Capstone Cost & Quantity Surveyor
AI Construction Estimating
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Capstone's AI reads your plans and returns a full, all-trades estimate — quantities, pricing, and risk — before a legacy tool finishes loading. Bid more jobs. Win more work. Stop losing bids to speed.
You can't bid what you can't measure fast enough. Every contractor hits the same wall.
A manual takeoff eats days. By the time it's done, the bid window's closing and your team's buried.
Senior estimators are scarce and pricey — and the legacy software costs $3–8K per seat, per year, on top.
One missed trade or fat-fingered quantity turns a winning bid into a money-losing job. No safety net.
Drag in a PDF plan set or DXF. No templates, no install, no consultant onboarding.
Every trade, every quantity — cited to the source sheet, with a confidence gate your estimator confirms.
Your price book fills it in. Add risk & range, export a branded proposal, win the job.
Itemized, all-trades takeoff with source-sheet citations and a verification gate before anything hits your bid.
P10/P50/P80/P90 confidence bands via Monte-Carlo, a risk register, and maturity-based contingency.
Start from an AI national baseline, then build your private, learning price book. Your numbers stay yours.
Every estimate becomes a job: status pipeline, AI receipt scanning, and live budget-vs-actual.
Price labor by crew output (man-hours/unit) × wage × region, size, complexity, and shift factors.
AI scope-gap checks, pricing benchmarks, and natural-language Q&A on any estimate.
The tools contractors evaluate today — and where Capstone pulls ahead.
| Feature | ★ Best valueCapstone | RIB CostX | STACK |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic AI blueprint takeoff | ✓ | ✕ manual on-screen | auto-count assist |
| All-trades estimate (whole building) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Runs in your browser — no install | ✓ | ✕ Windows desktop | ✓ |
| Risk & Range (Monte-Carlo) | ✓ built-in | add-on | ✕ |
| Labor productivity engine | ✓ | partial | ✕ |
| AI scope-gap & QS assistant | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Time to first estimate | Minutes | Weeks | Days |
| Free trial | ✓ 7 days | ✕ demo only | ✓ |
| Typical price | $149/mo | $3–8K/yr | $2,999/yr+ |
Drag the sliders. Watch what you'd save — and how many more bids you could chase.
Capstone returns a reviewed takeoff in ~15 minutes (0.25 hr) of estimator time instead of hours each.
"We're sending three times the bids with the same estimating team. That's pure top-line growth."
"A takeoff that used to cost two days now takes a coffee break — and it catches trades my guys missed."
"It replaced a $40K/year seat and does more. The board asked why we didn't switch sooner."
Less than a day of an estimator's time — every month, for your whole team's superpower.
Start free today. Your first takeoff takes about 90 seconds.