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How a repaint got quoted
off the building itself,
before anyone climbed a ladder

TOUR
The property

A quick service restaurant — dining room, front counter and a back of house line.

Industry

Food service / Quick service

What runs on the twin

Exterior refresh scoping, equipment records, repaint quantities

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About this building

Franchise operators and area managers who approve exterior refreshes across a group of sites. This is a twin we built and keep, not an account we hold. The copilot reads element geometry and can price a selection, then package it as a printable request for quote. The area comes off the surfaces themselves, which is why it can be checked against what the trade measures on site.

The problem: three quotes, three different buildings

The red band across the fascia had faded unevenly, and nobody could say how much of it there was. Each painter who came out measured differently, one from the ground and one off a photograph, and the quotes came back far enough apart that the cheapest looked like a mistake rather than a saving.

None of them were wrong. They were pricing three different areas, because there was no single measurement any of them could work from.

What the twin holds

The storefront elevation, the fascia band and its returns, the soffit line and the glazing below it, each as its own element.

What came out of it

A measured area, an itemised scope with surface prep and two coats, and a printable request three painters could bid against.

Copilot prices the repaint

USE CASE

The fading red fascia selected, measured and quoted as a printable scope. The storefront twin with the red band across the top of the fascia selected. The copilot is asked what it would cost to repaint the faded section, and it answers with the area it measured off the geometry rather than a guess: the band, the returns at each end, and the soffit line under it. The scope comes back itemised with a surface prep line, two coats, and the masked glazing below, and it ends as a printable request the painter can bid against.

The fryer line on the asset register. Each unit opened on the twin with its make, model, install date and warranty.

USE CASE

Fryers, the walk in and the HVAC units carry their own service history. A callout logged on the hood is on the same element the scope was written against, so the repair record and the capital plan are looking at one object.

  • Quoting from the model:
    The painter bids against a measured area, so three quotes describe the same job.

  • Brand compliance:
    The exterior colours are recorded against the elements that carry them, so a refresh cycle can be planned per site.

  • Rolling the same scope out:
    A scope written once against one storefront is repeated across every location that shares the elevation.

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