Stop pricing jobs on spreadsheets and gut feel. TLE is a purpose-built estimating tool for landscape companies. It's fast, accurate, and easy to use in the field or at the office.
Our story
TLE was created from years of real experience running landscape crews, walking properties, managing materials, and pricing jobs the hard way. We’ve seen firsthand how much time gets lost in spreadsheets, and how easy it is to underbid when you’re doing everything manually.
Every feature in TLE comes from real-world experience on real landscape jobs. We're not a big software company guessing at what landscapers need. We are landscapers — and we built the tool we always wished we had.
TLE grows with input from landscapers in the field. Share tips, ask questions, and request new features. We're a small team that actually reads every message. Your feedback directly shapes what gets built next and the features we include.
Join the communityHow it works
Describe the project in plain language and TLE builds the estimate for you, using AI-assisted drafting to map scope into services, materials, quantities, and labor.
Type — or speak — a plain-language description of the project. Something like "Refresh 5,000 sqft of front yard barkdust, edge the beds, and trim six shrubs." Add a customer name and address if you have them, then hit Create.
TLE reads your description and instantly generates a full estimate draft — the right services, quantities, material costs, and labor totals filled in automatically. No formula writing, no line-by-line data entry.
Look over the line items, adjust any numbers, and generate a clean proposal your customer can read and sign. Most estimates go from blank to customer-ready in under 15 minutes.
Why TLE beats spreadsheets
Spreadsheets were never built for landscape estimating. TLE is — and the difference shows up in every estimate you send.
Your material costs and labor rates are built into every estimate. Every yard of mulch, every hour of crew time shows up in the total — no more forgotten line items.
Most TLE estimates go from blank to customer-ready in under 15 minutes. Stop spending your evenings at a spreadsheet — get that time back.
Everyone uses the same pricing logic. New hires estimate the same way your best estimator does. No more "depends who wrote it up."
Walk the property, record measurements on your phone, and have a number for your customer before you leave the driveway. No laptop, no office trip.
Generate clean proposals and contracts your customers can read and sign. No more emailing a screenshot of a spreadsheet or retyping numbers into Word.
Customers, properties, estimates, proposals, and contracts all organized together. No more hunting through email threads and saved files to find last year's quote.
The app
TLE is designed to feel fast and obvious — not like accounting software you need a training course to learn. If you can price a job, you can use TLE.
Newsroom
Follow new releases, product thinking, and estimating ideas from the team building TLE.
Learn how to estimate landscape maintenance services step-by-step. Discover how to measure properties, define service frequencies, calculate labor using production rates, estimate materials, and build accurate annual maintenance proposals.
Your labor rate is one of the most important numbers in landscaping because it directly impacts every estimate, profit margin, and pricing decision your business makes. In TLE, labor rate is one of the first variables you can customize, making it easier to build consistent, accurate estimates around how your business actually operates.
We just introduced Instant Start inside The Landscape Estimator — a faster way to begin building estimates without starting from scratch. Simply describe the job in plain language, and the system will generate a structured estimate draft using your existing estimating setup. It’s designed to reduce repetitive setup work while keeping your pricing, labor calculations, and estimating process fully intact.
TLE is free to try. Set up your company, build your first estimate, and see the difference. And if you have ideas for how to make it better — tell us. We're always listening.
