AI takeoff for UK construction

AI takeoff that reads any drawing — even scanned PDFs.

Count anything from photographed plans, scanned PDFs, or vector drawings. Built in the UK. £55 per licence per month.

01/How it works

Drawing in. Estimate out.

Three steps, no spreadsheet gymnastics.

Step 01

Drop your drawing in any format.

Vector PDFs, scans, phone photos of plans on a desk — we read them all. Drag, drop, and the file's ready in seconds.

Step 02

AI marks every symbol it sees.

Our model finds and counts the things you'd count by hand. Eyeball anything it flagged as uncertain — a day's work takes minutes.

Step 03

Counts become a priced estimate.

One click pushes counts into Ensign's estimating, with 300,000 UK prices and labour times already attached, ready to send.

02/File formats

Whatever your client sends, we can read.

Most takeoff software needs a clean vector PDF. Reality is messier than that.

Vector PDFs

From AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, or any clean CAD export. The standard case — we handle it, but it doesn’t impress anyone.

Scanned PDFs

Photocopies, archive prints, marked-up scans of scans — the drawings your clients actually email through on a Friday afternoon.

Photographed plans

A phone snap of a plan rolled out on the desk. We deal with the perspective, the shadow, and the bit of finger in the corner.

03/Pricing & estimating

Counts mean nothing without prices next to them.

ZeroCount plugs straight into Ensign’s pricing library and project management. Same firm, same data, no re-keying.

300,000+

live UK prices in the library, refreshed weekly

One click

from finished takeoff to fully priced estimate

One spine

takeoff, estimating, and project management share data

04/Trust

British-built, government-funded, patent-protected.

Three specifics. No buzzwords.

Innovate UK
Smart Grants, October 2021

The UK government’s competitive R&D programme for genuinely novel technology. The AI engine was built with this funding.

Patent
Granted GB2631290

A granted UK patent for the takeoff method — the methodology is genuinely original, not a wrapper round an off-the-shelf model.

Group
Ensign Software

Sitting alongside the takeoff, estimating, and project management tools already used by UK contractors across the country.

  • Innovate UK funded
  • ICO registered
  • CHAS accredited
  • Constructionline
  • Built in the UK
05/Pricing

£55

per licence, per month

No tiers. No “enterprise” upsell. No “contact us”. The price is the price.

06/Compared

Different from Countfire.

Three things worth knowing if you’re comparing the two.

Pricing

CountfireNot published

ZeroCount£55 per licence / month

Drawing types handled

CountfireVector PDFs

ZeroCountVector, scanned, photographed

Counting engine

CountfirePattern matching on symbols

ZeroCountTrained vision model

Stop counting. Start estimating.

30 minutes. We’ll run a takeoff on a drawing you choose.

Book a demo

See ZeroCount on your own drawings.

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