Louisville, KY
LANDSCAPING / LAWN CARE ESTIMATING.

## Landscaping Estimates in Louisville Move Fast — Your Bids Should Too Louisville's landscape season runs hard from March through November. Spring cleanups stack up before Derby week. Summer means weekly mowing routes, mulch installs, and irrigation work across the East End and Anchorage corridors. Fall brings leaf removal and overseeding calls that don't stop until the first hard frost. If you're still building bids in a spreadsheet or quoting off the top of your head, you're losing jobs to the guy who got his proposal in first. Estimate.Pro gets you from job walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes — median time, real jobs, not a demo scenario. --- ## What Makes Louisville Landscaping Bids Different **Clay soil is everywhere.** The thick, poorly draining clay across Jefferson County affects every drainage install, sod job, and planting bed you price. Soil prep labor runs higher here than in markets with loam or sandy topsoil. Your material cost workspace in Estimate.Pro lets you save Louisville-specific soil amendment and prep line items so you're not re-entering them every bid. **Turf type split.** Louisville sits in the transition zone. Customers in older Highlands or Crescent Hill neighborhoods often have existing tall fescue. Newer construction in Prospect and Jeffersontown tends to get sodded with Kentucky bluegrass or zoysia. Estimate.Pro supports separate material cost workspaces per job type so your fescue overseeding template doesn't contaminate your zoysia install pricing. **Derby and event prep.** The two weeks before the Kentucky Derby drive a concentrated spike in commercial landscape contracts — hotels, restaurants, and event venues on Third Street and in the NuLu district want their properties job-site ready. Winning those bids requires a polished, fast proposal. A handwritten quote doesn't make the cut when a property manager has three bids in their inbox by noon. **Permitting for irrigation and hardscape.** Louisville Metro requires permits for irrigation systems that connect to potable water supply lines under Louisville Water Company jurisdiction. Retaining walls over 30 inches in height also require a building permit through Louisville Metro Development and Planning. Get the scope documented before you price — AR-assisted measurement in Estimate.Pro captures linear footage and square footage on-site so your retaining wall and bed edging numbers aren't guesses. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Landscapers **Walkthrough → scope → bid.** Walk the property, use the AR measurement tool on a supported device to capture bed areas, turf square footage, and linear hardscape runs. The AI scope-of-work engine converts your walkthrough notes and measurements into a structured estimate with line items. Adjust materials and labor, add your margin, and send. **AR measurement on supported devices.** The ONNX-assisted live AR tool gives you real-time measurements with confidence flags. On devices without AR support, camera and photo measurements are generated and clearly marked as estimates — you always know which numbers to verify before you sign a contract. **Saved material cost workspace.** Louisville fertilizer, mulch, sod, and stone prices shift with supply. Save your current vendor pricing from local suppliers — River Road Mulch, for example — and update it once per season rather than hunting down prices per bid. **Stripe Connect for collections.** On Elite, you can take deposits and final payments through Stripe Connect with 0% platform fee. Get a signed contract and a deposit before you mobilize equipment. **No credit card to start.** The free tier is free forever. You can build and send bids before you spend a dollar. --- ## Pricing That Fits a Crew Operation - **Free:** Core estimating, no credit card required. - **Pro — $39/seat/month:** Saved material workspaces, full AR measurement. - **Elite — $79/seat/month:** Stripe Connect, invoice exports, 0% platform fee. - **Crew — $399/month flat:** Unlimited seats. Right for multi-crew Louisville operations running 5+ estimators or crew leads. --- ## 25 Trades, One Platform Many Louisville landscapers also hold irrigation contractor licenses or subcontract hardscape and drainage work. Estimate.Pro covers 25 trades under one login — so when you're pricing a job that includes a paver patio (ICPI standards), a retaining wall, and a sod install, you're not switching tools. Build faster. Bid sharper. Win more.