For Subcontractors
Subcontractor Takeoff & Estimating Built Around Your Workflow.
Upload the GC's plans. AI extracts your trade scope, helps count trade items, and generates a complete BOQ. Send professional quotes before your competitors finish measuring.
No credit card required
- takeoff scoped to your trade
- AI
- export formats: Excel, CSV and PDF
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- quote acceptance for your client
- Online
The problem
The Sub Bidding Grind Is Real
GCs Need Your Price Yesterday
The GC sends you a 100-page plan set and needs your trade scope priced by tomorrow. Manual takeoff takes days — by then, another sub already won it.
Slow quotes = lost contracts to faster competitors
Extracting Your Scope Is Tedious
Digging through full project plans to find and measure just your trade scope. Sifting through architectural, structural, and MEP sheets for your specific items.
Hours wasted finding your scope in someone else's plans
Underbidding Kills Your Margin
Rush the takeoff to meet the deadline and you miss items. Pad the bid to be safe and you lose to a lower price. No time to be accurate.
Every inaccurate bid costs you money or work
Can't Bid Enough Projects
You can only takeoff 1-2 projects per week manually. That means you're only bidding a fraction of the opportunities available to you.
The jobs you don't bid are the jobs you can't win
GC Plans to Your Quote in 4 Steps
- 01
Upload GC Plans
Full plan set as a PDF, or a ZIP of PDFs.
- 02
AI Finds Your Scope
Your trade items detected, measured, and counted.
- 03
Get Your BOQ
Materials, quantities, units — ready for your pricing.
- 04
Send Your Quote
Prepare a professional proposal for GC review.
AI features
AI Estimating Built for Subcontractors
AI Takeoffs for Your Trade
Upload the full plan set. AI extracts and quantifies just your trade scope — whether you're electrical, plumbing, HVAC, drywall, or any specialty.
Your scope pulled from full plans in minutes
AI Symbol & Item Counting
AI detects and helps count symbols, fixture, and item relevant to your trade. No manual counting across dozens of sheets.
Thousands of items counted automatically
Trade-Specific BOQ
Auto-generated bill of quantities for your specific trade. Materials, quantities, and units — ready to price from your supplier list.
Complete material list for accurate pricing
Professional Sub Proposals
Turn your takeoff into a polished quote with labor, materials, and markup. Professional proposals that make GCs confident in choosing you.
Prepare professional proposals for GC review
Respond Faster
Get your takeoff done in minutes instead of days. Respond to bid requests while competitors are still measuring.
First to quote often wins the contract
Accurate Waste & Labor
Built-in waste factors and labor calculations for your trade. Bid with confidence knowing your numbers are tight.
Accurate bids that protect your margins
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Why Subs Switch to BuildVision AI
Manual Takeoff from GC Plans
- 2-3 days per project
- Miss items in complex plans
- Can't keep up with bid flow
AI extracts your scope in minutes from any plan set
On-Screen Takeoff / Bluebeam
- Still manual clicking
- $2,000+/year
- No trade-specific extraction
AI auto-detects your trade scope, unlimited plans
Quick & Dirty Estimating
- Inaccurate quantities
- Margin erosion
- Change orders pile up
Reviewable quantities with configured waste factors
Hiring an Estimator
- $60-80K salary
- Still limited throughput
- Training takes months
AI handles takeoffs, your team focuses on execution
Stop Losing Bids to Faster Competitors
Upload a GC plan set and get your trade scope priced in minutes.
No credit card required
Book a demo
Prefer a walkthrough before you start?
Book a demo, or send us one bid package with your plans and your own takeoff. We run it through BuildVision AI and send back the results so you can compare before paying for anything.
- Explore takeoff, estimating, and quoting.
- Discuss your drawings and estimating rules.
- Or send one bid package and get results back without a meeting.
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