# Service Pricing Builder AI Agent Connect

> Service Pricing Builder MCP handles the math for your service quotes. It calculates direct costs like labor and materials, factors in overhead, and ensures your profit targets and taxes are covered. You can use it within your AI client to turn raw cost estimates into itemized, profitable quotes in seconds.

## Overview
- **Category:** productivity
- **Price:** Free
- **Endpoint:** https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_S44v7mPzl3aJnfjXJ32oaO1YIF9XePqKF1j4lZgr/ai-agent-connect
- **Tags:** pricing, quotes, profitability, margin, tax

## Description

Stop guessing your margins. This MCP acts as a specialized pricing engine that sits inside your AI client, turning raw numbers into professional quotes. Instead of manually calculating how overhead impacts your bottom line or checking if a price covers your tax obligations, you just give your agent the raw data. It handles the heavy lifting of combining labor, travel, materials, and revisions with your desired profit and tax rates. You can run quick checks to see how a change in overhead affects your total, or verify if a specific price point actually meets your minimum profit requirements. It's built to ensure you never underbid a job by forgetting a cost pillar or miscalculating the impact of taxes on your final margin.

## Tools

### analyze_profit_margins
This tool evaluates how your target profit relates to total costs to define your margin profile.

### calculate_quote
This tool generates a complete, itemized service quote using all your provided cost and margin variables.

### estimate_overhead_impact
This tool determines exactly how much overhead will be added to a quote based on your direct costs and specific rate.

### validate_quote_feasibility
This tool checks if a proposed price actually meets your minimum business requirements after accounting for taxes.

## Prompt Examples

**Prompt:** 
```
Calculate a quote with $500 labor, $100 travel, $200 materials, 10% overhead, $300 profit, and 5% tax.
```

**Response:** 
```
The final quote is $1,215.00.
```

**Prompt:** 
```
What is the markup percentage if my total cost is $1000 and my target profit is $250?
```

**Response:** 
```
The markup percentage is 25%.
```

**Prompt:** 
```
Will a $1500 quote be feasible if I need at least $200 profit and the tax rate is 8%?
```

**Response:** 
```
Yes, the quote is feasible with a remaining margin of $1,380.00 above the minimum profit.
```

## Capabilities

### Itemized Quote Generation
Your agent creates a full breakdown of costs and margins for a client.

### Overhead Calculation
The MCP calculates how much overhead to add based on your specific rates.

### Margin Analysis
Your agent evaluates the relationship between profit and total project costs.

### Feasibility Checking
The tool verifies if a price meets your minimum profit needs after taxes.

## Use Cases

### Quick Job Bidding
Input labor and material costs to get a total quote for a new client immediately.

### Margin Protection
Check if a requested discount will drop your profit below your required minimum.

### Overhead Planning
See how increasing your overhead rate changes the final price of a service.

### Tax Compliance
Ensure your final quote includes the necessary tax buffer to keep your net profit intact.

## Benefits

- Calculates tax and profit impacts automatically.
- Accounts for overhead to protect margins.
- Validates quotes against minimum profit requirements.
- Generates itemized breakdowns from raw cost data.

## How It Works

Get your pricing engine running in your AI client in a few steps.

1. Connect the MCP to your AI client via Vinkius.
2. Provide your cost variables like labor, materials, and travel to your agent.
3. Ask the agent to calculate the quote or analyze the margins.
4. Receive an itemized quote or feasibility report instantly.

## Frequently Asked Questions

**How does this MCP handle taxes?**
The MCP includes tax as a variable in its calculations, allowing you to validate if a quote meets profit requirements after taxes are applied.

**Can I use this with Claude or Cursor?**
Yes, you can connect this MCP to any MCP-compatible client including Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf.

**What kind of costs can I include in a quote?**
You can include labor, travel, materials, revisions, and overhead to build a complete quote.

**How do I know if a price is too low?**
You can use the validation tool to check if a proposed price meets your minimum business profit requirements.

**Do I need to host this myself?**
No, Vinkius hosts and manages the MCP for you, so it is ready to use immediately after connection.

**How does the tool calculate the final quote?**
The `calculate_quote` tool sums the direct costs (labor, travel, materials, and revisions), adds the overhead amount calculated from the overhead rate, and then adds the tax amount calculated from the total cost.

**Can I check if my profit margin is sufficient?**
Yes, you can use `analyze_profit_margins` to see your profit margin percentage and markup percentage, or `validate_quote_feasibility` to check if a specific quote meets your minimum profit needs.

**What is included in the direct costs?**
Direct costs consist of labor, travel, materials, and any planned revisions.