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Split known vs allowance
Unknowns aren't free.
Made for Auto Mechanics
Turn a Walkthrough Into an Estimate You Can Defend on the Job
Also useful for: Electricians, people in Skilled Trades
30 min
Intermediate
Skilled Trades
Auto Mechanic
Career outcome:
Avoid Professional Risk
Stop winning jobs you lose money on because the wall hid the real work.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
Completed ✓
Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
The walkthrough is where money leaks.
Your answers save as you type.
What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Write the exclusions
This is how you stay friends.
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Write the customer version
One page.
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Protect the schedule
A cheap job that slips wrecks the week.
Make Your Play
Turn a Walkthrough Into an Estimate You Can Defend on the Job
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Access, existing equipment, surprises, photos you took.
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Hours, helpers, parts, permits if you handle them.
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Behind walls, asbestos, HOA, shutoff access.
0/10000
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
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Split known vs allowance
Unknowns aren't free.
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Write the exclusions
This is how you stay friends.
03
Write the customer version
One page.
04
Protect the schedule
A cheap job that slips wrecks the week.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
You just walked a house or a unit and you need a number tonight, or a customer is pushing for a round number.
You'll need
- What you saw
- Labor and material you know
- What you didn't see
You'll get
- A an estimate structure: labor, materials, unknowns, and exclusions you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A an estimate structure: labor, materials, unknowns, and exclusions you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
Examples
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