AI takeoff for UK subcontractors — measure, price and bill every job.
TradeOff reads your PDF drawings like a quantity surveyor — detecting the scale, pulling quantities from schedules and legends and counting symbols in seconds — then takes you from takeoff to a priced estimate and progress billing, all in one place.
No credit card required · Free 1 project trial · Set up in 60 seconds
AI takeoff that does the grunt work
Hit Run AI takeoff and TradeOff reads your drawing like a QS — detecting the scale and pulling quantities off schedules and legends in one pass. Review, tweak and drop straight into your estimate. You always stay in control.
Detect the drawing scale
AI reads the title block or scale bar and tells you the scale, so you calibrate in seconds.
Read schedules & legends
Pull door, window, sanitaryware and fitting quantities straight off schedule tables into your estimate.
Auto-count symbols
Box one socket, door or light and TradeOff finds every matching symbol on the sheet.
Detect measurements
Scan a region of a PDF and TradeOff reads the dimensions and measured lines for you.
Suggest rates
Price extracted quantities with suggested rates from your own library — you always stay in control.
A faster, lower-cost alternative to traditional takeoff tools — no CAD licence, works in your browser.
Snap a drawing, get a priced estimate
On site with just your phone? Photograph a drawing's schedule or legend and TradeOff's AI reads the quantities and prices them from your rate library — an estimate before you're back in the van.
Snap a photo
Take a photo of the schedule, legend or drawing straight from your phone.
AI reads it
TradeOff extracts the quantities and detects the drawing scale automatically.
Priced estimate
Prices drop in from your rate library — review, tweak and send.
Don't just take our word for it — see what subcontractors say.
The unified takeoff-to-billing toolkit
Every plan gets every feature. The only thing that changes is how many jobs and teammates you run at once.
Upload & render blueprints
Drop a PDF drawing and view it right in the browser. No plugins, no CAD licence.
Calibrate the scale
Set your drawing scale in seconds so every measurement comes out accurate.
Trace & count takeoff
Click to count fittings, trace runs to measure lengths, and aggregate quantities per job.
AI takeoff assistant
Let AI read schedules & legends to extract quantities, detect the drawing scale, and suggest rates from your library — you stay in control.
Estimating matrix
A fast spreadsheet-style grid. Quantity, unit, rate, markup and live totals.
Progress billing ledger
Schedule-of-values billing with retainage, balance to finish and amount due.
UK tax built in — CIS & VAT
Automatic CIS deductions on labour and VAT domestic reverse charge, right on your Applications for Payment.
Get paid by card or BACS
Share an Application for Payment and let clients pay by card via Stripe — straight to your bank — or by bank transfer.
Work as a team
Invite your estimators, QSs and admins with owner, admin, member and read-only viewer roles.
Xero accounting sync
Send any valuation to Xero as a draft invoice in one click — client contacts synced, CIS & reverse-charge VAT handled, with live Draft/Approved/Paid status. Auto-send on approval too.
One-click PDF export
Send a clean, branded estimate and application for payment to your client.
Syncs with your accounting software
Turn any valuation into a draft invoice in your accounts in one click — client contact synced, CIS and reverse-charge VAT handled, with live Draft → Approved → Paid status back in TradeOff.
Build your valuation
Progress billing with CIS & reverse-charge VAT.
Client approves
They approve the Application for Payment online.
Draft invoice in your accounts
Synced automatically, ready to approve.
Not on Xero yet? Export a Xero, QuickBooks or Sage-ready invoice CSV anytime.
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CIS & reverse charge calculated by Xero.
Illustrative — CIS and VAT are calculated in your connected organisation.
From drawing to paid, in four steps
Create a project
Spin up a job and invite the drawing.
Take off quantities
Calibrate, count and trace on the plan.
Estimate & bill
Price the work, then bill progress each month.
Export & win
Export a professional PDF and get paid.
Pay for active projects, nothing else
All features on every plan. Archive a finished job to free up space, or upgrade when you need more running at once.
Free
Try the full workflow on one live job.
1 user seat
Free forever · no card required
- PDF blueprint upload & render
- Scale calibration
- Trace & count takeoff tools
- Estimating matrix
- Progress billing ledger
- UK CIS & VAT reverse charge
- Client card & BACS payments
- Branded PDF & CSV export
- AI quantity extraction from drawings
- AI drawing-scale detection
- AI rate suggestions
Growth
Run several jobs side by side.
5 user seats · extra seats £7/mo each
Billed monthly · renews every 30 days · cancel anytime
- PDF blueprint upload & render
- Scale calibration
- Trace & count takeoff tools
- Estimating matrix
- Progress billing ledger
- UK CIS & VAT reverse charge
- Client card & BACS payments
- Branded PDF & CSV export
- AI quantity extraction from drawings
- AI drawing-scale detection
- AI rate suggestions
Scale
No limits for busy firms.
20 user seats · extra seats £7/mo each
Billed monthly · renews every 30 days · cancel anytime
- PDF blueprint upload & render
- Scale calibration
- Trace & count takeoff tools
- Estimating matrix
- Progress billing ledger
- UK CIS & VAT reverse charge
- Client card & BACS payments
- Branded PDF & CSV export
- AI quantity extraction from drawings
- AI drawing-scale detection
- AI rate suggestions
Frequently asked questions
Takeoff, estimating and UK-ready progress billing — answered.
Win the job. Bill it right. Get paid.
Start free today — no card, no commitment.
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