AI Takeoffs for Earthworks & Landscaping Contractors
Measure earthworks, drainage and concrete from PDF drawings in minutes.
Understand your site — extract structured data from geotechnical reports.
AI Takeoffs for Groundworks Contractors
Upload your PDF drawings, type the scope, and Civils.ai automatically measures and annotates the drawings.
- Highways, roads, landscaping and paving areas
- Drainage — run lengths categorised by pipe diameter
- Utilities — lengths of ducts, cables, conduits
- Concrete volumes and formwork areas
- Covers and frames, manholes, gullies
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.
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
- 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
How it works
Upload PDFs & Run
Drag and drop your geotechnical report PDFs into Civils.ai and click Run. Civils.ai automatically begins processing entire reports, including scanned and handwritten logs.
Extract into AGS 4.1 & Excel
The system extracts borehole and lab test data into structured formats — AGS and Excel — ready for QA/QC and integration with your existing workflows.
Geo-located for Mapping
Extracted data is geo-referenced with coordinates so you can map, visualise, and analyse your ground model across sites and projects.
Data extraction accuracy
Extract 16+ different groups of geotech data
Maintains accuracy even for historic scanned reports
What are our customers saying?
Edward Armstrong
Omid Khalaj
Dom Wintie
Geoff Pook
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 document data is anonymised and 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 95% 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.
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.
You retain full ownership of all data and documents you upload to Civils.ai. Your data is used solely to process your requests and is never used to train models or shared with any third parties.
You can delete your data at any time from within the platform, or by contacting us directly.
Never. Your project documents and data are completely isolated to your account. No other users, clients, or third parties can access your data.
All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest. Our infrastructure is hosted on vetted, enterprise-grade cloud providers with strict access controls.
