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Steel Erection AI Takeoff Wizard

The Only Takeoff Software Built for Steel Erection

Stop fighting generic takeoff tools that were never designed for your work. Count beams and shear studs off the plans in seconds, take off the rest by hand, and export straight into the Bid Wizard. Every beam and shear stud on a three-story building, counted in 48 seconds.

48 sec
Every beam & shear stud, 3-story job
400+
Erectors on our software
< 1 hr
To learn the software
43 yrs
In the steel industry
See It In Action

Watch the AI count every beam and shear stud on a three-story building in 48 seconds.

AI Takeoff Wizard counting beams on a framing plan
The Challenge

Three ways to take off steel. Only one was built for it.

Paper Takeoff

Pencil, scale, and late nights

  • Count every member by hand
  • Measure with a scale ruler
  • Retype it all into a spreadsheet
  • A full day gone before you price a line
Generic Digital Takeoff

Built for GCs, not erectors

  • No steel erection task library
  • No production-rate intelligence
  • You still map everything by hand
  • Fighting a tool made for another trade
The Takeoff Wizard Way

Made for steel erection

  • AI counts beams and shear studs
  • On-center spacing does the math
  • Every steel erection task built in
  • One click into the Bid Wizard
Features

Everything built for the way you actually bid.

AI Auto-Counting

Let the AI detect and count beams and shear studs in seconds. Verify with one click, adjust if needed.

On-Center Spacing

Draw a line and the software calculates joist bays, beam spacing, and safety posts. Set your spacing; it does the math.

Linear & Area Takeoff

Trace perimeter angle, safety cable, and handrails for linear feet. Draw polygons for decking and grating square footage.

Document Control

Drop in plans, specs, schedules, and addendums. The system auto-organizes everything and builds a full project report.

Task Library & Favorites

A pre-built steel erection task library with every task you need. Save assemblies as favorites and reuse them across projects.

Three Built-In AI Chatbots

Specialized assistants for reading the specs, analyzing the plans, and learning the software as you go.

Quick Access Toolbar

Pin your most-used tasks for one-click switching. No more digging through menus mid-takeoff.

Cloud Sync

Projects sync automatically. Open them from any computer and pick up right where you left off.

One-Click Export

Export your takeoff as a clean CSV with task names, quantities, units, and areas, formatted for direct import.

New in the Takeoff Wizard

Document Compare and Final Set Review.

Two of the newest tools in the software, built for the way revisions and final sets actually land on a bid.

Document Compare: see what changed between plan sets before you open a sheet
Document comparison

Document Compare

You bid off the 60% set. Then the 75% set shows up. Then the 100%. Document Compare puts the new set against the one you took off and hands you a list of everything that changed, by grid line: steel added, steel removed, steel changed. You read the list, not the whole set. Nothing moves on you that you don't know about.

Project report

Final Set Review

Bring in the plans. Bring in the specs. Bring in the bid form, the schedule, the scope of work and every addendum. Confirm the final bid set. Then pick your report: small, medium or large.

Large is about 4,000 words covering everything an erector needs to know about the complete project. Medium is about 2,500. Small is about 1,000, summarized but nothing left out. The parts that cost you money are highlighted. You know the job before you open the plan set.

Small ~1,000 wordsMedium ~2,500Large ~4,000
Benchmark

The Blue Horizon Project

Real bid. Real plan set. Real numbers. One takeoff, timed side by side.

Takeoff Time Comparison
5.5HoursAI Takeoff Wizard
vs
11HoursPrevious software
What the takeoff captured
1,020Columns
4,682Beams
1,990Joists
126,844Shear studs
1,106,359SqFt decking
5,835Welded connections
18,484LF edge angle
868Brace frames
3,998LF safety cable
2,154LF of tube
246Safety posts
98Roof frames
Generic AI vs Built for Steel Erection

Grounded in the standards your work is held to.

General-purpose AI guesses. The Takeoff Wizard is grounded in the codes and a 300+ task steel erection library. The AI proposes, the estimator approves. Every count is yours to confirm.

AISCSteel Construction Manual
AWS D1.1Structural Welding Code
SJISteel Joist Institute specs
SDISteel Deck Institute
OSHASubpart R, Steel Erection
ASTMMaterial standards
Steel Erection Bid Wizard
Together

Plans in.
Bid proposal out.

  1. 1

    Import everything the GC dumped on you: plans, specs, bid form, schedule, addendums.

  2. 2

    The Takeoff Wizard labels the sheets, builds your bid set, and hands you a comprehensive report before your eyes ever touch the plans.

  3. 3

    The Bid Wizard turns that takeoff into labor, pricing, and a finished proposal.

Two brothers. One workflow. Zero retyping.

See the full workflow →
Training

Learn it in under an hour.

A short learning path and a video library. You are bidding real work the same week you start.

STEP 01

Import & organize your plans

Drop in the full plan set and let Document Control sort it.

STEP 02

Set up your project

Configure the project so the takeoff and the bid line up.

STEP 03

Run the takeoff

Count with the AI, then take off the rest by hand.

STEP 04

Export & productivity

Send it to the Bid Wizard and produce the proposal.

Setting Up Drawing Folders
Setting Up Drawing Folders
Document Control
Document Control
Setting Up the Project for Takeoff
Setting Up the Project for Takeoff

The full 15-video library covers every part of the software.

Generic AI vs built for steel

Generic AI takeoff vs. built for steel erection.

What a steel estimator needs to know before buying anything.

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