The construction industry is one of the largest in the world — but also one of the least digitized. And nowhere is this more obvious than in the way contractors prepare cost estimates and bid on projects. In LATAM, the standard workflow hasn’t changed since the 1980s: architects send PDFs of blueprints, engineers open AutoCAD, manually count elements, transfer data into Excel, and then spend days crunching numbers just to build a basic estimate.
The process is slow, expensive, error-prone, and eats up hundreds of skilled labor hours per project — before the company even knows if they’ll win the contract.
The pain is real and universal:
What’s worse: these inefficiencies don’t just slow down companies — they prevent them from growing. In a market where margins are thin and the speed of execution is everything, this legacy approach is a major drag on competitiveness.
And yet, very few players have addressed this with true AI. Most are just digitizing the old workflow, not reinventing it. That’s the gap — and the opportunity.
We’re building an AI-powered platform to automate takeoff and cost estimation for large construction sites – think malls, hotels, civil constructions— the most painful, time-consuming bottleneck in construction bidding. In LATAM (and much of the world), this is still done like it was in the 1980s: multiple engineers manually counting items on PDF blueprints, copying numbers into Excel, and burning hundreds of hours per project just to price a bid they might not even win. It’s slow. It’s expensive. It’s broken.
Our AI replaces that entire process, cutting 98% of the time, slashing costs by up to 90%, and helping companies win more contracts with radically better accuracy and speed. In a $12 trillion industry where margins are razor-thin and every bid counts, this is a no-brainer. And by automating the pain point where construction data is created, we’re uniquely positioned to become the data infrastructure for the entire industry.
In the next 5–10 years, construction will be completely reshaped by AI — and yet, today, the most critical task in bidding for a project, takeoff and cost estimation, is still done with PDFs, spreadsheets, and manual counting. That’s about to change — and fast.
We’re at the intersection of three massive AI-driven shifts:
By starting with takeoff automation — the exact moment when key data is generated — we’re not just solving a huge short-term pain point. We’re generating the future intelligent data-layer for the construction companies that will win on the long-run by being able to extract value from their own data.