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Case Study · Field Quoting Platform

From Muddy Boots to a Review-Ready Quote.
On One Phone.

4h 20m

per quote

AltaPro AI built Zebra Landscaping a single app that takes a job from standing in the customer's yard to a review-ready quote — without the crew ever touching a spreadsheet.

The story

Capture the Job Once. Let the Tool Do the Rest.

A detailed landscaping quote is genuinely hard to produce quickly and consistently — irregular areas to measure, materials to price, and a clean estimate the customer will actually approve. Done the traditional way, it's a multi-step job that can take the better part of a day.

The insight we acted on: almost everything that quote needs is already there the moment a crew member is on site with a phone. The job was to capture it once and let the tool handle the rest.

The result cuts quoting from about four hours to under twenty minutes — and lets any crew member produce an accurate, consistent quote from the field, with a person always reviewing before it reaches a customer.

At a glance

Client
Zebra Landscaping
Industry
Landscaping & Outdoor Services
Location
Edmonton, Alberta
Build
Phone-first field quoting app
Result
4 hrs → under 20 min per quote
Status
Live in production
What we built

One Continuous Flow, From Yard to Quote.

The old process lived in four different tools. We collapsed it into one — here's the shape of it, at a high level.

01

Capture the job on site

A few photos, a quick walkthrough, and a spoken note or two are enough. The tool turns what's already in front of the crew into measured, quote-ready information — no clipboard, no spreadsheet.

02

Measure without a tape

The crew can measure a property straight from imagery, so accurate numbers come off the site itself rather than hours of office work.

03

A quote, ready for the CRM

Everything rolls up into a clean, itemized, priced quote on the company's own rates — sent through as a draft for a person to review before it ever reaches a customer.

Our approach

AI Does the Heavy Lifting. A Person Signs Off.

The tool takes the slow, error-prone parts off the crew's plate — but it never sends anything on its own. Every quote is reviewed by a person before it reaches a customer. Faster and more consistent, without giving up control over the numbers or the relationship.

Real deployment

A Tool the Crew Actually Uses.

This is a real, in-production tool — built for a non-technical crew, on a phone, in the field, and engineered for that reality. Any team member can produce an accurate, consistent quote on site from day one.

That's the difference between a slick demo and something a business runs on every day.

Landscaped property in Edmonton
Under the hood

Architecture & The Hard Parts.

The honest engineering behind a one-tap quote — what the tool is built on, and the non-obvious problems we had to solve to make it fast, accurate, and safe in the field.

01

Measuring a Yard From Space

Crews measure straight off Google Maps satellite imagery. When Google removed its built-in drawing tools from the Maps API, we wrote our own click-to-draw polygon and polyline engine — with snap-to-close, draggable shapes, and per-zone areas computed from Mercator-projection math that stays correct even mid-draw, where the standard projection call returns nothing.

02

Photos and a Voice Note, Turned Into Numbers

A few site photos — or frames pulled from a walkthrough video — go to Claude vision, which reads back measurements, an area label, and field notes. The spoken note is transcribed by OpenAI Whisper and fed in as extra context. Everything lands as pre-filled, clearly flagged fields the crew can correct, behind per-minute, per-hour and per-day rate limits so the AI never becomes a runaway cost.

03

A Safe Bridge Into Jobber

A finished quote syncs into the company's Jobber account through a server-side GraphQL proxy, so the browser never touches an access token. OAuth refresh tokens are AES-256 encrypted and stored in Supabase, which means the connection survives serverless cold starts and redeploys without anyone re-authorizing it by hand.

04

Never Lose a Draft, On Any Phone

The whole tool is a single self-contained page a non-technical crew can open on any phone — no install. Work autosaves Google-Docs-style to the device after every change and syncs to the cloud, with graceful handling when a phone runs low on local storage, so a half-finished quote is never lost between the yard and the truck.

Every one of these runs behind a human check — the tool prepares the quote, a person reviews and sends it.

Out of respect for our client

We'll talk architecture, but the specifics stay private: how this tool prices, the rates it runs on, and how it's tuned to this business are our client's — and we keep them that way. When we build for you, your systems and your numbers get the same discretion.

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