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title: "Magic Quote: quoting a property by walking it · BlastoClean docs"
description: "Walk the property — a home or an office — taking photos, video and voice notes. Magic Quote organizes the walkthrough afterwards into a draft quote priced by your own library, with every finding traceable to the capture it came from."
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# Magic Quote: quoting a property by walking it

Quoting · Web and mobile · 4 min read · updated August 15, 2026

**Tap Start and walk the property taking photos, video and voice notes in any order; Magic Quote organizes the capture afterwards into a reviewable draft quote priced entirely by your own room and task library.**

Every other way of quoting asks you to be a data-entry clerk on somebody else's
property. Magic Quote asks you to look at the property instead.

You tap **Start** and walk. Take photos, record a short video, talk, jot a line.
Nothing has to be categorised in the moment, and nothing has to be filed while
the customer is standing next to you. Afterwards, the walkthrough is organized
into rooms and findings, and those become a draft quote — priced entirely by
your own room and task library.

Magic Quote is part of the **Pro and Business plans**. A walkthrough reads every
photo and every recording separately, so it uses far more of a month's AI
allowance than the other [AI assists](/docs/ai-assists) do.

![The Magic Quote screen in the web app, listing recent walkthroughs](/images/docs/magic-quote.webp)

## Capturing

There are four things you can capture, and no form:

- **Photos** — through the system camera you already know how to use.
- **Video** — short clips, for the things a still will not show.
- **Voice notes** — talk while you walk. What you said comes back as text
  beside the recording: which room you are in, what the customer asked for,
  what they said to skip, how long you reckon the shower will take. _"Two dogs,
  lots of hair"_ is information, and it is kept.
- **Typed lines** — for when talking would be awkward.

Three properties of the capture matter more than they sound:

**An open walkthrough keeps working with no cell signal and no Wi-Fi.** In a
basement, a back bedroom, a dead spot in the hall or airplane mode, keep
capturing and the app catches up when the connection returns.

**Closing the app has one current limit.** Pending photos, voice notes and typed
notes stay saved when you close and reopen the app, then resume uploading
without creating duplicates. A short video that has not finished uploading is
not restored after the app closes, so leave the walkthrough open until that
upload finishes.

**You can start with nobody on file.** Knocking on a door is an ordinary way to
get work, and a doorstep is the worst place to make somebody fill in a customer
form. Start the walkthrough with no customer at all; the walk itself proposes
the record afterwards — a name somebody said, a number they read out, the
address on the mailbox — and the review screen shows that as an editable form
beside a search of the customers you already have. Nothing is written to your
customer list until a person presses the button.

![A walkthrough open in the web app, showing its captures in the order they were taken](/images/docs/magic-quote-walkthrough.webp)

## Reviewing

The review screen comes before the price, deliberately. It shows:

- **A timeline** of every photo, clip and recording in the order you took it,
  with what was said written out beside it. When Magic Quote says the customer
  asked for the oven, you can tap through to the second of the recording where
  they said it.
- **A readiness score**, and the findings it is least sure about, put in front
  of you before they can affect a price. Confirm one, remove it, or fix the
  wording. Nothing you rejected gets quoted.
- **Changes of mind, as changes of mind.** _"We don't need the refrigerator"_ at
  10:05 and _"actually, let's do the refrigerator"_ at 10:23 is one customer
  changing their mind, not two contradictory notes. Both are shown and you say
  which stands.
- **A split between what the customer sees and what your crew sees.** Your
  honest note about the state of the master shower stays internal; the
  customer's quote says the shower needs extra detail on the first visit.

![The review screen: a readiness score, a summary of what the walkthrough found, a list of things worth checking, and the rooms it picked out](/images/docs/magic-quote-review.webp)

The screenshot above is a real walkthrough, and the third line of its summary is
the feature earning its keep: _"The refrigerator interior was first excluded at
customer request and then reinstated later in the walk — the later position
stands and should be confirmed."_ Two sentences said twenty minutes apart, read
as one person changing their mind, and put in front of somebody to confirm
rather than quietly picked.

If you open the review screen before the walkthrough has finished being
organized, it tells you which half of the work is still running and counts the
wait down, rather than showing you an empty page that reads like "the walk found
nothing". A pass that failed says why, above the button that retries it.

## Pricing, and who decides

The draft is priced by your own room and task library, your hourly rate and your
multipliers — the same engine as every other quote. Magic Quote can suggest a
range beside your number; it can never _be_ the number. From there it is an
ordinary quote: see [Building a quote](/docs/building-a-quote) and
[Pricing a quote](/docs/pricing-a-quote).

![Magic Quote on a phone, which is where a walkthrough usually starts](/images/docs/magic-quote-phone.webp)

You can also talk to the walkthrough afterwards: _"Make the first clean $325."_
_"Take 10% off."_ _"Did she mention windows?"_ Questions are answered with the
capture they are drawn from, and edits go through a fixed set of instructions
rather than free rein.

## What happens to the photos and recordings

They are of the inside of somebody's home or business, and they are treated
that way. They
are never public, they are never given a URL that would work without a session,
and you choose how long they are kept — thirty days, ninety, a year, or as long
as the customer is a customer.