For sitework and general contractors
Cut and fill, trenching, counts, areas and lengths. Every quantity traced to the line, symbol or label it came from.
30-day money-back guarantee. Run it on your real bids for a month; if it did not earn its keep, you get the month back.
The planThe takeoff
How it works
Drop in the PDF plan set you are bidding. No CAD file needed.
One click finds the lines on the sheet, groups them by type and names them from the sheet's own legend. It reads the scale from the printed words and the drawn bar, and tells you when they disagree.
Every number shows the lines it came from. Add what you are bidding, price it from your own unit prices, and send a report PDF, a CSV or your bid sheet.
Bid day
No modeler, no CAD request to the engineer, no tracing. The set goes in and you work the list.
The whole PDF plan set, as it came from the plan room. Every sheet is listed.
One click per sheet. Lines, symbols and the scale come back named from the sheet itself.
CORE reads the printed scale and the drawn bar. If they disagree, it says so before you measure anything.
Existing and proposed from the contours and spot grades. Cut red, fill blue, the yards on a row.
Trench by pipe size and depth. Manholes, inlets, doors and windows counted and checked against the schedule.
Only what you add is priced, from your own unit prices. Out as your bid sheet, a CSV or a report PDF.
Trades
Each trade adds its rows to the same takeoff and the same bid sheet. Every plan includes every trade.
T-01CORE EarthworkCY
T-02CORE TrenchingCY · LF
T-03CORE CountsEA
T-04CORE FlooringSF · LF
T-05CORE LineworkLF
T-06CORE ConcreteSF · LF
Why CORE
Engineers often hand out only PDFs at bid time. CORE reads cut and fill from the PDF, so a first number does not wait on a CAD file or a 3D modeler.
Dirt, pipe, concrete, counts and room areas in one takeoff and one bid sheet.
Click a quantity and see its lines on the sheet. No black box.
| Compared with | How that works | What CORE does |
|---|---|---|
| Hand-tracing takeoff tools | A person traces every line and clicks every count. | CORE finds and names the lines first. The person checks and adds. |
| AI takeoff for floor plans | Fast on rooms and walls. Little for dirt, pipe or site work. | Buildings and site work in one tool. |
| Earthwork modeling software | Powerful, but works best from CAD and needs a trained modeler. | A first cut / fill number from the PDF, by the estimator. |
| Hiring out the takeoff | A fee per job, and a wait. | Minutes, as many jobs as you bid. |
Pricing
Every plan includes every takeoff tool and unlimited jobs.
You are the estimator and the owner. One seat, two free viewers for whoever needs to look.
$350 a month
Two to five estimators on the same jobs. Roles, a log of who changed what, your name on the reports.
$1,200 a month for three
Six or more estimators. Your bedding depths and pavement sections built in, a named contact, your own server.
From $4,000 a month for ten
Security and privacy
Each account sees only its own plans. The server enforces it.
Admin, estimator and viewer, with a record of who did what.
Your own server, with no other company's work on it. On request.
No. CORE works from the PDF plan set, including the cut and fill.
Every number shows the lines, symbols or labels on the sheet it came from, so you can check it in seconds, and nothing is priced until you add it. A plan set can leave things out, so the check is yours to make. The honest test is a job you already took off by hand: run it and compare.
Other customers cannot. Our own staff can, because that is how we support the product. The security page has the details.
Yes. You pay for estimators. Project managers and owners who only look are free viewers.
Use CORE on your real bids for 30 days. If it did not earn its keep, email support@coresoftware.tech within those 30 days and name one job you ran it on, and we refund the month in full. One refund per company; the account closes when it is paid.
PDF plan sets as the engineer or architect issued them: civil, grading, utility, site, floor plans. Sheets drawn in CAD read best. A scanned or photographed sheet has to be read by OCR and is harder; check those closely.
Quantities land on your own bid sheet layout and go out as a CSV, with your unit prices on them. A report PDF with your company name comes with it. Real Excel export is planned.
No. If you can open a PDF and click a line, you can run it. The how-to videos are real recordings of the app, two minutes each.
If a number changes after you approve a page, CORE tells you before it reaches a bid. Comparing a revised sheet against the old one, and keeping your takeoff, is planned and not built yet.
30-day money-back guarantee. Bring a job you already took off by hand and put the two side by side.