Upload the plan set. Rooms, doors, windows and symbols are counted with a confidence score and cited to the sheet; quantities are measured to UK conventions, priced at your area's rates from your own price history, and QS-checked. Review every line, ask the plans a question, download the marked-up drawings and the Excel pack, then apply it to the quote.
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Upload the whole plan set. Rooms with their sizes, doors and windows with sizes and counts, sockets, lights, radiators and structural members are counted sheet by sheet, each with a confidence score and the sheet it came from — so you know which numbers to trust before the price goes out.
Quantities follow SMM7/NRM2 rules — opening deductions, pitch factors, waste, disposal bulking, prelims — then price from your own catalog and quote history first, with labour at your postcode area's rate index.
Nothing lands on the quote until you say so. Every quantity and rate is editable, any line can be left out, and the low-confidence lines show first. Ask the plans a question in plain English and get the answer cited to the sheet.
Scope of works, assumptions and clarifications, conservative factors and contingency, a programme outline, a draft tender letter and an Excel pack — the deliverable a QS would hand over, from one upload.
Sample deliverable
Every take-off comes back as a reviewable pack: the plan marked up with what was measured, the schedules behind the numbers, priced lines that show their working and confidence, and an Excel pack to send with the quote.
Priced lines — with their working
| Facing brick 102.5mm outer skinrear + side walls 24.6 lm × 2.4 h − 12.6 m² openings, +5% waste [Sheet 1] | 46.2 m² | £3,142 | high |
| Plasterboard 12.5mm + skimboth faces of new internal walls + ceilings, +12.5% waste [Sheet 1] | 118 m² | £1,652 | high |
| Bifold door set 3.0 × 2.1 mD03 on rear elevation [Sheet 2] | 1 nr | £2,450 | medium |
| Double socketscounted on GF electrical layout [Sheet 3] | 14 nr | £322 | low |
Low-confidence lines are flagged for you to check on the sheet first. Every quantity and rate is editable before it goes on the quote.
What's in the pack
From manual tracing to AI-assisted estimating
| Step | By hand | With EstiMate |
|---|---|---|
| Reading the drawings | Scale rule, highlighter, a pad of paper — an evening per set | Every sheet read in minutes; rooms, openings and symbols counted with a confidence score |
| Measuring | Manual areas and lengths, easy to miss an opening deduction | SMM7/NRM2 conventions applied: opening deductions, pitch factors, waste, disposal bulking |
| Pricing | Last job's prices from memory or a merchant's price list | Your own catalog and quote history first, then current trade prices at your postcode area's labour index |
| Checking | Whoever has time | An independent QS pass re-derives quantities and benchmarks the £/m² |
| Questions | Back to the drawings | Ask the plans — answers cited to the sheet |
| Deliverable | A spreadsheet and a covering email | Quote, contract, marked-up drawings, programme and an Excel pack, all from one job |
Work it out
Move the sliders to your numbers. AI take-off measures, prices and QS-checks a drawing set in a few minutes; we allow 45 minutes for you to review the flagged lines and apply it to the quote.
Hours back every month
26 hrs
Worth, at your rate
£1,170
Over a year
£14,040
Extra quotes you could price
6 / month
Illustrative only — your saving depends on how many drawings a job has and how much you check. The point is the hours, not the decimals.
Client, site address, project title. Takes 30 seconds.
Breakdowns, optional extras, one-tap online acceptance.
A build contract from the quote, e-signed online.
Programme, site diary, snagging and variations.
Milestones tracked and overdue payments chased.
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Rooms (with length, width and area), doors and windows (with sizes and counts), symbols such as sockets, switches, lights, radiators and sanitary fittings, and measured elements such as walls, roofs, floors and drainage. Each count carries a confidence score and the sheet it was read from, and the plan is marked up so you can see what was measured.
No. Clean vector PDFs read very well; low-resolution scans and photos less so, which is why every count carries a confidence score and the low ones are flagged for you to check on the sheet. Drawings, revisions, specifications and site conditions should always be checked by a competent person.
Your own material catalog and your quote history first, then current UK builders'-merchant trade prices. Labour is built up as days × day rate for each trade, adjusted by the labour index for the site's postcode area, or by your own day rates if you have set them.
A reviewable take-off on screen (editable quantities and rates, include or exclude any line), marked-up drawings to download, rooms / openings / symbol schedules, a programme outline, assumptions, clarifications and conservative factors, a draft tender letter, and an Excel pack. Applying it puts the materials, labour, scope and duration straight onto the quote.
Yes — the workflow was built for contractors preparing tenders and priced quotations, subject to their own checking and commercial review. The pack shows its working, which is what a client's QS wants to see.
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