AI Takeoff V2 — how it works

Step by step

1. Open AI Takeoff from the sidebar. The list shows your takeoffs under three tabs — Active (still running or waiting for review), Done (imported) and Archived.
2. A takeoff runs in stages you can watch live: it reads the drawings, indexes the sheets, asks in the chat what to take off, measures everything it can without a model (the prepass), then lets the agent review what the prepass produced and flag what it cannot settle.
3. The prepass is the part that counts and measures: tags, runs, fittings, risers, devices. It costs nothing — no AI credits are spent on measuring.
4. Credits are spent only while the agent reviews, answers you in chat, or re-runs a sheet. That is why picking the right sheets matters more than anything else you do.
5. When the run finishes, the job goes to Review: the marked-up sheet on the left, the items and flags on the right. Nothing leaves the takeoff until you import it into an estimate.
6. A takeoff opens as a chat (the main way in); the layers button beside it opens the visual review — the same job, drawn on the sheets.
7. Use the row menu on the list to archive a finished takeoff, delete one you no longer want, or compare it with another run of the same job.

Tips

• Three rules the takeoff never breaks: no geometry means no quantity, the counting side never sees prices, and nothing is shipped as measured when it was not.
• You can close the page — the run continues on the server and you get a notification when it is ready to review.
• One takeoff runs per workspace at a time. A second one waits in the queue and says how many are ahead of it.

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