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Built to build.
Not to stare at PDFs.

Professional grade quantity takeoff that runs in your browser. One login from any machine, no license-key transfers and no file-syncing nightmares. Measure straight off your PDF plans, work together in real time, and export clean Excel with class names and quantities.

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BidScreen Cloud takeoff workspace: a PDF plan in the browser with measurement tools and company construction classesSarahMikeAlex
Sound familiar?

We know what keeps you up at night.

The best tools don't just sell features, they remove the worry. These are the ones contractors carry, and how we answer them.

“We can't bid enough work to grow.”

Too many bids, not enough time. Your estimators are strategists, not data-entry clerks. Manual workflows and desktop tools cap how many jobs you can run.

Our answer

A fast browser takeoff with company classes and auto trace cuts the repetition, so your team turns around more bids without burning out.

“Our desktop tools tie us down.”

License keys that have to move from machine to machine. Files that live on one computer. A senior estimator out of the office means the takeoff sits idle.

Our answer

One login from any browser, office or home. Nothing to install, nothing to transfer, and the whole team can work the same takeoff in real time.

“We can't afford enterprise software.”

Perpetual licenses in the tens of thousands. Annual subscriptions in the thousands. Maintenance fees on top. Small contractors get treated as a cash-extraction opportunity.

Our answer

Honest pricing and a tool you can start using today. A five-person shop deserves the same measurement quality as a five-hundred-person firm.

The cloud tool

Take control with our cloud based tool.

Your estimators are strategists, not data-entry clerks. The cloud tool puts professional grade measurement in their hands from any browser. Collaborate in real time, use company classes and auto trace to cut the repetition, and export clean Excel with class names and quantities.

BidScreen Cloud takeoff workspace: a PDF plan in the browser with measurement tools and company construction classesSarahMikeAlex

Lightning-fast setup

Upload your PDF plans and start measuring immediately. No installation, no license keys, no lengthy tutorials.

Professional tools

Auto trace and multi-point arcs, company classes, worksheet cloning, and structured Excel exports that map to your bots and APIs.

Real-time collaboration

Log in from any browser, office or home. Work the same takeoff together and see every change instantly. No lost local files.

Excel-ready exports

Clean exports that keep class names and quantities intact, so the numbers drop straight into your estimating workbook.

Start your first takeoff

Works with any PDF plan set.

Assemblies

Measure the curb once. Assemblies price the rest.

The takeoff is the part people picture. Then comes the part nobody puts in a brochure: exporting the quantities and typing them back into a spreadsheet, row by row, price by price. Assemblies end that hand-off. Attach a priced recipe to a construction class, and one measurement reports the material, labor, equipment and subcontract that go with it, at your rates.

1

Attach a recipe to the class.

An assembly is a list of what one unit of the class consumes. A flat quantity where the math is flat, a formula where it is not. Waste sits on the material lines, round-up on the ones you buy in lengths, and anything the plan cannot tell you becomes a named variable. Every line points at a resource in your library, which is where its price lives.
Resources › Construction classes
18" RCP Storm PipeStormReinforced concrete storm pipe with trench, bedding and crew.
LF
4 resources
Type
Resource?
?Qty/LF · ƒ
UOM?
?Rate
⠿
M
18" RCP Class III pipe↑8
1
LF$48.00
⠿
E
Trench excavation
ƒ (length * [Trench Width] * [Avg Depth]) / 27CY$9.50
⠿
M
#57 bedding stone+5%
ƒ length * [Trench Width] * 0.5 / 27 * 1.4TN$32.00
⠿
L
Pipe crew
One HR covers 120 LF.HR$185.00
VariablesTrench Width= 3 ftAvg Depthasks on drawVariable
Add from library or type name...

Shown: the shipped 18" RCP Storm Pipe preset. Trench width is a class constant; average depth is marked asks on draw.

2

Draw it. It asks only what the plan can’t say.

Trench width never changes, so it never asks. Average depth changes run to run, so the class asks the moment the shape commits, and shows you what that run generates while you type. Set it once for the session, or answer it per run.

18" RCP Storm Pipe

Values for the run you just drew

340 LF

This run generates

18" RCP Class III pipe340 LF
Trench excavation302.22 CY
#57 bedding stone26.44 TN
Pipe crew2.83 HR
Use these for the rest of this session
Use defaults
Apply
3

Flip the worksheet to Items.

Every run is there with its priced lines under it. Quantities are worked out per shape and then added up, so a rounding or a crew rate stays honest across runs. Waste and round-up apply to the job total. Change the depth on run 2 and run 1 does not move.
Takeoff › Worksheet › Items
ItemQtyUnitUnit costTotal
18" RCP Storm Pipe2 runs525LF
M18" RCP Class III pipe528LF$48.00$25,344.00
ETrench excavation405CY$9.50$3,847.50
M#57 bedding stone+5% waste42.88TN$32.00$1,372.00
LPipe crew4.38HR$185.00$809.38
2 runs · inputs
Run 1340LF
Avg trench depth8ft
Run 2185LF
Avg trench depth5ft
1 assembly$31,372.88

525 LF of storm pipe drawn as two runs, priced without typing a single row. Unit costs stand in for your own Resource Library prices.

238 ready-made presets

Across 29 trades, from storm pipe to drywall. Every number in them is a starting point you edit, never a quote.

A Resource Library

One place your prices live, with price-book import. Change a rate once and every assembly that uses it follows.

Rate Tables you pin to a bid

Price a job against a specific table without disturbing the company defaults. The price you set by hand always wins.

Build your first assembly

Two training manuals and five help articles ship with it, right where you use them.

AI in the takeoff toolBeta · Invite only

AI auto scale and auto class.

Let AI detect the scale from your plans and suggest construction classes, so you spend less time on setup and more time measuring. These AI features are in beta, available by invite.

AI auto construction class

Suggested classes from your plans.

AI suggested construction classes based on your sheet. Add them to your takeoff with one click.

PCC Curb 6" high
PCC V-Gutter 3' wide
PCC Sidewalk 4" thick
Accessible curb ramp
Vehicular PCC slab
Asphalt pavement 3"
PCC brow ditch
Paving 4"
Sewer 0–6 ft
Base rock

Scale detected

1" = 20'
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SCALE: 1" = 20'

What we offer

More than a takeoff tool.

Start with cloud takeoff: company classes, auto trace, worksheet cloning, and structured Excel. Then grow into the rest.

Class names and quantities, structured for your stack.
Speed

Speed to output

More bid volume without hiring more estimators. Stop turning down good jobs for lack of time.

Retained formula exports

Structured Excel that keeps class names and quantities intact. Feeds Pronamics, OpenCore, or your own bots.

KPI dashboard

Automated win/loss and customer profitability. Your bid log becomes a live scoreboard.

AIBeta · Invite only

Soils and docs in seconds

AI races through huge soils reports and long documents. Structured tables, references, and answers you can cite. Available by invite during beta.

Soils · p.14Spec · §32-11Frost · 42 in
BetaPursuit

Run every bid from one command center.

Pursuit pairs the takeoff tool with AI bid management: documents, emails, RFQs, quotes, checklists, and insights, unified per project and queryable in plain English.

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You're not replacing the expert.

You're making sure the expert never truly leaves. The contractors we serve got into this to build. So did we.

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