ChatGPT can write quote text. Tradeeze manages the quoting decision.
Fair's fair: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are genuinely useful for rough drafting, wording a scope of works, explaining a job to a client or brainstorming what you might have missed. Plenty of tradies use them for exactly that. They're just not a quoting system, and quoting by prompt has real costs that don't show up until later.
The real difference
A chatbot starts every quote from a blank prompt. It doesn't know your labour rate, your negotiated supplier prices, your travel reality or your margin rules, so you re-type them every time, and the numbers are only as good as what you remembered to include. There's no GST handling, no quote document, no acceptance link, no record of who approved what, and nothing connecting this quote to whether the last one won or what it actually cost.
Tradeeze is the workflow around the drafting: structured job capture on site, pricing from your own numbers, mandatory recorded sign-off, a hosted page where the client accepts, and close-out reconciliation that turns every finished job into pricing memory. Kept per business, never pooled.
Which one fits the moment?
Reach for a chatbot when
- You want help wording a scope, an email or a variation letter
- You're brainstorming what a tricky job might involve
- You want a plain-English explanation for a client
- The output is text you'll rework anyway
Use Tradeeze when
- The number has to be right: your rates, your costs, your margin
- You want the quote captured on site, not typed up after tea
- You need GST, assumptions, exclusions and validity handled properly
- You want the client to accept online, on the record
- You want a recorded sign-off, not a copy-paste into a PDF
- You want each job's outcome to sharpen the next quote
Side by side, without the noise
| TradeezeThis is us | ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini | |
|---|---|---|
| Job capture | Structured, on site: voice, photos, measurements, flags | Whatever you type into the prompt |
| Pricing inputs | Your supplier costs, labour rates, travel and margin rules, stored and applied | None held; re-supplied each conversation, or guessed |
| GST & quote format | Itemised quote with GST, assumptions, exclusions and validity built in | Text output; the document and the maths are on you |
| Client acceptance | Hosted quote page with online acceptance | None |
| Approval trail | Mandatory recorded sign-off on every quote | None |
| Pricing memory | Won/lost, actual costs and hours reconciled per business, never pooled | No connection between one quote and the next job's reality |
Why the difference matters on a real job
Ask a chatbot to quote a hot water swap and you'll get plausible line items with confident round numbers. Plausible is the problem: it doesn't know your unit cost went up $110 last month, that tight access adds 45 minutes on this street, or that you always fit a tempering valve. Every gap comes straight out of the margin.
Tradeeze drafts the same job from your captured site notes and your real numbers, flags the quote if the margin is thin, and won't send anything until you've signed off.
ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini capabilities described here reflect their general-purpose chat products as at July 2026. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are trademarks of their respective owners; none is affiliated with Tradeeze. (Tradeeze itself uses AI for drafting; the difference is the workflow, the data and the loop around it.)
Give the same job to both. Compare the numbers.
Prompt a chatbot with a past job, then capture it in Tradeeze, and see which quote you'd stand behind.