The industrial takeoff platform
Industrial takeoff - every trade, done in hours.
theTakeoff.ai reads your drawings - P&IDs, isometrics, structural, mechanical and more - and returns bid-ready takeoffs across the disciplines in an industrial bid. Piping is live today; the platform is expanding one trade at a time.
Built with estimators across process, plant and industrial contractors
The status quo
An industrial bid spans a dozen disciplines - and every one is still counted by hand.
Stop counting by handCounted by hand
Pipe, steel, equipment, instruments - tallied off PDFs, one discipline at a time
No-bids stack up
Every bid you can't staff is a job you never competed for. Capacity, not opportunity, sets the ceiling.
Errors surface late
A missed line item shows up after award - when it's already eating the margin.
The clock decides
Deadlines, not scope, decide how carefully the last drawings get read.
Trusted by 200+ enterprises across EPC, Infrastructure, and Energy
The platform
One platform. Every trade in the industrial bid.
Piping is live. Structural is building. Tell us which discipline to ship next — we build in the order estimators ask for.
The platformOne platform.
Request DemoOne platform.
Every trade in the industrial bid.
How it works
theTakeoff.ai reads a set the way your best estimator would.
1
Drop in the drawing set
Any discipline - P&IDs, isometrics, structural, GAs, or the 3D model. Whatever the bid package gives you.
2
theTakeoff.ai extracts
Structure first, detection as a backstop - quantities pulled the way an estimator reasons through a set, discipline by discipline.
3
Review a bid-ready take-off
A material take-off you edit, correct and sign off - then export straight into your estimate.
The waterfall
theTakeoff.ai works down a waterfall - pulling quantities from the structured model and tables where they exist, applying parametric rules to scaled drawings next, and falling back to symbol detection only when it must. You review and correct before anything leaves.
The outcome
The math is the pitch.
Turn a heavy industrial take-off from weeks into hours, save estimator time on every bid, and put that capacity toward the work you're currently turning down.
WeeksHours
Per industrial take-off
~65%
Estimator time claimed
+ bids
Capacity - more wins
Industrial estimates per year40
23,000
Hours reclaimed / yr
$2.24M
Estimator cost saved / yr
Proof
Proof you can check line by line.
No borrowed logos. Every claim here is grounded in a code you already estimate under - and checkable inside the product.
01 / TIMESame drawing set
90%
takeoff-time reduction
Measured against manual line-by-line takeoff on the identical drawing package - not a demo file.
02 / VOLUMEField-tested
400+
projects tested
Across 20,000+ drawings - spec breaks, revisions, and messy scans included.
03 / CODENative
B31.3&B16.5
ASME, native
Ratings and dimensions live in the engine - not a lookup table you maintain by hand.
Your bid data stays private.
TheTakeoff AI is built for sensitive bid packages, with access controls, encryption, and audit trails so your team can work fast and securely.
FAQs
Questions, answered.
The short answers estimators want before sending their first live package.
P&ID takeoff is the process of reading a set of Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams and counting everything in scope - every valve, instrument, equipment item, in-line specialty and line - then decoding each line number into its pipe class so a contractor can size and price a bid. It is the first quantity takeoff in any process-piping estimate.
A dense P&ID takes a senior estimator 30 to 60 minutes to take off by hand. A typical process-unit bid package contains 300 or more P&IDs, so manual takeoff consumes 250-plus estimator-hours per bid - the single biggest constraint on how many tenders a team can chase.
theTakeoff.ai extracts every valve, instrument, equipment item and in-line specialty on the sheet, reads and decodes every line number into size, pipe class, service and insulation, factors bulk pipe and fitting quantities, and flags tie-ins, spec breaks and battery limits - then exports a complete, priced scope takeoff to Excel.
Yes. theTakeoff.ai processes scanned, photographed and older, legacy P&IDs - including drawings from the 1980s and 1990s - alongside native CAD exports. Low-confidence detections are flagged for estimator review rather than guessed.
theTakeoff.ai detects and classifies components at high first-pass accuracy and improves on every bid as it learns a client's drawing conventions and symbol libraries. Every detection is shown beside the source drawing for accept, edit or reject, so the estimator signs off on the final count.
No. theTakeoff.ai automates the reading - opening every sheet, counting every component, decoding every line. The estimator keeps the judgment: interpreting scope, identifying spec breaks, assessing how it gets built and the commercial risk, and signing off on every quantity.