What happens
- Project. Your assistant creates a project for the job and adds your plans, drawings or photos to it. See Files.
- Takeoff. Field24 reads the plans and measures every item in the scope you asked for, row by row, by CSI division.
- Takeoff review. Field24's reviewer checks the takeoff against the plans. Corrections backed by the plans are applied without waiting on you; you're asked only what the plans don't settle, each with a suggested answer.
- Pricing. Field24 prices the reviewed takeoff from your price book first, then local store prices and market labor rates.
- Pricing review. Field24's reviewer checks the prices, and its corrections are applied the same way.
- Proposal (optional). Field24 builds a branded, e-signable PDF. Your assistant can also write a proposal in the chat from the priced rows instead.
Your assistant doesn't ask for your location, units or materials before starting: a written scope is enough. If plans arrive with no scope, it asks one thing: all trades, or a specific scope?
How long it takes
| Job | Usually takes |
|---|---|
| Takeoff | 15 to 30 minutes |
| Takeoff review | about 10 minutes |
| Pricing | up to 15 minutes |
| Pricing review | about 5 minutes |
| Proposal | about 10 minutes |
You don't need to keep the chat open. Your assistant checks every few minutes, gives you a one-line update, and picks up where it left off when you come back. A job that is still running after four hours is stopped; ask your assistant to pick it up again.
What you get back
- A takeoff you can review and edit row by row on the Field24 review page, with the assumptions the estimator made and the questions that most affect the price.
- A priced estimate: unit and extended costs for every row, a bare cost and a suggested total with waste, contingency and margin, and the exclusions.
- A proposal: a branded PDF your client can e-sign, as a download link.
What you can ask next
- "Change the drywall to 500 SF" or "remove the vanity": your assistant edits the row directly.
- "The corridor walls are rated" or any answer to the estimator's questions: it's sent to the takeoff, which is re-measured.
- "Re-price the framing" after a change: only those rows are priced again.
- "Use my rate of $65 an hour for drywall labor": saved to your price book and used from then on.
- "Stop the takeoff": the job stops; nothing is deleted.
For client builders
Every job runs through one tool, field24_agent: create starts a job and returns at once, status reads it, follow-up sends answers or corrections to the same job (or resumes it after a retryable failure), and abort stops it. The calls for a priced estimate, in order: create_project, then add_project_files or get_project_upload_urls, then field24_agent with type takeoff, takeoff_review, pricing, pricing_review and optionally proposal, checking status between each. Never wait inside a turn: check status again after a few minutes. Full details are in the Tool reference.