Proof: three real runs, on the record
One real quote from photos to a sent price, one run it refused to price, and what a run costs. Every figure here is measured from a logged run, not marketing.
A real quote, start to finish
Q-2026-0061
Recorded — a real run from 2026-07-17.
- 1.A customer sent photos and a few words.
- 2.The machine read the photos into 6 scope lines and asked 6 questions instead of guessing.
- 3.Every one of the 6 lines was priced from the owner's own book — $1,872.00 in all.
- 4.The owner reviewed it and approved it.
- 5.The branded quote went to the customer.
- 6.The customer accepted it.
What it asked instead of guessing:
- Roughly how big is the living room — how long and how wide is the floor?
- Could not determine quantity for: Repaint living room ceiling
- Could not determine quantity for: Repaint door trim / casing
- Could not determine quantity for: Repaint window trim / casing
- Besides the hole near the door, how many scuffed or damaged spots need patching?
- What's the hole in the middle of the wall from — an old pipe, vent, or fixture?
Photos to a sent quote: 24.33 minutes.
The run where it said no
Q-2026-0076
What it read from the photos and words:
Repaint the exterior siding on this wall — the paint is faded and peeling in places.
The questions that blocked a price:
- Roughly how long is this wall along the ground, and how tall is it at the gutter?
- Could not determine quantity for: Prep-heavy scraping and feather-sanding of the concentrated peeling zones before priming
- Could not determine quantity for: Mask, protect, and cut in around aluminum downspout and gutter/fascia edge
- Could not determine quantity for: Protect adjacent concrete driveway/walk, lawn and foundation plantings during wash, scrape and spray/roll
- Actual wall length and height - nothing in frame gives a reliable scale, and the far end of the wall is out of view.
- Substrate type: the grain pattern suggests hardboard/engineered lap, but it could be cedar - this changes primer selection.
- Whether the peeling paint is lead-bearing; house age is unknown and pre-1978 homes need containment.
Why it stopped, in its own words:
- Pressure wash, scrape, and sand peeling/failing paint on lap siding, spot-prime bare wood, then repaint the full wall elevation
- Prep-heavy scraping and feather-sanding of the concentrated peeling zones before priming
- Mask, protect, and cut in around aluminum downspout and gutter/fascia edge
- Protect adjacent concrete driveway/walk, lawn and foundation plantings during wash, scrape and spray/roll
No total. Nothing was sent.
A month of quoting, in one sitting
40 real jobs ran through the machine in 49 minutes of continuous run time — the volume a small shop quotes in a month, watched end to end.
The machine turned the photos into work lists and handed 92% of the lines back to the owner as measurement questions. It read at scale and still refused to guess.
The owner then supplied the measurements and drove 5 of them to sent quotes — $4,009 in all. The rest waited in the inbox, like a real Monday.
What a run costs
A run costs 25¢, drawn against an owner-funded test budget of $10.
The runs on this page were read by a paid cloud model. A private build reads on your own machine instead, where the running cost is about the electricity it draws.
A visitor never pays inside the app. There is no checkout here.