The AI Brain for Complex Construction Projects

AI that extracts complex data from your documents and drawings straight into your workflows — saving hours on every bid and project.

Get started — $60 /mo

No setup fees • Self-serve in 5 min • Cancel anytime

Trusted by 30+ global AEC firms
  • aecom
  • jtc
  • arup
  • jacobs
  • kajima
  • arcadis
  • wsp
  • penta-ocean
  • beca
  • motts
  • meinhardt
  • asia-infra

Features

AI runs since 2022

CAD data extraction

Extract data from 2D CAD drawings

  1. Upload PDF construction drawings
  2. Type the scope of the data which you want to extract in natural language (e.g "concrete strength classes")
  3. Hit run and our AI extracts data into Excel
Learn more:
Extract 2D CAD data
QA review Excel Limited to notes & tables Quantity take-offs: Coming Aug 2025
Extract complex tabular data

Extract data from pre-construction documents

  1. Drag & drop rates, test results, datasheets & boreholes
  2. Select the workflow & define the data you want to extract
  3. Get structured, 99% accurate tabular data
Learn more:
Extract rates & datasheets Extract borehole data
99 % accuracy QA review ~1 h turnaround
Instant answers

Search across your document repository

The #1 Natural-language search for AEC data (packing 3+ years of R&D). Search across contracts, drawings, codes & more – with cited answers in seconds.

Learn more:
  Search specs & contracts   Search codes of practice
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Case study

Example of the savings over 4 months on the design of a $520 million infrastructure project.
Where Civils.ai has been having an impact

1,203

AI workflow runs
"We use Civils.ai getting answers across our 400+ page contracts, specs and COP."

5-15 minutes

saved per prompt
"We save 5-15 minutes per prompt, depends on if we are on site & question complexity."

89%

results accuracy
"For text & tables it's excellent. We appreciate the team's efforts to capture more CAD data."

200+ hours

effiency saving
"Auto checking our plans against tender specs is a game changer."
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What are our customers are saying?

Edward Armstrong
Edward Armstrong
Senior Project Manager
"Before discovering Civils.ai, our team was bogged down with endless hours of manual data entry. This repetitive task not only hampered our productivity but even led to cases of carpal tunnel. Since using we have not only enhanced our operational efficiency but also fostered a healthier work environment."
meinhardt
Edward Armstrong
Geoff Pook
Principal Engineer
"The ability to transcribe data from borehole logs and reports, no matter how old, has been a great time saver as we are have access to vast data sets of existing ground investigation data but much of it is not in AGS format. We have also been very pleased with the collaborative approach to enhancing the features with our suggestions taken on board to enhance the data output and are excited about what new features are in the pipeline."
meinhardt
Edward Armstrong
Omid Khalaj
Principal Engineer
"Integrating Civils.ai into our operational workflow has been a game-changer for our team. Their AI's ability to digitize and make vast sets of PDF data, such as geotech reports, has significantly improved our efficiency. The responsiveness to feedback in launching new features to search and visualize data have also been welcomed. Civils.ai has not only enhanced our operational workflows but also led to better quality of submissions and impressed our clients."
meinhardt
Edward Armstrong
Miro Briss
Senior Project Manager
"The RAG model Civils.ai introduced to us caught our attention as it can help us to form a foundation for considerable improvements in change and risk management. The Civils.ai team has a great attitude with a fast response time, as you would expect from a start-up team aiming to develop part of a solution to resolve productivity friction in the construction industry."
meinhardt

What is the business case for Civils.ai?

Tight deadlines & busy staff
Construction documents and specifications
Contracts Specifications Rates Datasheets Drawings Bids and proposals Site investigations Codes of practice
You have increasingly complex projects, more and more documents, fragmented digital tools & not enough staff.
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Information trapped in PDFs
Construction documents and specifications
Civils.ai helps you bring automation into your teams work without needing to learn new skills. Simply upload the documents you need to use.
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Use Civils.ai to eliminate manual searches & take-offs
Use AI to fill and prepare Excel tables of structured data, use our AI search Engine to get further quick insights.
Why choose Civils.ai?
Customise what the AI seaches for and extracts

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.

Fine-tuned for construction

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.

Best in class data privacy

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.

Available on all devices

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.

Frequently asked questions
Answers to common questions about our services for individuals and companies.

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

  1. Upload the full documents (no need to split any documents)
  2. Select the workflow you want to run
  3. Our system handles the extraction process (identifying the necessary data to be pulled out from the PDFs)
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.

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