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Mobile & AR

3D Scan to Quote

From iPad in a customer's space to a structured, line-item quote in ninety seconds.

Outcome

A field-to-quote pipeline that compresses a two-to-three-day manual loop — measuring, sketching, vendor lookups, back-office quote build — into a single tablet workflow that finishes while the customer is still in the room.

<60s LiDAR + ARKit
Capture time
<90s end-to-end
Quote time
2–3 days of manual work
Replaces
Technologies
Swift 6SwiftUIARKitRoomPlanLiDARMetalVisionGemini multimodalPhotometric capture
Problem

Custom-fabrication businesses bid against each other on speed and precision. The traditional measure-to-quote process is days of human work and paper artifacts. The scan, vendor catalog, AI validation, and pricing engine all exist as separate technologies. The work was bringing them together into a single capture-to-quote loop.

How it's built
  • Capture room geometry with LiDAR and RoomPlan at near-survey accuracy in under a minute
  • Place named measurement points with ARKit; reconcile the captured mesh with a Vision pass that classifies opening types
  • Cross-check captured photos against the structured output with a multimodal pass that flags disagreements before the quote ships
  • Join vendor catalogs (materials, hardware, motorization) against the geometry; apply pricing rules automatically
  • Output a structured, line-item quote in the same iPad app the measurer used to capture

The competitive moat is the loop, not any single piece of it. Scan in sixty seconds. Validate with multimodal in another fifteen. Quote in fifteen more. The customer is still in the room when the quote is ready for their signature.

What looks like one capability is six technologies stitched into a single capture flow: LiDAR for geometry, ARKit for measurement anchoring, Vision for opening classification, multimodal AI for cross-check validation, vendor catalog joins for material requirements, and a pricing rule engine that respects the business's actual margin tiers.

The hard part isn't any one of those technologies. It's the data shape that connects them — a captured measurement that flows directly into a work-order line item without re-keying, without losing precision, without translation bugs. That's where the engineering hours actually go.

What I'd tell someone about to build this
  • Field tools fail when they require translation. Capture has to land directly in the quote schema, not in a paper sketch.
  • Multimodal cross-validation catches measurement errors before they become disputes. Cheap insurance.
  • LiDAR is precise enough for production work in this category. Trust the hardware.

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