Automated commercial-grade painting estimates from your construction documents. Upload the PDFs, our engine reads the plans, parses the Division 09 spec book, and gives you a real takeoff in minutes. 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 architectural PDFs. Our AI reads the plans, parses the specs, and generates a commercial-grade painting estimate instantly. No more midnight takeoffs.
Drag and drop your architectural drawings and the Division 09 spec book directly into KnightShift.
Our engine reads the PDFs, measures all paintable surfaces, identifies openings, and extracts the specified paint systems.
Review your detailed takeoff, make final adjustments, and generate a client-ready proposal and finish schedule.
A comprehensive toolset designed explicitly for commercial painting contractors. Built tough. Built accurate.
Reads PDFs like an experienced estimator. Identifies paintable surfaces, calculates square footage from drawings, reads the spec book for product requirements.
Built around products commercial painters actually use: SW ProMar 200/400, Pro Industrial, Loxon, Macropoxy, ArmorSeal — not residential.
CSI 09 90 00 finish schedule with rendered color swatches, product specs by room/space, sheen levels, and application notes.
Auto-generate Sherwin-Williams crossover substitution requests with technical data comparison and VOC compliance when other brands are specified.
Combines estimate, finish schedule, crossover submittal, and cover letter into one deliverable that goes straight to the GC.
Built on real historical job data. Knows labor rates, crew productivity by surface type, material coverage rates, and regional pricing.
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. KnightShift turns the 8-hour midnight takeoff into a 15-minute job you can do from your truck.
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.
We were spending a full day per bid set just doing the takeoff. KnightShift gives us the quantities in 20 minutes. It’s the first AI tool that actually understands a spec book.
I’ve tried generic estimating software, but they don’t get the nuances of Division 09. KnightShift knows what a cutback is and how to calculate waste for dryfall vs block filler.
The crossover submittal engine alone pays for the software. Taking a PPG spec and automatically mapping it to Sherwin equivalents with all the documentation ready for the GC is incredible.
30 minutes. We walk you through the platform, process your bid set live on the call, and you leave with a real estimate in hand.
Lock in a 30-minute window. Have your bid set ready — we’re going to run it live, on the call.
No commitment. We’ll ping you when your seat in the beta opens. Want to wait? Get in line. Want to see it crush a bid on a live call? Book the demo.
Questions? hello@knightshiftai.com
