For yard owners and sales managers

The yard that answers first usually gets the conversation.

A builder sends the same drawings to more than one yard. Your prices may well be the best on the table. They only count if your quote is on the table too.

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The bottleneck

The takeoff is the slow part of every quote.

Pricing a material list is quick. Producing the list is not: it takes an experienced person anywhere from hours to days, and that person is already busy.

Slow takeoffs lose bids quietly

Nobody calls to say you were too slow. The builder simply goes ahead with the yard that answered, and the plan set on your estimator's desk turns into work done for nothing.

One desk caps your revenue

When every takeoff goes through one or two people, the number of projects you can quote in a week is fixed. The busy season, when the most drawings arrive, is exactly when you turn the most away.

Knowledge retires

Your best estimator knows how local framers build a corner, which lengths to send, where the drawings usually lie. None of it is written down. When they retire, it leaves with them.

Two estimators, two answers

Hand the same drawings to two people and you get two material lists. Builders notice, and so does your margin: one list ships too much, the other costs you a second delivery.

What changes

Take the counting off the desk. Keep the judgment on it.

LumberSet reads the plan set and computes the complete takeoff: studs, plates, headers, joists, sheathing, beams, posts and hardware, packed into the stock lengths you carry. Your estimator receives a finished takeoff that shows its work, instead of a stack of sheets and a scale rule.

Quote more projects. The hours a takeoff used to take go back to your estimator. The goal is simple: a builder who sends you drawings hears back in hours instead of days, including the ones you used to decline.

Stop losing bids to the clock. You will still lose some on price or relationship. Those are fair fights. Losing because the takeoff was not finished is not.

Keep the knowledge in the business. The way your yard estimates lives in your estimating standards: written down, versioned, and applied the same way to every quote. A new estimator inherits it on their first day.

Quote consistently. The same drawings and the same standards always produce the same takeoff, whoever clicks the button.

Around the yard

What it means for each person.

Owners

Quoting capacity stops being capped by how many takeoffs one desk can produce.
Cost follows revenue opportunity: you pay per quote, and nothing in a slow month.
How your yard estimates is written down, versioned and yours, whoever is on the desk.

Sales managers

Say yes to the plan set that arrives on Thursday afternoon.
Quotes look the same and are built the same way, whoever prepared them.
When a builder questions a number, open the line and show the arithmetic.

Estimators

Your day moves from counting to checking, pricing and advising.
Every quantity has its arithmetic and its sheet behind it, so checking is quick.
Your rules of thumb become the yard's standards, with your name on the knowledge.

Do your own math

We will not quote you a statistic. Use your own numbers.

LumberSet is new, and we are not going to invent a percentage for how many more projects you will win. You already have the three numbers that matter.

1
What does a takeoff cost you today?
Hours your estimator spends on an average plan set, times what an hour of that person costs you. Compare it with $200.
2
How many plan sets did you decline or answer late last season?
Each was a project you were invited to quote. Put your average lumber package value next to that count.
3
What would losing your senior estimator cost?
Not the salary. The months it takes a replacement to learn what was never written down.

Straight talk

What LumberSet does not do.

It does not replace your estimator. Drawings are incomplete, builders change their minds, and someone has to know that the framer on this project hates finger-jointed studs. That is your estimator's job, and now they have time for it.

It does not set your prices. Your catalog, your prices and your margin stay yours, and stay private to your yard.

It does not hide behind the AI. AI reads the drawings, and reading can be wrong. That is why every element links to its sheet, every quantity shows its arithmetic, and estimators on our staff review takeoffs.

It does not lock you in. $200 per quote. No monthly fee. No seat licenses. No contract. If it does not earn its place on your desk, stop uploading.

Try it on a plan set you have already quoted.

You know what the right answer looks like for that project. Upload the same drawings and compare the takeoff, line by line, with your own.