Indianapolis, IN
SIDING ESTIMATING.

## Siding Estimates That Match Indianapolis Job Realities Indianapolis weather is hard on siding. Freeze-thaw cycles from December through March, summer hail tracked by NOAA as one of the higher-frequency hail corridors in the Midwest, and humidity swings that split wood and buckle vinyl — all of it creates consistent replacement demand and consistent pressure to bid fast before the next contractor walks the same house. Estimate.Pro is built for that pace. You walk the job, the app measures, and you have a sendable bid in 8 minutes. No spreadsheet, no chasing down material prices from a catalog printed two quarters ago. --- ## What Makes Siding Estimating Hard in Indianapolis **Material selection is wide open.** Marion County jobs run everything from LP SmartSide on new construction in Fishers and Carmel to fiber cement remediation on pre-war bungalows in Irvington to vinyl replacement on post-war ranches in Lawrence and Beech Grove. Each material has a different waste factor, a different labor rate, and a different install sequence. A single estimating template does not cover all three. **Permit rules vary by municipality.** The City of Indianapolis (consolidated Unigov) handles most permit filings through the Division of Planning and Zoning, but incorporated suburbs — Beech Grove, Lawrence, Speedway, Southport — run their own building departments with their own fee schedules and inspection timelines. You need to know which jurisdiction you are in before you finalize a bid. **Hail supplement cycles create volume spikes.** After a storm event, every siding contractor in the metro is trying to schedule and bid simultaneously. The contractors who close jobs in that window are the ones who can put a number in front of a homeowner same day. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Handles It **AR measurement on supported devices.** Point your camera at the elevation, and the ONNX-assisted live AR measurement engine captures wall dimensions, window and door cutouts, and corner counts. On older devices or photo-only conditions, measurements are flagged as estimates — you always know what is field-verified and what is approximate. **Material cost workspace.** You save your own material costs — vinyl squares by profile, fiber cement planks by width, LP SmartSide panel pricing from your supplier — and the app prices against your actual numbers, not a national average that does not reflect what ABC Supply or 84 Lumber quoted you this week in Indianapolis. **Waste and overage built into the workflow.** Standard 10% waste on straight runs, adjusted for complex rooflines and multiple gables — the calculator prompts you to set the right factor per job rather than defaulting to one number across every estimate. **Trade-specific scope of work.** The AI scope generator outputs line items in the language of a siding contract: substrate inspection, housewrap specification, J-channel and trim detail, caulking at penetrations, debris haul-off. You edit, you approve, you send. --- ## Pricing That Makes Sense for a Field Operation Estimate.Pro has a free tier — no credit card, no trial clock. If you want to start building estimates today, you can. Pro is $39 per seat per month. Elite is $79 per seat per month and adds Stripe Connect with 0% platform fee on payments, plus invoice export workflows. Crew is $399 flat per month for the whole team. On the free tier, Stripe Connect carries a 3% platform fee. Pro+ drops it to $0. --- ## Built for 25 Trades, Including Yours Estimate.Pro covers 25 trades. Siding is one of them, not a workaround from a general construction template. The measurement logic, the waste factors, the line-item structure — all of it is specific to how a siding contractor actually builds a bid. If you run mixed crews that also do gutters, windows, or roofing, those trades are in the same app under the same account. One walkthrough can produce scopes for multiple trades without rebuilding the estimate from scratch. --- ## Start With the Next Job Download the app, set up your material costs, and walk your next Indianapolis job. The 8-minute median from walkthrough to sendable bid is not a marketing number — it is the median across actual jobs completed in the platform. Your first bid will tell you whether it holds for the way you work.