Guide
Quote every lead, not just the ones you have time for
Every service business runs the same quiet triage. A lead comes in, you weigh it against the evening it'll cost to quote it, and some of them never get one. Not because the job was bad. Because it was 9pm.
If you win 1 in 5, every quote that goes unwritten is a 1-in-5 chance you gave away for free. The leads you skip are the real price of quoting by hand.
Updated August 20, 2026
The math on the leads you skip
Say 20 leads come in this month and you have time to quote 12. At 1 win in 5, those 12 quotes are 2 or 3 jobs. The 8 you skipped were another 1 or 2, and they went to whoever answered. Nothing about your work lost them. Your calendar did.
Make a quote cost minutes, not an evening
Connect Claude or ChatGPT to SendProposalsFast once, and save your usual job as a template so the drafts read like you wrote them. After that, quoting a lead is one message. Tell it about the job the way you'd tell a person, and a finished proposal lands in your dashboard as a draft.
It works the same for one lead at lunch or the week's pile on a Friday. And it never sends anything. Every quote waits for you to read it and hit send.
Answering fast is its own edge
The first real number in front of a client has a way of framing every number that comes after it. When a quote costs you 3 minutes of checking instead of half an evening, you're not just bidding on everything. You're often the first bid in.
What it costs
$1 for each AI-written proposal, charged when you send it, on one bill at the end of the month. Quote 30 leads instead of 12 and the extra 18 quotes cost $18. You know better than anyone what one more won job is worth. Drafts are free, and your first 3 sends are free on any account.
Try it on your next quote
SendProposalsFast is proposal software for freelancers and small service businesses. Write a quote yourself in under 30 seconds, or have an AI write it and send it once you've read it. The first 3 it sends are free.
Start from a free proposal template for your industry.