Best AI for structural and misc. metals takeoff

What an AI has to get right

• Members by size. Beams, columns, lintels and angles each carry their own size and length.
• The small parts. Bearing plates, embeds, stubs, railings and ladders hide in details and schedules.
• Counts that match the schedule. A column schedule and the plan should agree; when they don't, someone has to say so.

Where AI takeoffs go wrong

Metals is where a skim hurts most: the main members are on the framing plan, but much of the line count is in details. Generic tools tend to list the big members and miss the plates, stubs and miscellaneous items.

How Field24 handles it

Field24 reads each sheet it is given, keeps members of different sizes as separate rows, and marks each one on the drawing. When a detail and a plan disagree, it raises the question instead of guessing.

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Accuracy on real plans

Up to 88% depending on the trade: this is drywall and framing, scored against takeoffs by professional estimators on the same plans, with individual plans as high as 96%. On complete, all-trade takeoffs it also came out ahead of both. How we test ↗