TRACER
Takeoffs at full throttle.
Cockpit-grade plan measurement for estimators who price work for a living. Upload the plans, calibrate in two clicks, measure with snap-locked precision, phase the job, and export a clean report your PM can actually use. Built by estimators, for estimators.
If you can read a set of engineered drawings, you can run Tracer in under five minutes.
See Tracer in motion
Tracer captures every scope from the plans so nothing slips into a change order or a contract dispute. Risk mitigation starts with auditable quantities your team can defend.
A clean four-step loop. No detours.
From plans to bid sheet — the same workflow whether you're pricing a 4-sheet remodel or a 200-sheet civil set.
Upload
Drag in a PDF plan set. Tracer indexes every sheet automatically with thumbnail previews. Multi-page sets, multi-discipline — handled.
Calibrate
Two-click scale calibration. Pick a known dimension, type the real-world distance, and Tracer locks scale for every measurement on the page.
Measure
Lengths, areas, counts, polygons, polylines, callouts. Vertex snap, endpoint snap, intersection snap — your shapes close where they should.
Report
Export totals, marked-up PDFs, and itemized quantities. Send straight to the estimator across the hall — or right into a Vector bid.
Built for speed & accuracy
Snap-Locked Precision
Vertex, endpoint, and intersection snap. Shapes close clean — no fudged areas, no drift, no math you have to re-defend in a meeting.
Phasing & Region Logic
Break a site into phases. Tracer tracks which markups belong to which phase and rolls quantities up cleanly. Phase precedence handles overlap so you never double-count.
Satellite Capture
Need a quick site measurement off aerial imagery? Pull from satellite, calibrate, and measure — perfect for early-stage sitework budgets before plans drop.
Project-Wide Markups
Markups live at the project level, not just the sheet level. Carry scope across drawings and see your full takeoff at a glance.
Print-Ready Export
Clean SVG-based markup printing — paper-size aware, scale-accurate, ready to hand to the field super.
Vector Integration
Push quantities straight into Vector estimates — or export to whatever you currently use. No double entry, no version drift.
Cloud-Backed Projects
Open from any device. Auth-secured, row-level isolated. No 'where's the file' panic, no version-control by Slack message.
Cockpit HUD
Dark, keyboard-friendly, touch-friendly, pen-friendly. Designed for 11pm bid nights — not for clicking around a marketing demo.
Every quantity an estimator actually takes off.
Lengths
Pipe, conduit, curb, fence, footing
Areas
Slabs, roofs, paving, landscape, drywall
Counts
Fixtures, posts, trees, devices
Polygons & Polylines
Vertex snapping, clean closures
Callouts
Notes, RFIs, clarifications on the sheet
Multi-Sheet Rollups
Project-level totals at a glance
Phase Quantities
Rolled up by phase with overlap logic
Aerial Captures
Satellite-based site measurements
Built for the teams that quantify and protect the bid.
- → Seasoned estimators tired of bloated legacy software that costs five figures a seat and still feels like 2007.
- → Sharp new contractors who came up reading plans on a tablet and expect their tools to keep up with them.
- → Design-build crews, GCs, and specialty trades — concrete, framing, MEP, sitework, drywall, roofing, landscape.
- → Civil and site-work contractors handling complex grading, drainage, and utility scopes.
The old way vs. Tracer
Full throttle takeoffs. No more turbulence.
Start measuring in the next 60 seconds. Access is gated — request onboarding and the team will get you set up.
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