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Generate your construction estimate in 60 seconds with AI.

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Generate your construction estimate in 60 seconds with AI.

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AI BoQ maker, online BoQ generator and construction quantity takeoff software. Upload floor plans and get a priced bill of quantities in minutes — NRM2, SMM7, CSI MasterFormat, POMI and more, in your country and currency.

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What inspired this: I'm from Zimbabwe, where thousands of people - especially those in the diaspora - build family homes back home, brick by brick, often from another continent. The first real question every one of them faces is deceptively simple: "What will this actually cost?" The answer is a Bill of Quantities, and getting one traditionally means finding a quantity surveyor, waiting 2–6 weeks, and paying hundreds of dollars - before you've laid a single brick. Most people skip it, build blind, and run out of money halfway. Half-finished houses are practically part of the skyline. What it does: Upload your dimensioned floor plans, pick your country and currency, and in minutes you get a complete, priced, source-cited BoQ - every wall, opening, and roof sheet measured, every rate cited. You pay 1% of the estimated building cost, only when it's ready. How the approach evolved - two hard lessons: We started by letting AI do everything. Bad idea - LLMs are confident but inconsistent at arithmetic. We rebuilt it so a deterministic engine computes all quantities from the extracted dimensions, and AI is only used for what it's genuinely good at: reading drawings and looking up regional unit rates. Same drawing in, same quantities out, every time. We assumed one "international" BoQ template would work everywhere. Then real users showed us real bills - a Kenyan QS bill and a Zimbabwean one - and they looked nothing like our output. So we rebuilt the renderer around authentic local formats: SMM elemental bills for East Africa, ASAQS for Southern Africa, NRM2 for the UK, MasterFormat takeoffs for the US, Leistungsverzeichnis for Germany… ~200 countries, 38 measurement standards, in the PDF and the spreadsheet. I'd genuinely love to know: if you've ever built (or priced) anything - what did you use, and what nearly went wrong?

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1d ago

Floor plan upload actually pulled quantities faster than I expected and the NRM2 pricing looked sane for UK rates.

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9h ago

Maker

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.

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8h ago

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.

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9h ago

Maker

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.

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8h ago

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.

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9h ago

Maker

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.

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8h ago