Field guide

A Voice-to-Estimate App That Counts With You at the Wall

Masons already estimate out loud — pacing the wall, thumbing a joint, muttering counts. The pocket notebook catches half of it, and the kitchen table gets the reconstruction. A voice-to-estimate app catches all of it, where it's true, and skips the reconstruction entirely.

Count out loud, once

"Garage veneer, two-eighty square feet net, modular running bond, seven per foot — call it two thousand with waste. Two openings, loose lintels rusted — photo. Joints sound on the north face, open on the west — repoint west only, one-forty square feet. Scaffold one lift." FieldSquire converts the narration to unit, mortar, lintel, repoint, and staging lines at your saved rates, photos attached where you shot them.

Gloves on, phone away

Bluetooth earbuds — or Ray-Ban Meta glasses working as standard Bluetooth audio (no direct Meta integration) — keep both hands free for the tape, the joint probe, and the ladder. Voice commands pause and resume between elevations; audio cues confirm state without a glance.

Your rates, not the manual's

Estimating manuals don't know your crew's brick-per-day on cut-up walls. Correct any drafted rate and it becomes your private company price, used first on the next matching line. The draft gets smarter about your business with every correction — and nothing sends until you've reviewed every line.

One wall is the test

Narrate one real estimate, review at the truck, send the PDF with deposit and e-signature the same visit. The masonry estimating app is free for 14 days, no credit card.

Using Ray-Ban Meta glasses? See the full setup and photo workflow in How to Use Ray-Ban Meta Glasses for Contractor Estimates.