AI construction estimating software
Stop spending nights tracing plans by hand. Exayard, an AI takeoff and estimating platform for contractors, reads your plans and turns them into a priced, trade-ready estimate in minutes.
What is AI construction estimating?
AI construction estimating is software that reads your drawings, finds and measures the quantities (counts, linear feet, square feet, volumes), and applies your costs to produce a bid, all without manual tracing. Instead of clicking every fixture or highlighting every wall yourself, you upload the plan set and the AI does the takeoff, then prices it against your catalog.
The result is the same deliverable an estimator produces by hand, a priced quantity takeoff you can send as a bid, but in minutes instead of days, and without the eye strain or the miscounts that come from tracing 40 sheets at midnight.
How it works
Three steps from plan to priced bid.
Upload your plans.
Drop in a PDF plan set or a single sheet, no setup and no special export. PDF, images, and CAD files (DWG, DXF, DGN) all work.
AI reads and counts.
Exayard detects and measures every element on the page, receptacles, doors, linear feet of wall, square feet of slab, and lays them out for review. You confirm or correct in a click.
Get a priced estimate.
Quantities flow into a line-item estimate priced against your cost catalog, with markup applied, ready to export or send as a proposal.
What the AI does for you
Counts faster than you can click.
What takes an estimator hours of tracing happens in minutes.
Catches what tired eyes miss.
Consistent detection across every sheet, so you stop losing money on undercounted scope.
Prices against your own costs.
Your catalog, your markup, your numbers, not a generic database.
Keeps a human in the loop.
Review and adjust any quantity before the bid goes out. The AI proposes; you approve.
Works on the plans you already have.
Upload PDF, images, or CAD files (DWG, DXF, DGN), no conversion step.
Built for every trade
Exayard estimates across more than 30 trades. The AI is tuned to what each trade actually counts, fixtures for plumbing, devices for electrical, square footage for concrete and flooring, linear feet for framing and fencing.
Popular trade pages: concrete estimating, electrical estimating, roofing estimating, plumbing estimating, HVAC estimating, drywall estimating. See all trades on the homepage.
AI takeoff and AI estimating, explained
AI construction estimating has two halves. The takeoff is the measurement step: reading the plans and pulling the quantities. The estimate is the pricing step: turning those quantities into dollars with your costs and markup. Exayard does both in one tool.
Why contractors switch
Contractors move to Exayard to cut their takeoff time in half and bid more jobs without adding nights or headcount. The AI handles the tracing and the math, you review and send, and the estimate reflects your own costs so the number holds up.
Curious what the time savings is worth for your shop? Run the numbers on the ROI calculator.
Frequently asked questions
See AI construction estimating on your own plans
Upload a plan set and watch Exayard count and price it in minutes.