Nothing ships on one pass
Estimates and takeoffs are what I sell, so every number gets a blind second pass before it goes out.
Estimates and takeoffs are what I sell now, and the number on the page is the entire product. So nothing leaves without a blind second pass, with no exceptions for a simple job or a client in a hurry. A person or a system that never saw the first measurement takes the plans and measures them again from zero. The two results have to reconcile before anything leaves.
I did not make this rule out of fondness for process. The second pass keeps catching real errors the first one missed. Examples are a wrong window count, a plate height misread from the page, and a shell dimension off by a third. A manufacturer ran three blind takeoffs in one day against my numbers. They came back calling the results close enough that they wanted to buy the system outright.
We answer for every number we send. One wrong bid costs far more than a second independent look, every time.
Story details
| Project | Kanopi |
|---|---|
| Type | Standing on principle |
| Firm telling | on the Common Ground wiki |