Bild AI

What is Bild AI?

Bild AI is an AI-powered takeoff tool for Division 8 construction scope, which covers doors, frames and hardware. It reads plans and specifications and produces openings, hardware sets and quantities for estimating. It is built for Division 8 distributors and estimators.

Key capabilities of Bild AI

• Door schedule extraction: Pulls door schedules and hardware sets from plans and specs and maps each opening to its set.
• Hardware sizing: Sizes and splits items such as kick plates, thresholds and astragals by opening dimensions.
• Door detection: Detects doors on floor plans and reconciles them with the schedule.
• Manufacturer alternates: Suggests approved alternates for hinges, closers and locksets.
• Revision tracking: Tracks added and deleted openings across 30, 50 and 70 percent drawing sets.
• Mismatch checks: Cross-checks plans, schedules and specs to flag items for RFIs.

How Bild AI works

You upload plans and specifications, and Bild AI finds doors, builds the schedule and assigns hardware sets. An AI assistant called Bildy handles bulk edits written in plain English inside a web-based estimating view. Results export in formats for import into quoting systems.

Who uses Bild AI?

Division 8 distributors and estimators are the audience. The vendor cites one distributor with more than $100 million in annual revenue reporting 40 to 60 percent more bids per estimator, which is a single vendor-supplied example.

Bild AI pricing

Bild AI does not publish pricing. Prospects contact the company or upload plans to learn more, so pricing is available from the vendor.

Bild AI alternatives

HouseCanary is a property valuation and real estate analytics provider, a different job from construction takeoff. CodeComply focuses on checking building plans against code requirements rather than quantity takeoff. Hello Data is another data-oriented tool in the same marketplace category and does not target Division 8 specifically.