Doors & Hardware AI · Editable takeoffs & estimator control
The AI proposes. The estimator disposes.
An AI takeoff you can't change is a liability with good formatting. FastBid24 treats extraction as the start of the takeoff, not the verdict — every mapping, quantity and flag stays reviewable and editable before anything is exported or priced.
What the estimator controls
Five ways the takeoff stays in your hands.
Reassign, and the takeoff follows
Move any opening to a different hardware set — one of the project's own or one from your saved library — and the door-to-item mapping and takeoff rollup rebuild automatically. No orphaned quantities, no manual re-tally.
A hardware-set library that compounds
Build sets item by item, import them from Excel, or save a set straight out of a finished project. The sets your team standardizes on become one-click assignments on the next job.
Corrections are tracked, not absorbed
Estimator QC records what was verified and what was corrected, and low-confidence extractions are resolved by a person rather than shipped as guesses. The review trail exists — it isn't smoothed over.
Flags arrive structured
Conditions found in the documents come to you as review items with a classification, priority, status, responsible party and recommended bid treatment — decisions to make, not puzzles to notice.
The workbook stays yours
The delivered Excel workbook is fully editable, and an edited workbook can be synced back into the platform — so the spreadsheet your team actually works in doesn't drift away from the record.
The principle
Verification is a stage, not a slogan.
Every FastBid24 delivery passes through estimator QC — doors verified or corrected, uncertainty flagged with evidence rather than silently guessed. The editing tools on this page are the same ones our own estimators use to do that review. In short:
- Reassign any opening to a different hardware set — from the project's own sets or the saved library — with the door-to-item mapping and takeoff rollup rebuilt automatically
- Build and maintain a reusable hardware-set library: create sets item by item, import sets from Excel, or save a set from any project for reuse
- Every delivery passes an estimator QC review — doors verified or corrected, low-confidence extractions resolved, manual corrections tracked
- Flagged conditions arrive as structured review items — classification, priority, status, responsible party, and recommended bid treatment
- The delivered Excel workbook is fully editable, and edited workbooks can be synced back into the platform
Take control of a real takeoff.
Send a Division 8 package and get back an estimator-verified, fully editable takeoff — schedule, sets, mapping, rollup and flags. First project free for qualified packages.