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AI Estimating Engine  ·  India (NBC 2016)

A fire BOQ takes weeks by hand.
Watch it take minutes.

Upload a fire-protection drawing and the engine returns a priced, NBC 2016 Bill of Quantities — on your own rate card, exported tender-ready as Excel + PDF. Your engineer still reviews and signs off; the weeks of grind simply disappear.

Real output. Open it yourself.

Not a mockup. These are the actual artifacts the engine produced from a real fire-protection drawing: the live dashboard result, and the tender-ready PDF and Excel. Open the full files and inspect every line.

Six stages. Weeks of grind, gone.

This is the exact path your estimator walks by hand over 3–6 weeks — the engine runs it end-to-end in minutes. You keep the judgement; it kills the grind. Every stage stays checkable, and the internal rules and thresholds stay under the hood.

Kratu Estimate — core workflow
// The engine's core workflow — the stages below explain what each part does.
1

Ingest & normalize

PDF, CAD or DWG drawings are read and converted into clean vector geometry the engine can reason over — no manual redrawing.

Manual: hours → Engine: seconds
2

Detect components

Every sprinkler, pipe, riser, valve and fitting is found and classified from the drawing symbols — nothing missed, nothing double-counted.

Manual: days → Engine: seconds
3

Measure & take off

Lengths, counts and areas measured to scale in metric — the quantity takeoff that devours the most estimator-hours of any job.

Manual: 1–2 weeks → Engine: seconds
4

Apply NBC 2016

Code rules and hydraulic logic mapped onto the takeoff so the spec lines up with Indian fire-protection norms — consistently, every time.

Manual: days → Engine: seconds
5

Assemble & cost

Items roll up into a structured BOQ, priced against your own rate card — tender-ready Excel + PDF, your brand on it.

Manual: days → Engine: seconds
6

Review & sign off

Your engineer reviews, adjusts any rate, and approves — the professional accountability stays exactly where it belongs: with a human.

The judgement stays yours

No CAD drawing? A values brief works too.

When your client hands you an architectural values brief as a PDF instead of drawings, the engine reads that PDF and extracts every value exactly as stated — then assembles a client-ready, priced BOQ in seconds, just as it does from a drawing. Working from an Excel values sheet rather than a PDF? We'll tailor the engine to your exact format on request — today it reads PDF value briefs out of the box.

Scope-honest by design: it flags low-confidence rates ("manual review recommended") and refuses to invent whole-building items from a partial drawing — so what your engineer signs off is trustworthy, not a black-box guess. That's the difference between a demo toy and a system you can bid real tenders on.

The payback math — on your numbers

Manual estimating in India isn't just slow — it's revenue left on the table. Here's the honest picture, and what flips the day this engine is yours.

The pain today
3–6 weeks per BOQ

Drawing review → hydraulic calc → takeoff → rate analysis → drafting. Every single tender crawls.

Tenders you turn away

A senior estimator clears only a handful a month — the rest you simply can't turn around in time to bid.

₹8–15L / year, each

And an estimator still can't go faster, takes leave, and can resign — walking out with the know-how.

What changes with the engine
Minutes, not weeks

A priced, NBC 2016 BOQ in minutes — about a day end-to-end once your engineer has reviewed it.

Bid on everything

Quote every enquiry that lands. Each extra BOQ you can now turn around is ~₹1.5L+ of billing you couldn't capture before.

Own it — runs forever

Your server, your rate card, your brand on the output. No per-estimate fee, no seat licences, no vendor lock-in.

The payback
At a conservative ₹1.5L per BOQ, just +2 extra BOQs a month pays off the ₹25,00,000 engine in
~8 months
… then it works for free, forever.

That ₹1.5L is deliberately conservative — standard commercial BOQs bill ₹1.2–2L, high-occupancy (hospital / mall / IT park) ₹2–3.6L, specialised (data centre / plant) ₹3.6–5.6L. Plug your own numbers in:

If it wins you…Extra billing / yearPayback on ₹25L
+1 extra BOQ / month (ultra-conservative)₹18,00,000~16 months
+2 extra BOQs / month (conservative)₹36,00,000~8 months
+6 extra BOQs / month (turning away work today)₹1,08,00,000under 3 months

Compare hiring: a senior fire estimator runs ₹8–15 lakh a year, every year, and still needs weeks per estimate. The engine is a one-time spend under two years of a single salary — but it multiplies your whole team's throughput permanently, never takes leave, and never resigns.

Two ways to run it

Pricing below is specific to the AI Estimating Engine only — other systems are scoped separately.

EngagementBest forInvestment
Launch PilotProve it first — full setup & configuration on your real requirements. One-time offer per business.₹3,00,000 one-time
Managed SystemWe host, run & keep improving it — you prefer OpEx to owning₹3,00,000 onboarding
(waived if upgrading from Pilot within 15 days)
+ ₹99,999 / month
Build & Own ItOwn it outright on your server — far cheaper over its life₹3,00,000 onboarding
(waived if upgrading from Pilot within 15 days)
+ ₹25,00,000 one-time

Run the numbers: counting the one-time onboarding, a managed client's cumulative spend reaches the ₹25,00,000 outright-buyout price in about 22 months — and a firm that estimates for many years keeps paying. Owning it outright is dramatically cheaper over its lifetime. The Launch Pilot is a one-time ₹3,00,000 offer per business; upgrade to Managed System or Build & Own It within 15 days and the ₹3,00,000 onboarding fee is waived. Start with a pilot; scale to whichever model fits.

Honestly, so you can trust it
  • It produces a first-pass priced BOQ; a qualified engineer still reviews and signs off. It removes the grind, not the professional accountability.
  • Accuracy tracks input quality — a clean CAD drawing or a complete brief yields the best output, and it tells you when it's unsure rather than guessing.
  • Built to NBC 2016 / INR / metric. (An NFPA / USD / imperial build for other markets is separate.)

See it run on your drawing.

The fastest way to believe "weeks to minutes" is to watch your own project become a priced BOQ in front of you — we'll hand you the Excel + PDF on the call.