Sample package · open it before you pay
This is the package an order delivers, run on Maple Street Community Hall: a 3,200 SF single-story hall on a 16-sheet set that we drew ourselves, so we can publish it. Open the takeoff workbook, see where every quantity was measured, and check it piece by piece in the Quantity Model.
SAMPLE Fictional building · illustrative prices invented for the demonstration · not a bid, not an estimate, not a price for anything.
Three real public bids, as delivered ↓ · Free takeoff on your next bid ↓
SAMPLE
What is in the sample package
The same files an order delivers, from one run of the demonstration job. Click a picture to see the page at full size.
The file every other one reads from. A takeoff tab per trade — structural, architectural, plumbing, electrical, HVAC and sitework — with what was measured, your cost, your markup and your selling price on every line, plus the dashboard, schedule of values, draft proposal, schedule, cash flow and drawing register.
Download the sample workbook
How each quantity was reached: the dimensions behind every number, row by row, the sheet it was read from, and how the total links to its takeoff line. A line the drawings could not answer says SOURCE INSUFFICIENT rather than carrying a guess.
Workbook pages, printed (35 pages, PDF)
The plans with every measurement drawn on them: walls traced, rooms shaded, doors, windows and fixtures counted — so you can see what was counted and what was not before you trust a total.
See the whole floor plan Marked-up plans, live PDF markups (15 pages: 12 marked sheets, a legend page and 2 reconciliation pages; C-201, A-102, E-101 and P-101 carry no markup)
A schematic model built from our own measurements. Pick a wall, a slab, a door or a run to see its quantity, the sheet it came from and its takeoff line. In the sample: 157 pieces placed from the drawings, 43 lines listed apart rather than guessed into place, and 8 questions pinned to the parts they concern - of the 29 questions for the designer in the workbook's RFI Register. One offline .html file, no login.
Schematic — for checking quantities only. Not a design model; not for dimensions.
Open the live Quantity Model ↗
Every line graded. The ones worth a second look are listed with the assumption and the question it raises, so your review time goes where the drawings were thin.
Read the takeoff in your browser ↗
Type your own costs on the locked quantities and print a proposal, offline on your computer. The Project Overview scores the bid / no-bid decision from the same workbook.
Open the sample Pricing Studio ↗Measured from the footings up
Quantities, not prices — each one is a line in the sample workbook, with its calculation behind it.
| Layer | Line | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Footings and slab | Pad footing F1 | 15 EA |
| Footings and slab | Slab on grade, 5 in | 3,200 SF |
| Walls | 8 in CMU walls | 2,762 SF |
| Walls | Face brick, net of openings | 726.67 SF |
| Roof structure | Steel joists 24K7 | 15 EA |
| Roof | Metal roof deck | 3,200 SF |
| Roof | R-30 roof insulation | 3,200 SF |
| Roof | TPO roof | 3,200 SF |
The 4 in compacted granular base under the slab is a line of its own in the workbook, 39.51 CY. US units throughout: LF, SF, CY, EA.
Every sample file
A few rows of each worked sheet, a three-line-a-trade Studio, and figures made up for a building that does not exist. The .xlsx opens in Excel but holds values only — no formulas, no rate sources — because a public file with live formulas would hand out our method for free. Your order gets the complete, live book, where a changed length carries through the quantity, the backup sheet and the proposal, with its rate cells blank or carrying published reference rates if you choose them before paying.
We drew it, so we can show it — a client's drawings are never published.
Lines the drawings could not answer say SOURCE INSUFFICIENT, here too.
Real public bids, measured by DraftTakeoff
Three projects from public bid boards, run through the same order process a paying customer gets. Each package is the delivered workbook made read-only, with prices removed, and a one-page summary. The drawings stay with their owners: follow the link on each card to the bid page and compare.
Ogden, Utah
Wichita Falls, Texas
Canton, North Carolina
Free takeoff on your next bid
We take a small number of free takeoffs each week for contractors who want to see the work on their own job: one bid per company, up to 30 drawing sheets, US projects, a bid date at least five business days away. In return we ask for five short answers about the package. For evaluation only — no liability for the bid outcome.
Drop your PDF set on the home page. Your browser counts the sheets and shows the fee in seconds — nothing is uploaded, nothing to sign up for.
Delivered within 48 hours of payment clearing, weekends included — the same package as this sample.
