AI + Operations / Construction

Turning construction plans into structured estimating workflows.

AutoTakeoff

Cass & York built an AI-assisted construction application that combines project plans, measurement tools, material workflows, document processing, and billing in one platform.

The situation

Construction estimating begins with information embedded in plans.

Turning those plans into usable quantities requires people to inspect documents, understand scale, identify materials, measure drawings, and organize the resulting data around a project.

AutoTakeoff was designed around that workflow.

What we built

Plans, measurements, materials, and billing in one platform.

The application uses both JavaScript and Python document tooling alongside multiple AI providers.

  • +Project management
  • +PDF plan viewing
  • +Vector overlays
  • +Drawing tools
  • +Scale selection
  • +DPI calibration
  • +Measurements
  • +Material records
  • +Material locations
  • +Price history
  • +AI-assisted document analysis
  • +OCR and PDF processing
  • +Billing and subscriptions
  • +Account workflows

The workflow

Document understanding connected to estimating.

01

Construction plans

02

PDF processing

03

Scale & measurement

04

AI-assisted interpretation

05

Materials & quantities

06

Project estimate workflow

The value comes from connecting document understanding to the larger estimating process rather than treating AI extraction as an isolated feature.

Working with construction documents

The plan and the project data share one workspace.

Dedicated tools for interacting with plans allow document information and project data to exist in the same application.

  • +PDF viewer
  • +Vector overlays
  • +Drawing toolbar
  • +Scale selector
  • +DPI calibration
  • +Measurement display
  • +Material tables

Technical foundation

A mixed application and document-processing stack.

  • +React
  • +TypeScript
  • +Node.js / Express
  • +PostgreSQL
  • +Drizzle
  • +Python PDF processing
  • +PyMuPDF
  • +OCR
  • +OpenAI
  • +Anthropic
  • +Google Generative AI
  • +Stripe

Relevant capabilities

The capabilities behind the platform.

Custom Operations Software

Projects, materials, measurements, and estimating workflows.

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Document Intelligence

Construction PDFs become interactive sources of operational data.

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AI Automation

AI assists with interpretation and takeoff workflows.

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Cass & York builds software around document-heavy estimating and operational processes.

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