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Paste the scope of work you already wrote. Each line becomes a line item, you fix anything the parser got wrong, and the Austin area average sits next to your own price before you save it as scope v1.
Year built and property type decide which Austin rules apply to the job — the rules panel on the project page resolves from them. Leave the year blank and the lead-safe rule says it needs the year rather than guessing.
Paste your scope of work
Parsing is line by line and rule based, so messy prose — a whole paragraph, quantities written as words, two items on one line — may need cleanup before the out-of-scope flag means anything.
Austin area averages · rates retrieved Nov 12, 2026 · 3 of 17 are published per-unit rates, the other 14 are assembled estimates, not published per-unit prices.
Where these Austin rates come from
Austin labour reference, carried on every line: Painters, Construction and Maintenance (SOC 47-2141) in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area (area 12420) — mean wage $46,990.00 a year (May 2025), $22.59 an hour, $30.50 an hour burdened. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, via the BLS Public Data API, retrieved Nov 12, 2026.
- Every unitPrice is either (a) the midpoint of a published per-unit range, or (b) built from a published rate times a stated quantity. Nothing is copied from the old seed file.
- Rule used throughout: where two independent published guides cover the same unit, unitPrice is the mean of the two published midpoints and the line is labelled assembled_estimate when the guides differ by more than 50 percent. Where only one guide covers the unit, unitPrice is that guide's midpoint and the line is labelled published_rate.
- All published per-unit guides found are national figures, not Austin-specific. Austin-specific per-unit published rates were not obtainable: Home Depot, Lowe's, Sherwin-Williams product pricing, Angi and HomeGuide all refused this machine (HTTP 403 or no pricing without a store account). Homewyse's ZIP selector is JavaScript-only and did not return Austin figures. The Austin labour reference below is real Austin data and is carried on every line.
- Where a line is built rather than quoted, the derivation string on that line shows the arithmetic and names which input is an assumption rather than a published figure. Assumptions are the labour-hours-per-unit and the coat/adjustment multipliers; they are flagged as such.
- No published estimating guide (RSMeans, Craftsman) was reachable without a paid subscription, so productivity rates in the derived lines are stated assumptions, not published rates. This is the weakest part of the book and is flagged on those lines.