Construction takeoff & estimating
Run construction takeoffs and estimates with Claude Cowork
Connect Exayard to Claude Cowork as a custom connector. Anthropic's desktop agent can then run takeoffs, pull live vendor pricing, and draft bids end to end — no terminal required.
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What is Claude Cowork?
Claude Cowork is Anthropic's desktop agent for knowledge workers — it completes multi-step tasks on its own using connectors and MCP servers. Add Exayard as a connector and Cowork can run a takeoff, price the materials, and draft a bid end to end, pausing for your approval on anything destructive.
Built for autonomous estimating
Exayard exposes every takeoff, pricing, and bid action as a tool Claude Cowork can call, so it does the work you would normally click through by hand.
Estimate in plain English
Describe the outcome and Claude Cowork drives Exayard for you — no clicking through screens, no glue code.
Real catalog and vendor pricing
Claude Cowork searches your product catalog and live vendor prices, so every estimate is built on real numbers.
Takeoff to bid in one request
Chain detection, approval, estimating, and bid generation into a single turn instead of an afternoon of work.
What you can do with Claude Cowork
Once Claude Cowork is connected, you can drive Exayard with plain-language prompts.
Install in 60 seconds
Four short steps to wire Claude Cowork to your Exayard projects.
- 1
Open Claude's connector settings
In Claude (Pro or Max), go to Settings → Connectors. On Team or Enterprise, an owner adds the connector once under Organization settings → Connectors.
- 2
Add the Exayard MCP server
Click "Add custom connector" and paste the Exayard MCP URL below.
https://api.exayard.com/mcp
- 3
Authorize and enable
Sign in to Exayard through the OAuth screen and approve the scopes, then enable the Exayard connector for your Cowork session — no API keys to paste.
- 4
Hand Cowork a task
Describe the outcome — "run a takeoff on these plans and draft a bid" — and Cowork chains the Exayard tools to finish it, pausing for approval on anything destructive.
Example prompts
Drop any of these into Claude Cowork after connecting.
You
Create a project named "Maple Heights renovation" and upload my plan PDFs.
You
Run a takeoff on page 3 of the Smith Residence plans and show me the proposed receptacle count.
You
Generate a bid from the approved Smith Residence takeoff, with a 15% markup.
You
Search the product catalog for 12-gauge copper wire and show me the cheapest vendor.
You
Compare estimated cost vs. last quarter for projects tagged "kitchen remodel".
Built-in workflows
Exayard ships MCP slash-commands so Claude Cowork can run end-to-end workflows in a single turn.
/takeoff_from_plans
Run a takeoff end-to-end on uploaded plans.
/generate_bid_from_takeoff
Price an approved takeoff and emit a bid document.
/review_estimate_line_items
Audit an existing estimate for outliers and missing prices.
/create_project_from_upload
Scaffold a project and attach files from a chat upload.
Keep a human in the loop
Destructive tools (archive, remove, cancel, approve) are gated behind a propose_destructive_action step that surfaces in Claude Cowork and waits for your explicit confirmation before running.
Long-running calls like create_estimate and create_bid take 30–60 seconds — Claude Cowork will warn you before invoking them.
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