We spent years bidding utility work the hard way. Takeoff Check Pro is the tool we wish we had on every one of those jobs.
Takeoff Check Pro started on a job that went wrong. Our founder, a utility estimator for a mid-size underground contractor, was finishing a bid on a storm sewer and waterline package late on a Tuesday night. The plan set was 60 sheets. The bid was due at 10 a.m. He had been at it for nine hours.
The bid went out. The company won it. And three weeks into construction the project manager called: there was a drop manhole on Sheet C-9 that never made it into the takeoff. It was drawn clearly in the profile view, called out with a station and an invert, but somewhere between sheet 40 and sheet 50 at midnight, it got skipped. That single missed structure cost the company more than $7,000 — and it came straight out of the margin.
What stuck with him was not the mistake. It was how preventable it was. The information was right there on the plans. The problem was that catching every item across a large set, under deadline, is a task humans are simply bad at. The existing software did not help — most of it was built for vertical building construction and bolted sitework on as an afterthought. None of it could actually read a profile view and do the station math the way an estimator does by hand.
So he started building. The first version was a weekend script that read a plan sheet and pulled out pipe runs by subtracting stations. It worked. It caught things. He showed it to other estimators and the reaction was always the same: "When can I use this?"
That is what Takeoff Check Pro is today — a focused tool that reads your plans the way a careful estimator does, flags what is missing, and gives you a second set of eyes on every bid. It is not here to replace your judgment. It is here to make sure nothing slips through at midnight on a Tuesday.
"Our mission is to help small and mid-size utility contractors compete with the same accuracy and speed as large estimating departments."
A takeoff tool is only worth using if you can trust it. We read scales and stations from the actual plans and flag confidence on every item — we never guess and present it as fact.
Every feature is shaped by how real estimators actually work — profile views, station math, plan and profile sheets, and the scopes that underground contractors bid every day.
No five-figure annual licenses. No per-seat games. No long term contracts. Clear monthly pricing that a one-truck contractor and a ten-person estimating team can both afford.
A small team that has actually bid the work, swung the pick, and sat through the deadline crunch.
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