Professional take‑offs.
Without the salary.
An in-house estimator is a six-figure salary, a software licence and a desk — carried every week of the year, whether there is a tender on or not. Red Dot is the same work, done by an estimator who already owns the tools, priced per job.
What every bill of quantities carries
You cannot hire a fifth of an estimator.
The work is lumpy. Three tenders close in a week, then nothing for a fortnight. A salary is not lumpy. So builders either carry an estimator through the quiet weeks, or they price tenders at midnight and hope the quantities hold.
Red Dot is the third option. Send a set when you have one. Pay for that set. Nothing sitting on the payroll in between.
Most builders price their own jobs. At night.
If you have ever won a tender and then watched the job come in over — or lost one you should have had — the number was usually decided in the hours you did not have. Quantities eyeballed at 10pm after a day on site is not a failure of skill. It is a failure of time.
A measured bill of quantities does not replace your judgement about rates. It replaces the guessing about how much there is.
Overflow, and a second set of eyes.
When three tenders close in the same week, your estimator becomes the bottleneck and something gets rushed. We take the take-off off the pile without you hiring anyone.
And on the jobs you cannot afford to get wrong, a second measurement from a different method is a cheap way to find out you were right — or that you were not, while it still costs nothing.
No licence to buy
Bluebeam Revu, the take-off standard the industry already works in, plus our own geometry extraction. Our tools, our cost.
No salary to carry
Per job, per set. Scale up for a busy month and back down again without a conversation with anybody.
Your rates stay yours
We measure. You price. Nobody knows your subbies or your buying power better than you do, and we never pretend otherwise.
Drawing set to priced BOQ in four steps.
No onboarding, no subscription, no minimum. Send a set and see what comes back.
See exactly what lands in your inboxSend the set
Architectural, structural, stormwater, BASIX — whatever you have. The more you send, the more accurate the estimate can be.
Calibrated take-off
Every sheet is proven against its own written dimensions before a single quantity comes off it.
Professional review
An estimator with real Australian construction experience checks every line. The tools are fast. The sign-off is human.
Your BOQ lands
Editable Excel with a Your Rate column, a summary report, and a quote sheet for every package trade.
The first one is free. Judge us on it.
Nobody hands a tender to someone they have not seen work. So take a set free, mark it against a job you already know, and only come back if the quantities stand up.