St. Louis, MO
SNOW REMOVAL / PLOWING ESTIMATING.

## Snow Removal Estimating in St. Louis Takes More Than a Snowflake Count St. Louis winters are unpredictable by design. You can run three weeks with nothing and then take back-to-back ice events that put every crew and pound of bulk salt to the test. That variability makes flat-rate seasonal contracts a risk and per-push pricing a negotiation every time it snows. Estimating has to account for both. Estimate.Pro is built for snow removal contractors who need to price jobs fast, track material costs through a season, and send professional bids before the next competitor calls your prospect. --- ## What Makes St. Louis Snow Removal Bids Different **Ice is the real exposure.** St. Louis sits in a freeze-thaw corridor where temperatures regularly cross 32°F multiple times in a single storm. That means more deicer applications per event than a market farther north. Your material cost estimate has to reflect actual product volume — bulk rock salt, liquid calcium chloride pre-treat, or bagged blends — not a flat line item. Estimate.Pro includes a saved material cost workspace so you set your current cost per ton or per pallet once and it flows through every bid you build. **Mixed property types.** The St. Louis metro splits between dense commercial corridors in Clayton, Creve Coeur, and the downtown CBD, and sprawling commercial parking lots in suburban municipalities like Chesterfield and Ballwin. A retail strip in Kirkwood and an office park in Maryland Heights are two different scope-of-work conversations. The app lets you define service areas, trigger conditions, and application rates at the property level so you're not copying and pasting across a seasonal contract deck. **Seasonal vs. per-push contract mix.** Most St. Louis commercial accounts want a hybrid: a capped seasonal price with overage language. Building that clearly in a written bid is what separates a signed contract from a stalled negotiation. Estimate.Pro generates a scope-of-work from your walkthrough data — trigger depth, service sequence, material type, return visits — and puts it in writing before you send. --- ## How the 8-Minute Bid Works 1. **Walk the property or upload photos.** On supported devices, ONNX-assisted AR measurement gives you live area capture on pavement, walks, and drive lanes. Camera or photo measurements are flagged as estimates so you know what to verify. 2. **Define your service parameters.** Trigger depth, plow pass sequence, salt application rate (lbs/1,000 sq ft), sand mix if required, and any liquid pre-treat event. 3. **AI scope-of-work draft.** The app writes the scope language based on your inputs. You review and edit. It reads like a contract, not a form. 4. **Price output.** Labor hours, material cost, equipment time, and your markup — itemized or rolled up depending on what you want the client to see. 5. **Send.** Email or link. The median contractor gets a sendable bid in 8 minutes from walkthrough start. --- ## Pricing That Doesn't Penalize Volume Estimate.Pro runs on a free forever tier — no credit card, no platform fee per estimate. When you're ready for invoice exports and Stripe Connect payments, Pro is $39 per seat per month. Elite is $79 per seat per month. Crew is $399 per month flat for the whole operation. On Pro the Stripe Connect platform fee is 3%. On Pro+ tiers it drops to 0%. There is no fee per bid sent. Send 10 bids in October to win 4 seasonal contracts and you haven't paid anything extra. --- ## Built for 25 Trades, Including Snow If you also run landscape maintenance, asphalt patching, or concrete work in the off-season, those trades are already in the same platform. You don't manage separate tools for separate seasons. --- ## Start Before the First Forecast St. Louis commercial accounts start soliciting snow bids in September and October. Get your template built, your material costs loaded, and your first seasonal contract out the door before your competitors schedule their property walks. Sign up free. No credit card.