Built by an electrical estimator, for electrical estimators

From the drawing set to the bid, without the repetitive clicking.

Upload the set and EC Takeoff reads every sheet, counts the legend's symbols on every plan and traces the home runs back to their panels. The takeoff prices itself from your own cost catalog, hours and all. Then level the quotes, send the proposal and buy the job, with every number traceable to the sheet it came from.

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From PDF to priced bid

Upload the drawing set

Sheet numbers, titles, scales and disciplines are read from every title block, along with the panel schedules, the luminaire schedule and the legend. Addenda are compared sheet by sheet.

The takeoff counts itself

Each legend symbol is found on every plan. Home runs are traced to their panels, with the conduit, wire and supports they need. Every row waits for your review, and the bid-day checklist says what is left.

Priced from your catalog

Material and labor hours come from your own cost catalog, carried from job to job, with waste, markups, job costs and supplier quotes levelled side by side.

Bid it, win it, buy it

A proposal PDF on your letterhead and a bid-day checklist. Once the job is yours, purchase orders from what's left to order and change orders at the bid's own prices.

Not a generic PDF takeoff tool

General-purpose construction takeoff software makes you configure everything from scratch. EC Takeoff already knows what a luminaire schedule looks like, what a panel schedule looks like, and how to tell a lighting plan from a fire alarm plan, so you spend your time reviewing quantities, not teaching software what a receptacle is.

And it doesn't stop at counts: the estimate, the proposal, the purchase orders and the change orders all work from the same takeoff, so a change on the drawings carries through to the price.