Residential builders work at blistering speed. Homeowners expect daily updates, subcontractors need clear scopes, and suppliers demand exact quantities. Traditional spreadsheets simply cannot keep pace. CountBricks civil estimation software answers this challenge by fusing AI-driven calculation, live material pricing and on-site voice capture into one streamlined workspace designed exclusively for residential teams.
• Smaller project footprints mean margins are razor thin—every off-cut counts
• Multiple design variations often run in parallel, making real-time revisions critical
• Trade crews overlap, so task sequencing must be costed and scheduled together
• Homeowner change orders arrive verbally on site, not in tidy email chains
CountBricks captures these residential realities with tools that translate conversation, blueprints and supplier feeds into clean, sharable numbers in seconds.
Estimators once spent evenings tracing plans and hunting catalogue prices. Cloud spreadsheets helped, but data still had to be typed in. CountBricks moves the industry to the next era with natural language processing. Speak a wall spec—“90 mm stud, 2400 high, 12 m long”—and the platform instantly applies current timber rates, labour allowances and waste factors pulled from our residential cost library.
1. Open a new project in CountBricks.com/portal and select your template (single-storey, duplex, townhouse, custom).
2. Upload PDFs or DWG files. The AI outlines walls, slabs and roofs automatically, ready for takeoff confirmation.
3. Walk the site or review drawings while dictating requirements through your mobile mic. Every phrase is converted to line-items.
4. Review auto-generated assemblies—framing, fix-out, finishes—and adjust mark-ups, waste or crew rates in real time.
5. Click “Generate” to produce a branded estimate, detailed bill of quantities and client-ready PDF proposal. All figures flow straight into CountBricks.com/invoicing when the job is won.
• Speed: Voice capture slashes takeoff time by up to 80 % compared to manual entry.
• Accuracy: Live supplier integrations ensure timber, concrete and hardware prices are always current.
• Consistency: Company-wide templates mean every supervisor prices with the same labour norms.
• Transparency: Automated scope notes eliminate grey areas that trigger costly variations.
• Professionalism: Instant quote documents keep your brand ahead of slower competitors.
Residential builders rarely miss the big numbers—a slab is a slab. Profit leaks through the small stuff: extra noggings, specialised fixings, overtime clean-ups. CountBricks tracks the micro quantities that compound across dozens of dwellings. Over a 10-lot development, our customers report recovering up to 4 % margin—enough to fund a new ute or reinvest in marketing.
• Lock your preferred supplier as default to see negotiated rates first
• Use voice snippets to tag potential variations while still on site
• Clone high-rise wall assemblies into duplex projects to maintain consistency
• Activate auto-waste rules—3 % framing, 10 % plaster—to capture real costs
• Sync CountBricks.com/scheduling to push approved estimates straight into task calendars
CountBricks partnered with Summit View Constructions on a trio of 220 m² townhomes in Melbourne. Using our civil estimation software, the site manager dictated framing specs while walking the slab. The system generated a complete structural package in 15 minutes. Mid-build, the client requested a skylight addition. The variation was priced and sent before the meeting ended, securing a signed approval and zero delay to the program. Final reconciliation showed material overruns reduced by 6 %, translating to $18,400 saved.
• Export cost codes directly to your accounting package for seamless purchasing
• Pull project budgets into CountBricks.com/portfolio to benchmark future jobs
• Use our open API to feed live quantities into on-site inventory apps
Ready to leave spreadsheets behind? Book a personalised demo at CountBricks.com/consultation. In 30 minutes you’ll watch your own drawings transform into a polished estimate—no more after-hours number crunching, just confident, data-driven pricing.
Traditional takeoff tools require tedious clicking around every wall and opening. CountBricks replaces this with an AI vision engine trained on thousands of residential plans. The moment a PDF is uploaded, the software highlights structural elements, prompts for wall heights and detects scale issues.
• Plans evolve weekly—automatic re-takeoffs mean you always quote the latest set
• Complex roof geometries are calculated in seconds, preventing costly cladding overruns
• Detected discrepancies, such as missing beam call-outs, are flagged before site pour day
1. Confirm detected elements and assign them to trade packages.
2. CountBricks auto-builds a chronological task list: excavation, footing steel, slab pour, frame erect, lock-up.
3. Each task inherits quantities and labour norms, feeding directly into CountBricks.com/scheduling.
The Bayside Duplex Project uploaded revision D at 7 pm. By 7 : 23 pm, CountBricks produced a fresh takeoff, revised estimate and updated subcontractor scopes. The builder emailed the new figures that night, keeping trust high and program intact.
Schedule a blueprint takeoff masterclass at CountBricks.com/services and watch our AI measure, cost and schedule your next build before your coffee cools.
