Magic Quote: quote a property by walking it

You already know how to price a property. You worked it out in the first ninety seconds — somewhere between the kitchen and the top of the stairs, or between the lobby and the third-floor restrooms, before anyone said the word "quote". The hard part was never the estimating. The hard part is that everything you noticed has to survive the drive home.

What actually gets lost

Think about the last walkthrough you did. The customer said they didn't need the refrigerator, then changed their mind on the way out. You reckoned the shower — or the break-room floor — would take forty minutes the first time, not the twenty your standard time assumes. There were two dogs, or a loading bay that only opens after six. They mentioned Fridays.

By the time you're at the kitchen table writing it up, you have four of those. Maybe five. The one you dropped is the one that costs you — either you quote too low and eat the difference on the first clean, or you quote high to cover yourself and lose the job to somebody who didn't.

The usual fix is to write more down. Which means standing in somebody else's building looking at your phone while they wait, and that is its own cost: the customer who is being listened to is the customer who signs.

Capture first, structure later

Magic Quote is built around a simple reversal. Instead of filling in a form while you walk, you capture whatever the moment gives you and let the software sort it out afterwards.

Tap Start. Then just work:

• Take four photos of the kitchen — or the break room. Don't label them.
• Hold the mic and say "master bath, shower is going to need thirty or forty minutes the first time, she wants the glass done."
• Type "skip the guest bedroom" while you're standing in it.
• Record twenty seconds of video walking the lobby, talking over it.

Nothing needs a category. Nothing needs to be in order. You are not filing anything — you are noticing things out loud, which is what you were doing anyway.

It makes no difference to Magic Quote whether the property is a four-bedroom house or a floor of offices. On a commercial bid walk, say what happens nightly and what happens quarterly as you go, and the draft comes back as a commercial quote with those frequencies already attached, priced by the month.

Then it does the boring part

Afterwards, Magic Quote reads the whole walkthrough back and organizes it: which photos belong to which room, what the customer asked for, what they said to skip, what you estimated out loud, that there are two dogs, that they mentioned Fridays. It builds a draft quote from your room and task library, at your hourly rate, with your multipliers — the same pricing engine as every other quote you send.

Then it hands it to you with its homework showing.

The part that matters most: it tells you what it isn't sure about

Software that reads a recording and hands you a confident answer is software you cannot trust, because you can't tell the parts it heard from the parts it filled in.

So every single thing Magic Quote picked up carries a confidence, and anything shaky is put in front of you before it can affect a price. Confirm it, remove it, or fix the wording. Tap "show me" on any of it and you land on the exact photo — or the exact second of the recording where the customer said the words. Not a summary of what they said. The recording.

That includes the awkward cases. When somebody says "we don't need the refrigerator" at 10:05 and "actually, let's do the refrigerator" at 10:23, that's one person changing their mind, not two contradictory notes. Magic Quote shows you both and asks which one stands.

"It heard 'skip the guest room' and the guest room was skipped — and it showed me where she said it." — Tasha B., Halo Home Services

Keep capturing with no cell signal or Wi-Fi

Properties are the worst place a phone has to work. One bar in the laundry room, nothing at all in the back bedroom, nothing in a basement plant room. Keep the walkthrough open and you can carry on capturing with no cell signal and no Wi-Fi; it catches up when the connection returns.

Pending photos, voice notes and typed notes also stay saved if you close and reopen the app, and their uploads resume without creating duplicates. Short videos have one current limit: a video that has not finished uploading is not restored after the app closes, so leave the walkthrough open until that upload finishes.

Change it by talking to it

Back in the truck, you can just say what you want:

• "Make the first clean $325."
• "Take 10% off."
• "Did she mention windows?" — and it tells you when, and plays you the recording.

What stays private

A walkthrough records the inside of somebody's home or business, and we treat it that way.

Your honest note about the master shower stays internal; what reaches the customer says the shower needs extra detail on the first visit. Photos and recordings are never public — they are only ever served to somebody signed in to your company. And you choose how long they're kept: thirty days, ninety, a year, or as long as the customer.

Where it fits, and what it costs

Magic Quote is on the Pro and Business plans, and it's the only AI feature tied to a plan tier — everything else BlastoClean does with AI is available on every paid plan. Because a walkthrough reads every photo and recording separately, a thorough walk — a four-bedroom house, a floor of offices — uses around 70 of your monthly AI credits, against 1–4 for the other assists, and every walkthrough shows you exactly what it used. Your 14-day free trial runs on the Business allowance, so you can walk a handful of real properties — not a demo one — before deciding anything.

The number we actually care about

Not how many features it has. This one:

How long you spend looking at your phone while the customer is standing next to you.

If Magic Quote is doing its job, that number is close to zero — and everything you noticed on that property is still there when you sit down to price it.

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