Local-first
Your drawings and takeoff live on your PC. Features should work without a network, and cloud features should be additions, not foundations.
Roadmap
What exists, what is next, and what we are still deciding.
Estimators are tired of vendors who announce features that never ship. So this page labels everything: what works today, what is planned, what is only a concept, and what we are still exploring. No dates.
This roadmap is not a commitment. Planned and concept items may change, slip or be dropped based on what we learn. None of them can be purchased or downloaded today, and any prices shown elsewhere on this site for roadmap items are proposals for discussion only.
Now / Next / Later / Exploring
The shape of the plan.
Columns show confidence, not calendar dates. "Now" is in the app today. Everything to its right is not built yet.
Now
In the app today
- Takeoff and measurementLength, area, perimeter, count, volume, angle, slope, calibrated scales, Fill Area, Visual Search.Available
- PDF markup and Takeoff tableClouds, callouts, stamps, replies, custom columns and formula cost columns, Excel and CSV export.Available
- Documents and revisionsCompare, overlay, sets, drawing log, forms, signatures, batch and Script Flows.Available
- Bid dayAddenda with quantity changes, the takeoff health check, freezing the bid and pricing the change order, alternates, typical floors, the question log, bid letters and scope sheets.Available
- ThemesKisheet Dark, Kisheet Light and your own: change any color with a live preview and a contrast check, and share it as a file.Available
Next
Most likely, pending interviews
- Public releaseInstaller, code signing, help and support.Planned
- Assemblies and material recipesOne measurement becomes a priced list of materials with waste.Planned
- Estimate exception checkerFlags unpriced rows and odd unit costs before you submit. The takeoff health check already catches takeoff mistakes.Planned
- Flow BoardBids by stage, owner and due date on your own machine.Planned
Later
Wanted, but depends on the above
- Cost database, labor and waste factorsUnit costs and labor rates you keep once and reuse on every bid.Planned
- Revision impactCarrying an addendum's quantity changes through assemblies and labor. The quantity changes and the change-order price are in the app today.Planned
- Review SessionsLive review of one plan set by several people, through a shared folder.Planned
- Company accounts and rolesInvite employees, custom groups, per-project permissions.Concept
- Company Document InboxAn optional hosted service for receiving drawings.Concept
Exploring
Open questions
- Browser editionCan heavy drawing work run on your own CPU in a browser, with no server-side drawings?Concept
- Shared multiuser Flow BoardOnly if a local-first design can be made to work well.Concept
- Other desktop platformsThe desktop framework could allow more than Windows. Not decided.Concept
- IntegrationsConnecting to the CRM or workflow tools you already pay for.Concept
- Trade assembly packsStarter drywall, ceiling, flooring and electrical assemblies.Concept
Five pillars
The ideas behind the columns.
Names and numbers in the concept images are placeholders.
Pillar A
Flow Board
PlannedOne place to see every bid: where it is, who owns it, what is due and what is blocking it. Not another project-management suite; a bid desk for estimators.
- Kanban and table views of bids by stage
- Owners and due dates, with bid-day countdowns
- Stage gates, so a bid cannot reach "Submitted" with open items
- Bid / no-bid decisions, follow-up reminders and win / loss tracking
- Local and offline first. Shared multiuser comes later, if at all.
Pillar B
Company Document Inbox
ConceptA Company Document Inbox inside the app, for the drawings and revisions that arrive from general contractors, architects and owners. Optional, hosted and separately priced. Your desktop app never depends on it.
- File > Company Document Inbox opens the inbox from inside the app
- Tile and Details views, grouped by sender
- "Open in Takeoff" from any received file
- Secure replies back to the sender
- Hosted storage is an optional paid service; shared folders and email keep working
The principle: hosted services are a convenience you can choose, never a requirement to use the product.
Pillar C
Takeoff-to-bid intelligence
PlannedToday the Takeoff table prices quantities with unit costs and your own formulas. This pillar is about going further: from measurement to a bid you can defend.
Already in the app: the takeoff health check, addenda with quantity changes, freezing the bid and pricing the change order, alternates, the question log and bid letters. See bid day.
- Assemblies and material recipes, with waste Planned
- Estimate exception checker for missing and odd quantities Planned
- A cost database, labor and waste factors Planned
- Revision impact carried through assemblies and labor Planned
Related add-on ideas appear on the add-ons page. They are proposals, not products.
Pillar D
Company accounts
ConceptOne company license, many people. Invite employees, group them, and decide who can see which projects, menus and panels.
- One company license invites employees, with no per-seat charge
- Custom groups and roles, such as Owner, Estimator and Viewer
- Project, menu and panel permissions
- Designed so the core app still works offline for every employee
How offline activation and permissions coexist is an open design question we want to test with real companies.
Roles · Illustrative conceptConcept
| Role | Open | Edit | Export | Templates | Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Estimator | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| Project manager | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Viewer | ✓ | – | – | – | – |
Concept, not yet built
Pillar E
Browser edition
ConceptCould the product run in a browser without becoming a cloud service? We are testing whether the heavy work, rendering, measuring and calculating, can happen on your own CPU.
- Heavy work stays on the user's own machine
- No server-side drawings: files are not uploaded to our servers
- Desktop remains the primary product either way
- A feasibility study, not a release plan
Where the work would happenConcept
Browser tab
Your CPU renders and measures
Your PDF, on your disk
Server-side drawing processing
Not the plan
Illustrative diagram
How we decide
Principles that shape the plan.
When we are unsure what to build, these break the tie.
No forced cloud
Hosted services are optional and priced separately. If you never turn one on, the product is not worse for it.
Validated with estimators
An idea moves from Concept to Planned after working estimators say they would use it. Ideas that nobody asks for do not graduate.
No invented ROI
We will not publish savings percentages or hours-saved claims we have not measured on real bids. If we cannot show it, we will not say it.
Honest labels
Every feature carries a status: Available, Planned or Concept. A concept image is always labeled as a concept.
Pricing stays simple
One company price, never per seat, and a one-time license option. Roadmap items that might be paid add-ons are flagged as such early.
Shape the roadmap
Join a research interview.
We are speaking with independent estimators, subcontractors and precon teams about how they take off, price and track bids. Thirty minutes, your real workflow, no sales pitch.
What we want to learn
- How do you track bids today: spreadsheet, whiteboard, a platform?
- What happens when an addendum changes your quantities?
- What would you never put in the cloud?
- Which of the five pillars would you use first?
Now
See what is in the app today.
Everything in the Now column works today.