Whole house, one pass
Around 18 trades and 100–135 line items from a single upload — not one trade at a time.
PLANS-TO-QUOTE
We measure. You price.
Upload the plans. Get a whole-house, trade-by-trade take-off back in minutes — priced on your rates, with every line showing where it came from.
The take-off is the hard part. We do that part.
You already know your rates. The slow, error-prone work is measuring the whole house, trade by trade. So we measure — and you keep control of the money.
Priced on your rates
Your rate-card, your margins. The quantities come off the drawings; the money stays yours.
Every line, sourced
Each line is tagged [DWG] (read off the drawing) or [INF] (inferred), with a confidence score. Low-confidence items are flagged, not hidden.
Proof — watch it read a real plan set
An unedited screen capture, then the numbers behind it. Scored against the drawings’ own schedules. Your results will vary — indicative, not a quote.
Within ~0.2%
Habitable floor area and total roof area each came back within about 0.2% of the drawing's own schedules — the quantities that drive the build.
On an unseen house
On a builder's plan set Ella had never seen, total building area landed within ~0.2% — and on that single-storey home it correctly left out the upper floor, balcony and stairs.
It read the building
With no prompting, it picked up the mixed construction system: rendered brick veneer over a timber ground floor, timber and Weathertex upstairs.
See a real (redacted) sample
A whole-house Bill of Quantities Plans-to-Quote produced on our reference plan-set — 18 trade packages, 134 line items, each line tagged [DWG] (read off the drawing) or [INF] (inferred) with a confidence score. The client name and address are redacted; the trade-by-trade quantities are exactly as produced.
From our own test on a reference plan-set — indicative, not a quote, site-verify, not for construction. Your results will vary.
Indicative — not a quote.
Every figure above is from our own test on one reference plan-set; your results will vary. Plans-to-Quote does the first pass — you site-verify and review every line before it becomes a quote. Not for construction. That discipline is the point: you sign off, not the AI.
How the honesty works
[DWG] vs [INF]
Every line says whether it was read straight off the drawing or inferred — so you know what to trust and what to check.
Confidence on every line
Each quantity carries a confidence score. The lines that ran higher in our test — slab-edge perimeter and external wall area — are flagged for you, not buried.
You edit every line
It's an estimator's apprentice, not a replacement. You review and adjust before anything is sent — indicative until you say it's a quote.
It's part of the platform, not a standalone
Two ways Ella pays for herself: she catches every lead (Hey Ella), and she quotes every job (Plans-to-Quote).
Into Jobs
Win the quote and it becomes a job — no re-keying.
Into the Schedule
The job drops onto the Operations Hub week board and full-build Gantt.
Into Invoicing
The same line items flow through to the invoice. None of the standalone estimators do this.
The questions a careful builder asks
Stop losing weekends to take-off.
Start free on Ella Works, then add Plans-to-Quote on Pro when you're ready to quote.