Instructor-led course
A miscount doesn't cost time. It costs the whole schedule. Train the check, not just the speed.
A 10-hour instructor-led course for estimators, drafting staff and purchasing teams. It covers reading a drawing set for takeoff, directing an AI assistant to identify parts and quantities, interpreting confidence scoring, and the verification step that belongs between a generated takeoff and a purchase order.
- Length
- 10 hours
- Delivery
- 100% Instructor-Led
- Format
- In person · Virtual · Hybrid
- Capacity
- 15 participants
What this is
A course, not a consulting engagement.
All exercises use standardized sample business documents provided by the instructor. That is deliberate. Your team learns a method they can apply to anything, instead of watching us work on one pile of files.
It teaches the skill. It does not produce documents or set up systems on any participant's behalf. If you want the build work done, that is a separate engagement with its own scope and price.
Course title
AI for Material Takeoff and Shop Drawing Review
What you get
What your team can do by the end of it.
Read a shop drawing set for takeoff purposes
Direct an AI assistant to identify part numbers, quantities and required lengths from elevations and detail callouts
Interpret confidence scoring line by line and triage what is flagged
Construct the verification step that must sit between any generated takeoff and an order
Recognize the failure modes that produce a wrong count
Produce output in a format the purchasing process can actually consume
How the time is spent
10 hours, accounted for.
The hours below are what we commit to deliver, not an estimate.
| Segment | Time |
|---|---|
| Drawing set structure and inputs | 2 hours |
| Part identification and counting technique | 2 hours |
| Length and configuration capture | 2 hours |
| Confidence scoring and flagged line review | 2 hours |
| Output formats and the ordering handoff | 1 hour |
| Failure modes and guided practice | 1 hour |
| Total | 10 hours |
Who it is for
The people who count the material before it's ordered.
Estimators, engineering and drafting staff, purchasing and materials management staff at construction and specialty trade contractors. No prior AI experience is required, but participants should be able to read a drawing set.
Manual takeoff is slow and a miscount is expensive, because a wrong order means delay, restocking and rework on a schedule that has no slack. Participants leave able to work faster and, just as importantly, able to judge when a generated takeoff should not be trusted.
Straight answers
The questions buyers actually ask.
Can our team work through this at their own pace instead?
No. It is 100% instructor-led and delivered live, in person, virtually, or part each. There is no recorded version, because the practice segments only work with someone in the room to correct technique as people go.
Do we practise on our own drawing sets?
No, and that is deliberate. All exercises use standardized sample drawing sets provided by the instructor, so the course teaches a transferable method rather than becoming a working session on one company's projects.
Will you perform takeoffs for our projects?
Not as part of this course. It teaches the skill. It does not perform takeoffs on any organization's behalf. If you want that work done, it is a separate engagement with its own scope and price, quoted at our standard rates.
Which AI tools does it cover?
The method is tool-agnostic and taught on a general purpose AI assistant. The instructions, verification habits and data boundaries transfer across assistants, which matters because most organizations change tools at least once while the skills stay useful.
Who can attend, and how many?
Capacity is 15 participants. Kriv AI contracts with your organization, which names the people who should attend. There are no individual seats to purchase.
Who delivers it?
A senior practitioner who does this work in real engagements, not a trainer reading someone else's deck. The person who scopes the delivery is the person in the room.
Start here
Tell us the team and the week, and we will tell you the shape.
Kriv AI contracts with your organization, and you name the people who should attend. A short call is enough to work out whether this course is the right one for your team.
+1-732-433-5564 · info@kriv.ai · East Brunswick, NJ
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