About

Built by people who
price jobs for a living.

Takeoff and Estimating Pty Ltd is an Australian construction estimating consultancy and software company. Active since April 2019. Backed by 25+ years of combined estimating experience. 7,000+ companies served across the firm's history.

Founder of Takeoff and Estimating in a Sydney office, holding rolled construction drawings, with a construction site visible through floor-to-ceiling windows
2019Active since April
7,000+Companies served
AU + NZCoverage
100%Australian-owned
What we believe

Estimating software should make builders' lives easier — not the other way round.

Most construction software is bought, configured for two weeks and then quietly abandoned. The team goes back to Excel. The owner blames the software. The vendor blames the team.

We started Takeoff and Estimating because we'd seen this play out hundreds of times — and we knew the missing piece wasn't software. It was the people who configured it, trained the team, and stayed available when something broke.

We sell our own product (costed.app) when it's the right fit. We implement third-party tools (Databuild, PlanSwift, Sigma, zzTakeoff) when they're the right fit. We answer the phone either way.

What's next

costed.app is our long-term bet.

Why we built it

The legacy desktop tools we'd been implementing for 25 years were running out of road. Cloud-native expectations, mobile workflows, real-time collaboration — none of it possible on the old stack.

Where it's going

BOQ, claims, documents, timesheets, mobile site entry — already shipping. AI-powered invoice extraction, deeper accounting integrations and the modern equivalents of every legacy estimating feature — coming next.

Get in touch

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So do we.