For agencies and freelancers
Buyers price their project on the calculator, then ask for quotes. You get the brief (type, platform, market, size, budget band, deadline, reference estimate) and reply directly. A listing is free. For $49/mo, the Agency plan puts you first in every match, adds a featured card and puts the calculator on your own site.
Go Agency, $49/mo: matched first, featured, Embed Pro
$49/mo, billed monthly by PayPal. Cancel any time; no account needed.
Free listing · Agency $49/mo, cancel any time · no commission · no request billed today
Cold lead vs brief
A cold lead
“Hi, how much for a website?”
A brief from here
“Ecommerce · Shopify · UK · 200–500 products · $15K – $25K · launch before December.”
The line above is the format, not a client. Every value in a real brief comes from the buyer’s calculator run.
How lead flow works
Apply, get approved. Free.
Name, website, the platforms you build on, the markets you serve, the project types you take. We check the site is live and the work matches the claim, within 24 to 48 hours; then your card goes into the directory and onto every results page that matches you.
Briefs arrive by email
When a buyer with a matching scope asks for quotes, the brief lands in your inbox: type, platform, market, size, budget band, deadline and the reference estimate, with a reply link that works once.
Reply, win the job
Your first message goes out from our address with yours as the reply-to; the buyer answers you directly. No commission, ever. Per-request billing ($29 per accepted request) is not switched on yet: requests are routed at no charge, and every listed agency is told by email before it starts. Agency ($49/mo) is matched before free listings and adds a featured card and Embed Pro.
What a lead looks like
This is the template every request is rendered from. Each row names the field and where its value comes from: no sample client, no sample numbers.
From: Project Cost Estimator <hello@projectcostestimator.com>
New {project type} lead · {platform} · {budget band}
A buyer priced their project on the calculator and asked for quotes. The brief is below; the reply link is yours alone and works once.
Your message is forwarded to the buyer; their address stays private until they write back.
quote_request.json
fieldsThe same payload arrives as a styled email. Nothing is added to it by us: every value comes from the buyer’s calculator run and the quote form.
Pricing
Every price on this page is read from one file, the same one the checkout uses. No commission on anything you close.
Free listing
$0
no card, no term
Be findable by buyers who already have a number.
Pay-per-lead
$29
per accepted request; nothing billed today
The brief lands in your inbox. Not billed yet: requests are routed at no charge until per-request billing starts, and you are told by email first.
Agency
$49/mo
matched first; requests free while per-request billing is off
For agencies and freelancers who want the calculator on their site and the quote requests it produces.
$49/mo, billed monthly by PayPal. Cancel any time; no account needed.
Embed Pro
$29/mo
one domain, cancel any time
The calculator on your own site, without our branding.
Why it is different
The number is already on the table
Every buyer ran the calculator first. They know the band their project sits in before they write to anyone.
Direct replies
We forward your first message with your address as the reply-to, then step out. The buyer answers you.
No commission
Not on the lead, not on the deal, not on the retainer that follows. A flat price per accepted request once billing starts, or a flat monthly plan.
Pay only for what you accept
When per-request billing starts, a request you pass on costs nothing and is not counted against you. Today no request is billed.
Matched, not broadcast
A brief goes to up to 5 providers whose platforms and markets match. Not to the whole directory.
The calculator on your site
Embed Pro puts the same engine on your pages with your brand and your call to action. Included in Agency.
Live numbers
Embed Pro · $29/mo
The free widget sends visitors to our calculator and carries our credit line. Embed Pro keeps the visitor on your page: your brand, your accent, background and text colours, your corner radius, and a result button that goes to your own quote form. Loads and clicks per day for your domain. Included in Agency.
For agencies & freelancers
The free widget above is honest about who it works for: it sends your visitor to our calculator and carries our credit line. Embed Pro turns the same engine into your own lead magnet — the visitor prices their project on your page, then goes to your contact form.
Installation is the same one line of code. Nothing to host, nothing to maintain — the widget is served from our origin and updates itself. Your visitors' answers stay in their browser; the widget sets no tracking cookies on them.
Embed Pro
$29/mo
one domain and its subdomains · cancel any time in PayPal
$29/mo, billed monthly by PayPal. Cancel any time; no account needed.
Type your domain first.
Billed monthly by PayPal. Your licence key and ready-to-paste snippet appear on screen the moment the subscription is active.
Already have a key or a subscription? Open your licence page. Agencies: Embed Pro is included in Agency, $49/mo.
What exactly am I paying for?
A licence key that unlocks the branded rendering of the widget on one domain (including its subdomains) while the subscription is active. The key is a signed string you paste into the embed snippet. No account, no dashboard to log into.
What happens if I cancel?
Keys carry a 35-day validity and are renewed against your live PayPal subscription. Cancel, and the widget on your site falls back to the free version within that window — it never breaks, it just gets our credit line back.
Can I use it on client sites?
One subscription covers one domain. If you build sites for clients, take one per client domain — each gets its own key, brand name and colours.
If I lose the key?
Open /embed/license and enter your PayPal subscription id (I-…) and your domain — a fresh key is issued on the spot. Keys bought as a one-time licence before September 2026 keep working.
Want to see it first? The free widget and the live preview are on /embed.
Apply
Nothing to pay to apply. Tick Agency if you want it; the approval email links to the plan.
Questions
Project type, platform, market, the size band (pages or products), the budget band bucketed from the reference estimate, timeline, complexity and risk from the calculation, every option the buyer set away from the defaults, and the deadline and notes they typed on the quote form. Plus a reply link that works once.
A request is accepted when you use its reply link to write to the buyer. Once per-request billing is on, that is the moment it is billed at $29; a request you never reply to costs nothing. Per-request billing ($29 per accepted request) is not switched on yet: requests are routed at no charge, and every listed agency is told by email before it starts.
Up to 5 providers whose platforms, markets and project types match the buyer’s, featured listings first. Buyers are told this. On the Agency plan your listing is featured on those results pages and matched before free listings.
We do not promise a number. When there are quote requests this month or listing clicks in the last 28 days, the live figures on this page show them, read from the database each time the page loads; a zero is left out rather than dressed up. That is the honest size of it today.
Your listing is matched before free listings and featured in the directory and on matching results pages; Embed Pro for one domain; everything in the Pro plan for your own estimates; and, once per-request billing starts, 3 requests a month included, then $19 instead of $29. $49/mo, cancel any time in PayPal. Subscribe with the email on your listing and the featured status switches on by itself.
That your website is live, that the platforms and markets you claim show up in your work, and that a person can find you: public reviews, a portfolio, a LinkedIn or a GitHub. No paperwork, no NDAs. Applications are reviewed by a person within 24 to 48 hours.
Any time. Email hello@projectcostestimator.com and it comes down. There is no term; a plan is cancelled from your PayPal account.
Go Agency, $49/mo: matched first, featured, Embed Pro
$49/mo, billed monthly by PayPal. Cancel any time; no account needed.
Free listing · Agency $49/mo · Embed Pro $29/mo · $29 per accepted request once billing starts