Quantities are taken off the IFC model or the drawings, prices come from a base your studio keeps current, material variants switch with one click. The client gets the estimate the day the concept is handed over, the bank and the contractor in their own format.
The permit design is done, the client asks about cost, the external estimator has a queue. By the time the estimate comes back, the design has changed twice.
A price base in Excel, updated when someone has a moment. The contractor's bid comes in noticeably higher and the client asks who got it wrong.
The client wants to see the difference between render and a ventilated facade. That is two days of recalculating, so the studio says "roughly" and loses the argument.
We build around how your studio estimates today: in Norma, Zuzia or Excel. The estimate sits next to the project in ArchiFlow or in the tool you run projects in.
Three years ago features like these needed a data science team. Today language models read emails, documents and photos, and we build them into the system we make for you. Below is what makes sense in this solution. A person approves, AI prepares.
A PDF or scan of a contractor's bid becomes unit prices with a date and source. The estimator approves and the base updates.
Example a 42-item bid for the structural shell in PDF → 42 unit prices to approve, with those above the base highlighted
A new layer in the model or an item from a drawing gets a proposed catalogue item and consumption norm. The estimator clicks "yes" or corrects it.
Example layer "ext. wall silicate 24 + EPS 20" in IFC → catalogue item "external wall type A" with a price per m²
A roof price per m² three times higher than in similar projects, no insulation at the foundation wall, an empty services section. The warning shows before the estimate is sent.
Example an estimate with no "lightning protection" item on a metal roof → a flag asking whether it was left out on purpose
The client or the architect asks in plain language, and the answer comes from the estimate items and the price base.
Example "how much does switching to triple-glazed windows cost in the standard variant?" → the price difference with a list of the items that change
We take the model from Archicad or Revit through IFC, prices from Sekocenbud and your own price lists. If the studio estimates in Norma or Zuzia, we exchange items with them through exports.
We start with how the studio estimates today and with a typical building. Estimates for current projects are done the old way until the new one gives the same result.
You have the diagnosis, we build the solution. Web applications, B2B portals and automations for companies without a large IT department. Today a system can read emails and documents, suggest decisions and answer customers on its own, so we build that in from the first version, not as an add-on a year later.
We agree scope, price and dates upfront, show progress every week, and the code and data stay yours.
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Send us your last estimate and tell us how it came together. We will say what can be taken off the model, what has to be entered by hand, and how long it takes.
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