Scope and cost new projects · for teams that scope bespoke, cross-discipline work

Your last fifty proposals should be writing the next one.

Echoslate reads the proposals you've already written and drafts the next one — scope, hours, schedule, price — even for work you've never done before. You help shape the approach, make decisions, add the fine points, and send it.

Scope and estimate
Every estimate shows its source — yours to edit
Work package Calibration
Sensing element & signal chain
delivered work
222 h · $49,950
4 delivered projects
Piezo haptic actuator design
past plans
120 h · $27,000
3 quoted work streams
Biocompatibility testing
uncalibrated
82 h · $18,450
Echoslate + AI
Total $95,400
Illustrative — every number carries how much the tool trusts it. Set the hours yourself and the line is marked set by you.
Your record + Echoslate

How it works

No blank-page start — every proposal begins in your own record, and the loop sharpens each time you finish one.

Step 1
Your record
Any one gets you started — the more of your knowledge base in place, the more confident each estimate.
Step 2
Open a new project
An RFP, a PDF, or a few paragraphs into Echoslate.
Step 3
New plan options
Your record + AI + Echoslate logic.
Step 4
Shape it with your team's judgment
Your context and experience make the calls.
Step 5
Send it with your branding
Your template, your format, your voice.
Step 6
Add to your record
File it back to your record — the next quote starts sharper.
Fit

Built for teams where no two jobs are the same — but the last fifty still know things.

One job: a proposal you're confident in. It combines what you know, what your past quotes know, and what Echoslate drafts — three heads on every number instead of one.

This is you
  • You sell bespoke, project-based work to outside clients — or budget the same kind of program in-house
  • Every job is materially different from the last one
  • Scope crosses disciplines that interact — engineering and firmware, permitting and environmental review, process and controls, wet lab and regulatory — and one early decision reshapes the rest
  • The projects are big enough to scope with care — six figures and up, weeks to months, not a day rate
  • Quotes are written by senior people whose time is the expensive kind
  • You've eaten a change order because something implied never got scoped
This probably isn't
  • You quote the same repeatable job from a rate card or configurator
  • Your work is single-discipline and priced per unit
  • The job is small enough to quote from memory in an afternoon
  • You're looking for a CRM
Open beta

Request access.

Tell us what your firm quotes. If it's a fit we send login details, usually within a day or two.

Free during beta. We review fit and email you a login, usually within a day or two. No list, no reselling (privacy). Rather ask first? hello@echoslate.com

Questions

What you're probably wondering.

What does the beta cost?
Nothing. Pricing isn't set. When it is, beta firms hear before anything changes and nobody gets moved onto a paid plan without opting in.
What if I don't have old proposals to upload?
You can still use it — the first drafts lean on general engineering patterns instead of your record, so ranges are wider. The tool gets materially better once your own work is in it, which is why we ask about it up front rather than after you've signed up.
Does my data train a model, or reach other firms?
No to both. Your proposals, rates, and client information stay in your firm's workspace and are used to improve your estimates only. We don't train models on your content and we don't share it between firms.
Is it going to invent numbers and put my name on them?
It drafts, you decide. Every work package, hour figure, and assumption is editable before anything exports, and the draft marks where it's least confident so you know which lines to check first. Nothing reaches a client without your approval.
More questions
What's not finished yet?
Product screenshots and a walkthrough video are still coming — this page has neither yet, deliberately, rather than showing you something staged. Inside the product, template editing works but is plain, and the library is only as good as what's in it. We'd rather tell you than let you find out.
Does the output match our proposal format?
Yes. Your template controls fonts, colors, section order, and branding, and exports as Word or PDF. The client reads your document, not ours.
Which disciplines does it understand?
It's built around physical product and system development — mechanical, electrical, firmware and software, industrial design, and test and certification, plus the cascades between them. It is not a construction takeoff tool.
Who's behind it?
Echoslate is built by me, David Doucette — after years of scoping and quoting product-development work by hand, this is the tool I wanted to exist. During beta you're talking to the person writing the software: reply to any email and it reaches me, not a queue. I'm on LinkedIn.