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A Chilling Story: How John Doe "Perished" at Manual Takeoff

A Chilling Story: How John Doe "Perished" at Manual Takeoff

October 30, 2025
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A Chilling Story: How John Doe "Perished" at Manual Takeoff

Can you hear it? All Hallows' Eve is drawing near... 🎃

There's a chill in the air, the shadows are growing longer, and in construction offices around the world, you can hear the quiet, panicked whisper of deadlines.

In this spooky season, we want to tell you a cautionary tale. A story that industry veterans tell each other to scare the trainees. It's the legend of an estimator... John Doe.

Missing in Action

John was a good specialist. Honest. Hard-working. He believed in three things: the reliability of his pencil, the infallibility of his calculator, and that "the old way" was "the reliable way."

His main tool was manual takeoff.

One October, John received a new project. A huge one. The blueprints piled up on his desk like autumn leaves — in an endless, dead stream. His colleagues saw him tracing lines with highlighters, his eyes burning with an unhealthy fever in the glow of his desk lamp.

He muttered something about square meters, linear feet, and endless revisions.

And then... he just disappeared.

He wasn't at the morning meeting. His coffee went cold. His colleagues searched the office, but all they found was his old "WANTED" poster on the wall, which someone had hung up as a joke. Only now, a sinister inscription had appeared beneath it:

"MISSING: LOST TO MANUAL TAKEOFF"

Legend has it that if you come to the empty office at midnight, you can hear the ghostly click of a calculator. They say it's John Doe... still trying to finish that same takeoff. He became an eternal prisoner of his own routine, literally buried under his work.

The Real Monster is Manual Takeoff

What really brought John to his grave? Not ghosts or ghouls.

The real monster that haunts our industry is Manual Takeoff.

It's a nightmare of human error, sleepless nights, missed deadlines, and life force (literally) being drained away. It devours your time, your resources, and your profits.

Banish Your Demons (and Get a Discount)!

This Halloween, we at Kreo Software say: "No more!"

Stop sacrificing yourselves to outdated methods. Stop turning into office phantoms, doomed to eternally fix Excel spreadsheets.

John Doe's fate was horrifying, but it was avoidable. He just didn't have Kreo AI Takeoff Software.

Kreo is your personal exorcist for routine tasks. It's technology that automates quantity takeoffs using AI, freeing up your time for what really matters (like leaving work on time and actually living your life).

A SINISTER OFFER: 31% OFF!

To ensure no estimator ever repeats John's fate, we're offering something frighteningly generous.

This Halloween only, we are giving a sinister 31% discount on all our services! But hurry, this ghostly deal vanishes after November 1st.

This is not a trick. It's a real treat. 🍬

Don't let manual takeoff claim your soul, too!

Leave your e-mail in the form below, and we will immediately send you instructions on how to claim your discount and banish the demons of manual takeoff forever.

Sleep well. If you can. 🦇

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