Read the plans. Price the job.Send the bid.
Bid the whole job before your coffee gets cold.
Materials lists eat your nights. And a bid that comes in light comes straight out of your pocket. Nobody frames for free, except apparently the old you at 11pm. PlumbCut reads your framing plans and counts the studs for you. It builds a materials list and a bid, priced with your numbers, and writes the RFQs (request for quotes) for your subs. You bid in minutes. Then you go to bed.
Your first 10 plan reads are free. No card, no catch, no ‘quick call with sales.’ Doesn’t save you a night on your next bid? You get every dollar back. 30 days.
Plan in, bid out.
- Drop in the plans
Start a job and drop in the plan PDF or a few photos: Hillside Residence, Itasca Duplex, whatever you're bidding. A CAD .dxf file works too. Wait for it… that's the whole step.
- The AI counts it
It reads the drawings. It pulls the walls, doors, windows, beams, and hardware. Then it builds a full materials list priced with your numbers. You walk it, fix anything it missed, and sign off. The computer does the initial counting while you stay the boss.
- Send the bid
Out comes a clean bid with your name on it. Plus RFQs for your subs and the truss yard, in minutes. The evening is yours again.
Everything from plan to paid.
Every stud, plate, sheet, header, nail, and hour the job needs, priced to your yard. The trade calls it a takeoff. Waste is planned for, and it even lays out your header cuts, so you buy full sticks and skip the scrap pile.
No plans yet? A customer wants a number 'real quick, ballpark'? Type in the living and garage square feet. Get a fast whole-house price across 21 trades. One dial tunes it to your town. Done before they finish saying 'ballpark.'
Hand the homeowner a clean, branded estimate PDF: your logo, your colors, the big number, and a cost-by-stage breakdown.
One request per trade, built right off the takeoff, with your build specs attached. Ready to email as text or PDF. No more 'hey can you price this?' texts at 9pm.
Snap a photo or load your yard's price sheet and it reads every line. Load a finished job and it tunes the prices to what you really paid, receipts and all. More than one yard? Load them all, and it shops each item to whoever's cheapest.
Every job saves to the cloud with its plans. Open it right where you left off, in the truck, at the desk, or on your phone. Even the one you started and forgot about.
The yard does takeoffs for free. So why this?
Because the yard’s free takeoff is their sales tool. It takes days, it’s priced to their counter only, and your whole job is sitting on their desk while you wait.
A PlumbCut takeoff is yours. Done tonight, priced to every yard you use, and once you load more than one price sheet, one switch shops each stick to whoever’s cheapest. Send the yard an RFQ built off your own numbers and watch the quote come back sharper.
Love your yard? Keep them. You’ll just walk in knowing the count.
Your prices. Your labor. Your parts. Your name on it. Every company gets its own private space, walled off. No other contractor sees your numbers, especially not the guy underbidding you.
Built by a working framer on the Kenai Peninsula, not a software company that thinks a header is a font size. It counts studs the way you would, because the guy who made it bids these jobs too, and hates making materials lists as much as you do.
This is what comes out.
One good bid pays for the year.
Pro is $990 a year. That’s about 2,400 plan reads, more than you can shake a nail gun at. One read is one plan set, any number of pages. We won’t nickel-and-dime you by the page. That’s your lumber yard’s job.
Everything's in it: materials lists, pricing, quotes, RFQs, exports. You get 10 reads to start. That's 10 total, not 10 a month. Enough to prove it on your own jobs before you trust us with a dime. When the work gets steady, Pro keeps the reads coming.
Start freeThe reads never run out mid-season. About 200 plan reads a month. Nothing to set up, nothing to manage. Built for the crew that needs a quick materials list, or the contractor who bids steady work and wants the plan-to-bid grind gone. Yesterday.
Go ProFor shops with more than one estimator. One shared space. Everyone bids off the same numbers, so two guys don't quote the same job three different ways.
Set up the crewFull Pro: materials lists, priced bids, RFQs, and a workspace tuned to your yard. The first 20 shops lock it in at $29 a month, not the usual $99. That’s $70 saved every month, $840 a year, for as long as you keep your seat. It’s inexpensive because you’re early (and because early users find the bugs). All we ask back is one honest review, once PlumbCut has earned it.
The stuff GCs and framers ask.
What plans can I upload?
Plan PDFs work best, up to 120 pages a set. Send a longer one and it reads the first 120 and tells you exactly which pages it skipped, so nothing goes missing quietly. Clear photos of a plan set work too. So does a CAD .dxf file. When a set is rough (we've all seen rough), you can still fix any count by hand before the bid goes out. The Review tab really dials it in: answer a few questions about the plans in plain English. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
My lumberyard already does takeoffs for free. Why pay you?
Keep taking them, they're useful. Just know what they are: a bid for your lumber order, priced to one counter, on their timeline. PlumbCut gives you your own count the same evening, prices it across every yard you load, and your job never lands on a supplier's desk. With your own takeoff, you're the one doing the shopping.
You say materials list. Is that the same as a takeoff?
Same thing. Takeoff is the estimator's word for the full count a job needs: every stud, sheet, header, and box of nails, straight off the plans. We just call it your materials list, since that's what you hand the yard.
Can I trust the AI to count it right?
It drafts the count. You sign off. It reads the plans and drafts every line, then you walk it and fix anything it missed. Every count is yours to edit. You stay the boss while the AI does the counting.
What counts as a plan read?
One read is one plan set, however many pages. Reading an updated version counts as another read. So does reading your yard's price sheet (price sheets carry across jobs until you scan a new one). Pro gives you about 200 a month, so you'll rarely think about it. We didn't build a meter just to watch you sweat.
Is my pricing private?
Yes. Every company gets its own space, walled off. No other contractor ever sees your numbers. Arming your competition isn't our business model.
Do I have to enter all my prices first?
No. It comes with national defaults, so your first bid works right away. Then it tunes to your yard and your labor over time as you add data, price sheets, and receipts from real jobs. Snap a photo of your price sheet and it reads every line. No spreadsheet, no homework. Extra cookies.
What happens after the 10 free reads?
Nothing charges on its own. There's no card on file. You pick Pro for about 200 reads a month. Your work stays put either way. No hostage situation.
Can I cancel? Is there a refund?
Cancel anytime in your billing settings, no 'are you sure?' guilt trip. Cancel within your first 30 days on Pro? You get all of it back, no questions. After that, cancel whenever, and you keep Pro through the time you already paid for. Nothing charges after. I worked hard on this. It's not for you? No worries, and I'd genuinely appreciate a note on how to make it better.
Is this just framing, or the whole house?
The full materials list is framing: lumber, nails, hold-downs, and the rest. That's the part we do cold. Quick Bid gives you a fast whole-house number for when someone asks the price before you have plans.
Ready to price your next job?
Set up your space, load a plan, and let it do the counting. Your calculator can take the night off.
Read your first 10 plans. Doesn’t save you time on your next bid? Full refund. 30 days. No questions, no hard feelings.