In residential construction, every board-foot, square, and fixture must be captured before ground is broken. That capture process—known as the take off—drives labor schedules, purchasing, and ultimately profit. Yet many crews still rely on manual spreadsheets or dated desktop programs that stall momentum and invite errors. CountBricks replaces those pain points with real-time, AI-driven take offs that start the moment you speak.
Natural voice workflow • Superintendents walk the site or review a plan set while narrating scope and dimensions. CountBricks converts speech to structured data instantly.
Live material pricing • Our cloud database monitors regional suppliers so studs, sheathing, fasteners, and finishes reflect today’s cost, not last quarter’s.
Task-based labor mapping • CountBricks AI matches quantities to crew hours at residential production rates, giving you realistic schedules instead of hopeful guesses.
One-click quote documents • Branded proposals, alternates, and exclusions generate automatically and are ready to send the same day.
1. Manual counting leads to missed items, especially when last-minute revisions slip in.
2. Static price books become outdated within weeks during volatile markets.
3. Isolated spreadsheets hide assumptions, making it hard for project managers to audit numbers.
4. Time lost on data entry steals billable hours from high-value field tasks.
1. Start a voice session on mobile or desktop and invite team members to listen.
2. Describe each room or plan area. “Main floor framing: two-by-six exterior walls, 1,240 linear feet.”
3. Watch quantities populate in real time while the system fetches live supplier pricing.
4. Review suggested assemblies—wall sections, roof systems, trim packages—and accept or adjust rates.
5. Generate a complete cost breakdown and export an invoice or full proposal.
For plan sets that arrive as PDFs, CountBricks offers AI blueprint take offs. Upload drawings, set a single scale, and let the platform detect walls, windows, doors, and square footages. Then fine-tune with clicks instead of redlines.
Bright Beam Carpentry, a CountBricks client, framed 54 townhomes last year. Their superintendent switched from paper counts to CountBricks take offs and saw:
• 31% reduction in lumber overages
• Two days saved per project on estimating
• 6% net margin increase, credited to tighter material control
View more success stories at CountBricks.com/portfolio.
• Faster bid turnaround means you hit more opportunities before competitors respond.
• Accurate quantities cut waste, lowering disposal fees and boosting sustainability metrics.
• Integrated labor mapping helps you staff crews appropriately, avoiding overtime surprises.
• Professional, branded documents impress homeowners and general contractors alike.
• Use voice tags like “alternate” or “upgrade” to create option pricing on the fly.
• Connect CountBricks to your accounting platform so accepted quotes become job cost codes automatically.
• Set preferred vendor lists to lock in negotiated rates and highlight savings in client proposals.
• Build template assemblies—kitchens, bath rough-ins, deck packages—to reuse on similar models.
• Schedule weekly price refreshes in the dashboard to stay ahead of market swings.
Do I need special hardware? • No. Any smartphone or browser with a microphone works.
Can I export to my project management tool? • Yes, via CSV or direct API available at CountBricks.com/services.
How accurate are AI blueprint take offs? • Internal testing across 200 plan sets shows ±2% variance versus manual counts—and that gap shrinks further after user review.
Visit CountBricks.com/consultation to book a live demonstration. Bring a recent plan or scope sheet and we’ll produce a side-by-side comparison of your current estimating method versus CountBricks AI take offs. Most residential contractors recoup subscription costs within the first successful bid.
Residential construction margins are too tight to leave quantities to chance. By merging voice recognition, AI object detection, and live pricing, CountBricks elevates take offs from a tedious chore to a strategic advantage. Faster, more accurate estimates mean more projects won and more profit retained—job after job.
Unlike generic estimating software, CountBricks trains its models on your historical project data. The more jobs you run through the platform, the more precise future take offs become.
• The system tracks actual usage versus estimated quantities, then refines waste allowances for each assembly. A framing crew with consistently low waste on joists will see future joist factors trimmed automatically.
• CountBricks aggregates invoices you approve and pairs them with supplier feeds. Over time it produces localized price curves, alerting you to buy-ahead opportunities when OSB or copper trends upward.
When Skyline began using CountBricks, their bathroom remodels routinely ran 5% over budget on tile and thin-set. After five projects, the AI recognized a pattern: subfloor prep hours were being under-allocated. The platform adjusted labor coefficients and surfaced a reminder to include leveling compound. Overruns disappeared, and Skyline now bids bathrooms with confidence.
1. Push approved take offs directly to purchase orders and schedule deliveries.
2. Sync line items with job-cost codes so field supervisors see real-time budget consumption.
3. Export progress invoices reflecting actual quantities installed.
Contractors who master take offs master their profit. CountBricks gives you the tools to do both in less time than it takes to hand-count a roof plan. Visit CountBricks.com/services to start your free trial and put AI accuracy to work on your next residential build.
