Estimation
Estimation
AI Plan-Reading for Commercial Takeoffs
AI plan-reading for commercial construction takeoffs. Upload architectural drawings, get component identification and code matching in minutes. Currently in development — early access available.
Stop doing lookups by hand.
Commercial estimators still spend most 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 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.
Capabilities
Four jobs your estimators stop doing by hand.
Plan Reading
Upload 2D architectural floor plans. The AI identifies cabinet positions, reads dimensions, and extracts components automatically.
Code Matching
Detected components are matched to your existing code library using deterministic grammar — door count, width, cabinet type. Standard cases are a lookup, not a prediction.
Confidence Scoring
When the system isn't sure, it flags the match. Ambiguous items route to a human review queue — the system never silently guesses wrong.
Spec Layering
Project-level macros, floor-level overrides, and versioned scenarios for client options — the way commercial estimators actually work.
From drawing to factory floor.
Estimation is the critical first customer touchpoint. From blueprint upload to estimate 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.
Why It Works Without a Custom Model
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. Faster to deploy on a new code library, easier to debug when it gets something wrong, and no labeled-data flywheel to bootstrap.
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.
How It Works
Estimation — drawings to a defensible number
Upload a set of plans. Get a quote-ready takeoff. Auditable every step.
Step 1
Identify
Parse architectural drawings, schedules, and specs. Detect every drawn element worth costing.
OCR • Layout • Sheet Index
Step 2
Extract
Quantities, materials, finishes, dimensions. Each pulled with the source page and bounding box on file.
Geometry • Schedules • Notes
Step 3
Match
Tie extracted items to your assemblies, suppliers, and historical pricing. No more re-keying into spreadsheets.
Assemblies • Catalogs • History
Step 4
Score
Every line carries a confidence and a citation. Estimators review the uncertain ones — not the whole set.
Confidence • Citations • Review
See Estimation in action.
Book a demo and we'll show you what your factory is missing.