Everything new since May: estimates, online proposals, and a 3D map your clients understand

Since the spring, Tree Inventory AI went from a tool that records trees to a tool that gets you paid for them. The headline is estimates. You can now turn the trees you capture into a priced, professional proposal your customer accepts online, from their phone, in one tap. Around that, we fixed the field bugs that mattered most and sharpened the parts you touch every day.

All of it is live right now. Version 1.2.0 is on the App Store and Google Play, and everything on the server side works the moment you open the app.

See every atomic change in the changelog →

Estimates, drafted from your inventory

Open any property and you have a new Estimates tab. Tap Create estimate and the Estimate Generator reads every tree you captured there. Species, size, condition, hazard rating, and defects. Then it drafts a priced estimate against your service catalog.

You steer it. Tell it the job is storm prep, or that the customer is budget conscious, or that safety comes first, and the draft changes accordingly. The same property can come back as one $750 line or as $2,850 of work depending on what you tell it to care about.

It also tells you what it could not do. If a palm needs frond work and your catalog has no palm item, it flags the tree and leaves it off the bill rather than guessing.

Nothing sends on its own. You get a draft, you review every line, and it stays a draft until you say otherwise.

Or build it by hand

Prefer to drive? Add lines yourself, pick trees off the map, and price them from your catalog. The agent is an option, not a requirement.

Your customer accepts online

Send the estimate and your customer gets a clean, branded proposal by email. They open it on their phone, read it, and hit Accept or Decline. No app to install, no PDF to print, no paperwork to chase.

Every acceptance is recorded and time stamped, with a snapshot of exactly what they agreed to. When they accept, you see it in the app. Accepted, from the proposal link, with the date.

The 3D map they can actually understand

Every proposal now carries a “View your property in 3D” button. It opens an interactive map of their own property with the trees you quoted highlighted, so they see at a glance exactly what the work covers.

Every line has a “View on map” link too. Tap it and the map flies to that exact tree and opens its photo card. Your customer can stand in their kitchen, tap a line on the quote, and see which tree in their yard it is, with your photo of it. Fewer “which tree is that?” phone calls, and a quote that looks like nothing your competitors send.

A flat day rate when that is how you price

Not every job is priced tree by tree. Sometimes it is a flat day rate for the whole property. Every service line now has a Per tree or Flat day rate toggle. Flip it to flat, name your number, and the estimate shows one line that covers every tree you selected, with the per-tree math shown underneath for the customer who wants to see it.

This one came straight from the field. A partner wanted to quote “a day rate of 1,850 rather than pricing out individual trees,” so we built exactly that. The trees still ride on the estimate and still link to the map. Only the pricing changes.

Faster field capture

Two changes came straight from the field, both about the moment you are standing in front of a tree.

Pick a species instead of typing it

When the AI is not sure what a tree is, you no longer have to type the whole name. The Common Name field is now a searchable picker. Type “oak,” “mesq,” or “palm” and the matching species come up with their scientific names. Tap one and both fields fill in. When the app has a best guess for that exact photo, it shows up under Suggested at the top. Not on the list? Keep whatever you typed. Nothing is forced.

Add a tree without a photo

Sometimes you just need a tree on the map. Now you can drop one with no photo, two ways. Tap the map where the tree is and hit Add tree, or long-press the green + button and choose Add without photo to use your current location. It saves right away as Unidentified, works offline, and you can name it, photograph it, or move it whenever. The camera flow is unchanged. This is an extra way in, not a replacement.

Your catalog, your prices, your words

Products & services holds your service list. Starter prices are national averages, so tap any price and make it yours. Now you can edit the name and the description too, and when you add a new service the app suggests a description you can rewrite in your own words.

Those descriptions are not just for you. They print under each line on the proposal your customer reads. So “Crown reduction” can read “Selective reduction of the crown to lower wind load and clear the roofline” on the quote, in your voice.

Tune any line on any estimate

Sometimes one job needs different wording without changing your catalog. Tap any line on a draft and rewrite that line's service name, description, and price, just for that estimate. Your catalog defaults stay untouched, and clearing the description brings the default right back.

So the same “Tree Removal, 12 to 24in DBH” can read “Remove storm-damaged maple over garage, rigging required” on the one quote where that is what the customer needs to see.

The note at the top is yours

Every proposal opens with a short note to the customer. The AI drafts it, but it is your note. Tap to rewrite it on a draft, and you can keep editing it after sending, right up until the customer accepts or declines. Good for gate codes, “crew will arrive between 8 and 9,” “please keep the dogs inside on work day,” or just a warmer line than the AI wrote.

Send it again, and hear back

The send button no longer disappears after you send. If an email lands in spam or the customer says they never got it, open the estimate and send it again. Same estimate, fresh email, fresh secure link, and the old link retires so only the latest one is live.

And when a customer hits Reply on an estimate email, their message now goes straight to your inbox instead of vanishing into a noreply address. So “can you also look at the oak by the fence?” actually reaches you. Nothing to set up.

Professional terms on every proposal

Every estimate now carries a standard line: “All work will be performed according to ANSI A300 standards and industry best practices.” It signals professionalism and sets the baseline for how the work gets done. Customizing this wording for your own company is coming.

The field fixes

Pins no longer stack on one spot

This was the big one. Your phone's GPS could quietly stall and keep handing back the same stale fix, so a whole walk of trees landed stacked on a single coordinate. We found it in real field data, confirmed a case where it stalled for roughly 50 minutes, and fixed it at every layer. Stale fixes are now thrown away, a watchdog restarts a stalled GPS, and the location chip honestly says “searching” while it recovers instead of pretending it knows where you are.

Offline capture tells the truth

If you capture with no signal and the photos upload later from somewhere else, those trees used to get pinned wherever you happened to reconnect. Now anything that cannot get a fix within 30 seconds of the shutter comes back unmapped and waiting for placement. An honest gap beats a confident wrong pin.

Species names stay consistent

The AI sometimes wrote “African Sumas” for African Sumac, or invented spellings that split one species across several names in your reports. Names are now normalized to standard horticultural spelling as they are saved, and we cleaned up existing inventories that had drifted.

Steadier voice notes and capture

Voice notes are more reliable, capture holds up better on weak connections, and the app no longer reports something as saved when it was not.

Arboris got sharper

Arboris, the AI you can just ask about your inventory, learned some manners:

• It answers about the property you meant. Ask for a letter to a homeowner and it asks which property rather than writing something generic against your whole database.
• Send to Client.From any property, one tap drafts an email with a secure link to that customer's tree inventory. No login for them.
• Answers cite the tree.Every tree it mentions is a link straight to that tree's record.
• Reports come back as real, downloadable PDFs.

Signing in and getting set up

• Forgot your password? Reset it right from the sign-in screen.
• Set your company name when you are ready, with a friendlier reminder if you skip it.
• Cleaner headers and spacing throughout, and smoother switching between companies.

See every change

This was a big two weeks. Every item above has its own entry, with screenshots, in the changelog.

Browse the full July 2026 changelog →

What we are building next

Straight from field feedback: your own inclusions and exclusions printing on every estimate automatically, one estimate that spans multiple locations, photos you attach to the proposal from your phone, and a deeper GPS fix that flags weak-signal shots instead of letting them wander.

As always, ping us if anything breaks or feels off. We read every message.