Materials intelligence for NZ merchants

Every trade. Every SKU. One schedule.

PlanTake reads a building plan and returns a complete, SKU-matched material schedule across framing, cladding, roofing, plumbing, electrical and every trade in between — so your trade desk captures the full project, not a single line.

Above-QS verification 24-hour turnaround NZ-owned & operated
The problem

The margin isn't lost in your pricing. It's lost in your scope.

Your customers build with a dozen suppliers. If you only estimate the trade they walked in for, most of the project spend leaves with them.

One trade, estimated

A builder asks for framing. You estimate framing. The roof, the cladding, the plumbing and the electrical get estimated elsewhere — and bought elsewhere.

Sub-trades bring their own

Plumbers, sparkies and roofers arrive with their own materials. That spend never reaches a merchant desk — it never even gets estimated.

Weeks to take off

A manual full-project takeoff takes weeks of estimator time. By the time it's ready, the builder has committed — and the moment has passed.

How it works

Plan to purchase order, in hours.

No new systems to learn. You send the plan; we return the schedule.

01

Share the plans

Drop in the BC plans as PDF. Any scale — a single dwelling or a full multi-unit development.

02

Extracted & code-checked

AI takes off every line item, then checks it against current NZ building codes, product specifications and industry standards — before multiple independent passes validate the whole schedule.

03

SKU-matched to you

Every item resolves to a real SKU in your catalog and your POS — Mitex or whatever you run.

04

Capture the whole job

Your trade desk estimates the complete cross-trade schedule — and captures the full basket, not one line.

The platform

Built for the trade desk

Everything your team needs to turn a plan into a full-project estimate.

SKU-matched schedules

Every line resolves to a real SKU in your catalog. No re-keying, no translation, no guesswork at the till.

Cross-trade coverage

Framing, cladding, roofing, windows and doors, interiors, paint, flooring, plumbing, electrical — the whole build in one schedule.

Multi-level, auditable verification

AI does the heavy extraction; every line then passes multiple independent checks, each one recorded and auditable — a higher bar than a single QS sign-off. We stand behind every line.

Checked against NZ codes & standards

Not just a takeoff — every line is compared against current NZ building codes, product specifications and industry standards builders and tradespeople must comply with.

Your format, your systems

Excel, PDF, or loaded straight into your POS. PlanTake fits the way you already estimate and supply.

24-hour turnaround

Standard residential plans back within one business day. Urgent jobs, same day — so you estimate while the builder's still deciding.

NZ-owned & operated

Built in New Zealand, for New Zealand. We understand NZ codes, NZ materials and NZ merchant systems — because we work in them.

How PlanTake was built

Trained on 40 years of real takeoffs.

PlanTake's AI wasn't trained on generic data. It was trained on four decades of manual quantity takeoffs — thousands of real jobs across construction, project management and property development companies.

40+
years of manual takeoffs
1,000s
of real jobs analysed
50+
engineers & technologists

The training set was compiled from real takeoffs — XL templates, methodology protocols, and actual project data where every estimate was compared against what was actually built. More than 50 engineers — across civil, structural, process, chemical and materials, and IT — worked alongside systems designers, programmers and AI engineers to build it.

From that data came a structured, multi-model AI system with accuracy vastly superior to manual estimation. Every schedule moves through several levels of automated checking and independent verification before a final check and validation by our experienced team.

01

Automated checking

Several levels of automated cross-checking against the training data before a schedule is released.

02

Independent verification

Many independent passes re-check the takeoff, each running different processes and validating from different perspectives. Not the same model, not the same path, not the same assumptions.

03

Expert validation

Finally, our experienced team checks and validates every schedule before it reaches you.

Get in touch

Send your plans. We'll take it from there.

Email us directly and we'll get straight back to you.

plans@plantake.co.nz