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Case studyConstruction7 min read · 11 July 2026 · Inifye Revenue Research

A civil contractor cut quote turnaround from nine days to one

Estimating was the bottleneck, not sales. Putting the Quote Writer in front of the estimator changed which tenders got won.

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1 day

Quote turnaround

was 9 days

+11 pts

Tender win rate

3.2x

Quotes issued / month

$4.1M / yr

Extra revenue

The situation

Two estimators, 34 serious enquiries a month, and an average job worth $130,000. Every enquiry that waited was a job someone else quoted first.

What was broken

  • Site-visit notes lived in phones and notebooks, not the system.
  • Every quote was rebuilt from a blank template.
  • Nobody knew which outstanding quotes were still alive.

What we put to work

  • Qualifier screens enquiries against the job types the firm actually wins.
  • Quote Writer assembles a first-draft quote from historical line items within the hour.
  • Router escalates anything above $250,000 to a director before it is sent.

100%

Quotes chased automatically

under 4 hrs

Director approvals

22 / week

Estimator hours saved

We were not losing on price. We were losing on being ninth in line.
Managing Director, civil contractor

What faster quotes are worth to you

Two numbers from your business, pre-filled with the construction benchmark. Everything else assumes a conservative 20% close rate on the deals AI recovers.

$4,031,040

Extra revenue a year

+31

Extra deals a year

143 hrs

Selling hours returned

See it run on your business

See it run on your business

Enter what you sell and watch Sales Intelligence build the page, answer the enquiry and route the buyer — in about two minutes.

Construction benchmark

Average deal
$130,000
Enquiries a month
34
Median first reply
26 hrs
Close rate
17%

Biggest leak in construction: estimating backlog — quotes sent a week after the site visit.

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