Commercial painting estimates from your construction documents. Upload the PDFs, our engine measures the plans, reads the schedules, parses the Division 09 spec book, and sends back a priced takeoff the same day — about two hours for a typical set. No more midnight bidding.
The painting industry runs on precision, but the way we estimate is broken. Manual takeoffs are a massive bottleneck for commercial contractors. Every hour spent counting doors is an hour not spent reviewing scope or winning jobs.
Upload the bid set. The engine measures the plans, reads the schedules and the spec, and a priced estimate comes back the same day — about two hours for a typical set, nine in ten inside 24 hours. No more midnight takeoffs.
Drag and drop your architectural drawings and the Division 09 spec book directly into KnightShift. Multi-file sets, hundreds of pages, text-layer or scanned.
Vector measurement of walls and ceilings off the floor plans, room heights from the RCPs, door, window and finish schedules read as tables, paint systems pulled from the Division 09 spec. A reviewer pass and a release gate before anything leaves.
A priced estimate PDF, the measurement analysis with every quantity’s source sheet, and your own drawings marked up with what was counted. Answer the open items on the job page and re-run free.
A comprehensive toolset designed explicitly for commercial painting contractors. Built tough. Built accurate.
Every priced quantity is tied to the sheet it came from and drawn on your marked-up plans. Sheets the engine can’t read are named in the email, not guessed at.
Parses the Division 09 spec book for the systems actually specified — ProMar 200/400, Pro Industrial, Loxon, Macropoxy, dryfall, block filler — and keeps spec pages out of the room count. Commercial only.
Reads the room finish schedule, the door and window schedules and the Division 09 spec as tables, so substrates and paint systems come from the documents. Where a schedule is missing, the estimate says so instead of guessing.
Estimates ship DRAFT with the assumptions to confirm listed in the email. Answer them on the job page and re-run — revisions never count against your bid quota.
Branded estimate PDF with line items, totals, wage basis and open items. Measurement analysis with every quantity and its source sheet. Your plan set marked up in Bluebeam-compatible annotations.
Checked against real commercial takeoffs. Priced at KnightShift commercial rates you can replace with your own on the Pricing tab. Standard labor basis disclosed on every estimate.
One-truck owner-op chasing your first commercial job. ENR Top 400 contractor with six estimators on staff. KnightShift is the same compounding leverage — it just looks different at scale.
You’re a working painter. You’re running the crew, cutting in trim, and chasing punch lists until 5 PM. Then bid sets stack up. Upload from your truck, get the priced draft back the same day, and spend the evening confirming a handful of open items instead of counting doors.
Residential painters need to measure a living room. You need to estimate 200,000 sq ft of high-performance epoxy and dryfall. KnightShift is built strictly for commercial applications with the product data you actually specify.
You’re winning the work you bid on. The problem is you can only bid 6 jobs a month before your one estimator is buried. KnightShift is the leverage that lets a 4-person shop bid like a 20-person shop — without hiring another estimator.
Your team is buried. Quality bid sets hit the desk Wednesday and are due Friday — and they slip. KnightShift turns a 6-estimator team into a 12-estimator team without the headcount, the recruiting, or the overhead.
Drag the sliders. Watch the numbers move. Plug in your real estimator rate, your real bid volume, your real takeoff hours. The math doesn’t lie.
No black box. Four deliverables, each one traceable to the sheet it came from, and a DRAFT label until you’ve confirmed the open items.
A branded estimate with your logo on it. Standard (non-prevailing) labor basis disclosed on every one. Unpriced scope is listed, not guessed.
Walls, ceilings, rooms, heights, doors, windows — each quantity with its source sheet, schedule or spec section. Every line carries its basis: measured, schedule, plan read or derived.
Bluebeam-compatible markups on your drawings showing exactly what was counted and where. Open it next to the estimate and check the work.
The assumptions we need you to confirm and the sheets the engine could not read, named one by one. Scanned sets say so.
Answer the open items on the job page and re-run. Revisions and addendums never count against your bid quota.
Every estimate carries a DRAFT label until the open items are answered. Your rates or ours, your estimator reviews instead of measures.
Sign up with your work email, upload a real bid set, and get a complete takeoff and priced estimate back the same day. No card, nothing to schedule — the product is the pitch.
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