01 · Context
Senior time spent transcribing
Every tender started with days of reading drawings and copying quantities into a schedule by hand.
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Structural Takeoff Agent
Quantity takeoff consumed senior engineering time on work that was mostly transcription. We automated the first draft and left the judgement to people.
Client
Meridian
Year
2024
Stack
LLM · IFC · Estimating
02 · System
Model first, drawings second
The agent extracts what it can from the IFC model, then falls back to the drawing set for anything missing, always citing where a number came from.
03 · Outcome
A reviewable first draft
Estimators start from a draft schedule with sources attached, and spend their time on the assumptions that actually matter.
- Draft turnaround
- Under 1 hour
- Every line item
- Traceable to a source