Sample estimate · Foremind
Speed-to-estimate proof

A whole estimate, returned in under 2 minutes.

What a contractor hands Foremind on intake, and what lands in the inbox 102 seconds after — the band below pins both sides of that arrow so the card you’re about to read is grounded in the inputs that built it.

From intake to tender-ready bid

What arrives in 102 seconds — and what had to go in first.

Foremind doesn’t invent numbers — it reads the same intake a contractor can pull together on a 4G signal, then turns the drawings, photos, and scope notes into a structured bid the moment the intake closes.

What you submit
The same intake a contractor hands off today — nothing retyped, nothing reformatted before it’s useful.
  • Drawings (PDF) — the floorplan or permit set, even a phone-pad sketch
  • Site photos — kitchen, bath, the wall you’re opening up
  • Voice memos and scope notes — “demo this, keep that, swap the range wall”
  • Rough square footage and a one-line description of the work
What Foremind returns
The same job, already structured into a worked bid ready to send or adjust.
  • Line items grouped by category — demolition through fixtures
  • Totals broken into materials, labor, permits, overhead, and margin
  • Labor by trade — hours, crew, and the rate behind the number
  • A phased timeline — start/end dates, days, and the deliverable per phase
  • A clean PDF download — the same bid, ready to hand to the client

Intake → 102 seconds → Tender-ready bid.

The card below shows both ends of that arrow landing on the same job — the same scope notes, the same line items a contractor would have spent the morning drafting by hand.

Side by side

What manual estimating costs in hours — and what Foremind does in two minutes.

The hours below aren’t a worst case — they’re the median on a single-family remodel. Foremind returns the same bid in the time it takes to walk back to the truck, and the rest of the day goes back into bids, not paperwork.

Manual drafting

~6–16 hours · a full workday to a full workweek

A contractor’s best estimator, drafting the same bid by hand between walkthroughs and supplier callbacks.
  • Takeoff from printed plans — measure, count, list
  • Three to five supplier calls for current material pricing
  • Build the bid spreadsheet — categories, units, subtotals
  • Labor calc by trade — hours × crew rate, looked up by hand
  • Roll overhead + margin into the grand total
  • Second pass after the client revises the scope
Foremind

~102 seconds · under 2 minutes

The same bid, structured and totaled the moment intake closes — ready for the contractor to review, adjust, and send.
  • Line items grouped by category — demolition through fixtures
  • Totals — materials, labor, permits, overhead, margin, grand total
  • Labor by trade — hours and crew per phase
  • A phased timeline with start dates, durations, and deliverables
  • A clean, shareable PDF — ready to hand to the client
  • Editable in the live estimator — so revisions don’t start from zero

The hours saved aren’t a smaller team — they’re more bids out the door each week, with the same people.

See the three steps that get you there — or grab an early-access slot.

Walk through how intake, drafting, and live operations fit together before you hand the clipboard over — or drop your email for the early access list and we'll send a single note when your spot opens.

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