Built by a tradie.
For tradies.

We noticed a problem nobody was fixing.

Jonah Flinos spent years in the electrical trade in Melbourne. On the tools. Reading plans. Running jobs. Quoting work at the kitchen table at 10pm because there wasn't enough time during the day.

The estimating process was broken, and everyone in the industry just accepted it. You'd spend 15 to 20 hours a week counting symbols by hand, sheet by sheet, hoping you hadn't missed a room. Legacy software like Accubid or ConEst took weeks to set up and still needed someone to do the counting manually.

Smaller contractors couldn't afford a full-time estimator. Larger ones were buried in bottlenecks. And the tools built to help were designed for people with a month to spare and an IT team to configure them.

He knew there had to be a better way.

So he built it.

TakeoffAI started with a simple idea: what if AI could do the counting? Not as a gimmick and not as a "coming soon" feature. Actually count every downlight, GPO, switch, data point and smoke detector off a real PDF drawing set, in seconds, and put a marker on each one so you can check it.

Months went into building and testing on real plans from real Australian jobs. Commercial fit-outs. Residential subdivisions. Industrial facilities. Accuracy mattered because experience says one missed device can cost thousands, and checkability mattered because nobody in the trade will trust a number they can't see on the drawing.

The result is TakeoffAI: an AI take-off engine that replaces the worst part of your bid cycle without replacing your estimator.

Why it's different from every other tool.

Most construction software is built by people who've never set foot on a job site. They build features that look good in demos but fall apart on real drawings.

Jonah is an ex-tradie from Melbourne. He speaks the language. He knows what a messy set of plans looks like, and the pressure of a Friday afternoon bid deadline. TakeoffAI was built around that reality, not a sanitised version of it.

This isn't a faceless SaaS product. It's a tool built by someone who cares about the trade and wants to see Australian contractors win more work, stress less and build better businesses.

TakeoffAI exists to build something with so much real value that it improves people's lives, not just their workflow. When a contractor wins a job they would've missed because they could finally bid it on time, that's the point.

Melbourne-made. Australian-owned. Built for the trade.