Wall and ceiling area, by coat,measured off the finish schedule.
Ruh AI measures the wall and ceiling area by coat off your finish schedule, priced on your own rates and signed by your estimator.
- ✓Net wall and ceiling area in square feet, openings deducted
- ✓Primer and finish coats counted per the system, trim and base in linear feet
- ✓Live in about a week on Bluebeam, Procore, and Excel
The painting bid crew.
The agents that carry a painting set from measured takeoff to a priced, signed proposal.
From finish schedule to priced painting bid, one motion.
Send the painting set
Floor plans, elevations, the finish schedule, and the Division 09 spec, straight from the invitation. Sheet and schedule classification starts immediately.
Area, openings, and coats run
Net wall and ceiling area measured by substrate and finish system and totaled in square feet, openings deducted, doors, frames, and windows counted, and primer and finish coats counted per the system.
Coatings and prep priced
Field coats, trim and base, special coatings such as epoxy and intumescent, and surface prep priced by square foot and coat on your own production rates, with masking, patching, and scaffolding carried where the scope calls for it.
Your estimator signs
Review by confidence and coverage score, adjust the assumptions, and export into your own proposal format.
The painting bid squeeze.
Coverage decides the year
Painting subs bid more square footage than a small estimating room can measure by hand. Every set that sits unpriced is a job that goes to the sub who got a number out first.
The coats hide the margin
Wall area is the easy part. The margin hides in the coat count, the substrate prep, the special coatings, the doors and frames, and the linear feet of trim and base that are easy to miss on a fast manual takeoff.
Lump-sum leaves no room to be wrong
Most painting goes out as a lump sum. A missed coat, the wrong production rate, or a light prep number does not surface in a change order. It comes straight off the crew's margin.
AI painting takeoff and estimating, explained.
The takeoff is the bid
Painting estimators tell us the same thing: the number is only as good as the quantities behind it, and measuring wall and ceiling area by hand off a PDF and counting coats takes hours. When the area, the openings, and the coat count run as one measured pass on the real finish schedule and elevations, the same room prices more sets and keeps senior judgment on the finish systems, the prep, and the production rates, which is where a painting bid is actually won or lost.
Built for how paint is measured
New drywall, block, structural steel, and existing repaint are different takeoffs, and the pipeline treats them that way. Net wall and ceiling area is measured by substrate and finish system off the plans and elevations, doors, frames, and windows are counted, trim and base are measured in linear feet, primer and finish coats are counted per the system, and special coatings, surface prep, and touch-up are taken off the scope and reconciled against the finish schedule and the Division 09 spec. Openings are deducted so you are not paying to paint a window.
Priced on your book, signed by your estimator
The quantities are priced across nine stages on your own production rates and assemblies for the systems you apply, whether that is standard latex, epoxy, intumescent, or a high-performance coating, with masking, patching, scaffolding, and touch-up carried where the scope calls for it. Every line is labeled measured, derived, or assumed with a confidence and coverage score, so a light spot in the set is visible in the review instead of buried in a lump sum. Nothing goes out until your estimator signs it, and it all runs inside your own tenant on Bluebeam, Procore, Autodesk, and Excel, live in about a week.
Painting numbers that hold up.
Judge it on your own painting set, not a demo.
Built to work together.
See it on your own painting set.
A free 30 minute walkthrough on a real painting set, no card. We run the takeoff live and you decide if you move forward.
Proof and perspective.
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Frequently asked questions
What painting estimators ask before trusting an AI takeoff on a real set.
How accurate is the painting takeoff?
Can Ruh run AI agents for painting estimating?
Does it actually read our finish schedule and elevations?
Can it price on our own painting rates?
Does it fit the software we already run?
Can it give a quick budget number and a full bid?
Run your next finish on Ruh.
Send one painting set. We run the takeoff and walk you through the wall and ceiling area, the coat count, the trim and base, and the special coatings on a 30 minute call. If it does not hold up against your estimator, you have lost nothing.