About
A small estimating team in Taiwan, built for contractors who speak Chinese at home and English on site.
Why this exists
Chinese-speaking contractors in North America, Australia, Japan and Korea are often the best tradespeople on the street and the worst-rested: ten hours on site, then quotes at the kitchen table at midnight, in a second language, for customers who compare three bids. Many under-price to avoid the paperwork. Some don’t bid at all.
Taiwan is twelve to sixteen hours ahead of North America. That turns the problem around: your evening is our morning. You send photos when you knock off; we work while you sleep; the estimate is there when you wake up.
Who we are
Overnight Estimating is run from Taiwan by an engineer with twenty years in industrial software, measurement and test systems, and a small estimating team. We are not electricians or plumbers and we don’t claim to be. We are careful with quantities, prices and arithmetic, we document our assumptions, and we tell you where we were unsure. You bring the trade judgment and the license; we bring the evenings back.
We speak Mandarin, Cantonese and English, and we work in Japanese and Korean.
How we price
From your suppliers’ current prices and your labor rates. Where you haven’t told us, we use the usual trade and big-box suppliers for the market and published labor norms, and we say so. We don’t take commissions from suppliers or software vendors.
Contact
- Emailestimate@tentao.top
Working hours 09:00 to 22:00 Taiwan time (UTC+8), seven days during launch. The form works any time.
Also from us
TenTao is the publisher’s long-form writing on East Asian civilization, in six languages. Lab has our industrial software work.