No setup fees • Self-serve in 5 min • Cancel anytime
AI runs since 2022
Drag & drop your drawing or document PDFs and select Extract CAD data. Works with scanned, historic and multi-sheet drawings.
Type what you need in natural language (e.g. “measure and categorise floor areas by type and count and measure windows & doors”). Hit Run and the AI performs the measurements and our QA team reviews the results.
Straightforward feature comparison for AEC teams.
| Feature | Civils.ai AEC-focused | General purpose AI |
|---|---|---|
| Reads & measures drawings | Built-inYes | Not built-inNo |
| Annotates / marks up drawings | Yes | No |
| Reads complex tabular data (e.g. datasheets, rates, geotech reports) | Extracts to structured formats | Not reliable |
| Run AI searches across documents | Yes, unlimited documents | Yes, up to 10 documents |
| Cites and opens original documents | Marked up sources always provided | Limited support |
Slide to estimate how much you can boost team capacity without additional headcount.
Use pre-built templates to automate tasks on your project, customise the templates to suit your specific tasks and share with others in your team.
We develop proprietary AI specifically for construction, we've been fine-tuning our application over the past 2 years on over 100k public datasets optimising for construction document structures and terminology.
We work in compliance with your project NDA's. We offer options to run Civils.ai on your companies own cloud server, ensuring data is hosted on your terms. Your project data is not used for any form of AI training. Data processed by our application is discarded 12 hours after your project is deleted, including any backup data.
Always have answers about your project even when you are away from your laptop. Civils.ai is a web application available on tablets and mobile phones.
A workflow run is a single instance of the AI processing your data, some workflows consume more computing power than others.
| Workflow run consumption | Workflow runs consumed |
|---|---|
| 1 CAD drawing take-off | 5 |
| Up to 10 data tables (e.g. rates, test data, data sheets) identified & extracted | 1 |
| 1 Borehole log extracted | 1 |
| Input | How Civils.ai handles the data |
|---|---|
| CAD drawings | Automatically detects and selects only the drawing sheets required for quantity take-off. |
| Data tables (rates, test data, data sheets) | Pinpoints relevant tables and converts them into clean, structured data ready for export. |
| Borehole log PDFs | Identifies each individual borehole log sheet for precise extraction of depths, strata and test results. |
Your uploaded data is stored within a relational database and cloud object storage with our best in class cloud infrastructure provider. All document data is anonymised and un-anonymised data is only viewable the user account from which the data was uploaded.
All data is transmitted through TLS and uses best practice encryption.
You can automatically to delete any data you uploaded at any time by clicking the delete button related to the project or document.
You can also write to us to request that we delete your data at any time and all data related to you will be deleted when you delete your account.
Data is stored securely on servers in the United States, by a vetted, best in class cloud infrastructure provider.
We currently support any form of PDF document or drawings (including handwritten and scanned PDF).
For extraction of data from modern PDF's, we achieve over 95% accuracy inclding from complex table structures.
For older PDF's (sampled before 1975) these are more challenging and such a high degree of accuracy cannot be guaranteed, but we are sure you will still be pleasantly surprised at how accurate the results are.
We use a human-in-the-loop process on all AI extracted data to ensure output accuracy.
Workflow processing time can vary depending on how complex the data is being extracted and below is a rough indication of processing time.
After you start a workflow running you can close Civils.ai and will be notified once the data extraction is completed via email.
| Category | Processing time |
|---|---|
| CAD drawings | ~ 24 hours. |
| Data tables (rates, test data, data sheets) | 10-15 minutes per document. |
| Borehole log PDFs | 10-15 minutes per borehole. |
We use maximum payment security. If your card is not accepted firstly, disable your VPN or proxy server. Then make sure your name, CVC and postal code match the one on your payment card and of your bank account. Also your card country should be the same as your billing country. And finally make sure you enable 3D Secure or similar authentication on your card with your bank.
We are not currently hiring but always interested to meet new and interesting people for potential future collaborations. We suggest that you join our Discord community and introduce yourself and we can take it from there.
The discord community is also a great place to meet other like-minded digital engineers and share your ideas and we host online events from time to time.
