AI estimating
Learn more about AI estimatingFrom the spec book to the bid.
Upload the documents. Chantro drafts the scope with the spec page where the documents give one, takes quantities off the drawings and prices them with your numbers.
The AI operating system for contractors
Win the work. Run the job.Know every hour.
Chantro's AI reads your spec books and drawings and drafts the bid. Every project, crew and daily report lives in one place, and each clock-in becomes labor cost you can see.
Built for general and specialty contractors of every size.
Chantro AI
01Today and with Chantro
The same work, without the retyping.
You already know how to do each of these by hand. Here is what changes when the record is shared.
Spec books
You check a draft instead of starting from a blank page.
Today: Read by hand with a highlighter, hoping nothing is missed
Sub quotes
You see what each sub left out before you pick one.
Today: Retyped from emails and PDFs into a spreadsheet
Daily reports
The office reads each job's day and its risks in one digest.
Today: Written from memory at the end of a long day
Timesheets
Hours reach payroll without being typed twice.
Today: Paper sheets retyped in the office before payroll
Labor cost
You see a job going over budget before it is finished.
Today: Worked out near the end of the job, if there is time
02One system
Everything a contractor runs on, in one place.
Estimating, projects, field reports, time and people share one record, so far less gets typed twice.
Requirements read from the spec book, sorted into five kinds. - TimesheetsLearn more about Timesheets
Time your crews get right.
Clock in on the phone or the web, switch projects with a tap, and keep the timesheet layout your crew already knows.
- Crew sheets for people without a login
- Flagged days reach the approver first
- Approved hours become labor cost
- AI assistantLearn more about AI assistant
Ask it like you'd ask your office.
Type or talk. It answers from your own data and does the work, and the big things wait for your yes.
- Tasks, calendar, projects and leads
- A confirm card before anything big
- Voice in English and Spanish on the web
- Daily reportsLearn more about Daily reports
Reports that write themselves.
The day's tasks, crew and weather become a draft. The field lead confirms in one tap.
- One report per project, every day
- Weather and photos pulled in for you
- An office digest with the risks flagged
Every lead, out of the notebook.
Pipeline, follow-ups and every call in one timeline. A won lead becomes a project.
- Drag a lead to its next stage
- A Follow-ups list for what to do today
- Contacts imported from CSV or Excel
Your org chart, your rules.
Your people, their positions and what each one can see, kept in one place.
- Employees with or without a login
- A drag-and-drop org chart
- Permissions that come with each position
03Estimating
How a bid comes together.
Five steps. AI drafts each one, you check it.
Step 1: Read the documents
Drop in the spec book and the drawings. Chantro drafts the scope of work and shows the page each item came from wherever the documents give one.
Step 2: Take off the drawings
It reads the schedules and labels on every sheet, with the sheet and a confidence for each quantity, and you choose what goes into the bill of materials.
Step 3: Price it your way
Prices are checked against your own past estimates where they hold at least three prices for an item. Paste a sub's quote, it's parsed, and you level the bids side by side.
Step 4: Schedule the work
A draft schedule appears as a Gantt chart. Compress it or move it and the dates hold together.
Step 5: Check it and send it
A bid check looks for gaps before it goes out. Export a clean bid PDF with your company name, assumptions and exclusions spelled out.
04AI you can check
AI that shows its work.
Chantro's AI reads, drafts and suggests. You stay in charge.
How Chantro uses AIIt cites its sources
Scope items carry the spec page they came from (SOW p.14) wherever the documents give one, and drawing quantities name their sheet.
It asks before the big things
Deleting a task, project or calendar event, changes to people and app access, and edits to an estimate wait for your yes.
It learns from your jobs
Price suggestions come from your own company's past estimates and stay inside your workspace.
05Time and labor
From the jobsite to payroll, without the paper chase.
The crew clocks in, an approver checks the day, and approved hours become labor cost on the job and a file for payroll.
06For every role
Everyone gets the part of Chantro they need.
What each role opens Chantro for. What a person can see follows their position on the org chart.
Owner
See every job, bid and hour.
- Pipeline, estimates and projects in one place
- Labor cost against budget on every job
- Permissions set by position
Estimator
Bid more work in less time.
- Scope drafted from the spec book, pages cited
- Quantities read from the drawings
- Prices checked against your past bids
Project manager
Run the job from one place.
- Tasks, calendar and team for every project
- Daily reports drafted for you
- Ask the assistant what's running late
Field
Less typing, more building.
- Clock in with one tap
- Confirm the daily report in a tap
- Tasks and schedule on the phone
Office
Payroll without the paper chase.
- Approve weeks with problems already flagged
- Overtime and pay periods worked out
- Hours export to payroll as a CSV
How Chantro keeps each company's data apart.
Read about securityWalled off by company
Each company's data is kept apart in the database itself, not only in the app.
Roles down to each screen
Six roles to start, with permissions you can set for every position.
Two-step sign-in
Authenticator-app codes and control over every signed-in device.
An audit log
See who changed what, and when.
Common questions.
Something else on your mind? Talk to us.
Who is Chantro for?
General and specialty contractors of every size who want estimating, projects, field reports and time in one system instead of spreadsheets and a handful of apps.
Do we have to switch everything at once?
No. Start with what hurts most, usually estimating or timesheets, and add the rest as you go. You can add employees without giving them a login.
What can the AI read?
Spec books and other documents as PDF, drawings as PDF, DXF or images, sub quotes pasted in, and photos of paper timesheets, which draft a form for you to check. For AutoCAD .dwg files, export to PDF or DXF first.
Is the AI always right?
No AI is. That is why Chantro shows its sources where it has them and asks before the big things. It drafts and does the routine work; you check it.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Every feature is in the web app, which opens in any phone browser. The field screens are built for phone width; wide ones, like the org chart and the schedule, are best at a desk. The native phone app is new and covers tasks, the calendar, the assistant and the Time tab. Ask us about getting it on your crew's phones.
Does Chantro run payroll?
No. Approved hours, with overtime and pay periods worked out, export to your payroll as a CSV.
How does pricing work?
Plans start at $149 a month with AI credits included. AI features use those credits; manual work never spends them, and you can see your usage at any time. See the plans or talk to us about your company.
See Chantro on your own job.
Bring a spec book or a drawing set and we will walk you through what Chantro does with it.
Estimates, leads, projects, daily reports, timesheets and your team, on one shared record.