// honest scoring

thehint vs Floorquoter.

We respect Floorquoter — they're the vertical bet. We're the horizontal one. Here's where each one shines, scored across 29 features.

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// last reviewed 2026-06-03 · public marketing only · no insider claims

// the matrix

29 rows. Green ticks on both sides where deserved.

Every row has a one-line note explaining who's actually better and why. If we lose a row, we say so.

// Trade scope

FeaturethehintFloorquoter
Trade scope
How many trades the product is built for.
thehint is horizontal — 42 specialists across kitchen, bathroom, heating, electrical, plumbing, flooring, roofing, paint, landlord. Floorquoter is vertical: flooring-only by design, which is a feature, not a bug, for fitters who only fit floors.
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Flooring-specific calculators
Roll widths, waste %, sub-floor levelling, stair runners.
Floorquoter wins this outright. Their two-year head start in flooring means their roll-waste optimiser and cutting plan are richer than ours. If you only fit floors, this is the row that matters most.
◐✓
Kitchen quoting
Units, worktops, appliances, labour.
thehint quotes a full kitchen against live UK trade rates. Floorquoter does not address kitchens — outside their scope by design.
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Bathroom quoting
Tiling, soil pipe, suite, wet rooms.
Same shape as kitchens — thehint covers it, Floorquoter does not.
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// Compliance & certificates

FeaturethehintFloorquoter
CP12 / Gas Safe pack
Drafted from voice or form input.
thehint drafts a CP12 from a dictation in the van. Floorquoter does not touch gas — out of scope.
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EICR draft
BS 7671 schedule of results drafted from readings.
thehint covers electrical inspection certs. Floorquoter does not, by design.
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EPC report + SAP inputs
Band + retrofit ladder for landlords.
thehint addresses the Awaab/MEES 2028 landlord stack. Floorquoter does not.
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BUS pack (heat-pump grant)
£7,500 grant pre-check drafted from job.
thehint ships the BUS / MIS 3005 14-field drafter. Floorquoter does not — they're flooring.
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RAMS / method statement
Fitter-ready, signable on site.
thehint generates a generic RAMS in 90s for any trade. Floorquoter has a flooring-specific method statement; richer in flooring, narrower overall.
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Asbestos register (CAR 2012)
For surveyors and refurb crews.
thehint surfaces this; Floorquoter does not.
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// On-site capture

FeaturethehintFloorquoter
Phone-based room scan
Walk the room with a phone camera, get measurements.
Floorquoter's flooring-room scan is mature. thehint's walkaround-scan is shipping but earlier in its curve for non-flooring rooms. Honest call: Floorquoter's scan is currently the better single-room flooring capture.
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Voice-driven dictation
Speak the job, get a priced quote.
thehint takes a kerbside voice prompt — "5×5 L-shape, Quartz, mid-range" — and prices it. Floorquoter is form-driven.
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Tile / floor photo takeoff
Photo + reference object → count.
Both ship a photo takeoff for floor area. thehint also covers wall tiles and other surfaces.
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// Voice & office

FeaturethehintFloorquoter
AI voice receptionist
Answers calls in the firm's voice, books jobs.
thehint's Pro + Office tier includes a real Twilio/Vapi-backed voice agent that replaces a £400/mo receptionist. Floorquoter has no voice product.
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Missed-call digest
Overnight callbacks summarised + routed.
Same Office-tier surface. Floorquoter does not address after-hours call handling.
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// Customer-facing

FeaturethehintFloorquoter
Branded white-label PDF
Your logo, your colours, your footer.
Both ship a branded quote PDF. Floorquoter's is flooring-tailored; thehint's adapts to every trade.
✓✓
Customer share link with sign + pay
They view, accept, sign, pay deposit.
Both products do this. Floorquoter's flow is tighter for a single-trade flooring job; thehint's is the same surface across trades.
✓✓
Open-tracking on shared quotes
See when the customer opened the PDF/link.
thehint surfaces open events on every share link. Floorquoter has email open events on quote emails but not standalone link telemetry.
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// Cashflow & integrations

FeaturethehintFloorquoter
Xero / QuickBooks push
Accepted quote → invoice + deposit in your books.
thehint pushes to Xero today, QuickBooks on the roadmap. Floorquoter integrates with Xero via Zapier rather than natively.
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Invoice chase (auto 7/14/28 day)
Chase ageing money on autopilot.
thehint ships this in Pro + Office. Floorquoter does not.
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Carpet / flooring supplier networks
Trade pricing pulled from supplier catalogues.
Floorquoter's flooring-supplier integrations are deeper — the benefit of two years of single-vertical focus. thehint pulls live trade rates but the per-supplier integration count is lower in flooring specifically.
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Stripe metered billing
Pay-as-you-go for voice minutes etc.
thehint runs Stripe metered billing for voice minutes and per-scan capacity. Floorquoter is flat-rate only.
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// Pricing & free tier

FeaturethehintFloorquoter
Free tier (no card)
Use real tools without paying first.
thehint ships a free site audit + 5 quotes/month + free CRM with no card. Floorquoter offers a trial but it gates the quoter behind signup.
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Entry-tier price
Cheapest paid tier.
thehint Sole £19/mo, Pro £29/mo. Floorquoter Starter ~£29/mo. Comparable — call it a tie.
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Receptionist-class tier
Voice + office at one price.
thehint's £49 Pro + Office bundles a voice receptionist + chase + digest. Floorquoter has no equivalent SKU.
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Landlord / agency tier
Multi-property tracking + compliance.
thehint has a Landlord SKU (£79 agency) for the 4.5M UK landlord TAM. Out of Floorquoter's scope.
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// Platform & footprint

FeaturethehintFloorquoter
Mobile-first web app
Works on a phone in a van, not just a laptop.
Both products run mobile-first. Floorquoter's single-page UI is tighter on small screens; thehint's breadth means a slightly longer nav.
✓✓
Native iOS / Android app
In the App Store / Play Store.
Neither ships a native app today. Both rely on responsive web; both are good candidates for a TWA-class wrapper in 2026.
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Open API
Integrate from your own stack.
thehint exposes internal APIs to integration partners under NDA. Floorquoter has none documented publicly.
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// who each one's for

Floorquoter is great if…

  • You only fit floors. Carpet, LVT, engineered, vinyl.
  • You want the deepest roll-waste optimiser on the market — two years of single-vertical focus shows.
  • Your supplier network is already wired to flooring catalogues and you want native pricing pulls.
  • You don't quote kitchens, bathrooms, heating, or electrical — and you never will.

thehint is great if…

  • You quote across more than one trade — kitchens AND bathrooms, or gas AND electrical.
  • You want a voice receptionist that answers when you're up a ladder — Pro + Office, £49/mo.
  • You handle compliance paperwork — CP12, EICR, EPC, BUS, RAMS — and want it drafted for you.
  • You manage landlord properties or sit in an agency stack (Awaab, MEES 2028).
  • You want Stripe-metered billing for voice minutes, not flat rate.
// which one's for you?

Three questions. One pick.

  1. 01
    Do you fit only floors — and no other trade?
    If yes, the vertical specialist wins on depth. If no, you're paying for trades you'll never use.
    yes → Floorquoter
  2. 02
    Do you want a voice receptionist that answers your phone after 5pm?
    Pro + Office on thehint bundles a Twilio/Vapi-backed agent. Floorquoter has no voice product.
    yes → thehint
  3. 03
    Do you also quote kitchens, bathrooms, heating, electrical, or compliance work?
    A horizontal product pays for itself when you stop juggling four tools. A vertical one pays for itself when you only fit one thing.
    yes → thehint

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