Q&A Landscaping plans to use the analysis to adjust its rates next year, but its owner says he cannot tie Claude to higher sales.
By [Morgan Laning](https://runtimewire.com/author/morgan-laning)
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Apollo's chief economist argues AI hasn't paid off outside big tech. This owner's numbers show one small business finding a real pricing error with AI, but no proven sales gain.
Q&A Landscaping has used Claude since April to turn dictated job scopes into estimates, checking costs against supplier prices and the company’s past jobs before a quote goes to a customer, owner Quinten O’Dea said. The residential landscaping and hardscaping company is based in Pittsburgh’s South Hills and has been in business since 2010, he said.
O’Dea told RuntimeWire in an email that matching truck GPS stops with payroll data showed a gap between the company’s pricing assumption and the time crews spent at billable sites:…
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