Blueprints in.
Measured quantities out.
Upload a commercial plan set. MeloBids reads the schedules, proves the scale on every sheet, and marks what it measured directly on the drawings. You review the marks — never a bare table of numbers.
A plan set to a reviewed takeoff, mostly review.
The tedium goes away — counting doors, tabulating rooms, measuring wall runs, transcribing schedules. The judgement stays yours.
Sheets split, classified and calibrated automatically. Send the DWG when you can get it — model space is already in real-world units, so there is no scale to get wrong.
Finish, door and room schedules read first — exact, tabular, no estimating. Then room tags, then geometry. Every quantity it produces is drawn on a sheet.
Fix what's wrong on the canvas — drag a vertex and the quantity follows. One click turns the reviewed takeoff into a priced quote at your own rates.
Built to be checked, not believed.
If the engine can't draw a number on a sheet, that number doesn't enter the takeoff. It goes to a review queue where you place it or discard it. The markup is the proof.
A takeoff at the wrong scale isn't a small error — it's a bid you can't honour. The printed scale is cross-checked against a dimension string on the drawing, and the sheet blocks if they disagree.
Marking what it measured is table stakes. Unmarked areas of the plan come back as a hatched overlay, because 'what did it miss?' is the real question.
Upload the revised sheets and get a line-by-line delta: added, removed, changed, with percentages. Commercial jobs run three to six addenda. Nobody re-does a full takeoff for Addendum 4.
Pricing comes from your own unit-cost table. A work item with no rate on file prices at zero and says so — the engine never invents a number you didn't set.
Back-test the engine against takeoffs you already did by hand. A quantity type stays flagged as advisory until it clears its error target across ten different plan sets.
An estimator’s power tool, not a replacement estimator.
- It doesn’t submit your bid. There is no bid button and no “AI sends this for you”. You stay accountable for every number that leaves the tool.
- Interior finishes, for now. Paint, drywall, flooring, base and trim, ceilings, doors — on floor plans and reflected ceiling plans. Not structural, MEP, civil or sitework.
- Vector PDF and DXF/DWG. Scanned and photographed plan sets need a different pipeline; that isn’t built yet.
- It never measures off a picture. Models read schedules and classify sheets. Distances and areas come from the drawing’s own vector coordinates.
The takeoff becomes the quote, and the quote becomes the job.
A reviewed takeoff pushes straight into MeloDocs as a priced quote with the marked-up plans attached as proof. Won work runs through MeloJobs, and the costs land in MeloBooks against the job you bid. One account, one session.
Your next takeoff invitation is a plan set, not an evening.
Upload it and see what comes back marked.
Start a takeoff