AI Workflows for Construction Takeoffs & Spec Reviews

Run repeatable AI workflows which auto-check documents and accurately measure from drawings.
Cut takeoff times by up to 90% and instantly check construction requirements, by simply typing instructions and getting cited, marked-up results.

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Ready-to-use workflows for AEC teams

AI runs since 2022

Featured workflow

AI-powered quantity takeoffs from PDF drawings

  1. Simply type the scope of the measurements and quantities you need.
  2. Civils.ai automatically measures areas, lengths and counts quantities. Results are reviewed by our expert QA team.
  3. We notify you when the takeoff is complete.
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Other workflows

Extract rates & technical data

Custom workflows and integrations

We help AEC companies automate tasks with custom workflows & integrations.

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Civils.ai vs General Purpose AI

Straightforward feature comparison for AEC teams.

Built-in Partial Not built-in
Feature Civils.ai AEC-focused General purpose AI
Reads & measures drawings Yes No
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
Capabilities reflect default product focus; some items depend on plan, integrations, and configuration.
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Assumptions: ~$6/run (max), 15 min saved per run, $50/hr staff cost, 176 hrs/FTE/mo.
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Project case study

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

efficiency saving
"I'm both excited and scared of how well Civils.ai understands and measures drawings."
Example of the savings over 4 months on a $520 million infrastructure project.
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Why choose Civils.ai?

Customise what the AI searches 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 page 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.

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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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