AI Takeoff & Estimating software for subcontractors.

Eliminate your manual measuring bottleneck with 90% less manual effort to measure and estimate quantities from PDF construction drawings. Type your scope in plain English and AI handles the takeoff with rounds of semi-automated QA checking before delivering verified results.

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Simply type your scope. Get the takeoff.

Six categories cover almost every subcontractor scope — areas, lengths, counts and elevations. Every output is annotated on the original drawing and downloadable as Excel.

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Floors, roads and landscaping areas

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Road surfacingPavingPlanting areasConcrete vol.GFANFA
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Utilities, drainage and MEP

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PipeworkBuried utilitiesDuctworkCable trayCHWS / CHWR / CHWP
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03

Devices, installations and fixtures

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LightingPlumbingFire safetyOutletsFCU / ACU
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Foundations, footings and wall runs

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FootingsConcrete volumeInteriorExteriorRailingsFences
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Facade and formwork elevation areas

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WallsBeamsSlabsCladdingGlazingFormworkSplit by type
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Opening counts and sizes

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WindowsBlindsCount & measure sizes
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AI Agents handle the takeoff and you can edit the results

Civils.ai measures everything in the scope. You make any final corrections in the browser, then export — clean Excel quantities and an annotated PDF you can send to your team.

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From PDF to verified takeoff in 3 steps.

No setup, no training. Drop a drawing, type the scope, get measured quantities back — every result reviewed by our QA team before delivery.

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The Civils.ai project dashboard with its upload control

Upload PDFs

Drag & drop drawing or document PDFs. Works with scanned, historic and multi-sheet sets — no preparation required.

02
The Drawings Quantities Takeoff Agent form with takeoff types and instructions

Type your prompt

Describe the scope in plain English — e.g. "Measure all asphalt road surfacing and paving areas." Hit Run.

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An annotated site plan with colour-coded takeoff measurements and a results and export button

Review & export

QA-reviewed results land on your annotated drawing. Edit anything, then export EXCEL & PDF.

Built for the way contractors bid.

Stop the manual takeoff grind, share repeatable workflows across your team and understand all the details about about the opportunity.

Edit the results

Make any small adjustments needed before exporting as an Excel and annotated PDF.

Share your repository

  • Save AI workflows to your team account
  • Give teammates permission to run them
  • Share outputs and results across the firm

Run checks and searches across bid documents

We go beyond measuring with an intelligence layer allowing you to run questions across the entire set of plans and bid documents to find answers.

Frequently asked questions.

Answers to common questions about our services. Can't find what you're looking for? Get in touch.

AI takeoff software measures quantities -- areas, lengths, counts and elevations -- directly from construction drawings, instead of an estimator tracing each item by hand. With Civils.ai you describe the scope in plain English, AI runs the takeoff against your PDF drawings, and our QA team reviews every result before it comes back to you.

It depends on the quality of the drawings and how clearly the scope is described, so no AI takeoff should be taken on trust. That is why every Civils.ai result is annotated on the original drawing, reviewed by our QA team, and editable in your browser before you export -- you can check each measurement against the drawing before it goes into a bid.

Manual digital takeoff tools such as Bluebeam Revu have you measure each item on screen yourself. Civils.ai starts from a plain-English scope, runs the measurement for you, and leaves you to review and edit the result. See our sourced Bluebeam Revu comparison for the detail.

Yes. Roads, landscaping and paving areas, utilities and drainage, and foundations and wall runs are covered by the six trade categories, and our earthworks and groundworks page covers earthworks takeoffs and ground data from geotechnical reports.

Civils.ai is built to cut the manual measuring effort by up to 90% (our own figure for the takeoff step). The time you still spend is reviewing and editing the results in your browser before you export.

Six trade categories cover almost every subcontractor scope: floors, roads and landscaping areas; utilities, drainage and MEP; devices, installations and fixtures; foundations, footings and wall runs; facade and formwork elevation areas; and opening counts and sizes. Every output is annotated on the original drawing and downloadable as Excel.

Type your scope in plain English -- no manual measuring and no CAD software required. Our AI runs the takeoff against your PDF drawings, then our QA team reviews every result before it comes back to you.

A drawing marked up with everything that was measured, plus a downloadable Excel export of the same quantities -- ready to drop into your estimate.

No. Everything runs in your web browser. Upload your PDF, describe the scope, and get your takeoff back without installing anything or manually scaling a drawing.

Yes -- see the sample annotated PDF and Excel export above for each of the six trade categories, free to download and check before you create an account.

Yes. Request as many trades as you need from a single sheet -- see our pricing page for how multi-trade takeoffs are counted and capped.

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