A personal license, by design
The Independent Estimator license is for one person: you. It is priced for a solo practice: ask us about independent pricing. If you hire help later, the company license is per company, never per seat.
For independent estimators
Your own takeoff desk. Buy it once.
A personal license for the freelance estimator who runs ten bids at once from a laptop. Measure sheets, price quantities, export a bid sheet your client can open. No per-seat math, no cloud account in the middle, no restrictions on paid work.
Bid summary · Sample tenant improvement
| Item | Qty | Unit | Unit cost | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metal stud partitions | 2,480 | SF | $2.10 | $5,208.00 |
| ACT ceiling | 1,240 | SF | $3.85 | $4,774.00 |
| Rubber base | 386 | LF | $1.65 | $636.90 |
| Door frames | 14 | EA | $215.00 | $3,010.00 |
4 line items · formula: [Measurement] * [Unit Cost]Total $13,628.90
Illustrative interface concept. Sample numbers only.
Built for one person
Everything a one-person estimating shop actually needs.
You do not need a project-management platform to get a bid out. You need accurate quantities, a clean pricing sheet, and a file your client or GC can open without a login.
Buy it once, or subscribe
Pay once and keep the version you bought, or subscribe monthly or annually if you prefer lower upfront cost. A one-time license never needs the internet and never checks in.
Offline on the road
Drawings open from your disk and takeoff is saved back into the PDF. The core toolset needs no server, so it works in a truck, a job trailer or a basement with one bar of signal.
Unrestricted commercial estimating
Use it on paid work for any client, any trade, any number of projects. No "personal use only" trap, no per-project fee. (Final license wording will be in the terms before launch.)
A fast takeoff workflow
One-click Fill Area for bounded rooms, visual symbol counting, saved tool sets and a customizable keyboard. Less clicking per square foot, more bids out the door.
Exports clients accept
Takeoff to Excel (.xlsx) and CSV, Summary reports to PDF, and flattened PDFs for the people who just need to see the markup. No proprietary viewer required.
A day in the life
From addendum to bid sheet, without leaving one window.
An illustrative bid-day workflow. Times are examples; every step uses a tool in the current core toolset.
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07:30 · Addendum lands
Check what changed
Drop the new revision next to the old one. Compare with Older Revision clouds the differences; Overlay shows older-only and newer-only linework in contrasting colors.
CompareOverlay -
08:15 · Set up
Organize the set
Bring sheets into a Set, auto-fill sheet numbers from file names, bookmark the scopes you price, and OCR any scanned pages.
SetsBookmarksOCR -
09:00 · Calibrate
Trust the scale
Calibrate against a known dimension or pick a preset, apply to all pages, and use Viewports where a detail has its own scale.
CalibrateViewport -
09:30 · Measure
Take it off
Length and polylength in LF, area and perimeter in SF, counts in EA, volume with depth. Fill Area and Visual Search do the repetitive part.
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13:00 · Price
Cost in the Takeoff table
Add a Unit Cost column and a Formula column, group by Space or Subject, and watch totals update as markups change.
Formula columnsTotals -
15:30 · Send
Export and archive
Export takeoff to Excel for your bid sheet, send a Summary report PDF to the client, and keep the marked-up PDFs in your project folder.
.xlsx.csvPDF
Price where you measure
Formula columns turn quantities into a bid.
The Takeoff table is more than a list. Add your own columns, set which ones roll into totals, and price every markup the moment you draw it.
- Custom column types: Text, Number, Currency, Choice, Formula, Checkmark and Date.
- Formulas can use ROUND, ROUNDUP, ROUNDDOWN, MIN, MAX, ABS, SQRT, IF, CEILING and FLOOR.
- Group by Subject, Page, Type, Scale or Space (named rooms) and get totals for each group.
- Per-markup unit overrides, so carpet can be SY while base stays LF.
Material assemblies with built-in waste profiles are on the roadmap, not in the product today. Planned See the roadmap.
Custom column · CostFormula
TextNumberCurrencyChoiceFormulaCheckmarkDate
Cost = [Measurement] * [Unit Cost]
Sheets = ROUNDUP([Wall Area] / 32, 0)
Include in totalsMin / maxDefault value
Illustrative interface concept
Exports clients accept
Send a spreadsheet, not a software requirement.
Your client does not need to install anything to read your numbers. Export to the formats estimators, GCs and owners already open every day.
- Takeoff to Excel (.xlsx) and CSV from the Takeoff table.
- Set Takeoff to Excel for a multi-sheet set: one worksheet per drawing file.
- Summary reports as PDF, HTML, XML or CSV.
- Flattened PDFs, XFDF markup files, and page images (PNG, JPEG, TIFF) when someone just needs the picture.
ExportSample project
.xlsx
Takeoff to ExcelTakeoff table rows with quantities and units
.csv
Takeoff to CSVFor your own bid template or database
PDF
Summary reportAlso HTML, XML and CSV versions
Illustrative interface concept
Local-first
Your drawings never have to leave your PC.
Bid sets are confidential and often large. The core product has no upload step, no server to wait on, and no account in the middle of your workflow.
- Takeoff is saved inside the PDF as standard annotations, so other PDF viewers can display your markups.
- Runs on Windows with no internet connection once installed.
- Hosted services, if we ever offer them, are optional and priced separately.
Your license is a signed file checked on your PC. A one-time license never checks in. A laptop that never goes online activates from a request file carried over on a USB stick.
What leaves your computerOnly what you send
Your PC
PDF with takeoff inside
Email / share, when you choose
Cloud upload
Not required
Account sign-in to measure
Not in the design
Illustrative diagram
Fewer clicks per square foot
A takeoff workflow built for repeat work.
Independent estimators price the same scopes again and again. The toolset rewards that.
Fill Area
One click inside a bounded room fills and measures it. Add Polygon Cutout or Ellipse Cutout to subtract columns and shafts.
Shortcut J
Visual Search
Select one symbol and find every copy on the sheet with an adjustable similarity slider, then count them or box each one for review.
Count ThemBox Each
Tool palette
Save the subject, color, line style and units for each scope as a tool, group tools into sets, and import or export them between machines.
My ToolsTool Sets
Snaps and ortho
Snap to endpoints, midpoints, intersections and nearest points, hold Shift to constrain to 0, 45 and 90 degrees, and watch a live measurement preview as you click.
Your keyboard, your layout
Customize shortcuts, import and export them as XML, dock panels left or right, and jump to any command with Find a Command (Ctrl+Shift+P).
Workspaces
Switch between built-in workspaces (Default, Estimating, Review, Viewing) so the toolbars match the job in front of you.
Licensing
Two ways to own your tools.
Both paths are for one person and both allow unrestricted commercial estimating. Tell us about your work and we'll quote you a price.
Pay once. Keep the version you bought.
- Own it: no subscription needed to keep working
- Works fully offline and never checks in
- 12 months of updates included. Renewal pricing isn't set yet.
Lower upfront cost, cancel anytime.
- Same full toolset as the one-time license
- Month-to-month or annual billing
- Checks in online from time to time. If it lapses, Kisheet falls back to Kisheet Free (planned) and your files stay yours
Before release. Proposed pricing. Subject to change before launch. There is no checkout yet. Leaving your email does not commit you to a purchase.
Hiring help? The company license covers everyone at your company, never per seat.
On the roadmap
Where the one-person bid desk goes next.
These ideas come from how independents really work. None of them exist yet, none are purchasable, and the order can change based on what working estimators tell us.
- Assemblies and material recipes with waste factors Planned
- Estimate exception checker for missing or odd quantities Planned
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Common questions
Straight answers for solo estimators.
Can I use the personal license on paid client work?
Yes. The Independent Estimator license is intended for unrestricted commercial estimating by one person, including work you are paid for. The final wording will appear in the terms before launch.
Will my client need Kisheet to open my files?
No. Takeoff is stored in the PDF as standard annotations and you can export quantities to Excel, CSV and PDF. Features that are specific to the app, such as custom Takeoff table columns, live in the app and export to the spreadsheet.
Does it include AI auto-takeoff?
No, and we do not claim it does. Takeoff is point-and-click, sped up by tools like Fill Area and Visual Search. Automation today is rule-based batch processing, not AI.
Can I try it before I buy?
Trial terms are not decided yet; they will be on the pricing page before release. Leave your email and we will send the download link at release. See the full FAQ for more.
Get Kisheet
Bring your next bid set. Keep your own license.
Tell us how you take off a job today. We are shaping the roadmap with working estimators.