Estimation

Stop Doing Lookups by Hand

Commercial estimators still spend the vast majority of their time on a painstakingly manual task: looking at 2D architectural drawings and typing codes into their estimating system. The dimensions are already on the drawing. The code library is finite and follows predictable conventions. And yet, an estimator sits there for 4 to 8 hours per project doing what is essentially a lookup exercise by hand — a process that consumes up to 85% of their time.

Rise Estimation reads the drawing and does the lookup.

How It Works

Rather than training custom neural networks on thousands of labeled drawings, Rise Estimation uses multimodal vision-language models that understand architectural drawings from a handful of reference examples.

Identify — Ingest the drawing, isolate relevant pages, and classify which layout appears on each page.

Extract — Detect individual component positions and read the dimension annotations already on the drawing.

Match — Map each component to the closest code in your library. The grammar is deterministic — standard cases are a lookup, not a prediction.

Score — Flag any match where dimensions fall between standard sizes or detection certainty is low. Route flagged items to a human review queue.

Built for Commercial Estimation

Rise Estimation is designed for the way commercial estimators actually work — with supplier relationships, spec layering, versioned scenarios, and confidence thresholds that keep a human in the loop where it matters.

Off-the-shelf takeoff tools handle residential one-off kitchens. They don’t understand macro/micro spec layering, project-level pricing that changes per supplier quote, or the code grammars that commercial manufacturers have refined over decades. Rise Estimation does.

The competitive moat here isn’t computer vision — several well-funded tools can read a drawing. What they don’t have is the domain knowledge that turns a detected dimension into a commercially accurate estimate. That’s the gap Rise fills.

From Drawing to Factory Floor

Estimation is the critical first customer touchpoint. From blueprint upload to estimation to factory directions to production — Rise Estimation connects what the architect drew to what the factory builds. The estimation output feeds directly into production systems, closing the loop from drawing to manufactured product.