Who hurts
Solo tradespeople — plumbers, electricians, landscapers — who quote from their van.
The problem
Quotes get written at 9pm after a full day of work, or not at all. Slow quotes lose jobs to whoever replied first, and the trade knows it.
What you build
Photograph the job, speak a few notes, and get a formatted quote with line items priced from the trade's own rate card and local material costs — reviewed and sent from the phone in two minutes.
Why now
Vision models can identify fixtures and scope from a photo, and this audience already runs the whole business from a phone.
Validate it this week
Ride along with three trades for a day each. Write their quotes on your laptop from their photos. You'll learn the pricing rules that make or break it.
Why you'd keep winning
Per-trade rate card structure and local material pricing. Deeply unglamorous, which is exactly why it holds.
The honest risk
Hard audience to reach — they don't read tech newsletters. Distribution runs through suppliers, trade associations and word of mouth.
The prompt is written to make an AI argue with you before it writes code — that first round of pushback is worth more than the scaffold.