Drop in your PDF.
Get back a cost plan.

BuildPilot's extraction engine reads your drawings, schedules, and specs — identifying quantities, flagging scope gaps, and structuring everything into NRM2 format. No manual measurement. No spreadsheet juggling.

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Takeoff is the biggest time drain in estimating

Every hour spent measuring PDFs and reformatting into NRM2 is an hour not spent winning the next project. BuildPilot eliminates it.

4–8 hours per project

Manual measurement from PDF drawings takes half a working day — before you've even started the estimate.

Missed scope = margin erosion

Missed scope items lead to underquoting, awkward client conversations, and projects that haemorrhage margin.

2–3 more hours reformatting

Once you've measured, you still have to reformat everything into NRM2 structure before you can produce a professional output.

BuildPilot cuts this to under 30 minutes.

Upload your documents. Receive a structured NRM2 cost plan. Done.

What BuildPilot reads and structures

Every document type you throw at BuildPilot is extracted, interpreted, and structured into the appropriate NRM2 element automatically.

Document type	What we extract	NRM2 output
Floor plans (PDF/DWG)	Room dimensions, wall lengths, opening widths	Element 2: Superstructure quantities
Schedules of works	Trade-by-trade scope items	All 8 NRM2 elements
Architect's spec	Material specs, finishes, fittings	Element 3–4: Finishes & fittings
Plain-English brief	Project type, location, size, spec level	Full NRM2 cost plan
BOQ draft	Existing quantities	Verified and reformatted

Formats we accept

Send us whatever you have. BuildPilot handles the rest.

PDF

DWG

DXF

DOCX

Plain text

No CAD software required. BuildPilot reads DWG and DXF files directly — you don't need AutoCAD, Revit, or any CAD viewer installed.

You upload

PDF, DWG, text

AI extracts

Quantities + scope

You receive

NRM2 .xlsx cost plan

Under 30 minutes, start to finish.

Drop in your PDF.Get back a cost plan.