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Electrical estimator stops counting symbols by hand on bid drawings

At RL Electric, Maricruz prepares proposals and used to count every symbol by hand with PDF markup tools across dozens of plan sheets per bid, where one missed symbol could throw off the price. Quotr.ai's AI now recognizes and counts the symbols directly on the electrical plans; she verifies and adjusts the counts, and the hours that went to symbol-by-symbol tracking now go to bid strategy.

How it works

  1. Upload the bid drawings
  2. AI recognizes and counts symbols across all sheets
  3. Estimator reviews the counts in the same place as material context
  4. Estimator verifies and adjusts
  5. Counts feed the proposal

Why it’s worth knowing

The highest-stakes part of her job was the most mindless: a single missed symbol among dozens of sheets could silently misprice an entire bid.

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Summarized from a public post on quotr.ai. See the original ↗

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