SOLUTIONS / FOR CONSTRUCTION TAKEOFF

TAKEOFF ENGINE™

Watch the plans
become quantities.

Detect floor areas and symbols on your plans with AI, then extract quantities into structured takeoff data, ready for estimation. Here is the full workflow, screen by screen.

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Takeoff Engine workspace — detected areas, symbols, and the takeoff dashboard

8 hrs → 22 min

takeoff per plan set

takeoffs auto-detected on one plan

15 trades

counted from a single sheet set

30–50%

increase in takeoff accuracy

01 · TAKEOFF DASHBOARD

Upload the set. See the scope before you draw a line.

Drop in the plan PDF and Takeoff Engine reads the whole document, then lays out AI-identified scope of work — New Buildings, Demolition, Site Improvements, Restoration, Expansion, Specialty Construction — each with the specific trades it suggests you take off.

Every uploaded plan PDF in one place, page count and thumbnail

Scope of Work grouped into color-coded work categories

Suggested takeoffs per category, one click to proceed

02 · SET THE SCALE

Calibrate once. Every measurement is true.

Pick the architectural scale straight from the standard list — 1/32" up to 3/4" = 1'-0" — or calibrate against a known dimension. Every area and count downstream is measured against it, so quantities come out in real units.

1/8" = 1'-0"1/4" = 1'-0"3/8" = 1'-0"CUSTOM CALIBRATION

Set the scale — architectural scale list and known-dimension calibration

03 · AI DETECTION

Detect areas, symbols, walls, and runs.

One AI Detection pass outlines rooms and floor areas, counts every symbol instance across the sheet, and traces walls and pipe or wire runs. The detection toolset covers the whole drawing.

Symbol

Count every instance of a symbol across the sheet.

Area

Auto-detect rooms and floor areas as polygons.

Wall

Trace wall runs with length and type.

Pipeline & Wiring

Trace MEP runs, plus Arc and Circle tools.

AI Detection — symbols, areas, walls, and runs outlined across the sheet

04 · CUT TOOLS

Subtract the openings the plan doesn't pour.

Deduct voids and openings from any detected area with Polygon, Arc, and Circle cut tools — stair openings, shafts, curved edges — so net quantities match what actually gets built, not the gross footprint.

Polygon cut for straight-edged openings

Arc and Circle cuts for curved geometry

Net area recalculates live as you cut

Cut tools — Polygon, Arc, and Circle cuts subtracting openings from a detected area

05 · AI EXTRACTION

You choose the scope. The agents extract it.

Before extraction runs, the AI shows the takeoffs it found eligible for the page and lets you add any it should include. Only the trades you confirm get extracted — so the quantity data that lands in your estimate is exactly the scope you are bidding.

Eligible takeoffs surfaced per page

Add or remove trades before the agents run

Structured quantities, ready to proceed to estimate

AI Extraction — confirm eligible takeoffs before the agents run

06 · TAKEOFF AUTOPILOT

Ask for the takeoff. Get the takeoff.

Say "perform the flooring takeoff" and Autopilot handles it end to end—a team of specialized AI agents locates the relevant sheets, places the annotations, and returns line items with quantities. Need a change? Ask. It revises the annotations and recalculates the numbers.

Natural-language takeoff requests, executed across the full sheet set

Annotations placed and line items generated, with quantities carried through

Revise or update line items by asking — no re-drawing

End-to-end agentic AI: 15 specialized agents coordinate the full run, from sheet discovery to final quantities

Takeoff Autopilot — natural-language takeoff request handled end to end by specialized AI agents

THE WHOLE RUN, END TO END

Select the Plan PDF

Set scale per sheet

AI Detection + cut tools

AI Extraction of scope

Proceed to estimate

Run Takeoff Engine on your own sheet set.