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Built for Canadian trades.
Built to give estimators their time back.
Meet AutoTAKEOFF.
Upload your drawings. AutoTAKEOFF does the takeoff.
Starting with fire protection, AutoTAKEOFF helps Canadian contractors turn hours of clicking, counting and checking drawings into a takeoff that’s ready for your estimator to review.
Less counting. More estimating. More bidding.
🇨🇦 Made in Canada. For Canadian trades.
You didn’t become an estimator to spend your day counting symbols.
We know the routine.
A tender lands in your inbox. You open the drawings. And before you can actually start estimating, somebody has to work through page after page identifying equipment, counting devices, measuring pipe and making sure nothing was missed.
Then another addendum arrives. And you start checking it all over again.
That’s the part we built AutoTAKEOFF to change.
AutoTAKEOFF handles the repetitive takeoff work so your estimators can spend their time doing what they’re actually good at:
Estimating the job.
From drawings to takeoff in three steps.
1
Upload your drawings
Drop your tender drawings into AutoTAKEOFF. No complicated setup. No new estimating methodology. Just upload the drawings you’re already working with.
2
Let AutoTAKEOFF do the counting
AutoTAKEOFF analyzes the drawings and identifies the items needed for your trade takeoff. For fire protection, that means helping identify and quantify the components your estimator normally has to find manually.
3
Review. Adjust. Estimate.
Your estimator stays in control. Review the takeoff, make any adjustments and move the quantities into your existing estimating workflow.
AI does the repetitive work. Your estimator makes the decisions.
Built for fire protection first.
Generic construction software has to work for everyone. We decided to start somewhere else. With the trade.
AutoTAKEOFF’s first trade is fire protection because fire-protection estimators deal with exactly the kind of repetitive drawing work that software should be doing.
Drawing after drawing. AutoTAKEOFF helps turn all of that into organized quantities your estimator can actually work with.
- Sprinklers
- Valves
- Devices
- Pipe
- Fittings
- Equipment
- Zones
Because software shouldn’t teach a fire-protection estimator how to estimate. It should make the estimator faster.
What would you do with your time if takeoff didn’t take all day?
Bid more work.
Your estimating capacity shouldn’t be limited by how quickly somebody can click through a drawing. Automating takeoff gives your team the ability to evaluate more opportunities without simply adding more estimators.
Spend more time on the number.
Takeoff is important. But takeoff isn’t where experienced estimators create their biggest value. Put their time into labour, materials, risk, scope and pricing strategy instead.
Get home earlier.
Estimators shouldn’t have to spend nights and weekends finishing takeoffs just because three tenders landed at the same time. Let AutoTAKEOFF handle the repetitive work. You handle the bid.
Construction is local. Your software should understand that.
AutoTAKEOFF wasn’t built in Silicon Valley and adapted for Canada later. It was built here. By Canadians. Working with Canadian contractors. For the way Canadian trades actually bid work.
That means we’re building around the realities of contractors working from Vancouver to Halifax — and everywhere in between.
- Canadian projects
- Canadian contractors
- Canadian workflows
- Canadian support
- A roadmap driven by the trades using it
🇨🇦 Made by Canadians. For Canadian trades.
That’s not a marketing slogan. It’s how we’re building the product.
Your estimator isn’t being replaced.
Their mouse is getting a lot less exercise.
There are decisions in an estimate that software shouldn’t make. Which jobs are worth chasing. What productivity factor makes sense. Where the risk is hiding. How aggressive the bid should be.
Those decisions come from experience.
Counting the same sprinkler symbol 327 times? We think the computer can handle that part.
AutoTAKEOFF uses automation to eliminate repetitive work while keeping your estimator in control of the final takeoff.
There are plenty of takeoff tools.
AutoTAKEOFF is being built differently.
| Traditional Takeoff | Generic AI Takeoff | AutoTAKEOFF | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital drawings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automated takeoff | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built around individual trades | — | Sometimes | ✓ |
| Fire protection focused | — | Usually not | ✓ |
| Built for Canadian contractors | — | Usually not | ✓ |
| Canadian team | Varies | Usually not | ✓ |
| Estimator remains in control | ✓ | Varies | ✓ |
We’re not trying to reinvent estimating.
We’re trying to remove the part nobody wants to do.
The people who know how to estimate a fire-protection project already know how to do their jobs. They don’t need another complicated system. They need better tools.
That’s why we’re building AutoTAKEOFF around a simple idea:
Let technology do the repetitive work so people can do the thinking.
Fire protection is just the beginning.
We’re starting with fire protection. Then we’re taking the same trade-first approach into other Canadian construction trades.
Not one generic AI model pretending every trade works the same way. Purpose-built automation for the people who actually build Canada.
Fire Protection
Available first
Electrical
Coming
Mechanical
Coming
Plumbing
Coming
Other Trades
Coming
Stop counting. Start estimating.
See what happens when your estimator spends less time performing takeoffs and more time actually estimating. Upload a set of drawings and see AutoTAKEOFF at work.
🇨🇦 AutoTAKEOFF by Virtace
Made by Canadians. For Canadian trades.