The fastest way
through a takeoff.
Fast takeoff isn't about looking productive. It's about how many jobs you can bid, because for a sub the win rate is roughly fixed and total wins scale with volume. Slow takeoff is a ceiling on your business.
Where the hours actually go
Break a 16-hour commercial takeoff apart and roughly two-thirds is counting and measuring, with reconciliation and specs eating most of the rest. None of that is the part that wins jobs. Pilars does the counting, measuring and reconciliation automatically and hands you a confidence-scored result, so the same set that used to take most of a week becomes a couple of hours of review. In benchmarks a 22-hour electrical takeoff lands around two to three hours.
Fast, but not reckless
Speed is worthless if the number's wrong, so Pilars makes the speed reviewable: every quantity carries a confidence score and points to the sheet it came from. You spend your saved hours on the low-confidence lines and the scope judgment, not re-counting the whole set. The honest caveat — messy, hand-drawn or low-DPI drawings still slow it down and need more of your review.
- Counting, measuring and reconciliation automated
- 16-40 hours of takeoff to a couple hours of review
- Confidence scores so review is targeted, not total
- More bids out the door from the same team
Questions estimators actually ask
How much faster is it, really?
On a clean commercial set, a takeoff that ran 16-40 hours becomes a couple of hours of review. The processing is minutes; the time you spend is verifying, not producing.
Does going faster cost accuracy?
Not if you review the output, which you should. Confidence scores point you at the lines to check. The accuracy is comparable to a careful manual count on standard work.
What's the catch?
Drawing quality. Low-DPI scans and heavy hand-drafting slow it down and need more review. Clean vector PDFs are where it's fastest and most accurate.
Why does takeoff speed matter so much?
Because takeoff is usually two-thirds of your per-bid time, so it's two-thirds of your growth ceiling. Cut it and you can bid far more without hiring.
Pricing?
$100 per trade, per plan, unlimited projects, no per-seat fees.