Electrical · Commercial
Cut takeoff time meaningfully on typical commercial electrical bids without growing the team.
A union-shop electrical contractor with the estimating team standardized on OmniTakeoff after a four-week pilot on a healthcare project. Their existing Bluebeam workflow was already fast — what moved the number was eliminating the count-twice-to-double-check step thanks to the evidence-linked review queue.
Industry
Commercial
Region
Midwest US
Annual revenue
Mid-market
Headline numbers
- Takeoff time
- Meaningful reduction
- Bid-day defects
- Meaningful reduction
- Estimator throughput
- Meaningful improvement
Substantial reduction in takeoff time
Tracked across post-pilot bids
Bids/quarter, same headcount
Challenge
What they were solving for
The team was running Bluebeam + Excel. AI tools they'd previewed dropped numbers without a paper trail — un-trustable on a multi-million-dollar healthcare bid. They needed an evidence-first workflow.
Solution
How OmniTakeoff worked
Pilot ran the AI Takeoff + Evidence Center side-by-side with their existing Bluebeam process for two bids. Symbol Library got seeded from their first three healthcare projects' legends. Review Queue caught low-confidence rows the manual count had missed.
Outcome
What changed
Standardized after four weeks. Now using OmniTakeoff for every bid >40 pages. Bluebeam stayed for one-off as-built markups.
Every line links back to the exact crop on the exact sheet. When the PM challenges a count we click and we're there. That alone saved more time than the AI did.
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