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AI for Earthworks — Earthworks takeoffs & subsurface data

AI for earthworks takeoffs & geotechnical.

Measure earthworks & groundworks requirements and understand your site by extracting structured data from drawings and geotechnical reports.

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Use-cases

Two AI agents, one platform.

Civils.ai handles two of the slowest jobs in groundworks estimating: counting up quantities from PDF drawings, and digitising borehole logs from geotechnical reports.

01 / 02Surface takeoffs
Earthworks · Drainage

Takeoff earthworks, utilities & landscaping quantities from PDFs

Upload drawings, describe the scope, and get measured areas, lengths and volumes as Excel and annotated PDF.

02 / 02Subsurface data
Geotech · Boreholes

Extract subsurface data from boreholes

Turn geotechnical reports into structured AGS 4.1 data and a 2D or 3D ground model of your site.

Edit & export

We do the legwork. You sign off.

We do the measuring, you do any final edits and export the results.

  • Highways, roads, landscaping & paving areas
  • Drainage — run lengths categorised by pipe diameter
  • Utilities — lengths of ducts, cables, conduits
  • Covers & frames, manholes, gullies
  • Cut and fill volumes (coming soon)
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Borehole data

Extract data from borehole logs.

Upload PDF geotechnical reports — scanned or digital. Civils.ai reads every borehole log and converts it into structured AGS 4.1 and Excel data, geo-referenced and ready for OpenGround or Leapfrog.

  • Works with scanned and handwritten logs. There is no need to split reports into individual pages, upload the entire document.
  • Extracts 16+ data groups (geology, in-situ tests, lab data)
  • AGS 4.1 output ready for downstream tools
  • Geo-referenced — plot directly on your site map
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Understand the ground

Understand subsurface conditions on your site.

Civils.ai turns a stack of geotechnical PDFs into structured data, ground models and foundation insight — so estimating decisions stop relying on a single engineer's memory.

Convert borehole and geotechnical data into interactive 2D cross-sections and 3D ground models — giving your team a clear picture of subsurface conditions across the site.

Build up a picture of potential bearing capacity issues and suitable foundation types — reducing estimating uncertainty before you commit to a design or bid.

Upload PDF geotechnical reports — scanned or digital — and Civils.ai extracts every borehole log into structured AGS 4.1 and Excel data, eliminating manual transcription entirely.
How it works

From PDF to structured ground data in three steps.

Drop your geotechnical reports and drawings, run the workflow, get back AGS 4.1, Excel and a marked-up PDF — every result QA-reviewed by our engineers before delivery.

01

Upload PDFs & run

Drag & drop drawings or geotechnical reports — scanned, handwritten or digital. Civils.ai starts processing the moment they land.

02

Extract to AGS 4.1 & Excel

Borehole and lab data is structured into AGS and Excel — ready for QA and integration with your existing geotech workflows.

03

Geo-locate & visualise

Coordinates carry through, so every borehole and quantity plots straight onto your site map and 3D ground model.

Modernise ground engineering

Built for the way groundworks teams actually work.

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.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

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

16+ AGS data groups including borehole geology, SPT & CPT in-situ tests, groundwater observations and laboratory test results — output as AGS 4.1 and Excel, ready for OpenGround or Leapfrog.

Yes — scanned, photographed and handwritten borehole logs are all supported. Our pipeline is built for messy, real-world geotechnical PDFs, not just the clean modern ones.

For takeoffs from modern PDFs we achieve over 97% accuracy. Every output goes through a human-in-the-loop review by our engineering team before delivery.

Yes. Civils.ai outputs the AGS 4.1 standard, which loads directly into OpenGround, Leapfrog Works and most other geotech / geology packages.

Data is stored securely with our vetted cloud provider and transmitted over TLS. You retain full ownership of every report and drawing you upload — we never use your data to train models or share it with third parties.

Most workflows complete within 24 hours. We notify you by email when results are ready for review and export.
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