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How It Works

From Upload to Bid-Ready
in Hours — Not Days

Every project runs through the exact same four-stage pipeline, whether it's a $40K residential remodel or a multi-trade commercial build. AI gives you speed. A certified estimator gives you a number you can actually bid on.

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24–48 hrs
Standard Turnaround
4
Pipeline Stages
100%
Engineer-Signed
Live
Status In Your Portal
Stage 1 of 4

You Upload — Nothing Held Back.

Attach files when you submit or add more as they arrive. There's no file count limit and no size cap, and you can keep adding files after submission — an addendum, an updated spec, a new RFI, all picked up immediately by the team already on your job.

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Every format accepted

PDF, DWG, DXF, images, Word, Excel, even photos of hand-marked drawings.

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Or just share a link

Paste a Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer, or OneDrive link — we pull everything.

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Encrypted and confidential

Every file is encrypted at rest. NDA available on request before you send anything sensitive.

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What most bidders get wrong here

Teams that hold back "supporting" files — old estimates, site photos, addenda — get takeoffs that miss context. The single biggest accuracy lever isn't the AI model, it's how much you give it to work with. Send everything; sorting it out is our job, not yours.

What's actually happening

Our AI engine parses every sheet — dimensions, callouts, schedules, legends — and cross-references them against the trades and CSI divisions you specified at submission. It's not OCR guesswork; it's a structured extraction pass purpose-built for construction drawings, feeding a takeoff an estimator can immediately audit rather than rebuild from scratch.

Stage 2 of 4

AI Takeoff Starts The Second You Hit Submit.

No queue, no "we'll get to it Monday." The moment your upload completes, processing begins — reading your plans, identifying every quantity across every trade, and assembling a structured takeoff in real time.

⚡ Starts the second your upload completes
Stage 3 of 4

Engineer Review — We Don't Skip This.

AI gets it fast. Our certified estimators make it right. Every deliverable is checked, corrected, and signed off by a human expert before it ever reaches your portal — and it's routed to the right specialist through our internal 3-tier assignment system, not whoever's free.

  • A senior estimator owns oversight of your whole project
  • Trade specialists (MEP, structural, sitework) own their branch of the takeoff
  • Every quantity is checked line-by-line against your plans before sign-off
How Our QA System Works →
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Engineer sign-off required — every time, no exceptions

You will never receive a deliverable that only an AI has touched. If a reviewer flags an inconsistency in your drawings, you hear about it before delivery — not after you've already bid it.

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What lands in your portal

A trade-by-trade quantity takeoff, a priced Excel cost breakdown, and a colorized PDF markup showing exactly what was measured and where. All three, one click, the moment sign-off happens — no email, no waiting on someone to hit send.

Stage 4 of 4

Download & Bid — Instantly.

The moment your takeoff clears engineer review, delivery is automatic — the status flips to "Delivered" the instant a file batch is approved, with no manual step and no one forgetting to hit send on your file.

Turnaround

Set Your Own Deadline.

We publish standard ranges, but every project's deadline is negotiated with you at submission — and can be changed mid-project from your dashboard.

Project TypeTypical TurnaroundNotes
Single-trade takeoff (e.g. concrete only)24 hoursRush available on request
Multi-trade commercial takeoff2–4 daysScales with sheet count
Full GC / all-trades package3–5 daysParallel-assigned across our team
Revision on a delivered estimateSame day – 24 hrsFirst revision included free

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