1,000+ hours saved for electrical contractors across Australia

Count your electrical plans in seconds

Upload a PDF drawing set and TakeoffAI counts every downlight, GPO, switch and data point, marks each one on the plan, and turns it into a priced bill of quantities. Built for Australian electrical contractors.

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2,000 free credits on sign-up. No credit card. Watch the 5-minute walkthrough

Works with the tools you already quote and run jobs from.

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Take-off software built for electrical

Residential, commercial and industrial, we've got you covered.

TakeoffAI is made for the electrical take-off: it reads the legend on your drawings, works out what needs counting, and counts it. You review the markers on the plan and export.

Whether you're pricing a house, a fit-out or a factory, you get the same thing back: a checkable count in minutes instead of an afternoon with a highlighter.

See how it works

Lighting

Downlights, battens, linear and track lighting, emergency and exit lights, counted by type straight off the legend.

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Power

Single and double GPOs, isolators, dedicated circuits and floor boxes, each one marked where it sits on the plan.

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Switches

Single, double and multi-gang switches, dimmers and sensors, so the switching schedule comes out with the count.

Explore switches

Data & comms

Data points, TV and phone outlets, WAPs and security devices, picked up from the same sheets in the same pass.

Explore data

Fire & safety

Smoke detectors, heat detectors and alarm devices, with the notes the AI raises where a symbol isn't in the legend.

Explore fire

Switchboards

Distribution boards and sub-boards identified per sheet, ready for you to price the board work on top of the count.

Explore boards

1,000+

Hours of take-off saved for Australian electrical contractors, across 140,000+ symbols counted

95%+

Accuracy on standard symbols, every one marked so you can check it

2,000

Free credits on every new account. Two commercial take-offs, no card

How to do a take-off with TakeoffAI

From a PDF binder to a bill of quantities, without building a symbol library first.

01
Upload your plansDrop in the whole PDF binder. TakeoffAI finds the electrical sheets.
02
AI counts, you reviewEvery symbol is counted and marked on the drawing. Fix anything it got wrong and answer its notes.
03
Export your take-offA bill of quantities to Excel or PDF, priced with your own rates.

Need lengths as well? Measure conduit and cable runs on the same plan with the free measuring tools.

From count to quote

A count is only half
the job.

Keep your materials and labour rates in TakeoffAI and the counted quantities are costed as soon as they're confirmed. What you export is a priced bill of quantities you can put straight into a quote.

Your own rates. Price lists and labour rates live in your account, so the numbers come out the way you price, not the way we guess.
No transcription errors. The number on the drawing is the number on the quote. Nobody re-types a bill of quantities.
Excel, CSV or PDF. Take it into whatever you quote and run jobs from today. Exports are part of the free platform.

See what comes out

TakeoffAI Estimating

Rather not do it yourself? We'll do it for you.

Send us the plans. We run the takeoff, price it in your rates and send back a tender that's ready to go, by your deadline or it's free.

See how it works

Claude connector

Your take-offs, available to Claude.

Connect Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, to your TakeoffAI account and it can read your projects: counted quantities per drawing, bills of quantities, estimates and project notes. Ask questions in plain English and have the tender paperwork drafted from real counts.

Ask about any project. "How many downlights on level 2?" "Which lines in the Richmond BOQ are still unpriced?"
Draft the paperwork from real numbers. Tender letters, scopes and exclusions written from the counted quantities, never invented ones.
Read-only by design. Counts can only be changed in the TakeoffAI review screen, where every marker stays on the drawing.

See plans with the Claude connector

Included on Contractor and Unlimited plans.

Claude

Connected to TakeoffAI · Office fit-out

Pull the office fit-out take-off and draft the tender cover letter with the quantities.

Claude
The fit-out has 12 electrical sheets and 264 counted items: 31 recessed 600×600 fittings, 24 emergency luminaires, 26 double data outlets, 14 quad GPOs, 13 single-gang switches and 6 smoke detectors. The bill of quantities still has two unpriced lines on E04, so I've flagged those in the letter rather than filling them in. Here's the draft…

Good. Add the exclusions from the July template.

Watch

A full walkthrough, in five minutes

Jonah takes a real drawing set through TakeoffAI: a new project, the upload, the legend, the AI take-off and the review screen where every count is marked. Sound on.

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Want it done on your own plans? Book a call.

Or see it done on your plans first

Book a 30-minute call. Send a set of drawings beforehand and we'll run the take-off on them live, answer your questions, and send you the bill of quantities to keep either way.

Prefer email? info@takeoffai.com.au

Why contractors use TakeoffAI for their take-offs

Free to start

The software is free: unlimited projects and users, manual take-off, measuring, exports. You only pay for AI take-offs, and the first two are on us.

Every count is checkable

Markers on the drawing for every item, and notes where the plan was unclear. You're the last set of eyes before anything is exported.

Price shown before you spend

Every take-off shows its exact price before you confirm it. If it fails, the credits come straight back.

Priced with your rates

Counts are costed against your own price lists and labour rates, so what you export is a priced bill of quantities, not a parts list.

A real person on the other end

Founded and run by an ex-tradie. Optional onboarding call included, and email goes to a person, not a ticket queue.

Made in Melbourne

Australian symbols, Australian drawing conventions, Australian-owned. Built on real sets from real local jobs.

Start with 2,000 free credits

Create a free account, upload a set of drawings and run the AI on it today. Two commercial take-offs are included before you decide on a plan, and an onboarding call is there if you want one.