Landscaping Estimating Software Built for Subbies

The quantities come off the drawing, not a spreadsheet. Softscape areas — turf, garden beds, mulch — measured as calibrated polygons off the landscape plan; Hardscape — paving, decking, concrete paths — as areas with edge restraints measured as lengths; Retaining walls measured as lengths with heights noted, so face area and footings both derive; Planting counted per item from the schedule, by species and pot size; Irrigation runs measured as lengths with heads and valves counted per zone — each one measured or counted on the calibrated sheet, each one a line in a live Bill of Quantities that stays tied to the markup that produced it.

A display-home front and rear yard: one landscape plan, calibrated against the site boundary dimensions. Polygons give 240 m² of turf, 85 m² of garden beds, and 96 m² of paving with 64 m of edge restraint; the retaining wall runs 18 m at a noted 600 mm; the AI counts 74 plants across six species off the schedule symbols — all visible marks you verify. The BoQ prices turf and mulch per m², paving per m² with edging per metre, the wall per face-m², plants per item by size — and the variation when the client doubles the paving is a polygon edit, not a re-estimate. Every number traces back to a markup on the sheet, so when the scope changes the estimate follows.

The AI agent can count the repetitive items, measure runs, and set the drawing scale, with every result reviewed before it commits. Then the rate side: ask for a rate on "supply and lay instant turf, prepared base, per m²" and it proposes one with reasoning — interpretation, labour-and-material basis, your market — anchored to the rates already in your bill. Never a bare number — a proposal you accept, revise, or dismiss.

LMN — landscape business management — crews, timesheets, budgets — wrapped around estimating for established companies. SingleOps — green-industry operations with CRM and routing where estimating is one module of many. Aspire — enterprise landscape operations platforms for large multi-crew businesses. ContractorCounter wins on the other side of that trade-off: speed to a priced quote, working anywhere, and a price a landscapers outfit can carry (US$14/month) instead of an enterprise licence.