For commercial painting estimators
Read the spec book before it reads you.
Email the project documents. Get a cited painting scope report — every requirement traced to the section and page it came from.
First project free. No account needed to start.
Painting Bid Scope Report — sample
3 documents · 494 pages
The painting scope is never in one place.
A commercial spec book runs 300 to 2,000-plus pages. Division 09 carries the coating sections, but finish schedules, drawing notes, and related-section obligations in other divisions all assign work to the painter.
Miss a mockup requirement, a manufacturer certification, or an extra coat, and it's money lost after the bid is already won.
How it works.
From an invitation to bid to a cited painting scope, without setting up an account first. Documents travel by email today; direct upload is not live yet, so we don't pretend otherwise.
01
Email your project documents
Send the specification book to hello@paintscope.ai as attachments — plus the finish schedule, drawings, and addenda if you have them. No account, no form.
02
PaintScope reviews the documents
The read runs through a painting-estimator workflow: a locate pass finds the painting-relevant pages across the whole book, related divisions included — 09 91 00, p. 402–418
03
Receive your cited report
The Painting Bid Scope Report comes back by email: requirements first, each cited to its section and page. Suggestions and gaps sit below, clearly separated.
Designed to return scope analysis quickly, with turnaround depending on project-document size and complexity.
One report. Every line, checkable.
A sample painting bid scope report. Requirement rows carry a section, page, and paragraph — so you can verify us against your own spec book.
Painting Bid Scope Report — sample
4 of 61 lines shown
- 09 91 00 §2.3, p. 412
Structural steel — exterior canopy
3-coat epoxy / aliphatic polyurethane over SSPC-SP6 prep
- 09 91 23 §3.1, p. 388
Gypsum board — corridor walls, Levels 2–6
Eggshell acrylic, 2 finish coats over primer
- 09 91 00 §1.6, p. 405
Mockup approval required before finish-coat start
10 ft × 10 ft physical mockup, architect sign-off
- Not found in provided documents
Fire-rated assembly touch-up procedure
Referenced by Section 07 84 00 but not detailed
Two passes, not one guess
A locate pass finds every painting-relevant page. A second pass extracts the requirement and its exact citation.
Coats and DFT, not just a color code
Primer, intermediate, and finish coats with dry-film thickness, tied to the substrate they're specified for.
The same review, every time.
Every report covers the same ground, whether the spec book is 300 pages or 2,000 — so nothing depends on which pages you happened to skim. It starts with what you sent, what you didn't, and what to watch before pricing.
- Bid risk summary
- Documents received
- Missing documents & coverage risk
- Painting schedule table
- Sections
- Substrates & surfaces
- Coating systems
- Surface preparation
- Coats & DFT
- Manufacturers & products
- Colors
- Submittals
- Mockups & samples
- QA & testing
- Certifications
- Warranties
- Touch-up
- Related-section obligations
- Cost-impact flags
- Conflicts
- Suggested RFIs
- Assumptions
- Exclusions
Requirements and Suggestions never share a column.
Requirements are cited findings from your documents. Suggestions are labelled judgement — gaps, conflicts, and questions worth an RFI. The two are never merged.
Requirements
Every requirement traces to a section, page, and paragraph in a document you sent. If it isn't written down, it doesn't appear here.
Suggestions
Assumptions, exclusions, conflicts between sections, and gaps worth raising before bid day — clearly separated, never presented as fact.
Suggested RFI — coating system unspecified
Built around an estimator's workflow, not a chat box.
General AI can answer questions about a specification. PaintScope systematically reviews the documents through a commercial painting estimator workflow — identifying coating systems, substrates, surface preparation, DFT, related-section obligations, submittals, testing requirements, conflicts, ambiguities, RFIs, assumptions and exclusions.
The output is structured, bid-ready, and traceable: painting-specific depth, every source requirement cited, and every judgement call labelled as a suggestion.
General AI chat
Can answer questions about a specification. It answers what you ask; it does not run an estimator's review from cover to cover.
Takeoff software
Measures square footage from drawings. It doesn’t read the spec book for what those surfaces require.
Enterprise spec-review platforms
Built and priced for general contractors. They answer generically, not in a painter’s language.
Priced like software, not a service contract.
No seat minimums, no annual lock-in. Start with a free report and move up only when the volume calls for it.
First project
Free
One full report, no card required.
Single project
$39per project
For the occasional bid outside a plan.
Estimator
$79/ month
3 projects per month. For a solo estimator bidding steadily.
Pro
$149/ month
10 projects per month. For a small estimating team.
To start, email your specification to hello@paintscope.ai — the first project is free.
Your next invitation to bid is already a PDF.
See exactly what you get before you send anything.
First project free — email your spec to hello@paintscope.ai.