Draw the job. The numbers come with it.
Takeoff and pricing for electrical contractors.
Every pen carries its own materials and labour. Pick up the pen for a double power point, mark them on the plan, and the costs build as you go. When the mark-up is done the priced take-off comes straight out to Excel — no line-item list to write first, and nothing to go hunting for afterwards.
How it works
Draw-first, not list-first.
In a quote-first tool you build a list of items and then measure the plan against it. In QuoteSlayer the pen is the item, so marking the drawing and building the quote are one action instead of two passes.
The pen is the assembly.
This is the whole idea, and everything else follows from it. A pen is not a colour. It is a priced item with your materials and your labour sitting behind it.
So the take-off and the pricing are the same job, done once. When you finish marking up the drawing you are not halfway through — the costs are already there, ready to export.
Running totals per page and per pen, live, as you draw.
Your cost book, your pens. Build them once and reuse them on every tender.
RE-Version. Re-price only what changed between drawing revisions.
Global Slay. Measure mains and trench runs off aerial maps.
Why it is built this way
You have been reading drawings since you were an apprentice. You should not have to type a list of everything you expect to find, and then go looking on the plan for the things you just typed.
QuoteSlayer works the way you do takeoffs now. Open the drawing, mark what is there, price it as you go. The order is the natural one, and on a big tender the difference compounds with every page.
More tools
Two jobs that used to cost you the best part of a day.
Draw once
One line becomes the whole trench.
Measuring the same run three times is the kind of work that makes a long night longer. Duplicate the geometry instead and put a different pen on each copy.
Draw the submain
One run down the drive. The cable pen prices it as you go.
Duplicate, pick the earth pen
Same length, same path, different materials and labour.
Duplicate again, pick the conduit
Three services on the one line you actually measured.
Right click, make trench
The excavation comes off the same run, in cubic metres, priced.
It works anywhere the same geometry carries more than one trade item. Draw once and use it again and again. See the other three ways →
Symbol Slayer
AI FINDS THE SYMBOLS, YOU CHECK AND ACCEPTTrained on the symbols used on electrical drawings, Symbol Slayer does not find them and leave you to go looking. It brings every candidate to you, tiled and ranked by confidence, and you clear them in bulk.
Who built it
Written by a tradesman, for the stage you are at now.
There is a point where the business is going well enough to hurt. Enough staff to chase bigger jobs, enough work that the estimating happens after everyone else has gone home.
I spent those years late at the office with a set of drawings and it cost me a lot of real life. QuoteSlayer is the tool I wanted then: fast on big tenders, no stuffing around, and finished when the drawing is finished.
Pricing
Start with Core. Add Symbol Slayer and seats when you need them. Prices in NZD.
QuoteSlayer Core
Count, measure length, area and volume
Cost per pen — quotes price themselves
RE-Version revision overlay and re-pricing
Excel output
10 GB project storage
Core + Symbol Slayer
Everything in Core, plus:
AI symbol and text search, tiled for review
Bulk accept by confidence and by label
Zone filters to ignore keys and legends
Multi-page batch search, 5,000 searches / month
Extra seat
One login per teammate
Seats inherit your plan, Symbol Slayer included
Shared projects, pens and cost books
Add or remove any time from billing
Questions
What does QuoteSlayer do?
It is take-off and estimating software for electrical contractors. You mark up the PDF drawing with pens that already carry their materials and labour, and it produces a priced estimate you can export to Excel.
Who is it for?
Electrical contractors. Symbol Slayer is trained on electrical symbols, and the pens, cost books and Excel output are built around electrical work. The count, length, area and volume tools do work on any drawing, so the electrical-adjacent parts of a job price the same way.
What is a pen?
A pen is a priced assembly. It holds the materials, the labour and the rate for one item, so every mark you make on the drawing adds a real cost to the estimate, per each, per meter, per sq foot whatever you measure in.
How does Symbol Slayer work?
You search for a symbol, optionally together with its text label. Results come back as tiles ranked by confidence — high, worth a look, unlikely — plus anything else it recognised while looking. You accept or reject singularly or in bulk rather than panning the drawing to check each hit.
What happens when the drawings get revised?
RE-Version overlays the new revision on the old one so you can see what changed and re-price only that, instead of starting the take-off again.
Does it integrate with job management software?
Integrations with job-management platforms are in partner review. Tell me which system you use and it will influence what gets built first.
Can I measure a site without visiting it?
Global Slay pulls an aerial map of the address into QuoteSlayer as a scaled page. You measure the mains run, the trench and the site works on it the same way you would on a drawing, from your desk.
Can I try it?
Book a demo and you will be walked through a real tender set on a call.
Bring your worst tender set.
Forty pages of it. We will price a slab of it together on the call, and you can judge the speed for yourself.
You will be on the call with Carl, who ran a switchgear shop and priced jobs off drawings for years.
Would rather write? support@quoteslayer.com