From the drawing pack to a priced quote, with every figure traceable.
Drop in the drawings you've been issued. Vyntworks reads the pack, sets each sheet's scale from its own printed dimensions, and measures rooms, wall runs and repeated symbols from the PDF's real vector geometry. You can measure by hand too. Either way the quantities land on your quote lines and stay linked to the drawing, so a re-issue shows you which prices have moved. The AI proposes. A person approves every figure.
Bring a live tender to the demo. We'll run your own drawings through it so you can judge the takeoff on work you know.
Measure it yourself
Calibrate a page, then take off lengths, areas and counts into named, colour-coded groups. Every plan includes basic takeoff.
Let the AI estimator do it
It reads the whole pack, calibrates itself and comes back with a proposed takeoff and the evidence behind each figure, for you to approve.
Ask for a schedule
Ask for doors, P2 partitions, floor area in plain words. Each item comes back as measured, needs a person, or not shown.
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It reads the drawings the way a good estimator does on day one.
A tender pack is rarely one tidy sheet. Before anything is measured, Vyntworks works out what it has been given. It reads the title blocks, sheet numbers, declared scales and the drawing index. It groups revisions, and it measures an element once, from the sheet that governs it, even when a site plan shows it again.
- A drawing register, built for you. Sheets, revisions and scales listed, with old revisions kept and marked superseded.
- Key documents flagged. The sheets and specs that decide the price are marked so the team reads those first.
- The written documents count too. In The Plan Room, the spec and the covering letter are read alongside the drawings, so a measurement rule in the spec governs the takeoff.
- Questions clouded on the sheet. Every finding and every question for the client is pinned to the page it came from, with the area clouded on the drawing itself.
A proper measuring bench on every PDF.
Open Takeoff from the quote, or show the drawing beside the quote, and measure straight into the job. Nothing is re-keyed, and nothing gets lost in a separate takeoff tool.
Scale set from the sheet
Vyntworks reads the dimension strings printed on the drawing and proposes the page scale. It handles metric, and feet and inches with fractions. You confirm it, or trace a known length yourself.
A scale ruler on the sheet
Lay a calibrated ruler over the drawing. Drag it, rotate it, turn it a quarter, lock it in place or nudge it with the arrow keys, the way you'd use a scale rule on paper.
Length, area and count
Measure into named, colour-coded groups with a running Σ total per page. Zoom to 500%, switch on bold markup, and remove a stray count marker without redoing the count.
Analyses across groups
Combine measurements: the downlights inside a zone, the partition length inside an area, the overlap between two areas.
Pitch and angle
Read a roof slope, stair flight or ramp gradient straight off the linework in degrees. An angle doesn't need the page to be calibrated.
Snap to the real linework
Trace a whole wall, rail or kerb run in one go, carried through the door symbols that break it on the sheet. Repeated posts or studs come back with their centre-to-centre spacing.
Hand it the drawings. Get back a takeoff you can check.
Point Vyntworks at a pack and it measures what a tender needs. Rooms come back with their exact outlines, wall runs with their lengths and repeated symbols with their counts. Each one is named in the drawing's own legend wording and tagged with the room it sits in. Every page is scored red, amber or green, and nothing reaches your quote until you approve it.
- Calibrates itself. It cross-checks the dimension strings, the declared scale and the true paper size, then tells you how many dimensions agreed.
- Finds every labelled room. Each printed area label is matched to its closed outline, and the measured area is checked against the printed figure.
- Reads the legend. Wall types, fittings and symbols are measured and counted under the sheet's own key.
- Works from a plain-language brief. Write what you need measured, in any language, and run it across the whole pack. You get a dimension table back with the evidence attached.
It shows you how it got each number
A takeoff is only useful if you can check it. Every AI measurement comes back as a marked-up overlay with close-up confirmation crops, so you can see what was measured before you price it.
- Vector geometry first. Where the PDF carries real linework, that is what gets measured.
- Counts confirmed by vote. A symbol's identity is confirmed across several zoomed crops. Anything it can see but not prove is listed as a candidate and never totalled.
- Reconciled to the sheet. A measured area is checked against the area printed on the drawing, so a takeoff that comes out at twice the plan is caught.
- Scans and photos measured visually. A scanned or hand-drawn sheet has no vectors, so it is measured by eye, flagged approximate, and anything the sheet can't answer comes back as a question.
Quantities that stay tied to the drawing.
Whether the AI measured it or you did, link a quote line's quantity to what was measured. Then you can follow the link either way: from the line to the measurement on the sheet, or from a measurement group to every line that uses it.
- Link to anything measured. A single measurement, a group total, an analysis, or several across different drawings.
- Build the quantity you price. Add a waste or lap factor, give the factor its own unit, take a part away, or multiply by another measurement. Wall length × height gives you board area, and the unit follows.
- A drift badge when things move. If the takeoff changes, or someone types over a linked quantity, the line is flagged. Review it, update it or unlink it, line by line.
- Checked in both directions. A measurement that never reached a line is flagged, and so is a priced line with nothing measured behind it.
A new revision doesn't quietly leave your price wrong.
Upload the next revision of a sheet and the old one is kept. You can carry your measurements across to the new sheet as a starting point. Vyntworks then asks you to re-check each one against the new drawing rather than assuming nothing moved.
- Every revision on file. The full history of each sheet, so you can always show what you priced from.
- Drift shown on the quote. When you update the takeoff, every linked line whose quantity changed is flagged.
- Subcontractors told too. If that trade is already out to tender, Vyntworks offers an addendum, and the bidders' portal marks the revised drawing.
The drawings follow the job.
The same drawings carry on after pricing. They go out with the tender, into the order and on to the live project, so everyone is working from the same revision.
Into the tender pack
Each trade's current drawings and specs go out in its tender pack, listed on a Drawing & Document Register. How tendering works →
Onto the order
When a trade is awarded, its current drawings are copied onto the subcontract or purchase order, together with the scope the subcontractor priced.
Into the job folder
Drawings carry through to the won project. With SharePoint or OneDrive linked, the job folder lives there too, and a revised file saved there comes back as a new revision.
Ask for a takeoff from the AI you already use.
With the Vyntworks connector, your team can work from Claude or ChatGPT and say “take off the partitions and ceilings on the Riverside drawings and put them on the quote”. The same takeoff tools run, and you get the same overlays to check. Nothing lands on the quote without the same approval step.
See the connector →Proposals, never silent changes. Whether the AI measured it or a person did, a quantity only changes on your quote when somebody decides it should.
Basic takeoff on every plan. The AI estimator when measuring is where your time goes.
Every plan
- Upload PDF drawings to a quote, with revisions kept
- Calibrate a page, measure length, area and count
- Pull the figures straight into the quote
Takeoff & Drawings module
- The AI estimator, with evidence for every figure
- Named groups, analyses, pitch reading and the measurement brief
- Linked quantities with drift flags and the two-way check
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Estimators usually ask
What kind of drawings does it work on?
PDF drawings. It does its best work on PDFs exported from CAD, which carry real linework and dimension text, and that covers most tender packs. Scanned, photographed or hand-drawn sheets are measured visually and flagged as approximate so you know which figures to check.
Will it change my quote on its own?
No. The AI's takeoff is a proposal. Measurements land on the takeoff only when you approve them, and a linked line only changes when you choose to update it.
Does it work in feet and inches?
Yes. It reads imperial dimensions, including fractions such as 8′-4 1/4″, and calibrates in feet where the sheet is imperial. Metric sheets calibrate in metres.
How big a pack can the AI take in one go?
Each AI run takes up to 20 pages and 45 MB. A larger pack is worked through in batches, and The Plan Room keeps track of the whole thing across the runs.
What happens when the architect re-issues a sheet?
Upload it as a new revision. The old one is kept, your measurements can be carried across as a starting point for you to re-check, and every quote line whose linked quantity changes is flagged. If the trade is out to tender, you're offered an addendum to send.
See the takeoff on a pack you know.
Book a walkthrough and send us a live tender. We'll run it through Vyntworks so you can judge every figure against your own measure.