Construction takeoff & estimate drafts

Keep the plan, quantity and cost connected.

For general contractors reviewing a project and trade contractors pricing a package. The supported workflow is human-reviewed, with manual measurement and correction, rather than a promise of automatic completeness.

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Human-reviewed assisted tools

Useful tools, with a person checking the work.

Plans & calibration

Work from supported original PDFs, choose the included sheets and calibrate a whole-sheet measurement basis using a reliable known dimension.

Area, length & count editing

Trace room areas and lengths, manually place installed object counts, inspect their locations and correct the results with Undo/Redo.

Scope & quantity review

Review each drawing-linked quantity, retain assumptions and show Included, Excluded/Conditional, Needs Review, Unknown and unmeasured scope.

Material & labor estimate rows

Transfer reviewed quantities into editable cost rows. One physical quantity can supply separate material and labor costs without becoming duplicate installed work.

Owner-entered rates & exports

Enter and review your rates. Keep missing prices Unpriced, then check the draft in Excel, CSV, an annotated PDF or a portable backup.

Anonymized residential floor plan with a preloaded manual area overlay. This assisted example requires review and is not proof of automatic recognition. — 69 editable manual area pieces; no owner approval, object counts or prices are preloaded. One floor plan and two excluded reference elevations; no symbol legend. The assisted net interior area is 3,052.74 SF, a different convention from the drawing’s 3,357.0 SF heated and 5,385.9 SF slab totals. Download the anonymized PDF. Not for construction.

The drawing and the estimate, shown together.

Actual interface views from the public assisted demonstration. They show a draft with review and pricing still unresolved.

Actual Plan2Paid interface selecting manual area L01 on the approved public residential plan. The area is 260.00 square feet and remains unreviewed. — Actual interface · public assisted demonstration. A 260 SF manual area is selected on its source drawing. The 69 manually prepared area pieces remain unreviewed; this is an edited demonstration draft, not a complete bid. View full size — Inspect the quantity on the plan (new tab)

Actual Plan2Paid estimate interface with two unpriced Material and Labor rows referencing the same 260.00 square feet manual area. Review source and Incomplete states remain visible. — Actual interface · public assisted demonstration. Two unpriced cost rows reference one 260 SF manual area; they do not represent 520 SF of physical work. Measurements still require owner review; not a complete bid. The untouched preloaded example has no cost rows. View full size — Separate material and labor costs (new tab)

Sample access and private projects are separate.

The public sample provides an editable assisted example and a fresh starting mode on the same approved drawing. It does not accept your own plans.

Existing approved Studio accounts can upload supported PDFs and save, reopen and export assisted drafts in the private workspace. Own-plan public trial enrollment is not enabled. Keep a portable backup and review the applicable data-handling arrangements before using confidential plans.

Planned or unavailable

The roadmap stays outside your current bid.

Unvalidated automation remains disabled so an unfinished feature cannot be mistaken for completed quantity coverage.

Full automatic takeoff

Automatic floor coverage, all-trade symbol recognition, OCR and handwriting/ICR are not ready for normal runs. The current workflow requires manual measurement and human review.

Written-scope AI estimates

Guided discovery without plans, AI-generated scope and inferred assemblies are planned, not a working action in this release.

Live supplier pricing

No live supplier prices are supplied here. Use owner-entered rates or clearly identified allowances; missing prices stay unpriced.

Later construction workflows

As-builts and broader construction management are later phases. Payments, invoicing and BIM are not available capabilities.

Two estimating paths, one intended editor.

Available assisted path: reviewed takeoff quantities feed an editable estimate draft with source-plan references and owner-entered rates.

Planned path: plain-language scope discovery without plans will label inferred quantities and allowances. Adding measured takeoff later must require a visible comparison and review, rather than silently overwriting accepted work.

Neither an export nor a preloaded example approves the measurements, scope or prices for a real bid.

See the workflow before your next bid.

Explore an anonymized residential plan with editable manual areas, or start fresh on the same drawing. Review the scope, build a draft and check the export. No own-plan trial or payment is enabled.

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