Quote from Architectural Plans
Reads architectural drawings, takes off the quantities — floor areas, wall lengths, window and door schedules — prices them against your rate card, and drafts a quote for the estimator to check against the plans and approve before submission.
The live demo, running on fabricated data. Open it to step through the full flow — every output is shown for a person to approve before anything happens.
Reads the architectural drawings, takes off the wall, window, door and wet-area quantities, prices them against your rate card, and lays the whole quote out for an estimator to check and approve before it goes to the client.
It does the takeoff every time, in full, and shows the quantity behind every line.
- Done by hand a residential takeoff is two to four hours per tender — and the measuring is the first thing rushed when three tenders are due the same week.
- Best for trades with a heavy takeoff component — framing, windows and glazing, doors and hardware, waterproofing, plasterboard, flooring, tiling — quoting from drawings regularly.
- At ten or twenty tenders a month the recaptured hours go back into pricing judgement and chasing the work, not scaling PDFs.
It is confidently wrong when it misreads a drawing — and a clean quote hides a bad measurement.
- Weak on anything not drawn to scale or not dimensioned — it cannot measure what the drawing does not actually show, and it should raise an RFI, not invent a figure.
- Weak where the scope is ambiguous — what is included, what the client supplies, what sits behind an exclusion — because that is a commercial judgement, not a measurement.
- If most of your work is bespoke, design-and-construct, or priced off site visits rather than drawings, the takeoff gives you less than your own measuring already does.
If you cannot say, looking at the drawing, whether it is to scale and whether the schedule matches the plan — this tool makes your wrong takeoff faster, not more accurate.
It drafts the quote. An estimator approves it. That boundary is deliberate.
A submitted quote becomes a price you are held to, and once work starts a progress claim is a statutory right under the relevant state Security of Payment legislation — the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act in the eastern states, the Construction Contracts Act in the Northern Territory. A wrong takeoff is your loss to wear, and a misread scope can put a worker in harm's way under your work health and safety duties. The estimator stays on the decision because the consequence lands on the business, not the tool.
Drawings that are actually to scale and dimensioned, and a rate card the tool can price against.
The rate card is usually the weak point — held in one estimator's head, or a spreadsheet last reconciled a year ago and quietly out of date. Getting your rates into a current, structured form, and insisting on measurable drawings, is usually the real first job — larger and more valuable than the takeoff layer on top. Once the inputs are clean, every quote after that is faster and priced right by default.
The worried-buyer questions, answered straight
Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed dates.
Considering this for your estimating team?
The honest place to start is a bite-sized first piece — one trade, one drawing type, low risk. Tell us where the takeoff hurts; we'll play it back, scope it, and show you what's possible.