Every quote starts with a measurement, and almost nobody has one. So the homeowner guesses, the contractor drives out to measure, and both of them pay for that trip.
AerialQuote is a measuring tool that happens to know what things cost. You trace a shape on the satellite view of a real property and it gives you quantities in the units you actually order in — square feet, cubic yards, tons, boards, bags — and a price range built from labor and material rather than pulled out of the air.
Twenty years in dealership service, and a stretch owning a repair shop. In that world every job has a labor time, a door rate and a parts markup, and a customer can see how the number was built. Nobody hands you a figure and shrugs.
Home services mostly do not work that way. A homeowner asking what mulch costs gets a number with no arithmetic behind it, and has no way to tell a fair quote from a bad one. A small contractor has the opposite problem — a rate they set years ago, no idea where it sits against the market, and a full year of work that ends with nothing to show.
The same measurement fixes both ends. That is the whole idea.
The price dataset starts as published reference figures, clearly labeled as such, and becomes real contractor numbers as contributions arrive. Pro is built and not yet open. Property lines work in New York, where the state publishes parcel data, and not yet anywhere else. None of that is hidden behind a "coming soon" that never arrives — it is just where a young tool actually is.
Jared Farino, in Buffalo, New York. A homeowner and DIYer for more than twenty years and a former repair shop owner. AerialQuote is operated by 716Ventures LLC.
Something wrong on the site, or a rate that does not match what you charge? Say so. Corrections from people who do the work are the only thing that makes the numbers better.