AI Takeoff software for subcontractors & estimators.
Eliminate your manual measuring bottleneck — with 90% less manual effort to measure quantities from PDF construction drawings. Type your scope in plain English — our AI handles the takeoff and our QA team reviews every result.
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.
Edit your AI takeoff 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.
- Estimate earthworks, landscaping and paving
- Measure lengths of utilities, cables and conduits
- Count fixtures, devices and objects
- Size openings & elevation areas
From PDF to verified takeoff in three steps.
No setup, no training. Drop a drawing, type the scope, get measured quantities back — every result reviewed by our QA team before delivery.
Upload PDFs
Drag & drop drawing or document PDFs. Works with scanned, historic and multi-sheet sets — no preparation required.
Type your prompt
Describe the scope in plain English — e.g. "Measure all asphalt road surfacing and paving areas." Hit Run.
Review & export
QA-reviewed results land on your annotated drawing. Edit anything, then export EXCEL & PDF.
Built for the way subcontractors actually 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.
We are always improving our software and expanding the range of takeoffs we support. Here are our latest capabilities:
1 takeoff = 1 takeoff on 1 drawing sheet for 1 trade.
Examples
- Measure floor areas on 1 drawing sheet = 1 takeoff
- Measure floor areas & electrical fittings on same sheet = 2 takeoffs
- Measure the same trade across 3 sheets = 3 takeoffs
For multi-trade takeoffs, max charge is capped 5 takeoffs / drawing sheet.
No. However, “Unlimited AI searches & checks” covers standard in-app AI searches and checks, following our fair use policy assuming that one single person is using one single account.
This includes typical query-based tasks such as reviewing documents, checking information, and running standard AI-assisted checks.
Some AI Agents can go beyond simple searches and checks (for example: multi-step agent workflows). These advanced agents may be priced separately on a custom basis.
Where custom pricing applies, we will scope and confirm this with you in advance.
Your uploaded data is stored within a relational database and cloud object storage with our best in class cloud infrastructure provider. All documents are anonymised, un-anonymised data is only viewable from the user account from which the data was uploaded.
All data is transmitted through TLS and uses best practice encryption.
You can automatically 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 takeoffs from modern PDFs, we achieve over 97% accuracy.
For hand-drawn or older PDFs (before 1975) these are more challenging and such a high degree of accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
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 we aim to return results within 24 hours.
After you start a workflow running you can close Civils.ai and will be notified once the data extraction is completed via email.
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