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AI drafts your takeoff and your bid. You trace every number back to the plan, adjust what matters, and submit with confidence.

Plankore Core is free. No credit card required.
Free

Plankore Core

Everything you need to measure, price, and export a bid from your browser, with full control over every number.  Free to use, 5 projects /month. 

Plankore Core plan view showing a residential floor plan with color-coded area, wall, and count measurements beside an itemized takeoff list of quantities in linear feet, each, and square feet
1

Upload your plan set

Start a project and drop in your PDFs. Cloud-based with nothing to install, on Mac or Windows.

2

Measure with precision

Area, linear, and count takeoff on any sheet, commercial or residential, with document text search to find what you need fast.

3

Estimate in a familiar grid

Excel-style estimating with cost, waste, and markup, so your numbers work the way you already do.

4

Collaborate and export

Share your project with editors and viewers, then export to Excel in your own bid format.

Beta

Plankore Pro

Everything in Plankore Core, plus AI Takeoff and AI Bid that speeds up the first pass without taking the numbers out of your hands.

AI Takeoff

Fast, reviewable takeoff and estimating for larger residential and commercial projects.

1

Upload and organize plans

Work from a cloud-based workspace with unlimited projects and plan uploads.

2

Let AI speed up setup

Search plan text, auto-name sheets, and detect scale.

3

Detect faster. Measure with control.

AI detects areas, walls, windows, and doors; you verify with area, linear, and count tools.

4

Estimate and export

Add cost, waste, and markup, then export to Excel.

AI Takeoff interface showing a plan with measured walls, rooms, and an itemized takeoff list

AI Bid

Fast first bids for residential projects, built to be reviewed, adjusted, and traced back to the source.

1

Start with your scope

Upload plans and describe the project scope in plain language.

2

Generate a first bid

AI creates a draft bid using Plankore's takeoff and estimating engine.

3

Trace every number

Review source sheets, quantities, formulas, and assumptions.

4

Adjust before submitting

Edit quantities, add takeoff, update pricing, and keep control of the final bid.

AI bid interface showing a source-traceable estimate with line items, quantities, and a total bid
Why us

Built by people who understand plans, estimates, and AI

"Bidding was my pain. I tried the existing tools and none of them worked the way I needed. So we built the one I actually wanted, and it shows me where every number comes from."

Other tools hand you a number. Plankore shows you the math.

Khoi Nguyen

Khoi Nguyen, P.E., GC

Professional Engineer · Plan Checker · Licensed GC

Khoi Nguyen, P.E., GC
Construction & Estimating

Khoi Nguyen, P.E., GC

Licensed P.E., GC, and plan-check professional who has designed and reviewed thousands of plans, and bid and built hundreds of real projects, so Plankore is built around how jobs actually get estimated.

Minh Vo, Ph.D.
AI & Computer Vision

Minh Vo, Ph.D.

CMU Ph.D. and former tech lead at Meta Reality Labs, with 48 papers and 4,800+ citations in computer vision. Now building the engine that reads, measures, and reasons over your plans.

Kathy Le, MBA
Product & Customer Workflows

Kathy Le, MBA

Head of Product for Yelp’s $1B SMB business and a Chicago Booth MBA, with 15 years turning messy operator workflows into software used by 7M businesses, including contractors.

Who We Serve

Estimating Shouldn't Be the Bottleneck

Whether you manage a team of estimators or bid jobs yourself, Plankore helps you move faster while keeping every quantity reviewable.

The Owner-Led Contractor

The Owner-Led Contractor

Get your weekends and evenings back.

You’re still doing takeoffs after hours. Plankore helps you create a faster estimate, review the numbers, and keep control before you submit.

The Growing Contractor

The Growing Contractor

More bid opportunities. Same team.

Plans keep coming in, but estimating capacity isn't keeping up. Use AI Takeoff setup, takeoff, and estimating to bid more jobs without adding estimating overhead.

The Preconstruction Team

The Preconstruction Team

Manual takeoff slows every bid down.

Managing a team of estimators means chasing down changes and checking work. Plankore gives your team a faster, more accurate way to produce estimates.

Works across every trade
ConcreteFramingDrywallRoofingPlumbingElectricalFlooringHVACMasonryPaintingSteelConcreteFramingDrywallRoofingPlumbingElectricalFlooringHVACMasonryPaintingSteel

Simple, Transparent Pricing

No annual lock-in required. Save 15% if you choose annual.

DIGITAL TOOLS

Core

Fast cloud-based digital takeoff, estimating, and Excel export. No AI, full control.


 
Free
  • 5 projects per month
  • Area, linear, and count takeoffs
  • Excel-style estimating & export
  • Document text search
  • Cloud-based, nothing to install
  • Team collaboration: 3 editors, unlimited viewers
EVERYTHING WITH AI

Pro (Beta)

AI Takeoff plus AI Bid.


 
$125/user · month
Save 15% with annual billing

Everything in Core, plus:

  • Unlimited projects
  • AI walls and areas takeoff
  • AI windows and doors takeoff
  • AI sheet naming and scale detection
  • AI one-click bid for any project < 150 pages
  • 100 AI credits per month
  • Priority support
CUSTOM

Enterprise

A tailored workflow built around your team, templates, and cost data. We build it for you.


 
Custom
Custom pricing for teams

Everything in Pro (Beta), plus:

  • Custom AI credit volume for your team
  • Custom AI workflows built for your projects
  • Your cost database and estimate templates
  • Team onboarding and training
  • Dedicated support with a direct line to founders
FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Plankore Core is free — no credit card required. The free plan includes 5 projects and plan uploads per month, area, linear, and count takeoff, Excel-style estimating and Excel export, and team collaboration with 3 editors and unlimited viewers. We intend to keep Plankore Core free. If that ever changes, we'll provide at least 90 days' advance notice. You can also export your projects to Excel at any time, so your data is never locked in.
Plankore Core is manual: you measure, estimate, and export to Excel. Plankore Pro is in beta and adds automated wall, area, window, and door detection, sheet naming, scale detection, one-click AI Bid, and unlimited projects. Both let you trace every quantity back to the plan sheet.
No. Plankore Core is free to start with no payment details, no sales call, and no demo required. You can upload a plan set and run a takeoff the same day. Payment is only needed if you move to Plankore Pro.
Yes. Plankore runs in any modern browser on Mac, Windows, or Chromebook with nothing to install. Most established takeoff tools are Windows-only desktop software, so Mac users often have no option other than a virtual machine.
AI detection speeds up the first pass, but it isn't a replacement for estimator judgement. Plankore shows every AI-generated quantity alongside the source sheet, formula, and assumptions so you can verify or correct it before the number reaches your bid.
Plankore Core is the manual takeoff and estimating platform. You can measure area, linear, and count takeoffs, build estimates, and export to Excel.
AI Takeoff is in beta. It helps auto-name sheets, detect scale, and identify walls, areas, windows, and doors. You still review and control every quantity.
AI Bid creates a fast first bid for residential projects. You can trace the numbers, edit quantities, add takeoff, and update pricing before submitting.
AI Takeoff & Estimate measures your plans and builds the estimate. AI Bid turns that takeoff into a one-click, source-traceable bid. Both are in beta inside Plankore Pro, which is open to design partners.
Plankore Core is free and available now for takeoff, estimating, and Excel export. AI Takeoff and AI Bid are in beta inside Plankore Pro, which is open to design partners.
Yes. You can export estimates to Excel and keep using your own bid format or cost templates.
No. Plankore runs in your browser.
No. Paid plans can be billed monthly and canceled anytime. Annual billing is optional and saves 15%.
Both. Takeoff works on any plan set; AI Bid is residential-first.
Contractors, estimators, and preconstruction teams who want faster takeoff and estimating without losing control of the numbers.
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