The moment you half-miss
A bedtime story, a game, or a conversation gets only half your attention while you price the job in your head.
Voice-first estimates for trade contractors
Finish the estimate before the jobsite leaves your mind.
Kestvia turns a voice-first job walkthrough into a clear, contractor-approved professional estimate—without rebuilding the job from memory when your evening should already be yours.
Built from the trades, for the way contractors actually work.
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Live workflowResidential painting estimate
Walkthrough captured.
PRIMARY BEDROOMWalls, ceiling & trim
Reviewed- Prep Fill nail holes and sand smooth
- Finish Two coats, contractor-selected product
Approved total$859.32
THE REAL PROBLEM
The job ends. The estimate follows you home.
It is 8:47 PM. Your child wants you to watch something, your partner wants to hear about your day, or a friend is waiting for you. Instead, you are scrolling through job photos, replaying the walkthrough, and trying to remember which room needed what.
The workday is over, but the paperwork keeps taking from the people—and the life—you are working so hard to support. Kestvia keeps more of that thinking inside the walkthrough, while the details are fresh and you are already doing the work.
The person who keeps waiting
Your partner, family, or friends hear “just one more estimate” when they were hoping to have you back.
The rest you trade away
After a physical day, the laptop opens again—and tomorrow starts with less of you left in the tank.
OUR MISSIONGive contractors their evenings back.
How Kestvia works
From walkthrough to ready-to-send.
Your judgment stays in control at every step.
Walk and talk
Capture the walkthrough naturally by voice while you focus on the customer and the work.
Clarify the scope
Kestvia organizes rooms, tasks, prep, products, risks, and the details that still need your answer.
Price it your way
Apply your own labour, material, markup, overhead, profit, payment, and tax decisions.
Approve the PDF
Review every customer-facing detail, approve it, and download a professional estimate.
Professional judgment protected
AI does the organizing. You make the decisions.
Kestvia helps capture, structure, and draft. It does not replace your knowledge, silently carry one customer into the next, or send anything you have not approved.
- ✓Nothing customer-facing without your approval
- ✓No invented prices or missing job details
- ✓One active estimate protected after a refresh
- ✓Business and tax treatment reviewed before PDF
Final review4 of 4
Ready for your approval
Scope, products, price, terms, customer details, and tax treatment are complete.
Customer & jobReviewed
Scope & exclusionsReviewed
Price & termsReviewed
Built from the jobsite
Not software guessing how tradespeople work.
Kestvia was founded by Colin Allan, a Canadian painting contractor with more than 30 years in residential, commercial, and industrial work. As a father, he knows an estimate can cost more than another hour—it can cost bedtime with the kids, dinner with family, a conversation with someone you love, or the little bit of rest left after a physical day.
Kestvia is shaped by the details generic business software misses: how walkthroughs actually sound, how scope becomes risk, and why a useful tool should help you finish the work before you get home.
“If it creates another chore for the contractor, it does not belong in Kestvia.”
Founding contractor pilot
Help shape the estimating tool you wish you already had.
We are beginning with residential painting, then expanding Kestvia with trade contractors whose real estimates will shape what comes next. Founding contractors will influence the product before it opens more widely.
LIMITED FIRST GROUP
Interested in early access?
Tell us you want in. We will reach out personally when the founding pilot opens.
Join the founding pilotNo sales pressure. Just a real conversation about how you estimate.GOOD TO KNOW
Is Kestvia available now?
The working founder build and public website are live. We are preparing the first contractor pilot before opening app access more widely.
Does it set my prices?
No. Kestvia calculates from the labour, materials, markup, overhead, and profit choices you provide and approve.
Does AI send estimates for me?
No customer-facing document is produced until you review and explicitly approve the estimate and its business and tax details.