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Pro Takeoff

From blueprints to bids. An AI platform that turns construction plan PDFs into accurate, bid-ready takeoffs — in hours, not days.

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The problem

Estimating a construction job means measuring every quantity off the plans — by hand, sheet by sheet. It's slow, error-prone, and the bottleneck on how many bids a contractor can put out. Handymen, residential builders, and estimating firms all lose deals simply because the takeoff takes too long.

What we built

An end-to-end pipeline: upload plans, and the system reads them, quantifies the work across trades, and hands back deliverables a contractor can bid from immediately.

01

Document ingestion

Blueprint PDFs in — pages classified, sheets split, scale and trades detected.

02

AI takeoff engine

Quantities extracted across 15 trades — concrete, framing, roofing, electrical, plumbing, HVAC and more.

03

Marked-up output

Color-coded, trade-annotated blueprint PDFs plus room-by-room cost summaries.

04

Bid-ready deliverables

Editable Excel with material/labor splits and an interactive web report to bid from.

The outcome

Hours

Turnaround, down from days of manual measuring

15

Construction trades covered in one pass

3

Output formats: web report, Excel, marked-up PDF

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We design the systems, automate the work, and use AI to ship faster.