Electrical estimators have been doing the same job for decades — count fixtures, measure runs, group by circuit, hand off a bill of materials. The software they do it with hasn't kept up. Bluebeam was designed in 2002. PlanSwift in 2008. Both are Windows-only. Both cost real money. Neither was built for what an estimator actually does, eight hours a day.
TakeOn started as a frustration: a small electrical contractor wanted to do takeoff on a MacBook, and could not. The Windows-VM workaround was slow. The web-based alternatives were either incomplete or built like heavyweight enterprise SaaS. There was no modern option built for a small shop.
So we built one. Web-based, fast, with a property and grouping system that's more flexible than anything the commercial tools ship — and built for the small shops the incumbents never modernized for.
Who it's for
Small shops. Sharp estimators.
Small to mid-sized electrical contractors, independent estimators, and the occasional general contractor who's tired of paying enterprise prices for software that runs in a VM. If you're estimating five to fifty jobs a year and the existing tools feel like overkill, TakeOn is for you.
Where we are
Idaho-based, US-served.
TakeOn is built in Idaho. Servers are hosted in US-East. We focus on North American electrical contractors today — international support and metric scales are on the roadmap as the user base expands.
Get in touch
We answer fast.
Email contact@takeonbid.com for feature requests, bug reports, or just to tell us what's missing. Live chat is on the roadmap. Until then, every email lands directly with the team.