Measure a property from satellite imagery, price it with your own rates, and send a quote the customer signs online — without driving out to look at it.
Exterior-trade estimating still runs on driving. A sealcoating, paving or fencing owner-operator answers a lead by driving out, walking the surface with a measuring wheel, driving back, and writing the quote up that night. Most of those round trips lose the job — so the trade absorbs the cost of measuring work it will never do. On a commercial lot it gets worse: the surface gets eyeballed or wheeled in live traffic, and a bad number is either a job priced under cost or a bid handed to the competition.
Speed compounds it. The first credible quote in the inbox has a structural advantage, and a drive-out schedule can't produce same-hour quotes. The tools that solved this exist, but they're trade-locked and priced for volume shops — roofing-first or landscaping-first — and none of them serve a one-truck operator who works three trades and needs them all on one screen.
DerMar built AerialBid as a takeoff tool on top of satellite imagery: search the address, click-trace the surface, and get square feet and linear feet. That single measurement then feeds six trade calculators, each with its own editable rates and line items — roofing applies a pitch multiplier and bills by squares, fencing bills the traced perimeter by the foot, solar divides the measured roof area into panels.
Real sites are messy, so it handles messy: multiple polygons for split surfaces, subtract-mode cutouts for islands and buildings, manual dimensions for anything invisible from above, and an embedded street-level panorama for condition. Then it closes the loop — a branded PDF and a tokenized quote page the customer opens and accepts with a typed signature, timestamped and impossible to overwrite.
Click-trace polygons and lines on high-resolution imagery for square footage and linear footage.
Subtract islands and buildings, cover split surfaces, and type in whatever can't be traced.
Each trade brings its own rates, mobilization fee and job minimum — roof pitch included.
A private quote link the customer reviews and signs; the acceptance is recorded and permanent.
Each account's logo and accent color carry through the quote page and the PDF.
An embedded ground-level panorama for the things satellite imagery can't show you.
AerialBid is the newest platform in the portfolio — built, deployed and open for signup, in the window before its launch push. This is what our own product pipeline looks like from the inside.
If winning work means burning a day in the truck first, let's talk about what software could take off your calendar.
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