Why this exists

In 2023 Bluebeam discontinued Revu for Mac, and thousands of estimators woke up owning hardware their industry-standard tool refused to run on. The advice they got was "buy a PC" or "run a VM." Meanwhile the tools that did run anywhere still stopped at the same place: a pile of quantities that someone has to turn into a priced quote in Excel, by hand, every single bid.

TakeoffQuote is an independent product built to close both gaps at once: takeoff that runs in any browser — Mac included, plans never uploaded — and a quote layer that turns measurements into a bid-ready .xlsx with your trade assemblies and your unit prices. Measuring is free. The last mile is the product.

Built in the open, on the open

Our measurement engine is OpenTakeoff, an excellent Apache-2.0 open-source takeoff engine by Kentucky AI — credited on every page and in every export. We believe measuring should be a commodity everyone gets free, which is exactly what the open-source ecosystem made true. What we build and charge for is what open source structurally doesn't do: trade content (assembly formulas, waste conventions), the quantities-to-quote pipeline, and someone who answers support email.

Who builds it

TakeoffQuote is built by an independent developer, shipped in small pieces, priced so an individual estimator can expense it without a procurement meeting ($15/mo), and designed around one metric: the time between "measurements done" and "quote sent." When you email support, the person who wrote the code answers.

The numbers we hold ourselves to