Axiom Estimating — the premier estimating software forgeneral contractors, subcontractors, and vendors.
Manual and automated takeoffs from PDFs and IFC models. Estimate by CSI MasterFormat and industry‑standard assemblies. Level subcontractor bids side‑by‑side. Ship proposals, GC sheets, and leveling emails from one source of truth.
A live look at Axiom Estimating.
Every screen below is the real product — dashboards, drawings, takeoffs, estimates, proposals, and bid leveling working from one source of truth.
Every capability, shown on the real product.
Axiom Estimating LLC unifies drawings, takeoffs, estimates, bid leveling, and proposals in one workspace — no plugins, no spreadsheets, no lock‑in.
Measure straight from the drawings.
Calibrate any PDF and click to measure areas, lengths, and counts — or let the takeoff engine extract CSI‑coded quantities from the plan set automatically. IFC 3D models auto‑quantify walls, doors, windows, and slabs.
- PDF + IFC 3D support
- Area · length · count
- CSI-coded line items
MasterFormat from division to line item.
Estimate by CSI divisions and sub‑codes or roll up industry‑standard assemblies. Editable unit costs, regional labor factors, and general conditions live alongside every line.
- Assembly library
- Regional labor factors
- Live division totals
Every subcontractor, side by side.
Normalize scope and price by CSI code across every bid you receive. Variance flags surface risk before award day, and templated leveling emails go out to each sub in one click.
- Division-level comparison
- Automatic variance flags
- Templated sub emails
Deliver the bid, not a mess.
Generate proposal PDFs, GC sheets by trade role, and scope narratives from the same source of truth that drove your takeoff and estimate.
- One-click proposal PDF
- GC sheet by role
- Scope · qualifications · exclusions
Version-controlled plan room.
Plan sets, specs, RFIs, and addenda live in one versioned document store — no size caps, no lost revisions, no email chains.
- Unlimited plan sets
- Version history
- RFI + addenda tracking
From drawings to bid‑day in four moves.
No proprietary lock‑in. No spreadsheets on shared drives. Axiom is the connective tissue between your drawings, your subs, and your bid decisions.
- 01Upload drawings or IFCPDFs, plan sets, or BIM models — parsed in the browser.
- 02Take off manually or automaticallyClick to measure on the drawing, or let the takeoff engine extract CSI-coded line items with quantities, units, and unit costs seeded from your library.
- 03Estimate & level bidsRefine costs, invite subs, and level bids side-by-side by division.
- 04Ship proposals & GC sheetsOne-click proposal PDF, GC sheet by role, and templated leveling emails to each sub.
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