Kreo AI Takeoff and Estimating

Kreo Software was founded in 2016 by Magomed Galaev and is headquartered in London. It builds AI tools that automate the routine measuring and counting work of quantity surveyors and estimators, who still spend much of their time tracing drawings by hand before they can price a tender.

The cloud platform reads PDF, DWG, DXF, DWF, DGN and image drawings without conversion. Auto Measure detects rooms, walls, doors and windows and calculates finishes and gross and net areas, while symbol counting, scale detection and drawing comparison speed up revisions. Quantities link live to estimates and a shared cost database, and Caddie, an AI agent, takes natural language instructions to run measurements, build bills of quantities and export Excel reports. Customers are contractors, developers and design firms, mainly in North America, Europe and Oceania.

• Auto Measure: Detects rooms, walls, doors and windows and calculates finishes and floor areas.
• Symbol counting: Counts repeated symbols such as fixtures and devices automatically.
• Drawing comparison: Highlights changes between drawing revisions to update quantities.
• Live-linked estimates: Connects measurements to estimates and a shared cost database.
• Caddie AI agent: Plans and executes takeoff, BOQ and export tasks from natural language.
• APIs and BIM export: Offers platform, cost database and Auto Measure APIs plus IFC export.

A Vietnamese general contractor can speed up quantity takeoff for apartment and office tenders from PDF or DWG drawings. A finishing or MEP subcontractor can count fixtures and measure finishes automatically when drawings change. A developer's cost control team can compare revisions and update budgets quickly.

Kreo serves more than 1,500 customers worldwide and states that its AI takeoff agent reaches expert-level quality of 94.5-98.5% and can process up to 10,000 drawings per minute. Estimators can measure without converting drawings, reuse a shared cost database and send live-linked quantities to Excel, cutting tender preparation time. Transparent per-user plans, a seven-day free trial and paid pilots credited to annual plans lower the risk of adoption.

Contractors bid on more tenders with fewer estimators, and shortages of quantity surveyors push firms to automate takeoff. In Southeast Asia, where many tenders still rely on 2D PDF and CAD drawings, AI takeoff tools that work directly on these files offer a faster route to productivity than full BIM adoption.

Founded in 2016 by Magomed Galaev; headquartered in London. Customer split: North America 53%, Europe 32%, Oceania 9% and other regions 6%. Plans: Essential USD 100, Pro USD 175 and Business USD 250 per user per month billed annually, with custom Enterprise terms.