Planning tools
Every tool here publishes the rules it evaluates. Nothing is scored behind the scenes, results are never held back for a form, and none of them has seen your land.
Three things are true of every tool here. The rules it evaluates are printed on the same page, in the same words. Results appear immediately and are never held behind a form. Nothing you enter is transmitted anywhere — the logic runs in your browser.
None of them has seen your land. They organise the questions; a person standing on the ground answers them.
Contractor-Type Selector: Which Trade Should Quote?
Identify which contractor category should be quoting your project, before you start calling people.
20 published rules
Mulch or Haul: The Material Decision Tool
Work out where the cut material should end up, and what that decision costs you.
12 published rules
Land Clearing Cost Estimator: Complexity, Not Fake Prices
Show how much more complicated your project is than the simplest one, and which factors are doing it — so you can read three quotes and understand why they differ.
22 published rules
Site Access Checker: The Measurements That Change the Price
Turn a handful of measurements into the access information a contractor needs before they quote.
17 published rules
Quote Comparison Tool: Find the Missing Line Items
Normalise several quotes against the same scope checklist, so a price comparison is a comparison of the same work.
19 published rules
Why the rules are printed on the page
A planning tool that scores privately is indistinguishable from one that makes its answers up. So the engines on this site are not functions with a switch statement inside them — each one is a declared, ordered list of rules, and every rule carries the sentence shown to you when it fires.
That has consequences the code enforces. A rule with no explanation cannot be registered. Every published rule has to be reachable, and the test suite proves it with fixtures. And because the methodology section reads from the same array the engine evaluates, there is no second copy to drift out of date.
Work out the scope before you ask for prices
Answer the five questions every quote depends on — what is growing, where the material goes, how deep removal has to reach, whether equipment can get in, and what the land is for afterwards. Then send one properly described project to the right kind of contractor.
Nothing on this site is a recommendation of a specific company. The guidance describes categories of work and the questions worth asking. If you decide to request quotes, the introduction is free to you, contractors may pay to receive it, and you are under no obligation to hire anyone.