Signage Estimator that never drops the ball.
Builds sign and wrap proposals from specs to price. Built for signage & vehicle wraps teams that need the work done without more headcount.
“My job is making sure sign type + material recommendation — without anyone on your team having to ask.”
We watched our own signage & vehicle wraps team burn out on work that never stopped. Signage Estimators were leaving for better pay, calling out sick, and taking weeks to train — meanwhile the queue kept growing and customers kept waiting. There was no way to hire fast enough.
Tendai was built to be the piece of the team that's always there. Not a bot reading from a script, but a worker who knows the systems, the SOPs, and the judgment calls — so your senior people get their time back for the work only they can do.
Tendai in their own words.
I'm the signage estimator your signage & vehicle wraps team leans on when the queue starts stacking. Builds sign and wrap proposals from specs to price. I own the work end-to-end — you hand me the inbox, the ticket, or the call, and it gets done right the first time.
Day to day I'm running sign type + material recommendation, square footage + material cost calculation, permit + landlord approval requirements. I know the systems your team uses, I know what "clean" looks like in this seat, and I don't drop details when the volume climbs.
I work inside your stack, not alongside it. Every action I take is logged, every handoff has context, and your senior people get their time back for the work only they can do.
Hear Tendai on a real call.
This is how Tendai handles a caller end-to-end — answer, capture, confirm, close. Request a demo to hear one live with your business.
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What Tendai does best.
Everything Tendai does, top to bottom.
These aren’t theoretical. Every item below is part of Tendai’s live SOP on real deployments.
- Sign type + material recommendation
- Square footage + material cost calculation
- Permit + landlord approval requirements
- Proposal creation + follow-up
- Logs every action in your system of record
- Escalates with full context when scope is exceeded
- Runs against SOPs you approve before go-live
- Works inside your stack — no new tools required
How Tendai works a typical ticket.
Five steps, every time. Nothing skipped, nothing improvised.
Pick up the work
New signage estimator work lands in my queue — form, ticket, email, or inbound request. I triage within minutes of arrival.
Sign type + material recommendation
Sign type + material recommendation. Done inside SOP, logged step-by-step, never skipped.
Square footage + material cost calculation
Square footage + material cost calculation. Done inside SOP, logged step-by-step, never skipped.
Permit + landlord approval requirements
Permit + landlord approval requirements. Done inside SOP, logged step-by-step, never skipped.
Document + hand off
Every action lands in your signage & vehicle wraps system of record. If anything exceeds scope, I warm-transfer with full context — your team never starts from zero.
The tools Tendai works inside.
Tendai plugs into your existing stack. No new tools to learn, no data silos, no black box.
Built for the operators Tendai already works with.
Work Tendai has already done.
Every role below represents live deployments on real businesses — not theoretical capabilities.
- Primary signage estimatorEmbedded in signage & vehicle wraps teams
Builds sign and wrap proposals from specs to price.
- Sign type + material recommendationDaily workload
Sign type + material recommendation · Square footage + material cost calculation · Permit + landlord approval requirements. Every action logged, every handoff documented.
- Cross-team coordinationInterfaces with signage & vehicle wraps stakeholders
Works alongside your existing team — never a black box. When scope exceeds the runbook, escalates with full context and proposed next step.
Real calls. Real tickets. Real outcomes.
Request came in via Slack at 9:12 AM. By 10:04 Tendai had processed the work, flagged one edge case to the team lead, and closed the loop with a short summary + links to the system of record.
Teams that already hired Tendai.
Challenge, solution, and the numbers that changed after go-live.
Professional Services operator missing signage estimator work after hours. Senior staff pulled onto routine tasks; errors stacking up; customer follow-through slipping.
Deployed this worker on the primary sign type + material recommendation flow. Loaded the SOP, wired the integrations, and flipped live inside 48 hours.
Growing professional services team could not hire fast enough to keep up with signage estimator volume. Backlog grew 3x in 90 days; escalations ran hot.
Handed over the routine 80% of the queue. Senior staff kept the judgment calls. Every action logged in the system of record.
Tendai vs. hiring a human.
The math, laid out. No salary, no turnover, no sick days.
| Scenario | Human hire | Temp agency | Tendai |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | $75,000 | $108,750 | $4,188 |
| Hours covered | 40/week | 40/week | 168/week |
| Sick days | 10+/yr | 2+/yr | 0 |
| Ramp time | 6–8 weeks | 1–2 weeks | 48 hrs |
| Turnover risk | High | Very high | None |
Pick the bundle that fits your volume.
Buy minutes, not employees. Every plan includes full onboarding and integration. Upgrade or downgrade any month.
- 1,500 minutes / month
- $0.50/min overage
- One AI worker
- Standard SOP training
- Email support
- 5,000 minutes / month
- $0.50/min overage
- Custom SOP + voice training
- CRM / system-of-record integration
- Priority support
- Monthly tuning session
- 10,000+ minutes / month
- $0.50/min overage
- Multi-line / multi-region
- Custom voice + white-glove onboarding
- Dedicated CSM
- Per-team reporting
- SLA + BAA available
Need more volume? See all 14 tiers →
From signup to live in under 48 hours.
Four steps. We handle the technical work. You focus on the SOPs and the first-week review.
Pick your plan
Choose a minute bundle that matches your volume. Most signage estimator ops start on the Starter or Pro tier.
Connect your inbox / ticket system
Hook into your CRM, help desk, or ticket queue. Webhooks or native integrations — we handle the plumbing.
Upload your knowledge
Scripts, SOPs, FAQs, rate cards — anything your signage estimator team would hand a new hire. We train the worker on it.
Go live in under 48 hours
Soft-launch on a small % of traffic, review recordings the first week, then flip to full volume. You stay in control.
What teams say after they hire Tendai.
“Tendai handles the signage estimator workload our team used to dread. Nothing gets dropped, nothing stacks up overnight.”
“The turnaround is the best part. Tendai processes requests inside an hour that used to sit on our desk for a week.”
Everything teams ask before hiring Tendai.
Under 48 hours in most cases. We load your signage estimator SOP, wire the integrations, and soft-launch on a small share of traffic so you can review before flipping to full volume.
Tendai warm-transfers (or routes the ticket) with a one-paragraph summary: what the caller / customer asked, what Tendai already confirmed, and why it's being escalated. Your team never starts from zero.
Whatever your team already uses. Tendai pushes actions into your existing signage & vehicle wraps stack — CRM, ticket system, calendar, SOR — via native integrations or webhooks. No new tool required.
Plans start at $49/month with CRM + 50 voice minutes included. Dedicated minute bundles start at $149/month for 500 minutes. Every minute Tendai spends on your work counts toward the bundle. Overage is billed at $0.50/min. No seats, no per-call fees, no hidden add-ons.
Any time. Upgrades prorate instantly. Downgrades apply at the next billing cycle. Your worker keeps its training, voice, and history through any change.
Yes. Tendai works every shift, including weekends and holidays. Work that lands at 2 AM gets handled before your team walks in the next morning.
Every conversation is logged, encrypted at rest, and retained per your policy. For signage & vehicle wraps teams with HIPAA, PCI, or SOC2 requirements, we run on BAA-signed infrastructure with audit trails on every action.
Yes. Book a call with our team — we'll walk you through a live demo of Tendai, look at your current signage estimator workflow, and map out what the first 30 days would look like.
Included in your plan.
Live in under 48 hours.
Most teams run signage estimators on the lite bundle or the next one up as volume grows.
