In practice

Quote it by saying it

Every operation in the app is a tool the chat can call, so a cabinet shop can price work by describing it — with your materials and your rates doing the arithmetic.

Cabinet Makers Chat

Quote 14 linear feet of frameless uppers in prefinished maple, 6 doors, soft-close, sprayed inside and out

Called 5 tools

  • find_material("maple ply, prefinished, 3/4")
  • estimate_sheet_yield(linear_feet: 14, waste: 0.12)
  • add_hardware(doors: 6, set: "soft-close hinge")
  • apply_labor(cut: 2.5, assemble: 4.0, spray: 3.0)
  • price_quote(margin: 0.34)

4.2 sheets, 6 hinge sets, 9.5 shop hours. Materials $612, labor $655, overhead $171 → quoted at $2,185.

Every number here came from your costing engine. The model picked the tools and filled in the arguments — it never does the arithmetic.

What makes costing hard in a cabinet shop

  • Sheet goods priced per sheet, but jobs consume partial sheets and offcuts
  • Hardware counts that scale with door and drawer count, not with square footage
  • Finish costs that depend on which faces get sprayed, not on the box size
  • Shop hours split across cutting, assembly, finishing and install

Typical materials

  • Sheet goods, by species and thickness
  • Edgebanding, by roll and linear foot
  • Hinges, slides and pulls
  • Finish, by the gallon and by coverage

Costed in

sheets, linear feet, each

A formula might look like

(sheets × sheet cost ÷ yield) + (doors × hardware set) + (spray hours × shop rate)

What it does

Built to handle exactly this

The same four pieces, set up around how a cabinet shop actually works.

Materials with your attributes

Define the fields your cabinet shop tracks, not a generic SKU with a quantity. Sheet goods, by species and thickness sits alongside everything else you buy.

Purchase units to usage units

Set the conversion and the waste factor once. Quote in sheets, linear feet, each without redoing the arithmetic every time.

Your real labor rates

Separate rates per operation, so the expensive steps carry their own cost instead of hiding inside an average.

Your pricing formula

Minimums, quantity breaks and margin, applied the same way on every quote regardless of who wrote it.

Reprice when costs move

Change one material price and see every affected quote immediately — before a customer finds it for you.

A defensible breakdown

Show materials, labor and overhead separately when someone asks why the number is what it is.

Early access

Get in early as a cabinet shop

Set up your materials and rates once, and quote the way a cabinet shop actually works — by clicking or by asking.

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  • No card, no trial clock, no sales call
  • Import your existing parts list to start

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Know what the job costs before you quote it

Built around how a cabinet shop actually prices work.

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