AI PROJECT ESTIMATION

Estimate any project
in minutes.

Describe your project in plain English and Keisan turns it into a normalized, itemized cost & timeline estimate in seconds.

THE PRODUCT

One brief. A whole estimate.

Type what you’re building and watch Keisan lay out the line items, roles, and costs — then flip to the timeline to see the phases sequenced before you share it.

KEISAN · ESTIMATOR

BRIEF

A SaaS app with teams, projects, and billing

Scope: design, build, QA, launch

Four roles priced from your rate card

Hours sized with PERT estimation

DESCRIPTIONROLEHOURSRATETOTAL
  • Design systemDesigner24h$120$2,880
  • Auth flowBackend40h$140$5,600
  • Dashboard UIFrontend56h$130$7,280
  • QA passQA20h$90$1,800
Total140h$17,560
Export · PDFExport · CSVExport · Share link
5
LINE ITEMS
design → deploy
$58.4k
TOTAL COST
from your rates
3 wk
TIMELINE
sequenced phases
4
ROLES
rate-carded
6.2s
GENERATED
brief to estimate

FIG. 01 · BRIEF TO ESTIMATE

“Brief, itemized breakdown, and the timeline — from a single paragraph.”

RATE-CARDED · PERT
BUILT FOR HOW YOU QUOTE

Whatever you scope and however you bill, Keisan estimates it — then exports it the way your clients expect. Quote it once and send it wherever you close deals.

Web apps
Mobile apps
Data pipelines
Design systems
Integrations
Migrations
Web apps
Mobile apps
Data pipelines
Design systems
Integrations
Migrations
Retainers
Fixed-bid
Time & materials
PDF export
CSV export
Shareable links
Retainers
Fixed-bid
Time & materials
PDF export
CSV export
Shareable links

Export to PDF, CSV, Markdown, and shareable estimate links — more export targets are on the roadmap.

WHAT YOU GET FROM EVERY ESTIMATE

0+
ESTIMATES BUILT

Across web, mobile, data, and design work.

PERT
BY DEFAULT

Three-point estimates, not guesses.

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EXPORT FORMATS

PDF, CSV, Markdown, and shareable links.

0s
SETUP

Brief to itemized estimate in under a minute.

THE FEATURES

Six surfaces. One estimator that gets your scope.

Every feature is shaped around a real moment in your workflow — describing the project, breaking down the work, pricing it against your rates, and sharing an estimate you can defend.

brief · new

DESCRIBE YOUR PROJECT

A booking app for a salon chain, with payments and a customer loyalty program

KEISAN ASKS

Is design in scope?
Native or cross-platform?
01DESCRIBE

Plain-English input

Describe your project. Keisan asks the right questions — like "Is design in scope?" or "Native or cross-platform?" — and infers scope, roles, and effort. No spreadsheet wrangling required.

  • Conversational clarifying questions
  • Infers scope, roles, and effort
  • Catches the work briefs usually leave out
line items · by role
Design
  • UX flows
  • UI screens
  • Design QA
Frontend
  • Booking UI
  • Payments
  • Loyalty
Backend
  • API
  • Auth
  • Webhooks
QA / PM
  • Test plan
  • Regression
  • Coordination
02BREAK IT DOWN

Itemized line items

Every workstream broken into line items by role with hours — design, build, QA, PM. The breakdown a seasoned estimator would draw, not a single lump-sum guess.

  • Line items by role with hours
  • Design, build, QA, and PM accounted for
  • Overhead and coordination included
rate cards · totals
  • Senior Engineer · $145/hr
  • Design · 64 hrs × $120 = $7,680
  • Frontend · 180 hrs × $145 = $26,100
  • Backend · 140 hrs × $145 = $20,300
  • Total · 528 hrs · $74,160
03RATE IT

Rate cards & totals

Apply your rate cards so each role’s hourly rate auto-fills, and hours roll up into total cost and total hours — pricing and totals kept consistent across every line.

  • Selecting a role auto-fills its rate
  • Hours and cost roll up automatically
  • Your own rate cards, your own margins
04EXPORT

Export & share

Export to PDF, CSV, or Markdown, or send a shareable link — each with an approval status. The estimate arrives in the format your client or your sales team already expects.

  • 01

    PDF · CSV · Markdown export

  • 02

    Shareable link with draft / pending / approved status

  • 03

    One-click copy, client-ready

export · estimate
PDFCSVMarkdownLink
Estimate · Salon Booking App
Status: approved
Total: $74,160 · 528 hrs
Share: keisan.app/e/9f2a
timeline · phases
Discovery
Build
QA · Launch
05SEQUENCE

Visual timeline

See phases laid out on a timeline so you can spot a bottleneck or an unstaffed week before you commit a date — not after you’ve already promised it.

  • Phases and dependencies at a glance
  • Spot bottlenecks before you commit
  • Click a phase to trace its line items
template library

SaaS MVP

Proven starter

Mobile app

Proven starter

Data migration

Proven starter

Brand site

Proven starter

06START

Template library

Start from proven estimates — SaaS MVP, mobile app, data migration, brand site, and more — then describe the differences instead of starting from a blank page.

  • SaaS MVP · mobile app · data migration · brand site
  • Battle-tested starting points
  • Customize by prompt, not by hand
ESTIMATES YOU CAN DEFEND

Three dimensions. One estimate you can stand behind.

Every estimate Keisan builds is graded the way a seasoned estimator would grade it — so you send a number that’s defensible, not just plausible.

96
/ 100

Accuracy

Higher is better

Three-point PERT estimates with explicit assumptions — not a single optimistic number. Best, likely, and worst case so the range is honest.

92
/ 100

Coverage

Higher is better

Every workstream itemized: design, build, QA, PM, and the overhead you usually forget. Nothing slips between the lines into a surprise change order.

88
/ 100

Confidence

Higher is better

Rates pulled from your own rate cards, ranges shown, and every line traceable to a reason — so you can answer "why this number?" before anyone asks.

THE CHECK

confidence = (accuracy + coverage + clarity) / 3

Across all three dimensions, this estimate scores 92/100 defensible. Every check is explained, so you know exactly what to firm up.

92
Defensible
HOW IT WORKS

Three steps. Sixty seconds.

No spreadsheets required. No formulas to wire up. No guesswork. Describe, estimate, send.

01

Describe

Describe the project in plain English. No spreadsheets, no formulas, no blank-page paralysis — just what you are building, in a sentence or two.

02

Estimate

Keisan itemizes it against your rate cards — roles, hours, and rates — into a costed, sequenced estimate. Every line defensible. In seconds.

03

Send

Send a clean PDF or a shareable link, then track approval. Clients see a clear breakdown they can sign off on — or save the version to your library.

SPREADSHEETS VS. KEISAN

Skip the hand-built spreadsheet math.

Hand-built spreadsheets mean manual math, no rate cards, and one optimistic number that is hard to share or version — and a single missed line ships an undercharge. Keisan itemizes every estimate against your rate cards, sequenced and defensible, every time.

Hand-built spreadsheetsGuesswork
Optimistic
Manual effort
90
Accuracy
70
Rate cards
35
7 surprises likelyestimate.xlsx
FEWER
0
surprises shipped
With KeisanDefensible
Defensible
Manual effort
100
Accuracy
100
Rate cards
95
0 surprises likelyestimate.pdf

WHAT KEISAN HANDLES FOR YOU

Itemized line items, rate-carded

Every estimate versioned and shareable

Sequenced timeline built in

Approval tracked end to end

PRICING

Start free, scale when you ship.

Free covers side projects and the occasional quote. Pro is for the teams who send new estimates every week and want every export format and the full approval workflow.

Free

$0forever

For solo consultants and side projects that need an estimate now and then.

Get started free
  • 5 estimates per month
  • 1 rate card
  • Itemized line items
  • Draft estimates
  • PDF export
Most popular

Pro

$15/ month

Cancel anytime. Unlimited estimates, every export format.

For teams who send new estimates every week.

Try the demo →
  • Unlimited estimates
  • Unlimited rate cards
  • All export formats + shareable links
  • Estimate templates
  • Timeline & sequencing
  • Approval workflow

FAQ · STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Questions. Answered.

Everything you’d want to know about work types, exports, privacy, and pricing. Tap a question to expand.

Web, mobile, data pipelines, design systems, integrations, and migrations — plus ongoing retainers. It handles fixed-bid and time-and-materials work alike.

READY WHEN YOU ARE

Stop guessing at quotes.

Describe your project, get an itemized, rate-carded cost & timeline estimate in seconds. Free for 5 estimates a month. No card required.

Your briefs and estimates are scoped to your account — never used to train models.