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The full drawing set and the specs as PDF, or a ZIP of those PDFs. Send the whole set, not just the roof plan. Architectural, structural, mechanical and plumbing sheets show the drains, curbs, deck and penetrations that move the number. Leave out bid forms, reports and photo sets. However many pages, up to 20 files at 2 GB each. New construction, re-roof or repairs.

Your first one is free, one per contractor, on a job you're bidding or quoting. After that there are two ways to pay. Pay as you go is $395 for a new set of drawings, or a new address. Or take a monthly plan: Shop 12 is $2,750 a month and covers 12 takeoffs, Shop 25 is $5,500 and covers 25, and Shop 60 is $11,000 and covers 60. Each is also available paid once a year, at $30,250, $60,500 and $121,000, which is 12 months for the price of 11, about 8% off. A takeoff past what your plan covers is $250.

Answer the questions we ask along the way and one re-run of that same job is included, whichever way you are paying.

A different building or a different address is a new set. So is a different project at the same address. If we have not measured it before, it is a new set. On pay as you go that is $395. On a plan it uses one of your takeoffs.

Running the same job again is not a new set. That is a re-run, and when you have answered our questions it is already covered.

One case we have not settled: the architect reissuing two sheets, or sending an addendum. An addendum is not a new building, and charging a full set because two sheets changed is not obviously right either. We would rather tell you it is open than have you find out on an invoice. Ask before you send it and you get the answer before anything is charged.

One more pass on the same job, as long as you answered the questions we asked. Use it when the architect answers your open items, when you add your costs and want it back priced, or when we got a number wrong.

If the miss is ours, that re-run is how we put it right and you pay nothing extra. Say which number and which sheet you are reading it against. The package shows where every quantity came from on your own drawings, so this is usually a short conversation rather than an argument.

They are gone. Unused takeoffs do not roll over. For example, if you are on Shop 12 and you send nine sets in March, you paid $2,750 and you used nine. The other three do not show up in April. Yearly plans work the same way. Paying the year up front does not pool the takeoffs: you get 12, 25 or 60 each month, and what you do not use that month ends with it.

That is the least friendly term in the package and we are not going to bury it in fine print. It is also the reason to size your plan to a slow month instead of a good one. If you are not sure you will use 12, stay on pay as you go and move up when the volume is actually there.

Every plan comes with three seats: Shop 12, Shop 25 and Shop 60 alike. A bigger plan covers more takeoffs, not more seats. Need more than three? Extra seats are $49 a month each, on any plan. Email [email protected] and tell us how many.

A shared login is fine. If two estimators and a PM all work out of one login, that works, and if you would rather everyone had their own, that is what the seats are for. Takeoffs come off the same monthly count either way.

Do the arithmetic on your own volume. Here are some examples. Six sets a month on pay as you go is 6 x $395, which is $2,370. Shop 12 is $2,750, so at six you are better off paying per set.

Seven sets on pay as you go is 7 x $395, which is $2,765. Shop 12 is $2,750 and covers twelve. Seven a month is where a plan starts to make sense.

Past 12 on Shop 12, each extra takeoff is $250. Twenty-three sets on Shop 12 is $2,750 plus 11 at $250, which is $5,500, the same as Shop 25. Twenty-four sets on Shop 12 is $2,750 plus 12 at $250, which is $5,750, against $5,500 on Shop 25. From 24 a month up, Shop 25 is the one to be on.

The same step again higher up. Forty-seven sets on Shop 25 is $5,500 plus 22 at $250, which is $11,000, the same as Shop 60. Forty-eight sets on Shop 25 is $5,500 plus 23 at $250, which is $11,250, against $11,000 on Shop 60. From 48 a month up, Shop 60 is the one to be on.

Tell us roughly what you send and we will point at the same number you just worked out.

Monthly billing is month to month. No term, no cancellation fee. Move up, move down, or stop, and tell us before your next billing date.

Annual billing is the same plan paid once for the year, at the annual price: 12 months for the price of 11, about 8% off. Yearly plans are paid up front and are non-refundable once paid.

One thing that does not change when you cancel: unused takeoffs still end with the month. There is nothing to cash out.

Both. AI does the measuring and counting from your drawings. A person reviews every takeoff before it reaches you. Nothing goes out unreviewed.

Every paid takeoff is checked before delivery. When a set does not support a measurement, you get that gap on the Questions tab with the sheet it should have been on, not a confident guess. We would rather leave a line open than ship a wrong number that looks finished. That review stays on every takeoff until the product earns the right to go fully unattended.

We don't. Prices come from your cost data: your material pricing and your labor rates. You send them once and we apply them. Anything you haven't priced prints as UNPRICED with the quantity shown, so nothing gets a made-up number. If you'd rather not share costs at all, you get the full quantity takeoff and price it yourself.

Then we tell you. We look at every page. Anything we can't settle goes on the Questions tab as a question with the sheet reference. It doesn't go into the takeoff as a guess.

Your plans are used for your takeoff and are never sold, shared or published. Your cost data prices your estimates only. It is never shared, pooled, or used for anyone else's work. We do not bid roofing work, so your plan set is never used to compete with you. Plan sets upload directly to secure storage, never through an inbox, and are deleted whenever you ask by email to [email protected]. Full commitments: Your data, your bids.

Commercial roofing takeoffs for low slope and steep slope: single-ply systems with tapered insulation, edge metal, and the details that go with them, plus full standing seam metal and shingle takeoffs, the field areas and the steep-slope linear items, for new construction, re-roof and repairs, all from the plan set. For panels and trim from plans, see our standing seam metal roof takeoff guide. Residential is not our focus today, but ask if you have a job in mind.

Usually within one business day. Delivered within 48 hours*.
*Clock starts once any questions we send you are answered. If something in the set will slow that down, you hear about it up front, not on day two.

Yes. Ask your GC for it so you can check geometry on your side. A BIM model is often the database the drawings were printed from, so roof planes, walls, drains and curbs can be dimensioned in it rather than scaled off a PDF. Drawings and specs usually govern as the contract documents; the model helps with geometry. For Sharp Pencil, send the plan set and, when useful, PDF sheets exported from the model (the upload picker accepts PDF or ZIP only). Most GCs can share the model on request, and it costs nothing to ask. More in our guide on asking the GC for the BIM model.

Satellite tools measure the existing roof from above. We read the plan set for the job you're bidding: tapered layouts, detail callouts, edge conditions, structural notes, spec references. From the documents, not from orbit.