ClampBest for a residential contractor who wants the draft to carry through to change orders, invoices and job cost on a phone
- Price
- Assistant $49.99 a month or $499.99 a year with 25 AI credits a month, each AI estimate is 1 credit. Teams $99.99 a month or $999.99 a year with 50 AI credits a month, shared across the team of up to 10. Every account gets 3 free AI credits to start. Revising an estimate with a prompt is half a credit.
- Team
- One account on Solo and Assistant; up to 10 on Teams, plus free sub invites who never see your prices.
Where it is stronger
- The draft becomes the estimate, proposal, change orders and invoices for the same job, and job cost compares what you estimated with your receipts, mileage and hours.
- Every line shows its quantity and rate at direct job cost, with your markup shown apart from it.
- Your saved rates replace the baseline line by line, and My Pricing suggests rates from what your past jobs actually cost.
- Possible extra work, like a subfloor that may be soft, is priced apart from the total instead of buried in it.
- Revise with AI: say what to change, like 'she's keeping her vanity' or 'make the shower 5 by 8'. Clamp changes only that, keeps any number you typed by hand, and shows each change with its price before you apply it. A revision is half a credit, and a question it asks you is free.
- Up to 10 people with 50 AI credits a month shared across the team, for $83.33 a month billed annually.
Describe it
Review the draft
An AI estimate in Clamp: the job described the way you would say it, then the draft for review, with a possible subfloor repair priced apart from the total. Sample data.
Cost, markup, price
Every line, by trade
After the draft: the estimate at cost with your markup on top, and every line grouped by trade. Sample data: the published 5x8 bathroom.
Where it falls short for a small residential contractor
- No AI takeoff from plans and no photo input; you describe the job in words.
- No price-sheet import and no saved AI instructions; you save rates in the app.
- Revising doesn't do a discount or a target for the whole job, like $500 off; you add a credit line or lower the markup.
- Revising works on draft, final and sent estimates, not signed work; changes to signed work go in a change order.
- Payments are your own payment link, recorded in Clamp, not processed by it.
- The 3 free AI credits are one time, not monthly.