Austin, TX
LANDSCAPING / LAWN CARE ESTIMATING.

## Bidding landscaping work in Austin moves fast — your estimates should too Austin's construction and residential growth has pushed landscaping demand into overdrive. New subdivisions in Pflugerville, Buda, and Round Rock feed a constant pipeline of install jobs. Established neighborhoods in Travis Heights, Tarrytown, and Westlake Hills keep maintenance crews booked year-round. If you're spending two hours writing a proposal that a faster competitor can send in eight minutes, you're already losing bids you should be winning. Estimate.Pro gives Austin landscapers a field operating system that matches the pace of this market. ## What makes Austin landscaping estimating different **Caliche and clay soils change your numbers.** Austin's Hill Country fringe sits on shallow limestone with caliche hardpan. Jobs that look like standard bed prep often require additional soil amendment, imported topsoil, or extra labor hours for excavation. Your estimate has to account for this before you commit to a price. **Water restrictions change scope.** Austin Water enforces a tiered drought contingency plan with watering schedule restrictions. Clients regularly ask for xeriscaping conversions, drip-irrigation retrofits, and drought-tolerant plant palettes — all of which carry different material costs and install times than standard turf work. A generic estimating template built for Houston or Dallas won't carve these line items correctly. **Cedar and live oak debris volume is real.** Mountain cedar, live oaks, and Texas ash drop heavy loads. Seasonal cleanup and haul-off scope grows substantially from November through February. If you're not pricing debris volume and dump fees line by line, you're eating that cost. **City of Austin permitting applies to irrigation systems.** Any new irrigation system requires a licensed irrigator (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality license) and a City of Austin irrigation permit. That fee and any backflow prevention device costs belong in your bid, not absorbed after the fact. ## How Estimate.Pro works for Austin landscapers **Walk the site, measure it in the app.** On supported devices, the AR measurement tool uses ONNX-assisted live detection to capture beds, turf areas, hardscape zones, and slope grades directly from your phone camera. On other devices, photo measurements are flagged as estimates. Either way, you're not pacing off footage with a wheel and transcribing to a notepad. **Scope builds from the walkthrough.** The AI scope-of-work layer reads your measurements and notes, then drafts line items: sod removal, bed preparation, soil amendment, plant material, mulch depth, edging linear feet, irrigation head count, lighting runs, cleanup, and haul. You review and adjust — you don't start from a blank page. **Material costs pull from your saved workspace.** Austin supplier pricing fluctuates. You control your cost data. Set your prices for bermuda sod, decomposed granite, cypress mulch, drip emitters, and native plant material. The estimate prices against your numbers, not a national average that doesn't reflect what Southwest Wholesale or Whittlesey Landscape Supplies charges this week. **Bid is ready to send in 8 minutes.** The median time from walkthrough to sendable bid on Estimate.Pro is 8 minutes. That's the target. For Austin landscapers juggling multiple site visits per day across a metro that now stretches from Georgetown to Kyle, that's the difference between following up the same afternoon and following up three days later. ## Pricing that works at every crew size - **Free tier** — no credit card, no time limit. Start bidding today. - **Pro — $39/seat/mo** — full estimate workflow, saved material costs. - **Elite — $79/seat/mo** — Stripe Connect payments at 0% platform fee, invoice exports. - **Crew — $399/mo flat** — covers your whole crew, one invoice. Stripe Connect on the Free tier runs a 3% platform fee. Upgrade to Pro or above and that fee drops to 0%. ## Built for 25 trades, sharp on landscaping Estimate.Pro covers 25 trades. The landscaping workflow includes line-item templates for lawn maintenance, landscape installation, irrigation, hardscape (flagstone, decomposed granite, concrete pavers), drainage, outdoor lighting, and seasonal cleanup. Austin landscapers working across all of these don't need a different tool for each scope. If you're an Austin landscaper writing bids by hand, in a spreadsheet, or waiting on office staff to process your field notes, the work you did on site is already costing you time you don't have. Start your first estimate free at Estimate.Pro.