Everything TakeOn does, in the order it matters.

Hold Q while you draw a conduit run and the Quick Wheel opens under your cursor. Flick toward a slice and let go: the run's next point goes down, and it counts a junction box, a pull box, or whatever you've put on the wheel. A colored marker stays on that point. The tally replaces a click you were making anyway, so there's no tool to switch to and no run to pick back up.

The count lives on the point, so it can't drift from the drawing. Delete the point and the count comes off with it. Hover a finished run to see what it tallied. Tallies sum into your totals and can feed name formats and quantity formulas.

A slice can measure instead of count. Switch it on where the run drops into the slab and off where it comes out, and that stretch's footage is recorded beside the run's total. Route to… is on the same wheel, to finish a homerun to its panel.

Templates are reusable definitions of the things you count and measure. Each one has its own custom properties — wire type, gauge, circuit, fixture model, mounting style, anything you want.

Value lists keep input consistent. Conditional properties hide fields that don't apply. Sticky properties carry forward to the next placement so you don't re-enter circuit numbers all day.

Bracket-name formatting builds annotation labels from property values automatically — "L-1 [Type A] [277V]" instead of you typing the same string a hundred times.

Two annotations with the same template but different property values land in separate groups. Each group gets its own color, its own count, its own running total.

Roll up by template ("all lighting fixtures") or drill in by property ("only Type C, 277V on circuit L-1"). One takeoff supports any breakdown your estimating spreadsheet wants.

No competitor — across open source or commercial — does this. It's the single biggest reason estimators move to TakeOn.

Find Similar matches one symbol you draw against every instance on the page. Confidence is a slider, false positives dismiss with a click, and nothing lands in the takeoff until you accept the set.

Chat with your spec book: ask a 600-page specification a question in plain language and get an answer that cites the exact pages, with one click to jump there. It's retrieval grounded in your document — every claim points back to a page you can verify, not a guess.

Upload a drawing set and the sheets are numbered, named, and scaled from their title blocks automatically. When a title block is unusual, drag a box over one and the same extraction runs on every page — results land in a preview you edit before any of it sticks.

Note OCR pulls text from any region on the PDF straight into a note. Works on rasterized scans and native PDF text both. Edit it, keep it, scrap it.

TakeOn speaks MCP, the open standard AI assistants use to connect to tools. Point Claude — or any MCP client — at your workspace and it can read your takeoff and priced bid, search your spec book, pull your schedules, and look at a sheet.

We're not selling you another chatbot. You bring the assistant you already pay for and already trust; TakeOn hands it the facts. Ask in your own words, build your own workflows, and swap assistants whenever a better one comes along.

You stay in charge. Pick which workspaces a connection can reach, and keep it read-only unless you grant editing. Anything an assistant changes is labelled in the page history, where you can roll it back — and no assistant can delete a project, change sharing, or rewind a checkpoint. Revoke a connection any time from Settings.

Draw a box around a panel schedule, a luminaire schedule, or a one-line diagram and get an editable table back — or scan whole sheets at once and pick which schedules to keep. Panel schedules come in the two-sided layout an electrician expects, header block included.

Map the columns to a template's properties and the schedule turns into takeoff. Create Takeoff goes a step further: it finds each fixture's mark — the L1 or A2 tag printed beside the symbol — on the sheets you pick, and stamps the counts for you to review. A one-line's feeders come in as linear runs.

One-lines are cross-checked against the panel schedules you've captured, so a mismatched rating shows up before bid day. Export any schedule to CSV, Excel, or PDF.

Mark your panels as Landmarks once. Then, from either end of a run, choose Route to… and pick the panel — TakeOn routes the conduit there, steering around keep-out zones and running alongside conduit already headed the same way.

Runs don't stop at the edge of the sheet. Match lines and portals carry a homerun across to the neighbouring area, and a panel on another floor is reachable too — the length of every leg lands in your totals.

That works because TakeOn maps your drawings onto the building: it reads the column grid straight from the line work, lines sheets up by floor and area, and places buildings on the site plan. Basic mapping sets up a whole job in one pass.

When an addendum lands, upload it as a new version of the document. The Combined set always shows every sheet at its newest issue, and your takeoff follows a sheet forward to the new version — scale included.

Overlay any sheet on its previous issue in one click. The Diff view colours what was added and what was removed, so you spot the change in seconds instead of flipping back and forth.

Save a named checkpoint before a change order comes in, then export the takeoff against it to compare line-item quantities — Added, Changed, Removed, with exact deltas. Every page also keeps its own history, with a scrubber to look back and a one-click restore.

Open a project in two browsers and you'll see each other's cursors in real time. Annotations, property edits, page navigation — all live. No saving, no refresh, no "are you in the file right now?"

Share individual projects or plans by link. Per-resource permissions mean you can hand a single plan to a sub without giving them the whole workspace.

Follow another estimator's view to walk a plan together — useful for handoffs, training, and bid-day check-ins. A project-wide Comments panel keeps the conversation next to the takeoff, and the page list shows who's on which sheet.

Every count and measurement updates totals as you go. No "compute" button. No waiting for a recalc.

Totals exist at three levels: per group, per page, and across the whole plan. Click any number to see the contributing annotations.

Export to Excel covers Plan, Name, Qty, Unit, and every custom property column. PDF export composites every annotation back on the original sheets, ready to email to a GC.

Give your templates a material cost and labor hours and the takeoff prices itself. The Bid Summary walks from material and labor through burden, tax, contingency, overhead, and profit to a sell price — and shows the gross margin your markup actually produces.

Keep a workspace material catalog (import it from CSV, Excel, or a ProEst export) and build assemblies, so one count expands into the box, ring, device, and plate behind it. Labor units, labor factors, and per-role rates are there when a job needs them.

Price alternates as adders and change orders as their own mini-bids. Add lines with no takeoff behind them — permits, temp power, a quoted sub — in a spreadsheet-style Estimate Grid. Then generate a branded proposal or takeoff report as a PDF.