'm a sole trader doing extensions — is this overkill?
Is there an Android version?
Can I cancel any time?
30 days free · £49/mo after · no card required
Stop losing Sunday evenings
to spreadsheets.
Try QS Pilot free for 30 days. £49/mo after that. If it isn't paying its way after your first paid month, I'll personally price your next one with you on a call.
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