Estimating for painting businesses

Quote the job before you leave the driveway.

The painting estimator built from real jobs, not guesswork. Measure the room, price it to the cent, send the quote. Works with no signal. Free.

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Free forever Works offline No account to start

Built for the iPad on site. Works on your phone and any computer.

ACCURACYReconciled against real jobs we actually invoiced. Checkable, not assumed.To the cent
SIGNALQuote in a garage, a new build, a black spot. Saves on your device, syncs later.None needed
PRICEThe full calculator and your job records never sit behind a paywall.Free forever
Every figure on this page comes from the live engine, including the $12,673.21 above, which matched a real invoice to the cent.
The problem

Quoting is the job you do after the job

Nights

Quotes wait until the day is done

On the tools or running crews, it ends the same way: notes from the walkthrough, a spreadsheet at the kitchen table, a PDF at midnight.

unpaid hours
Speed

The fastest decent quote usually wins

While yours waits for the weekend, someone else's is already signed.

jobs lost
Guesswork

Every quoter prices the job differently

You, your estimator, whoever walks the job: without a system the price depends on who measured, and round numbers eat the margin.

margin gone
Old waytonight, at the kitchen table
Kastrionbefore you leave the driveway
How it works

Three steps, one visit

01

Measure

Walk the job with your iPad. Rooms, elevations, floors, line marking.

m² in
02

Price

Your rates drive every figure. Coats, prep, sundries, GST, live.

to the cent
03

Send

The branded proposal your client signs comes through Pro. A free one-page record stays in your files.

on the spot
What is in it

Made for the way painters quote

01 · Rates

Set your rate once

Every quote follows it, whoever does the measuring. Enter your true cost and watch the margin, live.

02 · Surfaces

Every surface, already priced

Over a hundred substrates with real production rates. By the m², the metre, the count.

03 · Photos

Snap as you measure

In-app camera, one tap per room. Photos stay on your device and flow into the proposal.

04 · Outcomes

Know your win rate

Mark quotes won or lost. Your real close rate and quote time, measured, not guessed.

Run your numbers

What does slow quoting cost you?

Your numbers, not ours. Slide to what quoting takes you today and see what the time is worth.

Time back per week9 h 35 min
Worth per week$1,054
Over a year$50,600

Your sliders, your numbers, 48 working weeks. Change anything above and it reprices live. The estimator is free, so the only way to know is to quote one job with it.

Kastrion Pro

Win more of what you quote

Your quote becomes a branded proposal. Most clients pick the middle option, and your average job grows without an extra lead.

Three price optionsbigger jobs
Signed from their phoneno chasing
Deposit on signaturefunded upfront

On the roadmap: an AI receptionist that answers the calls that ring out while you are on a job. A missed call is worth about $1,200. Subscribers get it at today's price.

You meet Pro inside the free app. Nothing free ever moves behind it.

The system

Stop building the estimating system you will never finish

Every painting business has one. The half-built spreadsheet. The folder of old quotes doing duty as templates. The pricing that lives in one person's head. It works until that person is on leave, or a formula breaks and nobody remembers writing it.

Kastrion is that system, finished. It began as the estimating sheet a working painting business quotes with every day. Every formula ported, every total checked against real invoices until they matched to the cent.

So spend your hours where they pay. Walk the job, quote it on the spot, send the branded proposal while the handshake is still warm. Hand the next one to your estimator: your rates, your surfaces and your standards are already in the system, so every quote comes out yours, whoever measures.

Then open the win rate Kastrion measures for you, and see what changed. We would rather show you a number than promise you one.

Straight answers

Questions painters ask

Does it really work offline?

Yes. The whole calculator runs on your device. Measure, price and save a full quote with zero signal, then it syncs when you are back in range. New builds and black spots are exactly what it was built for.

Is it actually free?

The full calculator and your one-page job records are free forever. No trial clock, no save limit tricks. Kastrion Pro adds the branded proposals your clients sign, and sells itself beside the free tools, never in front of them.

What does it run on?

Built for the iPad on site first. It also works on iPhone, Android and any computer with a browser, and you can add it to your home screen like any app.

Can I use my own rates?

Yes. Change your hourly charge rate in one place, or tune any production rate, spread rate and paint cost per substrate. Saved quotes keep the rates they were priced at until you choose to refresh them.

What if someone else does the quoting?

Then Kastrion is the system you hand them. Set your rates and substrates once and every quote prices from the same numbers, whether it is you, your estimator or the new hire measuring. Same job, same price, whoever walks it.

How do I know the numbers are right?

Kastrion is a cell-by-cell port of an estimating system a working painting business quotes with every day. It is validated by 89 test vectors and reconciled against two real invoiced jobs, to the cent.

What is Kastrion Pro?

Pro turns your quote into a branded proposal with three price options your client can sign from their phone, with a deposit on signature. An AI receptionist is on the roadmap. Pro never blocks anything free.

Get the app

Put it on your home screen

Kastrion installs straight from the browser. Free, instant, no app store.

iPad or iPhone

Open kastrion.com in Safari, then two taps:

  1. Tap Share
  2. Tap Add to Home Screen

It installs like any app. No App Store, nothing to pay.

Android or computer

In Chrome or Edge, open the browser menu and choose Install app (or Add to Home screen).

Installs in one tap when your browser offers it.

Or skip installing

It runs in any browser. Open it, quote a job, done.

Open Kastrion
TOTALEverything on this page$0

Free forever. Quote your next job with it.

Open it now, measure one room, and watch the total land to the cent.

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