Takeoffs that don't eat your weekends

The invite lands on a Tuesday. Bids are due next week. The plan set is thick, the spec book is thicker, and you’re on a job site until four. So the takeoff happens at the kitchen table at night, one elevation at a time, and you hope you didn’t miss a wall.

This is the system Dom built for his own company and still uses on his own bids. See how it runs there. He does exterior work, so his version measures EIFS, stucco, brick and panels wall by wall. AI goes through the drawings, finds the sheets that matter, checks the scale and measures. Then two more AI models do the same takeoff on their own. Where the numbers agree, you move on. Where they don’t, or where something couldn’t be measured, it’s printed in red so nobody misses it.

What it doesn’t do: send a price without you. You go through the red flags and the marked-up sheets before any number leaves the office. Your rates, your markup and your feel for the job stay yours. The AI takes the counting off your plate, so your time goes into checking and pricing instead of clicking.

We set it up on your own computer and accounts, built around the way your trade measures. Then we test it on bids you’ve already priced, so you can hold it up against your own numbers, and we train whoever does your estimating. Once the numbers are checked, proposals, SOVs and submittals picks up from there.

Want a feel for it first? The photo-to-estimate demo shows the short version: one sample photo of cracked brick, failing stucco or broken steps turned into a scope and sample line items. For the bigger picture, see AI for contractors.