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A construction takeoff service: every quantity traced to its sheet, ready to check.

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from $199 flat fee · 48 hours · 24 h with Rush

  • from $199flat fee · locked before you pay · one trade from $149
  • 48 hours24 h with Rush
  • Nothing uploadeduntil you order
  • Reference rates optionala starting point, never a quote

A-101Floor plan · Where We MeasuredNot a quote

Calc-Architectural-1GradeHigh

Face brick veneer

Perimeter 240'-0 × 3'-4"
800.00
Storefront pairs, 2 × 6'-0
−40.00
Overhead door, 10'-0
−33.33

726.67SF

From A-201 keynote 1 and A-401 wall type W1

Bid SummaryGradeHigh

Floor finishes, measured net

Sealed concrete · hall, store, plant
2,131
Porcelain tile · lobby, toilets
442
Quarry tile · kitchen
308

2,881SF

A-602 prints 3,200 SF gross · this is net of walls

Bid SummaryGradeHigh

Doors, from the A-601 schedule

D1Storefront pair, 6'-0 × 7'-0
2
D2Hollow metal, 90 min rated
4
D3Solid core wood
5
D4Sectional overhead, 10'-0
1

12EA

A-101 draws 7 of these 12; 5 raised as RFIs

Sample · fictional building · Maple Street Community Hall, 3,200 SF Open the same package See it in the Quantity Model

The sample package, measured end to end

  • 16sheets read
  • 90lines measured
  • 90 of 90traced to a sheet
  • 17worth a second look
The 60-second tour, on our own sample set · Watch it on its own page
  1. Drop your plansPDF set, a folder or a link
  2. Free Plan CheckA free read of your set: sheets, trades and your fee
  3. OrderThe ZIP in 48 hours, or 24 h with Rush

The 60-second version

Five things to know before you drop a file.

What you get
An Excel takeoff by CSI division, marked-up PDFs, and an RFI list — a graded first draft of your plan set: every quantity traced to its sheet with its calculation; any line without one is named in the Confidence Report (the list of what to verify first). In an Excel workbook, the Pricing Studio (prices the quantities on your own computer), the Project Overview (a one-page bid / no-bid summary) and the Quantity Model (a schematic 3D view of what we measured).
An Excel takeoff by CSI division, marked-up PDFs and an RFI list.
Price
Your drawing sheets are counted in your browser before you pay. One flat fee by size band, from $199, locked when you order. A Trade Draft Takeoff Pack (the same takeoff, for only the trades you pick) is your trades' share of that fee, from $149. Rush and reference rates are options you choose before paying; the fee shown includes what you pick.
One flat fee by sheet count, locked when you order.
Sales tax
Prices exclude sales tax. Polar, our merchant of record, collects any that applies where you are, at checkout.
Not in the price; any that applies is collected at checkout.
Delivery
48 hours from cleared payment, weekends included; 24 h with Rush.
48 hours, or 24 h with Rush.
Refunds
Changed your mind? Ask any time before your first download and you get the whole amount back — no questions. The one exception: an order whose checkout told you, before you paid, that it has no refund on request. Once you download, the package is yours and is not refunded on request. If we miss the date you were quoted, cannot read any of your files, or our checks stop the package, you are refunded in full without asking. Refund terms in full
The whole amount back if you ask before your first download.

DraftTakeoff Analyzer

Nothing uploadedReading locally

Drop your plan set — or the whole folder

We count your sheets right here and show your flat fee. Nothing is uploaded until you order (a file added by link passes through our server and is not kept).

PDF plan setoptional DWG/DXF

  • Read in your browser
  • Fee shown before you pay
  • Plan Check is free

What you send decides the takeoff — and the fee.5 points to check before you drop

The fee counts drawing sheets, and we measure only what the pages show:

  • Each drawing sheet once. The fee counts drawing sheets, so a sheet included twice is billed twice. Where an addendum reissues a sheet, send the addendum as it was issued: the later-dated print is measured and the older one set aside (both are billed, so remove an old print you do not need). Plan Check names the file and page of each repeat.
  • Specifications, project manual and addenda text — free. They are read, never billed: grades, products and changes come from them.
  • The PDF exported from CAD, not a scan or photo. Crisp lines are read exactly; what a blurry scan hides is listed as unread, never guessed.
  • Every sheet for the trades you need. A sheet you leave out is work we cannot measure — shown in your workbook as not included.
  • Your bid form or quantity schedule, if you have one — free. We measure to your own item list and show where our figures and yours differ.

Full submission checklist · Plan Check flags repeated and superseded sheets before you pay.

Optional: add the DWG/DXF exported with this same PDF set — same sheets, same revision, all sheets. We use it only to double-check counts and areas against the PDF; the price and every quantity come from the PDF. A CAD file from another revision is set aside, not used.

Fees by size, and what we countDrawing sheets only · cover, notes and specs free
1Scan — sheets counted free, in your browser
2Price — one flat fee from your sheet count, shown before checkout
3Pay & go — delivered in 48 hours, or inside 24 hours with Rush

What we count: drawing sheets — plans, elevations, sections, details and schedule sheets — any page with a title block, at any size. Full-size, half-size 11×17, A3: a sheet is a sheet. The cover, sheet index, general notes, code summary and symbols or legend sheets (numbered in the G, T or CS series or in each discipline's 0-series, such as A0.1 or E001) are read for the analysis and never charged — nor are specifications, addenda, reports or any other document. A sheet in those series titled as a plan or a schedule, such as T-101 TELECOM PLAN, is billed. Send the whole set. A sheet whose number or title we cannot read is counted as billed, and Plan Check tells you how many before you pay. The count shown before you pay is the count you are charged on — fixed to the files you upload. It is a fixed price for the whole job, both ways: never raised afterwards, and never lowered - if our reading after payment finds more drawing sheets, we measure them all at the fee you paid. A DWG or DXF adds nothing to the price: the PDF is what we price and measure, and a CAD file exported with the same set is used only to double-check counts and areas. Your band is set by that sheet count and locked before you pay.

Civil and utility sets too. A DOT roadway, bridge, water or wastewater plant, storm drainage or site-utility set is counted and priced exactly the same way, and its work is measured as its own trade rather than filed under a building's site work. A plant with a small control building or guard house is measured as both. Process equipment and process piping inside a plant (Divisions 40 to 48) are not measured.

Watch a real runA replay of our own 16-sheet set · opens here
Maple-Street-Hall-demo-set.pdfPDF
Title blocks are read from each page's bottom-right corner
    —drawing sheetsbilled
    —read freecover, general notes, specs and reports
    ✓ Eligible
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    Replay of a real run — a building we drew, measured and published

    What we read in your set

    Nothing read yet. Drop a set above and its drawing sheets, spec pages and files are listed here.

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    The Full Draft Takeoff Pack is built from the drawings you upload and nothing else. Where a sheet is missing or a dimension is not given, the workbook says so and leaves that line for you to price, rather than inventing a figure. Sending fewer drawings gets you a smaller measured scope, stated clearly — that is not a fault in the package.

    Flat fee · locked before checkout · plus applicable sales tax
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    Submission completeness — what these files will produce

    We measure for bids, budgets, trade buyouts and unit-price contracts. We do not take work for certifying payment, supporting a claim or dispute, or an insurance valuation — choosing one of those ends the order before any payment.

    Type your address and we send a six-digit code to it at once, to prove this mailbox can receive your package. No account, no password.

    Project details read from your set — open to check or change
    Where is the project?

    Is this new construction, or work on an existing building?

    Appears on your workbook cover, the delivery note and the ZIP. Leave it blank and we use your order code.

    Which package?

    Reference rates in your workbook (preselected — switch to quantities only if you prefer)

    You are ordering an automated first-draft takeoff, provided as-is and graded line by line. It is the starting point for your own estimate — not a certified takeoff, and not a number to bid on unverified.

    • Full refund before your first download, no reason asked. A date we miss or a set we cannot read is refunded without you asking. Refund terms
    • Your drawings are deleted 2 days after delivery from private, encrypted storage, and never sold, shared or used as an example.
    • Every line is traceable to its sheet and calculation, with a confidence grade; the Confidence Report names what to check. A first draft to verify, with no accuracy figure promised.
    • See the whole package first: the full sample takeoff, from a demonstration set we drew ourselves.
    Analysis runs in your browser. Your drawings are sent only when you place the order; your email only when you finish typing it, to send you the code.
    What makes a submission complete? — read before you drop files

    A takeoff is only as complete as what you send. Missing schedules or trades do not stop the work — they become assumptions, exclusions or reduced-confidence lines in your workbook. We score your submission against this list before you pay:

    • A drawing set for every trade you are ordering — we measure the trades your drawings contain and list the rest as out of scope. Sending one trade on purpose is a normal order, not an incomplete one.
    • Original vector PDFs exported straight from the drawing software — scans still work, but dimensions are then read off an image, so those lines carry more values to confirm and grade lower. If a scan is all you have, scan at 300 dpi or more, in black and white, one sheet per page.
    • Schedules — door/window, room finish, structural member, fixture counts. This is where counts come from directly; an item that appears only in a schedule you did not send cannot appear in your workbook at all.
    • Specification or general notes — grades, strengths and system types. Without them each line states its assumptions instead, and the rate we can attach is the generic one rather than the one for your actual product.
    • Only the latest revision — where a sheet is reissued we measure the later-dated print and say which replaced which. Where nothing on the prints shows which is current, the first print in your set is measured as the original and listed for you to confirm with the designer. Two buildings or packages numbered the same way are not revisions: each is measured.
    • Each drawing sheet once — the fee counts drawing sheets, so a sheet that appears in two files, or a superseded print left in the set, is billed like any other drawing sheet. Remove repeats before you order; Plan Check names the file and page of each.
    • Your bid form, bid schedule or schedule of values, if you have one — read free, never billed. We measure to your own item list and report where our quantities and yours differ, in both directions.
    How it works

    Three steps. No account, no sales call.

    Your files stay on your device until you order.

    1. A contractor dropping a plan set into the analyzer, rolled drawings on the desk
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      Drop your drawings

      Your PDF plan set (the matching DWG/DXF is optional). Sheets are counted in your browser.

    2. Card in hand at the laptop, the flat fee on screen, before paying
      2

      Lock the fee and pay

      See your flat fee, choose quantities only or with reference rates, then pay. Only now do files leave your device.

    3. The delivered Project Overview open on screen and a printed page being checked at the desk
      3

      Open the ZIP

      Every measured quantity traced to a sheet, graded, with its calculation (a lump sum or allowance says so on its line), and placed in a schematic Quantity Model for checking. The README says what to open first.

    Fully automatedNo estimator reviews your numbers — read and measured by AI.
    A package that fails our safety checks is never sent — you are refunded.
    1. Scanseconds
    2. Measureautomated
    3. Gradeevery line
    4. QA checkstops a bad package
    Quantity Model · whenever the takeoff records where its lines were measured

    Quantity Model — check the takeoff, piece by piece.

    A schematic model built from our own measurements, so you can see what was counted and where. Pick a wall, a slab, a door or a run to see its quantity and the sheet it came from. It is a checking tool, not a design model or a rendering: shapes are simplified, and the drawings govern every dimension. Where it cannot be built, the README says why.

    Schematic — for checking quantities only. Not a design model; not for dimensions.

    • 157 pieces placed from the drawings (one measured line can place several)
    • 43 listed apart, not guessed
    • 8 questions pinned to model parts, of 29 in the RFI Register
    Open full screen ↗
    The sample hall pulled apart into its four layers: pad footings under the slab, the walls with the face brick outlined, the steel joists, and the roof
    1. 1 · Footings and slabPad footing F1 · 15 EASlab on grade, 5 in · 3,200 SF
    2. 2 · Walls8 in CMU walls · 2,762 SFFace brick, net of openings · 726.67 SF
    3. 3 · Roof structureSteel joists 24K7 · 15 EA
    4. 4 · RoofMetal roof deck, R-30 insulation, TPO roof · 3,200 SF each
    Measured from the footings up, the order a takeoff is built in. An illustration of our sample hall: the figures are its measured quantities, not counted from the picture.

    Included in both takeoff packs at no extra cost — one offline .html file that opens in your browser, no login. The Quantity Model is schematic, made for checking quantities: it is not a design model or an as-built record, and the drawings govern every dimension.

    Check my plans, free
    Pricing

    One flat fee per project. Locked before you pay.

    Priced by drawing sheets only — the cover, notes and spec pages are free. USD; projects anywhere, delivered in the US format.

    Build your price

    Every option, priced before you upload.

    1 · Your drawing sheets

    Drawing sheets only — plans, elevations, sections, details and schedule sheets, any size. The cover, sheet index, general notes, code summary and legend sheets are read free, and so are specifications and addenda. Civil and utility sets count the same way.

    2 · What you want measured
    3 · Options
    Reference rates

    A published rate on the lines our sources cover, not a quote — you check and replace every one. Beta: $0 now, +$60–$350 by set size from 2027 — our rate library is still growing, so coverage varies by project.

    Rush — a guaranteed 24-hour turnaround

    Rush = a guaranteed 24-hour turnaround. Our system keeps a measuring lane reserved for Rush orders, so a Rush order goes to the front of the queue and never waits behind standard work. The work, the method and the checks are the same, and a Rush order that is late is refunded in full without you asking.

    Every band at a glance · Full Draft Takeoff Pack

    Every column and the fine print
    Full Draft Takeoff Pack price for each sheet band, with and without each option, in US dollars
    What we count, and what is read free
    Free to use

    Plan Check

    What your set contains, read before you buy anything

    For anyone sizing a set, bidder or not

    ALWAYS FREE
    $0 / setnothing to pay, nothing uploaded

    no card needed

    Instant · read in your browser
    • Drawing sheets counted, your fee shown
    • Trades and sheet series (A / S / M / E / P …) · building, civil or both
    • Duplicate sheet revisions caught
    • Scope words per sheet: NIC, BY OTHERS, ALTERNATE, DEFERRED SUBMITTAL …
    • Door / window / fixture marks on plans checked against the schedule
    Run a free Plan Check

    Optional add-on, off unless you tick it: Reference rates (Beta) — $0 now, +$60–$350 by set size from 2027. Our rate library is still growing, so coverage varies by project; check and replace every rate. Either way you check every price and quantity: reference rates are a graded starting point, not a quote.

    Every file by name, folder by folder Every file listed below; a document your set has no subject for is named as left out

    01Project Overview

    Full Draft Takeoff Pack · a one-trade Overview (.pdf + .html) in the Trade Pack
    • Project Overview .pdf
    • Project Overview Interactive .html
    • Project Overview, editable copy .docx
    • Bid No-Bid Scorecard .xlsx

    The bid / no-bid answer and its working: sheet count, trade map, designer questions, and a scorecard answered from your drawings, with a blank column for what only you know.

    02Pricing Studio

    Full and Trade Draft Takeoff Packs · Trade Pack: your trades only
    • Pricing Studio .html

    Price our quantities and print your own proposal in a browser, from your own computer. Writes your prices into your Excel file and reads them back. Nothing you type leaves your computer.

    03Draft proposal

    Full and Trade Draft Takeoff Packs · Trade Pack: your trades only
    • Proposal, unbranded .pdf (Full Pack)
    • Draft Bid Package .pdf + editable copy .docx

    The proposal page and schedule of values for YOUR client, linked to the calculation sheets. Quantities only: rate cells wait for you. Reference rates: ours, for you to check. Selling prices only.

    04Workbook

    Full and Trade Draft Takeoff Packs
    • Draft Takeoff Workbook .xlsx
    • Draft Takeoff Workbook, printed .pdf
    • Interactive Takeoff Report .html

    An Estimator Sheet up front: one flat table sorted by CSI MasterFormat division, each line with its cost code where it has one, to paste into your own template. A calculation table behind every quantity. Enter your unit costs and margin; markups build themselves. Full Pack: schedule, S-curve, payment schedule and peak cash. Trade Pack: your trades only, with your own site costs; the whole-project schedule and cash are left out. The .pdf is the same book, for your phone.

    05What We Could Not See

    Full and Trade Draft Takeoff Packs
    • RFI List .pdf + editable copy .docx
    • Exclusions List .pdf + editable copy .docx
    • Subcontractor RFQs .pdf + editable copy .docx
    • Alternates Comparison .pdf

    The gaps and open decisions in writing — questions for the designer, a scoped request per trade.

    06Where We Measured

    Full and Trade Draft Takeoff Packs
    • Where We Measured (marked-up pages) .html + images

    Every page we measured, with each quantity marked where it was taken. A dashed B-number marks a value the drawings do not state: the workbook line says what was used, and the same number is a question for your designer.

    07Quantity Model

    Full and Trade Draft Takeoff Packs
    • Quantity Model (3D, schematic) .html

    The measured lines, each placed where it was measured and checked against its calculation table; a line with no recorded place is shown apart, never guessed into position. Schematic, not a design model.

    08Data

    Full and Trade Draft Takeoff Packs
    • Takeoff Items (data) .csv
    • Estimating Import (data) .csv: cost code, description, quantity, unit
    • Bid Items (data) .csv, where your documents list bid items

    The same quantities as data, for your own estimating system. No re-typing out of a PDF.

    09Construction Pack

    Full and Trade Draft Takeoff Packs
    • Procurement Quantities .pdf + .csv
    • Testing and Inspection Plan .pdf + editable copy .xlsx
    • Rebar Schedule .pdf + editable copy .xlsx
    • Door Hardware Schedule .pdf + editable copy .xlsx

    For the job you win: order quantities with the waste allowance and its source in a separate column, and a Testing & Inspection Plan that covers only the work in this project.

    ⌂Delivery Note & README

    Every order
    • Delivery Note .pdf
    • README .html

    A one-page receipt of what you bought and every file in the package, and a front door that says what opens what.

    What we deliberately leave out, and why Eight documents we could only pad — so we do not sell them

    What we deliberately leave out, and why:Draft contract — a binding agreement drafted by non-lawyersStand-alone construction schedule — the preliminary schedule inside the workbook drives the cash flow; a full CPM schedule needs your means and methodsSubmittal log — presumes an approval workflow we do not knowProposal letter — the scope narrative and terms are yours to write; we leave out everything but the priced draft proposalSlide deck — its polish would overstate the workRisk register — generic, or duplicated by the RFI listExecutive one-pager — the Project Overview does that jobBid-day checklist — advice you already haveAll eight are refused by our packager on purpose; the README repeats the reasons.

    Very large sets, and what happens to the price later Above 300 sheets · after 31 December 2026

    Launch pricing. Every figure above is an introductory price, charged until 31 December 2026; the price printed beside it is what the same product costs from 1 January 2027. Nobody has been charged that price yet, so nothing here is written as a discount. Your price is locked when you order.

    Above 300 drawing sheets, each started block of 50 sheets adds $50 — computed from your own sheet count at upload, before you pay. Sets beyond 1,037 drawing sheets are declined automatically rather than guessed at. Documents, which are read free (what we count), are capped on their own at 1,500 pages. Launch pricing; may be revised for future orders, never for yours.

    What each trade covers What we measure, how, and what we list without measuring

    Structural

    Measured
    • Concrete by volume (CY), from the footing, column, beam and slab schedules and the plan dimensions
    • Reinforcing steel by weight from the bar schedules: bars × length × unit weight, laps added
    • Structural steel by member length × weight, carried by the ton
    • Formwork by contact area (SF), slab edges included
    • Excavation, backfill and base under the foundations (CY); piles counted from the plan
    Listed, estimated or not measured
    • Reinforcement with no bar schedule: estimated from a published ratio, labeled so and graded Low
    • Pile length no schedule gives: raised as a question for the designer
    • Deferred-submittal framing and connections: an allowance for a vendor quote

    Architectural

    Measured
    • Doors and windows counted from the schedules and checked against the plans (EA)
    • Walls by area (SF), net of openings, each wall type broken into its layers
    • Roofing by area: on the slope where the pitch is given, plan area otherwise, and labeled
    • Storefront and curtain wall by area from the elevations
    • Demolition drawn as a hatch, read against the sheet's own legend
    Listed, estimated or not measured
    • Elevators, kitchen hoods and other building equipment: listed, see the families below

    Interiors

    Measured
    • Floor, wall and ceiling finishes by area, room by room (SF)
    • Base, trim and handrails (LF); casework (LF) and countertops (SF)
    • Specialties counted from their schedules (EA)
    Listed, estimated or not measured
    • Furniture, furnishings and equipment: counted row by row from the schedule, no dimensions
    • Owner-furnished items: shown as NIC

    Plumbing & fire protection

    Measured
    • Fixtures counted row by row from the fixture schedule (EA)
    • Pipe by length (LF) along the drawn runs, by size and material; supply, waste and vent kept apart
    • Fittings (elbows, tees, wyes, reducers, cleanouts) proposed from the traced runs, sized only from the labels on them
    • Floor drains, valves, hose bibbs and other symbols counted on the plans; sprinkler heads counted
    Listed, estimated or not measured
    • Sprinkler branch piping: estimated from the fire protection sheets, and graded so
    • Fittings where the runs are not drawn out: a stated percentage of the pipe length
    • Changes to existing fire protection: an allowance, to be verified on site

    HVAC

    Measured
    • Equipment (rooftop units, air handlers, fan coils, fans) from the schedules, each (EA)
    • Ductwork by length (LF), size by size, along the drawn duct
    • Grilles, registers and diffusers counted by type; linear diffusers by length
    • Piping by length and size, with its insulation
    Listed, estimated or not measured
    • Duct weight (lb): not computed; ductwork comes as length by size
    • Refrigerant piping on a diagram with no scale: SOURCE INSUFFICIENT, not guessed

    Electrical & low voltage

    Measured
    • Light fixtures by type from the fixture schedule and the plan symbols (EA); linear fixtures by length
    • Receptacles, switches and devices counted on the plans
    • Panels and breakers from the panel schedules; spares counted, spaces not
    • Conduit and wire by length (LF) along the drawn runs, every conductor counted
    • Communications and low voltage as their own section; fire alarm measured, or named as by others where the set says so
    Listed, estimated or not measured
    • Home runs and branch circuits the plans do not draw: estimated from the layout, stated as an assumption and graded Low

    Sitework

    Measured
    • Paving and base by area, layer by layer, from the plan (SF)
    • Cut and fill (CY) from contours or spot elevations
    • Utility trench and pipe by length and size (LF), fittings proposed from the runs
    • Curbs and fences (LF); trees, signs and poles (EA)
    Listed, estimated or not measured
    • Areas no design grade encloses: SOURCE INSUFFICIENT for cut and fill
    • Landscaping shown only schematically: an allowance, marked optional
    • Base under curbs and drive approaches: only where a section dimensions it

    Civil pay items

    Measured
    • Earthwork (CY), clearing and silt fence
    • Pavement and base, curb and gutter (LF), sidewalk
    • Drainage pipe by size (LF), structures (EA) and culverts
    • Bridge concrete (CY) and reinforcing (LB), girders and barrier
    • Signals, conduit and cable, and pavement markings
    Listed, estimated or not measured
    • Erosion control and traffic control: the plan's own lump-sum items carried, not computed
    • Process equipment and process piping inside a plant (Divisions 40 to 48): not in this package

    Every trade: pipe, duct and conduit are measured along the centerline, through their fittings, with no routing allowance added; waste is never inside a quantity; a dimension the drawings do not give is never invented — the line reads SOURCE INSUFFICIENT and says why.

    Work in families we do not measure is named by Plan Check before you pay.

    One sample project, start to finish

    A plan set goes in. A takeoff you can check comes out.

    A 3,200 SF community hall — a fictional building we drew, measured and published. Every quantity here came out of the same pipeline your set goes through. Every price in the sample is an illustrative figure invented for the demonstration, and every file says so on every page. A real order is different: quantities only, or — if you choose them before paying — published reference rates on the lines our sources cover.

    An estimator at a desk of drawings in the evening, the sample Pricing Studio open on the laptop PRICING STUDIO · SAMPLE OUTPUT
    Your rates on our quantities — the quote builds as you type.OFFLINE · NO LOGIN
    16drawing sheets read
    6trades found
    90lines, each graded
    $0to see your fee
    How the set went through
    1. 1

      16 sheets read in the browser

      Title blocks found on every page. The cover and the general-notes sheet are read free, so the fee is set on the other 14. Fee shown and locked before anything is uploaded.

    2. 2

      90 quantities, each traced to its sheet

      The calculation sits beside every line, graded with its reason. Where a sheet could not answer, the line says SOURCE INSUFFICIENT.

    3. 3

      Priced in the Studio — with your numbers

      The Project Overview gives cost as a range, never a single guess. In the Pricing Studio you type your own rates — over our reference rates if you chose them — and print the proposal on your letterhead.

    What came out — the Project Overview, sample hall illustrative figures
    Priced so far — the sum of 82 priced lines, not a forecast$879,807
    Duration3.3 – 6.7 months
    Peak cash — from the sample's payment schedule$353,986

    The sample is our own drawn set, priced at invented illustrative rates on 82 of 90 lines to show the tools working — not a market price and not a quote. A real order carries prices only if you choose reference rates: published rates on the lines our sources cover, so it prices fewer lines and leaves the rest blank for you.

    Two tools in your browser · offline · no login

    Not a PDF you read. Files you work in.

    Both open from the ZIP on your own computer. Nothing you type leaves it — we keep no copy.

    Pricing Studio overview: how the quote is built up, material against labor by trade, the ten lines that carry most of the value, and a what-if slider
    In the Full Draft Takeoff Pack

    Pricing Studio. Your prices on our quantities.

    • Type your costs line by line, or one sub-quote for a whole trade — totals follow as you type
    • A rate check on every line — a cost far outside our reference band is flagged before it reaches your quote
    • See where the money is — cost build-up, the ten lines that carry the value, a what-if slider for margin and waste
    • Print your proposal on your letterhead, and write your prices into the Excel workbook
    Inside the sample Studio
    Six trade tabsthree lines each in the sample; your package carries every measured line18 lines
    Site costs, markup & taxyour overheads and margin, each on its own tab2 tabs
    Your Excel and the proposalwrite your prices into the workbook, print the quoteoffline
    Maple Street Community Hall sample. The costs in it are illustrative figures invented for the demonstration — type over any of them. On an order the cells start blank, or with published reference rates if you chose them.

    Try the sample Studio Three lines a trade, priced at illustrative figures you can type over.

    Project Overview, Bid / No-Bid tab: the score on a gauge with the verdict band, the readiness sheet and the scorecard
    In every Full Draft Takeoff Pack

    Project Overview. Should you bid?

    • Cost, duration and peak cash as ranges from your own set — SOURCE INSUFFICIENT where a sheet cannot answer
    • Bid / No-Bid scored live — the lines your drawings settle are answered with the evidence; score the rest and watch the verdict move
    • The questions for your designer, worked as sent and answered, copied into an email in one click
    • Print to PDF, save an editable Word copy, and write your scores into the scorecard workbook
    What the sample hall's Overview prints
    Priced so far82 of 90 measured lines carry a rate; the eight without one are not in it$879,807
    Durationone method only, so nothing cross-checks it — the band is that method's own planning range3.3 – 6.7 months
    Peak cash to carryaround month 1 of 6, from the workbook's own payment schedule — site work and structure, 43% of the work, are paid out before the first pay application is paid$353,986
    Maple Street Community Hall — a fictional building, priced at illustrative rates invented for the demonstration. Not a bid, not an estimate, not a price for anything. An order's Overview prices only the lines that carry a rate — your reference rates, if you chose them.

    Open the sample Overview Score it yourself; the gauge moves as you answer.

    Works with the software you already use

    Open it in Bluebeam Revu. Check it where you already work.

    Each measured quantity is a live markup in Bluebeam Revu, with its line ID and figure in the Markups List, so you can check our takeoff in the software you already use and keep working from it.

    No Revu? The same quantities open in Excel and in any web browser. The workbook opens in Excel; the Pricing Studio, the Project Overview and Where We Measured open offline in any browser.

    1. 01
      Open Marked-up Plans.pdf in Revu

      Each quantity is a markup on the sheet it was measured from, with its line ID, item, quantity and unit in the Markups List.

    2. 02
      Import our columns and tool set

      DraftTakeoff-Columns.xml and a Tool Chest file (.btx) come in every package at no extra cost, for the same columns in your own Revu files.

    3. 03
      Check a markup, or change it

      Move a length or area, or change its depth, and Revu measures it again in the Measured Qty column. The Qty column keeps the workbook figure.

    4. 04
      Export Revu's own Markup Summary

      Revu's own Markup Summary matches the workbook line for line. 763 of 763 lines across three test packages

    5. 05
      Compare with your original sheet

      Revu's Compare Documents shows the marked-up sheets match your original drawings: the markups sit on them, unchanged. 0 differences on 77 sheets across two jobs

    • Measured againlengths and areas you move or deepen, in Revu's Measured Qty column
    • Line for lineRevu's own Markup Summary against our workbook763 of 763 lines across three test packages
    • Unchangedyour drawings under our markups, by Revu's Compare Documents0 differences on 77 sheets across two jobs
    • $0for the Columns.xml and Tool Chest files, in every package

    Checked in Bluebeam Revu 21 on Windows. Bluebeam and Revu are trademarks of Bluebeam, Inc. DraftTakeoff is not affiliated with Bluebeam.

    See a finished package

    Know what arrives before you pay.

    A 3,200 SF community hall through the same pipeline as your job. Click any page, or open the sample takeoff on a page of its own.

    1Start hereThe file every other one reads from
    Quantity Takeoff Workbook .XLSX
    2Price itType your costs, print your proposal
    Pricing Studio INTERACTIVE
    3Check itOffline HTML, no login
    The takeoff, read in your browser INTERACTIVE Quantity Model SCHEMATIC Marked-up Plans PDF MARKUPS Bluebeam Revu columns .XML Bluebeam Revu Tool Chest .BTX
    4Decide and sendScore it, then print it — every sample PDF, 66 pages in all
    Project Overview, interactive SCORE IT Bid / No-Bid Scorecard .XLSX Project Overview, printed 13 PAGES+ .DOCX Workbook pages 35 PAGES Draft Bid Package 9 PAGES+ .DOCX
    5Hand it onTo your subs, beside your bid, to your site
    Subcontractor RFQ Pack 4 PAGES+ .DOCX Exclusions List 2 PAGES+ .DOCX Procurement Quantities 1 PAGE+ .CSV Testing & Inspection Plan 2 PAGES+ .XLSX

    In your order, every document you forward comes with an editable copy (.docx or .xlsx) in the same folder as its PDF — add your letterhead, terms and prices. The sample links here are the PDFs.

    Cites the standards you already build to — each one on the Testing & Inspection Plan line it governs

    ACI 117 · ACI 318 · ACI 308.1 · ASTM C94 / C39 · ASTM D698 / D1557 · ASTM C90 / C1019 · AISC 303 · RCSC · NEC · NETA ATS. The governing edition stays your contract's; a line we could not tie to a standard says so rather than borrowing one. The plan is built from the trades your set actually contains, so a standard governing work the set does not draw never appears — the sample hall has no sprinklers and no fire alarm, and its plan cites neither.

    A quiet meeting room at dusk before a bid presentation, drawings racked by the window
    At bid review

    Walk in with every quantity traced to its sheet.

    Send the set on Monday. By Wednesday the Overview is printed, the proposal carries your letterhead, and every line you are about to defend has its sheet reference beside it.

    1. 01
      Project Overview — printed

      Cost, duration and peak cash as ranges. The Bid / No-Bid verdict with the evidence that settled it.

    2. 02
      Draft proposal on your letterhead

      Your rates on our quantities, out of the Pricing Studio. Selling prices only — the cost build-up stays in your file.

    3. 03
      Scorecard, with your scores in it

      The questions your drawings answered, and the ones only you could.

    Check my plans, freeThe measuring is ours. The judgment, the price and the bid are yours.
    Why us

    What you can check,
    not what we promise.

    No one can promise a perfect count from drawings, so we promise no accuracy percentage up front. What we publish is what you can check: the working behind every line, and our measured results against public bids, misses included.

    01The arithmetic is in the file

    Every quantity sits on a calculation table with the dimensions that produced it. Correct a length and the totals follow.

    Elsewhere: a number in a cell. If it is wrong, you re-do the takeoff.

    02We print SOURCE INSUFFICIENT

    Where the drawings cannot answer, the line says so and the quantity stays zero, with the reason.

    Elsewhere: an allowance that looks measured, discovered on site.

    03Every line graded, with its reason

    High, Medium or Low with its assumptions beside it, and a verify-these-first list.

    Elsewhere: one confidence statement for the whole document.

    04Nothing is uploaded to see your fee

    Sheet count and fee are computed on your device — open the network tab and watch.

    Elsewhere: an account, an upload, a sales call.

    05Answers in the file, refunds without asking

    Every line carries its source and grade; a date we miss, a set we cannot read or a package our checks stop is refunded in full automatically. What happens if something is wrong

    Elsewhere: a support ticket and a policy to argue with.

    06Checked against public bids, misses included

    We measure public bid sets blind and compare line by line with the agency's own quantities - results published either way. See the line-by-line record

    Elsewhere: a percentage claim, with nothing you can check.

    07Verify the work, not our credentials

    Built by a project director with 25 years running multi-trade construction. Measured by software, checked against the sheets — every quantity links back to the page it came from, so you verify the work, not our credentials.

    Elsewhere: a project count and a team size you cannot check.

    08Four files that work offline

    The Pricing Studio, the Project Overview, the Quantity Model and Where We Measured open from the ZIP in any browser. See them

    Elsewhere: a login, a subscription, and your prices on someone else's server.

    09Opens in Bluebeam Revu

    Each measured quantity is a live markup in Bluebeam Revu, with its line ID and figure in the Markups List, so you can check our takeoff in the software you already use and keep working from it. No Revu? The same quantities open in Excel and in any web browser. How to check it in Revu

    Elsewhere: a PDF of pictures you measure again by hand.
    The single-story sample hall cut open at one corner, showing each measured layer in place: TPO roof 3,200 SF, R-30 roof insulation 3,200 SF, metal roof deck 3,200 SF, steel joists 15 EA, 8 in CMU walls 2,762 SF, face brick 726.67 SF net of openings, slab on grade 3,200 SF on a vapor retarder and aggregate base, and pad footings 15 EA 8 MEASURED LINES · SAMPLE HALL
    1. TPO roof, 60 mil3,200 SF
    2. R-30 roof insulation3,200 SF
    3. Metal roof deck, 22 ga3,200 SF
    4. Steel joists 24K715 EA
    5. 8 in CMU walls2,762 SF
    6. Face brick to 3'-4", net of openings726.67 SF
    7. Slab on grade, 5 in3,200 SF
    8. Vapor retarder + basein slab line
    9. Pad footing F115 EA

    Eight real quantities from Maple Street Community Hall, the 16-sheet set — a building we drew, measured and published. The 4 in compacted granular base under the slab is a line of its own in the workbook, 39.51 CY.

    What you are buying
    • Quantities are the work we do. Measured sheet by sheet, each figure on a calculation table — check a line in a minute, not an hour. Your part: check it. A first draft to verify, not a number to trust.
    • How close we get depends on the set. Dimensioned, scheduled sets measure well. Work left to specs, shop drawings or the contractor cannot be measured by anyone. Where a sheet cannot answer: SOURCE INSUFFICIENT, zero, and the reason.
    • Pricing is mostly yours, on purpose. A unit rate is local, dated and negotiated. You choose before paying: quantities only, or reference rates with grade and source beside each. If you choose reference rates: on recent orders about a fifth to a half of the lines got one — about a third on a typical set, and some sets get fewer; the rest stay empty yellow cells, deliberately.

    What you are buying. The measuring is ours; the judgment stays yours. If you need a finished priced estimate you can bid without checking, we are not that, and we would rather tell you now than take your money and refund it later.We are your takeoff assistant, not your estimator.

    Side by side

    Not software you learn. Not an estimator you wait for.

    What it costs, whose hours it takes, how soon it lands and where your drawings go — against the three ways contractors get a takeoff done today.

    DraftTakeoff compared with DIY takeoff software, a traditional estimator and an outsourced takeoff service
    Compared on DraftTakeoffTHE DIFFERENCEWe measure, you check DIY takeoff softwareYou measure Traditional estimatorYou pay someone by the hour Outsourced takeoff serviceYou send the set out
    What one takeoff costs you from $199One flat fee per project, locked before you pay $249–299Per seat, per month, at list price1 — and the measuring hours are still yours ≈ $41 a sheetIn wages alone: about 1 hour a sheet2 at $41.06 an hour3 $150–400 a small projectAt published service rates4; a mid-size commercial set, $400–900
    Measuring hours per sheet None of yoursWe measure; you check each line against the sheet it cites ≈ 1 hour, yoursOn average; 10 minutes on a simple sheet, 5 to 6 hours on a complex one2 ≈ 1 hour, theirsThe same work at the same pace, on your bill2 None of yoursTheir team measures; the fee is per project
    Turnaround 48 hoursWeekends included · 24-hour Rush Your calendarEvenings and weekends, around paid work Their queueUsually several working days; a full multi-trade set often longer 48–72 hoursTypical standard turnaround4; a 24–48 hour rush usually costs 20–50% more5
    What you get A graded first draftMeasured quantities for every trade on the set; reference rates optional A toolYou do the work and keep the file A finished takeoffTheir judgment, in their format A finished takeoffMeasured by their team, in their format
    Traced to a sheet Every lineSheet, calculation and a confidence grade with its reason Your markupsAs traceable as you make them VariesConfidence is not usually itemized VariesDepends on the firm; ask whether the marked-up sheets come back
    Your drawings Sent on orderWhen you place the order, not before · deleted from our storage 2 days after delivery UploadedUsually cloud-first, stored while you subscribe Emailed up frontKept in their files Sent up frontUploaded or emailed to get a quote, kept under their policy

    None of these is a bad choice — software suits a firm with an estimator's hours to spend, a traditional estimator gives you a finished number, and a takeoff service takes the measuring off your desk for a fee per project. We sit among them: the measuring done for you at a fee you see before you pay, every line traced to its sheet, and the judgment kept with you.

    1. Published list prices of two dedicated takeoff programs, lowest paid tier per user, from the vendors' pricing pages; accessed 20 Sep 2026. Annual and team terms vary.
    2. An estimating-services firm's published guide to takeoff time per drawing page (7 Mar 2024). A single industry source, not a standard; your sets may run faster or slower.
    3. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, Cost Estimators (13-1051), national mean hourly wage, May 2025; accessed 20 Sep 2026. Wages only — benefits, software and overhead are not added.
    4. An estimating-services firm's published guide to takeoff service pricing (10 Jan 2026): small or residential projects under 20 pages, and mid-size commercial sets of 25 to 75 pages; standard turnaround from established providers. Vendor figures, not a survey; quotes vary by firm and scope.
    5. A takeoff-software firm's published guide to outsourcing quantity takeoffs (29 Aug 2026, updated 18 Sep 2026): the premium for a rush of 24 to 48 hours. Vendor figures, not a survey.
    One line, two ways

    A draft takeoff, traceable to every sheet

    One line from the sample package, shown both ways. The quantity is the same number. What comes with it is the whole difference.

    A number in a cell

    Face brick veneer, 3-5/8 in, running bond, to 3'-4" above finished floor

    726.67SF

    • ×How it was worked out — not shown
    • ×Which sheets it was read from — not shown
    • ×Whether the openings were deducted — not shown
    • ×How firm it is — not shown

    You either trust it, or you measure the wall again — which is the hour you were trying not to spend.

    The same quantity, traceable

    Face brick veneer, 3-5/8 in, running bond, to 3'-4" above finished floor

    Wall run / openingNo.LengthHeightArea
    Face brick band, perimeter 240'-0 × 3'-4"1240'3'-4"800.00 SF
    Deduct storefront pair 6'-0 wide, full band height−26'3'-4"−40.00 SF
    Deduct sectional overhead door 10'-0 wide, full band height−110'3'-4"−33.33 SF
    Measured quantity726.67 SF
    Read from A-401 wall type W1; A-201 elevation keynote 1 Measured net of openings High — the drawings gave what this needed Marked on the page it was measured on

    In the workbook you order, every cell above is a live formula: change a length and the quantity, the backup sheet and your proposal follow it. The same row is in the sample workbook you can download — open Calc-Architectural-1 — but the public sample holds values only, with its formulas replaced by their results, so the method behind them is not handed out free.

    From Maple Street Community Hall, the demonstration set we drew ourselves. A quantity, not a price.

    Why not just upload it to a chat AI?

    You can, and for a first look it does well. We tested it on four public bid sets — a post-frame addition, a renovation addendum, a six-trade senior center and a wastewater project, 6 to 56 drawing sheets — giving a chat AI the same PDFs our system read, byte for byte, and running three of the four on the same AI model our system reads drawings with. It listed 46 to 121 items in 2 to 23 minutes, and most of its main counts and areas (slab concrete, light fixtures, diffusers, floor drains) landed within about 5%. It also caught two things our system got wrong, pier excavation and lintels over openings, and both are now in our checks.

    What a contractor runs into when they do it themselves, each seen in that test:

    • Wrong where it is surest. On one set it swapped the building’s axes: 11 trusses spanning 36′ instead of 9 spanning 47′-6″, marked high confidence.
    • Counts by eye run over. About 25 corner guards where the plans show 14; about 22 hose reels for 17.
    • A number where the drawings give none. 38,000 SF of partitions with the wall-type sheet not in the set.
    • Big sets read in part. On an 84-page set it skipped 15 pages, the general notes and the first sheet of each trade among them.
    • Whole groups left out. 38 interior windows were not in its list at all.
    • Nothing to check back. The answer is text: no calculation table, no marked-up page, no sheet reference. The only way to check it is to measure again.

    Scored only where an independent judge could settle it — the engineer’s bid quantities, tag counts read from the PDF text, and the drawings themselves — our system had 26 right, 6 wrong and 0 invented; the chat AI had 23 right, 9 wrong and 1 invented. Seventeen of those right answers were the same on both sides, so the gap is in the rest. Four lines where the two gave the same figure but no judge could settle it — wall cladding, one slab, the light fixtures and the diffusers — are left out of the score. The difference is less the reading than what comes with it: its wrong answers look like its right ones, while every line we deliver is traced to its sheet with its calculation and marked where it was measured, so you can tell them apart.

    How paying works

    Checkout, stated plainly.

    No account, no subscription, no sales call. Polar, our merchant of record, emails your receipt and a tax-correct invoice.

    1. 1 Your browser counts your sheets

      The fee comes from that count alone. Nothing is uploaded to see it.

      ON YOUR DEVICE
    2. 2 The fee you see is the fee you pay

      Locked before you pay, plus applicable sales tax. Quantities only, or with reference rates (Beta: $0 now, +$60–$350 by set size from 2027) — chosen here.

      ON YOUR DEVICE
    3. 3 Polar takes the payment

      Our merchant of record handles the card and the sales tax — card details never reach us.

      MERCHANT OF RECORD
    4. 4 Your inbox — package delivered

      Three emails after you pay: your receipt with the due date, a work-started note once your sheets are counted and sorted by trade, then the ZIP. The README says what to open first. Your order code is on the Delivery Note, so any file traces back to the order.

      48 H · 24 H RUSH
    YOUR FILES
    Stay on your device — read by your browser, nothing sent
    Leave only when you order · private encrypted storage · deleted from our storage 2 days after delivery
    YOUR MONEY
    $0 — nothing to enter, nothing to sign up for
    One flat fee + sales tax, to Polar
    Handled by Polar, with the card rights that come with it

    Upload first, then payment. Your files leave your device only when you press Pay & order securely: they go straight to our private storage, and the payment page opens only after every file has arrived. If the upload fails, you never reach the payment page and nothing is charged — press the button again, or send the set as separate files. If you upload and then leave without paying, nothing is charged, and our storage deletes those files on its own about 2 days after the upload.

    Why a refund instead of a support desk — and what the promise is not
    Why a refund instead of a support desk No person in the loop keeps a small project near an estimator's hourly rate. There is no phone line or support inbox — your order code finds your order at any hour, and resends your download link. A refund replaces the conversation, which is why our checks decline readily before payment. Every order runs real compute and a card fee that does not come back, so we only ask that you mean it.

    What the promise is, and what it is not A first-draft takeoff is a measured starting point, not a certified takeoff. If you change your mind after paying, for any reason — ask before your first download, and the money goes back in full. That is what the promise is for and we will not question it. Once you download, the package is yours and is not refunded on request: the work has been handed over, and the sample package on this page is there so you can judge it before you buy. The promise is not a way to read the workbook for free either: after two refund requests in thirty days, or three in total, we stop accepting new orders from that address. Refunds already made always stand, and a refund we issue ourselves — a job we could not process, a date we missed, a package our own checks stopped — never counts against you.
    TONIGHT, NOT NEXT WEEK

    Drop the set before you leave the office. Your fee is locked before you reach the door.

    Free to see your fee48 hours · 24 h with RushLate? Full refund
    FAQ

    Questions, answered plainly.

    In three groups. Open the one you need.

    Before you order
    Is this a final takeoff I can bid from?
    No. It is a first draft provided as-is, with no warranty of accuracy, completeness or fitness for purpose. Every line carries a grade and its assumptions, so you know what to verify. Apply your own contingency and judgment before bidding.
    My drawings are not all in English. Can you take them?
    Yes. We work in English, and text in another language - a whole sheet, a logo, a sign, a note - is translated as we measure rather than left out. Every line taken from translated text says so at the start of its assumptions, with what the original says, and carries a lower grade: treat our translation as a first reading to check. If other languages are found, the email we send when work starts says so.
    Do you take civil and utility sets, or only buildings?
    Both. Roads, bridges, culverts, water and wastewater plants, pump stations and site utilities are priced by drawing sheets like a building, and measured as DOT-style pay items. A plant with a small building is read as both. Process equipment and process piping inside a plant (Divisions 40 to 48) are not measured, and Plan Check shows this before you pay.
    What file formats work?
    PDF plan sets — the price and every quantity come from the PDF. You may add the DWG/DXF exported with that same set (same sheets, same revision); we use it only to double-check counts and areas against the PDF, and a CAD file from another revision is set aside. Specs may come as PDF, Word or Excel. Crisp scans work; a set we cannot process is refunded automatically. Quantities come in US units — LF, SF, CY, EA.
    What is Plan Check?
    The free first step, run entirely in your browser: sheets counted, trades found, duplicate sheet revisions caught, the scope words (NIC, BY OTHERS, ALTERNATE …) listed by sheet, the schedules your set carries, door and window marks checked against them, and your fee shown before you pay. It says what your set contains; nothing is measured. No account, no upload.
    What you get
    Do you fill in reference rates, or do I price it myself?
    You choose before you pay. Quantities only leaves every unit-price cell blank for your own costs. Reference rates (Beta) — $0 now, +$60–$350 by set size from 2027. Our rate library is still growing, so coverage varies by project; check and replace every rate. If the library is not ready by then, the Beta is extended and announced, and the add-on is only ever charged from a date shown before you pay. Tick the words that go with your choice:
    • Quantities only — every unit-price cell blank; every formula and the draft proposal still built.
    • Quantities with reference rates — published rates we can defend, each with grade and source, which we take no responsibility for. On recent orders about a fifth to a half of the lines received a rate — about a third on a typical set, and some sets get fewer; the rest stay blank.
    Either way you check every price, and your own cell always wins. A reference rate that differs from your own price, a supplier quote or a bid result is not a fault in the package and is not a ground for refund.
    What is the Pricing Studio, and where do my prices go?
    One file in both the Full and the Trade Draft Takeoff Pack that opens in any web browser, with no internet needed.
    • Our quantities are locked; you type your material and labor costs, markup and tax - or one subcontractor's sum for a whole trade.
    • Every line shows our reference band beside your cost, and a cost far outside it is flagged so a slipped unit cannot hide in the total.
    • The overview shows how the quote is built up, which ten lines carry most of the value, material against labor by trade, and a what-if slider for margin and waste.
    • It prints your proposal on paper or as a PDF, with room for your letterhead, plus an internal cost summary for your own file.
    • It writes your prices into the workbook as a new copy (-priced-r1, r2 …) and reads them back from it.
    Your prices stay on your computer: the file cannot connect to the internet, and we keep no copy.
    Can I check the takeoff in Bluebeam Revu?
    Yes. Each measured quantity is a live markup in Bluebeam Revu, with its line ID and figure in the Markups List, so you can check our takeoff in the software you already use and keep working from it. The Marked-up Plans PDF carries each quantity as a markup on the sheet it was measured from, and every package includes DraftTakeoff-Columns.xml and a Tool Chest file (.btx) at no extra cost, so the item, quantity, unit and line ID show as Revu columns. Revu's own Markup Summary matches the workbook line for line (763 of 763 lines across three test packages), a markup moved or given a new depth in Revu is measured again correctly, and Compare Documents shows the marked-up sheets match your original drawings (0 differences on 77 sheets across two jobs). Checked in Bluebeam Revu 21 on Windows. No Revu? The same quantities open in Excel and in any web browser. Bluebeam and Revu are trademarks of Bluebeam, Inc. DraftTakeoff is not affiliated with Bluebeam.
    What happens where the drawings cannot answer?
    Where the set implies work it does not detail — reinforcement with no bar schedule, formwork to a pour — the line is estimated from a published ratio, labeled so and graded low. Where a dimension is simply not there, the line prints SOURCE INSUFFICIENT, the quantity stays zero, and the reason is given: a dimension the drawings never give is never invented. If we hold no published benchmark rate for your building type, the Project Overview leaves its benchmark cost box out and says so; the quantities are measured all the same.
    How fast is delivery, and what does Rush actually buy?
    • Full Draft Takeoff Pack: a guaranteed 48 hours from when payment clears, weekends included
    • Trade Draft Takeoff Pack: the same 48 hours
    • Rush: a guaranteed 24-hour turnaround for +40% of the fee, rounded to the nearest $5 and shown before you pay. Our system keeps a measuring lane reserved for Rush orders, so a Rush order goes to the front of the queue and never waits behind standard work. The work, the method and the checks are the same; what Rush buys is the guaranteed turnaround.
    • Miss the date: refunded in full without asking
    Money, files and people
    Can I get an invoice in my company's name?
    Yes. Polar, our merchant of record, sends a receipt and a tax-correct PDF invoice for every order. Add your company name, tax ID and billing address yourself in Polar's customer portal — the link is on your receipt.
    How is the price set — and can it change after I upload?
    By drawing sheets, in eight bands from $199 — a 600-page submission with 34 drawing sheets, two of them a cover and a general-notes sheet, is priced on 32. The fee is shown before you pay and locked when you order, plus applicable sales tax. The sheet count it is set on is counted in your browser by the rule our intake uses. The count shown before you pay is the count you are charged on — fixed to the files you upload. It is a fixed price for the whole job, both ways: never raised afterwards, and never lowered - if our reading after payment finds more drawing sheets, we measure them all at the fee you paid. Above 300 sheets a published per-block surcharge applies, shown the same way, never invoiced afterwards. A Trade Draft Takeoff Pack is your trades' share of the Full Pack price for the whole set: that price × your trades' billed sheets ÷ the set's billed sheets, rounded up to a price ending in 9, from $149 and never more than the Full Pack - tick every trade and it is the Full Pack price.
    Do the cover, notes and specifications count toward the fee?
    No. Only plans, elevations, sections, details and schedule sheets are billed. The cover, sheet index, general notes, code summary and symbols or legend sheets — numbered in the G, T or CS series or in each discipline's 0-series, such as A0.1 or E001 — are read for the analysis and never charged, and neither are specifications, addenda, reports or any other document. Plan Check lists the free sheets by number before you pay. Send the whole set: the notes and specifications answer questions the plans leave open. A sheet in any of those series titled as a plan or a schedule (T-101 TELECOM PLAN, A0.1 SITE PLAN) is billed, and a sheet whose number or title cannot be read is counted as billed; Plan Check tells you how many before you pay, and the count shown is the count you are charged on.
    How do refunds work?
    No reason asked until your first download. The one exception: an order whose checkout told you, before you paid, that it has no refund on request. To ask: open your order on the status page with your order code. Polar, our merchant of record, returns the payment in full. Once you download, the package is yours and is not refunded on request. A date we miss, a set we cannot read, or a package our checks stop is refunded without asking.
    What if part of my set cannot be measured?
    You still get the package, and the Confidence Report says exactly which lines are affected and what to check — a sheet that was not sent, a detail with no dimension on it, a scan too poor to measure. We would rather hand you the work with its limits named than hold it back until it is perfect. What we never send is a package that fails our safety checks: another job's data in your file, a formula that does not compute, a total that is wrong, a unit from the wrong country. Those are not delivered at all — you are refunded.
    Do you keep my drawings?
    Your files are read to produce your package and are not published, resold or shown to another customer. What we keep is the work we produced — the measured quantities and their working — to improve the system, and we tell you that plainly rather than burying it. Your files sit in our own private, encrypted storage, are measured on a machine we control, and pages are read by our AI model provider under commercial terms that forbid training on them — never an online conversion service, never a file-sharing site. The Terms name every place they go. Your original drawings are deleted 2 days after your package is delivered — we have no reason to keep them, since a refund never requires us to re-open them. The download link for the package itself stays live for 30 days; the package includes marked-up images of the pages we measured, so it is deleted when that link expires.
    Who do I talk to if I have questions?
    No one needs to be: every quantity shows its source, its assumptions and its grade, so the workbook answers what a call would, and a date we miss, a set we cannot read or a package our checks stop is refunded in full automatically. There is no phone, chat or support inbox — that is how the fee stays low.

    You are in quick view.

    Before your next bid

    Your quantities, measured — before your next bid.

    Drop the set now. Your browser counts the sheets and shows the fee in seconds — nothing is uploaded, nothing to sign up for.

    Check my plans, free → See the sample package →
    from $199 · flat fee, locked48 hours · 24 h with RushLate? Full refund
    What happens next
    1. 01Seconds — sheets counted on your device, fee shown and locked.
    2. 02One choice — quantities only, or add reference rates (Beta: $0 now, +$60–$350 from 2027). Priced before you pay.
    3. 0348 hours — a link to your ZIP lands in your inbox. Open the README first.

    No account. No sales call. If we miss the date, the money goes back automatically.