Count and measure straight off the drawings, build a proper bill of quantities, price labour from hours-per-unit norms and your own rates — then turn the won tender into a running job without retyping a line.
✓ Open the PDF drawing, set the scale once, then count symbols and measure runs and areas on screen. Every mark is saved and the quantity lands straight in the bill.
✓ Trades, areas, systems and categories in one tree. Labour = hours per unit × your rate, materials with waste, subcontract and plant — overheads, contingency and profit cascade on their own.
✓ Won → job in one click: contract lines, budgets and labour hours carry over, so you see quoted against actual from day one.
PDF or image drawings, multiple pages, scale calibration, count / length / area tools and a legend per symbol. Quantities flow into the bill line they belong to.
Sections by trade, area and system. Each item: quantity and unit, labour hours and role, material cost and waste, subcontract, plant, other — or a fixed sell rate.
Over 200 starter norms for electrical work plus plumbing, heating, HVAC, data & comms, FM and builders' work. Edit them to your own pace; Graftum suggests a norm from the item description.
Import your supplier's Excel or CSV — columns are detected, list price × your discount becomes net, matched by supplier and code.
Overheads, contingency, insurance, risk and profit at estimate, section or item level. Preliminaries tied to the programme in weeks. Options and provisional sums kept apart. VAT or domestic reverse charge.
Bring in the client's Excel bill, price it, send it back as Excel with live formulas per sheet and a summary — or a tender PDF, or CSV.
Snapshot every revision with its totals, log questions to the client, and keep supplier quotes with the tender they belong to.
Total hours, man-weeks and the crew size the programme needs — before you commit to a date.
Hours you priced against hours your crew actually clocked on won jobs — so the next tender uses your real productivity, not a guess.
The estimating desk was shaped on a real commercial electrical tender — lighting, power, fire alarm, security and containment across several areas — by a firm that prices and runs this work every week. The structure, maths and take-off are trade-neutral; the electrical norms are the most complete set today.
No card. Then £3–£9 a month per company, not per person until the end of your first year — and a permanent founders' discount after that. Everything on this page is included; nothing to bolt on.
Create your company →No. The bill structure, take-off and maths work for any trade. The starter norms are most complete for electrical work, and also cover plumbing, heating, HVAC, data and comms, FM and builders' work — and you can add your own.
Yes. Labour rates per role, your own norms, assemblies and templates, and your supplier price lists. Set them once as company defaults.
Not directly. Take-off works on PDF and image drawings — export the DWG to PDF and take off from that.
No. You price from your own supplier price lists (import them in a few clicks) and your own norms. We don't resell third-party price books.
Yes — an Excel BoQ is read with its sections and columns, and you can send it back priced in Excel with formulas.
It's part of Graftum: first 3 months completely free, no card, then £3–£9 a month per company in the founding year.