Construction

Takeoff for a commercial estimator

The measuring part of takeoff, automated: counts per room, wall runs traced, areas computed, and the numbers written into the spreadsheet the estimators already used.

Delivered pipelineA commercial construction and trade estimating practice

Commercial floor plan with wall runs traced and colour-coded by the wall type label on the drawing — Wall runs traced and grouped by type, which is where the linear measurements come from. Our own output on a comparable sheet — the client's drawings are confidential.

The problem they had

Counting doors, windows and fixtures and scaling wall runs across multi-page sets was consuming the first days of every bid. It capped how many bids the practice could produce in a month, and the work was hard to hire for because nobody wants it.

What came in

Multi-page architectural, structural and trade drawing sets, mostly vector PDF with some scans.

What went out

Their own Excel takeoff template, populated, with every figure carrying the sheet and location it was measured from.

What we built

Automatic scale calibration per sheet, checked against a known dimension
Multi-class symbol detection tuned on their own drawing legend
Wall tracing and linear measurement at drawing scale
Export into their existing takeoff template rather than a new format

What changed

Measuring that took hours or days per set came back in minutes, leaving the estimator to review rather than measure
Counts kept per room rather than per sheet, so a disputed figure could be checked without re-measuring the set
Estimators started from a filled sheet, which changed what the first day of a bid was spent on

Where it stopped

Review did not go away and was never meant to. The time saved is in measurement, not in judgement, and drawing types outside the tuned set still needed checking more closely.

Start here

Your drawings are not these drawings

Which is exactly why this project is only so much use to you. Send one sheet from your own set and we will tell you what our models make of it before anyone talks about a project.

One sheet is enough — PDF, DXF or a scan
Back in about 2 business days, with an annotated overlay
No call required, NDA on request

Send us one sheet

We run it through our floor plan models and send back the extracted data with an annotated overlay, so you can see what comes off your own drawings before anyone books a call.

Back in about 2 business days
PDF, DXF or a scan
NDA on request

Get in touch

Tell us what is on your drawings

Describe the sheets you get and what you need off them. We will tell you what our models already handle, what needs fine-tuning on your drawings, and what is not worth automating at all.

Email: consult@axcelerate.ai
Reply time: Within 1 business day

Would rather show than tell? Send one sheet for a free analysis