For Freelance PHP Developers

Fixed-bid estimates
in under 2 minutes.

Paste a client request — messy Slack message, Jira ticket, handwritten notes. Get a professional fixed-bid estimate with scope, risks, and a ready-to-send proposal.

Powered by Claude — built to remember what a chat window forgets.

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AI Estimate
$4,750
Range $4,000 – $5,500  ·  38 hrs estimated
Database & Models8 hrs
QR Code Generation5 hrs
PDF Upload & Storage7 hrs
Admin Interface10 hrs
Mobile-Responsive UI8 hrs
⚡ Generated in 47 seconds
<2 min
Avg. estimate time
3 steps
Ticket to proposal
AI
Powered by Claude
PDF
Proposal export
How It Works

Ticket in. Proposal out.

Three steps and you're quoting the client — no spreadsheet formulas, no gut-feel guessing.

1
Paste the Ticket
Drop in whatever the client sent — email thread, Jira text, Slack message, or your own notes. Raw and unformatted is fine.
2
Get the AI Estimate
Claude reads the request and returns a fixed-bid price, hour breakdown, scope, risks, and open questions — in under 2 minutes.
3
Send the Proposal
Export a clean, professional proposal PDF with your bid, scope, and what's excluded. Override the price if needed, then send.
Features

Everything you need to quote confidently.

Built specifically for fixed-bid freelance and agency work — nothing you don't need.

🤖
AI Bid Generation
Claude reads raw client requests and produces a structured fixed-bid price with hour breakdown, risk multiplier, and rationale — not a guess, an analysis.
📋
Scope Included / Excluded
Every estimate includes what's in scope and what's explicitly not. No more "I thought that was included" conversations mid-project.
⚠️
Risk Identification
Claude flags ambiguities, third-party dependencies, and scope-creep risks before you commit to a price.
🖨️
Proposal Export
One click generates a print-ready proposal with your bid, scope, assumptions, and open questions. Looks professional, prints clean.
📊
Win / Loss Tracking
Log actual hours when the project ships. See how your bids compare to reality over time and sharpen your estimates.
🎛️
Live Override Calculator
Adjust hours and the risk multiplier with a live calculator that shows the new bid instantly. Your call, not the AI's.
Why Not Just Use Claude?

Claude doesn't remember your last fifty projects. FBS does.

Claude is genuinely good at estimating any single project you hand it — that's not in question. What it can't do is remember the project you quoted six weeks ago, or the pattern across the last twenty. FBS is the layer that persists: your accuracy history, your locked scope agreements, your dev environment, your build progress. None of that survives past the end of a chat. It has to live somewhere that isn't your memory.

📈
Calibration
Your last eight database-heavy estimates ran 1.4x over. Claude has no memory of that unless you retype it every session — FBS tracks it automatically and factors it into your next bid.
🔒
Locked scope, mid-project
When a client asks for "just one more thing," FBS checks it against the scope you actually agreed on — not your memory of what you meant to include.
⚙️
Your stack, remembered once
Set your PHP version, local server, and CSS approach once in your Developer Profile. Every Build Segment already knows it — no re-explaining in every prompt.
✅
Build progress that doesn't disappear
Segments stay checkable and tracked against the original bid — still there next week, whenever you pick the project back up.
Real project, built with FBS

We used FBS to build ourfamilymemorybook.com

Same tool, real project. We ran a client-style request through FBS's own pipeline — an AI estimate, Build Segments broken into ordered Claude Code instructions, and a build carried out step by step. It's live today.

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Screenshot placeholder — the FixedBidSolutions dashboard showing Build Segments progress for the ourfamilymemorybook.com build
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Is This For Me?

Built for developers who quote fixed bids.

If you're still estimating in spreadsheets or quoting from the gut, this replaces that.

Great Fit ✓
Solo PHP Freelancer
You take fixed-bid projects, quote clients directly, and hate spending an hour building an estimate for a 2-day job. This is exactly what you need.
Good Fit
Small Dev Shop
1–3 developer teams quoting client projects on fixed bids. Pro gives you Projects to organize estimates by client and keep bids consistent across your team.
Not Ideal
Hourly Billing Only
If you always bill hourly and never quote a fixed price, you won't get much from this. Come back if you ever want to switch.
Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.

No per-seat fees. No usage charges beyond the plan. Pay monthly, cancel anytime.

Most Popular
Pro
$79
/month
For developers who quote regularly.
  • Unlimited AI estimates
  • Scope, risks & open questions
  • Proposal PDF export
  • Win / loss tracking
  • Live bid override calculator
  • Projects — organize by client
  • Uses your own Claude (Anthropic) API key
  • Priority support
  • Build Segments (Claude Code instructions)
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14-day free trial, no card required

Accelerator
$199
/month
Build up to 90% of the project with Claude. Segments turn your approved bid into step-by-step Claude Code instructions.
  • Everything in Pro, plus:
  • Build Segments — turn an approved bid into ordered, step-by-step Claude Code build instructions tailored to your stack
  • Developer profile — skill level, stack & dev environment preferences baked into every segment
  • Segments remember your stack, your progress, and your last project — every time
Build Segments give you a fast, tailored starting point for development — not a finished, deploy-ready application. You'll still review, test, and complete the build yourself.
Start Accelerator Trial

14-day free trial, no card required

14-day free trial on both plans. No credit card required to start.

Your trial includes 3 free AI estimates on us — no Anthropic account needed to try it. After subscribing, both plans use your own Anthropic Claude API key for AI estimates — create one free at console.anthropic.com. AI usage is billed by Anthropic pay-as-you-go and typically costs a few cents per estimate. A claude.ai Pro subscription is not the same thing and is not required.

vs. The Alternatives

Better than the usual options.

Here's how Fixed Bid Solutions compares to the way most developers estimate today.

Feature Fixed Bid Solutions Spreadsheet Hourly Billing
Time to produce estimate<2 min30–60 minN/A
Scope included / excluded✓✗✗
Risk identification✓✗✗
Professional proposal PDF✓Manual✗
Win / loss benchmarking✓DIY✗
Consistent across projects✓✗✗
Overrun risk on the client✓ AlwaysSometimesNever

Stop guessing. Start quoting.

Paste your next client request and have a professional fixed-bid proposal in 2 minutes.

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