MaterialScout: Construction Price Board

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Stop overpaying for materials. MaterialScout turns messy supplier and product pages into a clean, local price board — so you always know the real cost per unit before you buy.

Built for contractors, remodelers, electricians, plumbers, HVAC installers, carpenters, architects, builders, property managers, real-estate investors, and purchasing teams.

★ THE KILLER FEATURE: TRUE UNIT COST Every supplier sells differently — a 50 kg cement bag, a 1.44 m² tile box, a 6 m rebar, a 19 L paint bucket. MaterialScout normalizes them all to a comparable unit: • cement bag 50 kg → price per kg • tile box 1.44 m² → price per m² • rebar 6 m → price per meter • paint 19 L → price per liter • drywall 4×8 ft → price per sqft and per sheet Now "cheapest sticker price" and "cheapest actually" stop being the same trap.

WHAT YOU CAN DO • Save the current product with one click, review the fields, and store it locally. • Extract the visible product cards on a search/category page (no crawling, no pagination). • Compare suppliers by normalized unit price — the cheapest, in-stock, and freshest options are highlighted. • Build project budgets with quantities, waste, contingency and tax, then export a printable quote sheet. • Watch prices/stock on pages you keep open and get a notification when something changes. • One-click exchange-rate refresh for multi-currency work (MXN, USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CNY). • Export to CSV, JSON, Markdown, a clipboard table, or paste straight into Google Sheets.

WORKS ON THE SITES YOU ALREADY USE Built-in adapters — and a generic reader that works on virtually any other product page. You can also teach a new site in seconds with "Map Fields".

PRIVATE BY DESIGN • 100% local — your data lives in your browser (IndexedDB), never on a server. • No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no analytics. • Reads a page only after you click — never crawls or scrapes in the background. • You review and edit everything before it's saved. The only optional network call is the exchange-rate button, which sends just a currency query — never your data.

NOT a coupon tool, not a scraper bot. A serious procurement and estimating assistant that respects your privacy.

Install MaterialScout and quote your next job with confidence.