FootingTakeoff

AI takeoff for footing contractors

Footing plans in.
Linear feet out.

FootingTakeoff reads your footing plan and returns the total linear feet, the pad count, and a ready-to-send invoice — priced at your rates. The month-end calculator marathon becomes a 90-second check.

312 LF · 4 PADS · INVOICE $1,136

Free while in early access. No spam — one email when your account is ready.

How it works

Three steps. No tracing, no clicking walls.

STEP 01

Drop in the plan

PDF from the wall company or a phone photo from the truck. Any format an estimator gets handed in the real world.

STEP 02

AI measures every run

Every footing run is measured — outer perimeter, interior foundation walls, pads — and drawn back onto the plan so you can verify each number against the drawing.

STEP 03

Invoice at your rates

Your $/LF rate, your rebar upcharge, your flat rate per pad. Total linear feet becomes invoice line items you can send the same day.

The problem

Every plan is 30–40 little measurements you do by hand.

A typical residential footing plan has 250–350 linear feet of footing split across dozens of wall segments — plus pads, rebar calls, and handwritten margin notes. Contractors pouring 1–2 footings a day face 50–100 of these takeoffs at month end, done one segment at a time on a calculator.

Month-end takeoffBy handFootingTakeoff
One plan20–40 min~90 sec check
60 plans2–3 working days~2 hours
ErrorsSilent — found by the clientFlagged on the plan
Residential concrete footings and formwork at dusk with rebar dowels and a rolled foundation plan on site
The jobsite doesn't wait for month-end math.

What you get

Built around how footing subs actually bill.

Verified on the plan, not in a spreadsheet

Every measured run is drawn as an overlay on your actual plan with its length labeled. Anything the AI is less than certain about is flagged in red with its reasoning — so the rare judgment call comes to you, and the other 95% of segments are already done. You approve a takeoff you can see, not a number you have to trust.

$/LF billing, native

Linear feet is the unit, exactly like your invoices: base rate, rebar rate, flat rate per pad. Not cubic yards you have to convert.

Pads counted and priced

Interior support pads are detected, counted, and added as their own line item at your flat rate.

Handwriting-aware

Margin notes from the wall company — totals, rebar calls, addresses — are read and reconciled against the measured takeoff.

Month-end batch mode

Drop the whole month of plans at once and get back one invoice per job, ready to review in a single sitting.

FAQ

Straight answers.

What exactly does FootingTakeoff do?
You upload a footing or foundation plan (a PDF or even a phone photo). FootingTakeoff measures every footing run on the plan, totals the linear feet, counts the concrete pads, and produces an invoice-ready summary priced at your own rates — for example $3.00 per linear foot plus $50 per pad.
Who is FootingTakeoff for?
Concrete footing subcontractors, foundation contractors, and estimators who bill by the linear foot. If you spend the end of every month with a calculator and a stack of plans, this is built for you.
How is this different from PlanSwift, Bluebeam, or STACK?
Those are general takeoff platforms: you still trace every wall yourself and they output quantities, not invoices. FootingTakeoff does one job — footings — automatically: it reads the plan, measures the runs, applies your $/LF and $/pad rates, and hands you the invoice line items.
What if the plan is unclear or the AI is not sure?
It tells you. Any run the system is not confident about is highlighted directly on the plan with its measurement flagged for a quick human check, so you never silently get a wrong total. Accuracy you can verify beats a black box.
What does it cost?
Early access is free. Paid plans are planned to be simple monthly pricing that costs less than the hours a single month-end takeoff session takes today. Early-access users lock in founder pricing.
When does it launch?
FootingTakeoff is in active development and calibration with a working footing contractor in Ontario, Canada. Early access opens to the waitlist first — join it and you will get one email when your account is ready.

Early access

Stop measuring walls one at a time.

Free while in early access. No spam — one email when your account is ready.