Takeoff software for M&E estimators

Count a tender package in minutes, not days.

EasyTakeoff reads the legend on every sheet and counts each scheduled symbol: sockets, detectors, luminaires, call points. You review only what it isn't sure about, then export the schedule.

app.easytakeoff.ai · Level 2 · First Fix M&E
72%+
SYMBOL CLASSES
Smoke detector24
2G switched socket61
Emergency luminaire18
Manual call point9
REVIEW QUEUE · 1
Smoke detector
Finalize counts

Why deterministic

Counts you can defend

An estimate is a commitment. The numbers in it should come from the drawing, not a model's best guess.

01

Same drawing, same counts. Every time.

Counts come from the drawing itself, the shapes the CAD system drew, not a probabilistic guess over pixels. Re-run a sheet a hundred times and the totals never move. When a count is challenged at tender stage, click any number and see every location it came from.

02

AI assists. It never invents a number.

AI does what it's good at (reading legends, pre-sorting the review queue) and nothing else. Every count is deterministic, and every uncertain detection waits for a human decision. No hallucinated totals in your bid.

03

You review the hard 2%, not the easy 98%.

Distinctive symbols confirm automatically. Look-alikes and edge cases land in a review queue you clear with two keys. A sheet that took an afternoon of clicking becomes minutes of review.

Workflow

Tender to takeoff in four steps

STEP 1

Upload

Drop the tender PDF: the whole package, as it came.

STEP 2

Count

Every symbol the legend defines is counted, sorted into its class.

STEP 3

Review

Confident counts confirm themselves; you decide the rest from the keyboard.

STEP 4

Export

Finalize and export XLSX or CSV, traceable back to the drawing.

Features

Everything the takeoff needs, nothing it doesn't

Legend read automatically

The legend on the sheet defines your classes: every row becomes a counted symbol type, labels included.

Crop-a-legend AI

Legend drawn as an image, or on a cover sheet? Drag a box around it and AI reads the rows for you.

Keyboard-speed review

Thumbnails of every flagged detection: j/k to move, y/n to decide, per-class bulk confirm.

Find similar

Place a few symbols by hand and EasyTakeoff recovers the rest of the family across the sheet.

Projects & multi-sheet sets

Tender packages stay grouped: one project per job, per-sheet progress, quick switching while you work.

XLSX export

Finalized counts export to a clean spreadsheet (class, count, sheet), ready to price. CSV too.

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Built for your trade

The symbols you actually count

Questions

Asked by every estimator we talk to

How accurate is it?

Precision-first: a count only confirms automatically when the match is distinctive. Everything uncertain goes to review, never silently into your totals. Every number can be audited back to its locations.

What files does it work with?

PDF drawing sets. CAD-exported sheets give the best results, and scanned drawings are fully supported. DWG import is on the roadmap.

Is my drawing data safe?

Stored encrypted in the UK (London region), scoped to your organization, never used to train models. Deleting a drawing set removes the file.

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Stop counting by hand

Free while in early access. Upload a real tender package and see your counts in minutes.

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