QuoteMaker was built by a software team and a working builder. Rodney Bird, managing director of RJ Bird Building Pty Limited, has run his Sydney strata remediation crew for years: site inspections, scope of works, panel applications, defect rectification. The work was the work. The quoting paperwork was the tax.
Senior estimators, people with twenty years of trade knowledge, spent half their week in Excel formatting cells. Quotes went out three days late, lost to whoever responded first. Compliance items got missed. Margins eroded.
The work was technical and satisfying. The paperwork was soul-destroying.
Generic AI was no help: it hallucinated trades, invented prices, and couldn’t read a site photo. So we built something specific. Construction-trained, Australia-hosted, builder-controlled.
QuoteMaker is the tool Rodney wished he had on every Friday night, built with a software team that wanted to get it right.
Peter Hur, founder, The SEEN Group · with Rodney Bird, RJ Bird Building