What drives the cost is how much of the job you're automating. A single piece, like reading customer photos and drafting a quote, is a contained build. Tying that together with crew scheduling that checks weather before confirming a job, prompts for stump-grinding upsells, and automatic review requests after a job closes is a bigger, multi-part operations system. A full app with online payments, customer logins, or a multi-language site is bigger again. Scope is the first thing that sets cost.
The second driver is whether you want the system built and handed off, or built and run. A build-only project ships the system and steps away. Build-and-operate means Precipitate keeps it running: watching for failures, fixing what it can on its own, and flagging what genuinely needs your judgment, like a hazardous removal quote or a customer dispute. Operating a live system month over month costs more than a one-time build, because the work keeps going after launch.
Precipitate doesn't publish a price list. Each engagement is quoted on the value the system creates for that business, which is why the real next step is a short conversation about your quoting, scheduling, and follow-up work, not a quote off a menu. To judge whether it's worth it, look at how much of your week goes to typing up quotes from photos, checking the forecast before committing a crew, or remembering to chase reviews. Anything that needs a person standing at the tree to make a safety call, or a customer relationship judgment, should stay with a person. A good system takes the repetitive work around those calls off your plate and leaves the calls themselves to you.