Upload the drawing, photo, or sketch. RailTakeoff gives you an editable cut list, material, weld ops, and labor hours. You drop in your own rates and margin. It does the counting; you keep the pricing.
Sample: a sloped square-tube picket guard, ~18'-6" run. RailTakeoff reads the members and dimensions and itemizes the build. The green column is yours to set.
| Item | Spec | Qty | Your rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top rail | 1½" SCH40 pipe | 18.5 ft | — |
| Bottom rail | 1½" SCH40 pipe | 18.5 ft | — |
| Posts | 1½" SCH80 pipe | 7 @ 3.75 ft | — |
| Pickets | ½" sq bar | ~49 pcs | — |
| Fab labor | cut · fit · weld · finish | ~8.3 hr | $ / hr |
Every line editable. Add your markup, export a branded quote PDF. It remembers your rates next time.
Sample output shown. Accuracy validated against real dimensioned shop drawings before launch.
Same real shop drawing, given to both. Free ChatGPT misread the units, guessed the wrong sections, and wouldn’t give a picket count or hours. Both outputs below are real.
It does the takeoff grunt-work — counting pickets, listing members, totaling hours. Your rates, your margin, your call. It never quotes for you.
Drawing to a reviewable takeoff in minutes, not hours after dinner. When the GC is shopping three shops, the fast accurate quote wins.
Every finished job makes it sharper at the way you build — not a generic cycle-time formula. The longer you run it, the better it fits.
Upload a PDF, paste your prices, done. No ERP migration, no month-long onboarding, no software nobody on the floor will use.
Flat and unlimited — quote as much as you want. One won railing bid pays for a year.
We’re looking for ten railing shops to run the beta with us. You put real drawings through it, you tell us what it gets wrong, we sharpen it on your kind of work. First 10 takeoffs free, then $99/mo locked for life. Leave your shop email and we’ll set you up.