How a Construction Company Saved 30% of Its Estimating Time with Massoi

The challenge

Example Construction Ltd. is a mid-sized general contractor that delivers 15–20 new-build and renovation projects a year across the greater metro area. Bid calculation was a long-standing bottleneck: every bid required 2–3 days of manual quantity takeoff, with estimators going through drawings by hand and transferring data into Excel sheets.

Errors were inevitable. A single missing wall line or misread dimension could lead to a mistake of thousands of dollars in a bid. On top of that, during busy periods the company had to turn down bids, because estimating capacity simply wasn't enough.

The solution

Example Construction Ltd. adopted Massoi in the spring of 2025. Onboarding was straightforward: the first drawings were uploaded to the system on the same day, and the AI produced a quantity takeoff in a few minutes.

With Massoi, the company's estimators upload architectural and structural drawings directly to the platform. The AI automatically identifies building elements, materials, and dimensions from the drawings. The estimator's job is to review and complete the results — no more hours of manual measuring.

Massoi's ability to handle a variety of drawing formats and recognize even hand-written annotations proved especially useful. This significantly reduced the time spent entering data during the early stages.

The results

After six months of use, the results are clear:

• Quantity takeoff time dropped 80% — work that used to take 2–3 days now finishes in a few hours
• Estimating time was cut 30% overall — estimators can focus on pricing and risk assessment
• Bid accuracy improved significantly — error margins shrank, which improved margins
• Bid capacity grew 40% — the company can now submit more bids with the same resources

Customer comment

"Massoi has changed the way we do bid calculation. Before, we were always afraid that some quantity would slip through the drawings unnoticed. Now the AI goes through everything systematically, and our estimators can focus on what they do best — pricing and working with customers. The investment paid for itself within the first month."

— Mike Sullivan, CEO, Example Construction Ltd.