Hey PH
I'm Dakarai. I'm from Zimbabwe, where almost everyone eventually builds a house - and where half-finished homes are part of the skyline because people start building without knowing the real cost, then run out of money.
A proper Bill of Quantities (the priced, line-by-line cost breakdown of a build) normally means hiring a quantity surveyor, waiting 2 6 weeks, and paying hundreds of dollars - so most self-builders just skip it and hope.
Enormous Buildings fixes that: upload your dimensioned floor plans, pick your country and currency, and in a few minutes you get a full, priced, source-cited BoQ - in your country's actual bill format (we support ~200 countries: NRM2 for the UK, CSI takeoffs for the US, SMM bills for East Africa, Leistungsverzeichnis for Germany, and more). Every unit rate cites its source so a quantity surveyor or contractor can check the numbers.
It's free to generate and preview - you only pay 1% of the estimated building cost to unlock the full bill, in your own currency.
A couple of things I'd genuinely love this community's input on:
If you've ever built or renovated - what part of "what will this cost?" stressed you out most?
For the builders/QSs here: what would make you trust an AI-generated BoQ enough to actually use it?
For PH folks: the first 100 people to use code HUNT50 get 50% off their first BoQ. Happy to answer anything.
Floor plan upload actually pulled quantities faster than I expected and the NRM2 pricing looked sane for UK rates.
Thanks @zlemncel104573 that means a lot coming from someone checking UK rates 🇬🇧 NRM2 with sane regional pricing was a hard thing to get right, so it's great to hear it held up. If you ever run one where a rate looks off, hit the "refine" chat or reply here - every correction makes the engine better.
Uploaded a floor plan for a small office and got a surprisingly detailed BoQ back in like three minutes, the quantity breakdowns were actually usable not just placeholder numbers. The NRM2 tagging is a nice touch for UK projects.
Floor plan upload was straightforward and the BoQ came back way more detailed than I expected for a free trial. Wish I'd had this on my last renovation job.
Appreciate that, @ensarqp2a 🙌 "More detailed than expected for a free trial" is the reaction we're chasing - the free preview intentionally shows the real depth so you're not buying blind. Out of interest, what was the renovation? Reno jobs are exactly where a fast BoQ saves you from the mid-project budget surprise.
love how you went straight from floor plan upload to a full priced BoQ without forcing any manual measurement steps, that workflow feels really thought through for the people who actually run takeoffs.
Thank you @eyllyaskb3pm 🙏 That was exactly the design goal - the manual-measurement step is where most takeoff tools lose people, so we push all of that onto the engine and keep the human in control of the inputs (country, currency, materials, tier) instead of the tedium. Curious - do you run takeoffs yourself? Would love to hear what your current workflow looks like.
Pazi
Enormous Buildings caught my eye today. Wishing the whole team an amazing launch! 🎉🚀