AI AI Connect · MCP server
Connect your AI assistant to Core Estimator over MCP. Ask it to update a lead, set up a job or add items to an estimate, and it happens in your account.
Estimates
“Add our standard bathroom to Smith St”
Added to Wet Areas
Leads
“Log a call with the Joneses and move them to Quote Sent”
Lead updated
Projects
“Set up a new job at 22 Bay Rd for Sarah Lee”
Project created
Plans
“Put these plans on the Smith St estimate”
Plans uploaded
What it can do
Add enquiries, move them through your stages, log calls, emails and notes, and start the estimate when a lead is worth pricing.
Find or set up a job, add the client, and keep contact and company details up to date.
Read totals, categories and items, add items from your own price lists and assemblies, and write the scope for the proposal.
Upload plans, read the sheets to understand the job, and set up the items still to measure, ready for you in the takeoff viewer.
Add items, update rates and build reusable assemblies without leaving the chat.
Write up the day on site, create tasks, and file documents into the right project folder.
Build your own
New chat
Core Estimator connected
Build me a dashboard of my leads by stage, with what each stage is worth.
Core Estimator · Read your leads
Here’s your pipeline by stage:
Leads by stage
3 leads haven’t been contacted in 7 days
Core Estimator · Read estimate EST-316
Here’s EST-316 by category. The biggest is Framing:
EST-316 · New Two-Storey Home · ex GST
8 more categories · Total $614,824.84 · 8 PC & PS allowances worth $127,257.10
Core Estimator · Read the estimate and your price lists
These four rates are below your current price list:
Rates that differ from your price list
| Item | Estimate | Price list |
|---|---|---|
| Plasterboard walls & ceilings | $38.00 /m2 | $41.50 /m2 |
| Colorbond roofing & sarking | $68.00 /m2 | $72.00 /m2 |
| Fascia & gutter | $58.00 /lm | $61.00 /lm |
| Internal painting | $14.00 /m2 | $15.50 /m2 |
4 of 50 items are under your current rates
Core Estimator · Read this week’s site diary
Here’s a draft from Monday to Friday’s entries:
Draft · to Sarah Bennett
Subject: Your build this week
Hi Sarah,
Good week at 14 Banksia Rise. The wall frames and roof trusses are up, and the frame inspection passed on Thursday.
Roofing starts Monday, weather permitting, then windows go in the following week.
Nothing is sent. You copy it into your email.
Reply…
Ask for the view you want, from your pipeline by stage to an estimate by category, and your AI builds it from your Core Estimator data.
Price checks, weekly summaries and client updates, written from your jobs in seconds. No waiting for us to add a report.
Charts, tables, spreadsheets or a quick tool of your own. If your assistant can build it, it can build it with your data.
You stay in control
It connects with your Core Estimator login and works inside your company's account.
If a quantity can't be worked out from what you give it, the item is left at zero and flagged for takeoff.
Logging an email or call never sends one, and proposals are still sent from Core Estimator.
How to connect
Core Estimator is a remote MCP server. Add it to your assistant once and it's there in every chat.
Open the connector settings in Claude or ChatGPT and choose to add a custom connector.
https://mcp.coreestimator.app/mcp
Log in with your Core Estimator account and allow access. Then just ask.