The problem

A renovation contractor in Rabat spends a full week pricing each tender: reading specs, listing work items, looking up unit prices. Slow quotes mean lost tenders.

The solution, step by step

  1. Maintain the unit price library in Airtable: work items, materials, labor rates, margins by project type.
  2. Upload the client spec (PDF) to a Make scenario that extracts the text.
  3. Claude reads the spec, breaks it into standard work items, and matches each to the Airtable price library with quantities.
  4. The output is a draft bill of quantities; the estimator reviews unmatched items and adjusts quantities.
  5. Make generates the final quote document with company branding, totals and payment terms.
  6. Result and estimated gains

    • Quoting time cut from 5 days to less than one.
    • The company answers 3x more tenders with the same team.
    • Fewer forgotten line items, protecting 2 to 5% of margin per project.