Reads every sheet
Foundation, floor, framing, roof, wall sections, Simpson schedule, lintel plan. Nothing skipped.
Upload your plan set. We read every sheet — foundation, framing, roof, Simpson schedule, lintel schedule — and return a clean, itemized takeoff you can hand to your lumberyard the same day.
PDF, DWG, or a folder of sheets. Claude reads them sheet-by-sheet and produces the same kind of tabbed spreadsheet estimators spend a full day building by hand.
Blue Collar Estimating was built by framers, GCs, and lumber sales reps who were tired of watching small shops lose bids because they couldn't afford two days on a takeoff. We paired 30 years of field experience with the same large language model powering the rest of the AEC world — and wrapped it in an interface built for the job trailer, not the boardroom.
Every takeoff is reviewed. Every line item cites the plan sheet it came from. And when the plans are ambiguous, we flag it — not guess it.
Foundation, floor, framing, roof, wall sections, Simpson schedule, lintel plan. Nothing skipped.
Plates, studs, headers, sheathing, hardware, fasteners — each on its own tab with waste factors you can edit.
Every guess is highlighted yellow with the source sheet. No silent rounding, no hidden math.
Drop in your lumberyard's unit costs and the spreadsheet rolls up a live bid total.
A selection of recent jobs we've priced. Every project's spreadsheet was generated from the sealed plan set and reviewed by a licensed estimator.
CMU block ground floor, stick-framed bonus over garage. 9 tabs, 1,061 Simpson connectors, full framing takeoff including Jack Post schedule JP1–JP16.
2-story stick-built on pilings. Full shear wall schedule, HD holdowns, LVL beams.
1-story stick-built with vaulted ceilings. Post & beam lookouts, exposed rafters.
Mirrored 2-unit build with common shear wall. Simpson strap schedule across party wall.
We turn around most framing takeoffs inside 24 hours. Drop your plans on the quote form, or reach out directly — we answer our phones.