Quote X-Ray

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Equipment, scope, what the document never mentions — and, if there are enough comparable quotes on file, where its price sits among them.

1. Paste or upload your proposal
Names and addresses are scrubbed first. See exactly what we see.
2. It gets analyzed
Equipment, scope, omissions, assumptions.
3. We compare real prices
Against real quotes on file, when there are enough.
4. You get clarity and confidence
Know what the document says. Negotiate with facts.

What this is not: an appraisal, an estimate of what your job should cost, or a verdict on your contractor. It compares one document against whatever quotes this site has collected so far. Below 5 comparables it will tell you the sample is too thin and decline to place your price at all — which, on a young dataset, is the normal answer.

It also says nothing about whether the equipment is the right size for your house. For that, the Size Check asks nine questions about the building and works out roughly how much heat it loses.

How your information is handledNames, addresses, phone numbers, ZIPs, and account numbers are scrubbed before the text goes anywhere — including to the AI model. See exactly what we see.

Real proposals have other people's personal information all over them — a name, a home address, a phone number, an account or financing number. None of that is needed to compare prices, so before the text goes anywhere at all — including to the AI model that reads it — it passes through the same scrubbing step shown below.

Automated scrubbing catches emails, phone numbers, street addresses, and account numbers reliably. Names are best-effort: it catches a name sitting in the conventional spots a quote letter puts one — a "Prepared for:" line, a "Dear ___," greeting, a signature — but a name mentioned elsewhere in the body text can slip through, so it's worth a quick scan of what you paste before you submit it.

This is what you see

Prepared for: John Meyer
42 Birchwood Lane, Rye, NY 10580
(914) 555-0182 | jmeyer1978@gmail.com

Dear Mr. Meyer,

Thank you for the opportunity to quote your furnace replacement. We are
proposing a Carrier 59SC5, 96% AFUE, 80,000 BTU/h input gas furnace,
installed with a new flue and permit, for $8,450 total.

Financing reference: 4471-8823-0091

Sincerely,
Mike Torres
Torres Heating & Air

This is what we see

Prepared for: [name]
[address], Rye, NY [zip]
[phone] | [email]

Dear [name],

Thank you for the opportunity to quote your furnace replacement. We are
proposing a Carrier 59SC5, 96% AFUE, 80,000 BTU/h input gas furnace,
installed with a new flue and permit, for $8,450 total.

Financing reference: [number]

Sincerely,
[name]
Torres Heating & Air

1 The proposalUpload a PDFWorks for proposals emailed as a PDF. A scanned or photographed PDF has no text to pull out — paste it into the box below instead.Or paste the proposal text

2 Where, and what kind of job

State (required)Comparisons are local. Without it the reading falls back to nationwide numbers.ZIP code (optional)Only the first three digits are stored. Narrows the comparison, and in some areas it is the only way local permit records can be matched to you.Job type

3 Only if the text doesn't say

Total price, if the text does not sayDate on the proposalSystem size, if the proposal doesn’t sayIn tons, off the outdoor unit’s nameplate — 036 is 3 tons, 048 is 4. Without it we cannot compare your price to jobs the same size.Water heater size, if the proposal doesn’t sayIn gallons. Tank water heaters only.House square footage, ductwork onlyUsed only for a ductwork job with no linear footage stated — it refines the price range to your home's size instead of a broad whole-house range.The job includes new ductwork, not just connecting to the existing ductsSome of the ductwork runs vertical (through walls or floors), not just the attic

Anything else about the scope of work?Optional. Anything the proposal itself doesn't say but you know is or isn't part of the job — it's read the same way the proposal is.

Compare against a real scenario (optional)Fixture count, boiler / water heater onlyReal plumbing fixtures — toilets, showers, sinks — the domestic hot water side serves. Only used if the proposal itself doesn't state a count.Bathrooms, boiler / water heater onlyOnly used if neither the proposal nor the fixture count above says how many real fixtures the domestic hot water side serves — 2 bathrooms is assumed if this is left blank too.

Premiums (optional)Plaster wallsWalls can't be disturbed / sensitive houseIncludes radiant heat

4 Run itAdd this quote to the comparison dataset. Stored: job type, equipment, capacity, efficiency, price, scope items, state, the first three digits of your ZIP code, and date. Not stored: the proposal text, your name, your address, or the contractor's name.

We use the dataset to run the comparison you're about to see, to publish market statistics on the data page, to improve our cost model, and — as combined statistics, never as your individual row — to sell market intelligence to companies in the industry. We never sell individual quotes, never sell leads, and never contact you. Unchecking this keeps your quote out of the dataset.

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