Bidflow offers an AI-powered tool that automatically extracts and counts power devices, lighting fixtures, and lighting controls from electrical drawings, reducing manual takeoff time from hours to under ten minutes. The platform includes built-in PDF navigation tools and learns from user corrections to maintain 95–99% accuracy across varying drawing complexities.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Electrical contractors and designers spend many hours manually counting power devices, lighting fixtures, and controls from complex electrical drawings, leading to slow project estimates and a high risk of human error.
Solution
Bidflow provides an AI-powered platform that automatically reads PDF electrical drawings and tallies power devices, lighting fixtures, and lighting controls. The purpose-built model recognizes varied symbols, filters out background noise, and improves over time through user corrections, delivering 95–99% accuracy. Results are generated in under ten minutes, dramatically reducing manual effort. Built-in PDF navigation tools let users browse, pan, and zoom drawings, while an audit interface allows quick addition or removal of items to correct AI mistakes. The streamlined workflow enables faster, more reliable takeoffs for electrical projects.
Target Audience
Primary users are electrical contractors, design engineers, and estimators who need rapid, accurate takeoffs from electrical schematics for bidding and project planning.
Features
- AI model specialized for counting power devices, lighting fixtures, and lighting controls only
- Recognition of complex symbol variations with 95–99% accuracy depending on drawing difficulty
- Automatic exclusion of background noise to focus on relevant symbols
- Interactive PDF viewer with page navigation, panning, and zooming
- Simple audit tool to add or delete counted items directly on the drawing
- Continuous learning from user corrections to improve future accuracy