Sheet W-02 · Document and drawing intelligence · Manufacturing and fit-out
Proof of concept- Goes in
- A multi-sheet drawing set, exactly as the client sent it
- What we built
- Layout-aware extraction for the structured sheets, vision for the drawn ones
- Comes out
- A hierarchical bill of quantities in the manufacturer’s own tender spreadsheet
- The line it does not cross
- A line it cannot read is marked and left blank, never guessed
Note 1 · The constraint
A commercial estimator at a luxury interior fit-out manufacturer spends days reading client drawings before pricing can begin. Rushed bids lose margin. Slow bids lose the job. The company cannot install new hardware in the factory and cannot expose its ERP, so anything we build has to work from the files themselves.
Note 2 · What we built
Drawings go in as the client sent them. Layout-aware extraction handles the structured sheets, vision handles the drawn ones, and the output is a hierarchical bill of quantities in the manufacturer's own tender spreadsheet with a configurable markup cascade. Any line the system is unsure of is marked and left blank for an estimator to clear. It is never filled with a plausible guess.
Note 3 · What transfers
Any business that quotes from documents it did not author has this problem — tenders, specifications, schedules of work, supplier price lists. The reading is the bottleneck, not the arithmetic.
- Stage
- Proof of concept, in progress
- Client
- Anonymised
- Inputs
- PDF, DWG, DXF, XLSX
- Integration
- File in, file out. No ERP coupling.