Frequently Asked Questions

HyperQuote is an AI-powered quoting automation platform built specifically for building product distributors. Distributors use HyperQuote to get accurate equipment counts from drawing sets using our AI-powered technology — extracting every equipment tag, identifying the products specified, and generating a complete Bill of Materials (BOM). HyperQuote is focused on HVAC/R and plumbing — the trades where drawing-based quoting is most complex and most time-consuming.

HyperQuote processes the full range of drawing types found in commercial and industrial building projects — including mechanical, HVAC/R, and plumbing (MHP) drawings, equipment schedules, floor plans, and riser diagrams. Simply upload the entire drawing set and HyperQuote will process the full package in a few minutes — no need to sort or pre-select pages. The AI is trained on real-world drawing sets in PDF and raster formats, and handles variation in drafting style, scale, and layout across different engineering firms.

Tag detection accuracy is a core focus of our engineering team. Our models achieve 97%+ equipment tag detection accuracy across standard commercial drawing sets, using proprietary computer vision techniques developed specifically to read engineering drawings. We are continually improving our models through production data and ongoing R&D.HyperQuote surfaces confidence levels for each detected tag — so your team can quickly review and confirm any flagged items before a quote goes out. You're always in control of the final output.HyperQuote surfaces confidence levels for each detected tag — so your team can quickly review and confirm any flagged items before a quote goes out. You're always in control of the final output.

The process runs in three stages. First, our AI, machine learning, and computer vision models scan every page of the drawing set and identify equipment tags. Second, the AI extracts tag attributes — model numbers, sizes, capacities, and specifications. These first two stages take just a few minutes, powered by our cloud-based platform. Third, your estimating team reviews and confirms the equipment counts using the platform and builds out the final BOM.

Right now, HyperQuote Takeoff is a standalone tool that produces a Bill of Materials (BOM) which can be exported and used directly in your existing quoting processes — no integration required to get started. We are also happy to discuss pilot projects with distributors looking to integrate their pricing and inventory data directly into the platform.

Yes. HyperQuote includes a number of features that make working with drawing sets significantly easier. The platform includes powerful search capabilities so you can instantly find any tag, equipment type, or specification across an entire drawing set — including text found in the drawings that may not appear in the equipment schedules. Enhanced drawing navigation makes it fast and intuitive to move through large sets of drawings — a far better experience than viewing the same files in a standard PDF viewer.

A takeoff is the process of reading a set of engineering drawings and extracting every piece of equipment that needs to be supplied on a project — unit by unit, tag by tag. For building product distributors, the takeoff is the foundation of every quote. If you miss equipment or misread a spec, your quote is wrong before it even goes out. Traditionally this is done manually — a skilled estimator working through dozens or hundreds of drawing pages to build an equipment list. It's time-consuming, error-prone, and a bottleneck on how many quotes your team can turn around. HyperQuote automates this process using AI, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision — so your team gets accurate equipment counts in minutes instead of hours.

Most estimating software is built for contractors — focused on labor, materials, and project costing. HyperQuote is built exclusively for building product distributors, and specifically for the HVAC/R and plumbing trades. That means everything about the platform — from how it reads drawings to how it structures the BOM — is designed around the distributor's workflow, not a contractor's. There's no configuration needed to make it fit a use case it wasn't built for. It does one thing exceptionally well: getting you accurate equipment counts from engineering drawings, fast.

Yes. HyperQuote is built for the scale of real commercial projects — drawing sets that can run into hundreds of pages across multiple disciplines. Simply upload the full set and HyperQuote processes every page automatically, identifying the HVAC/R and plumbing equipment across mechanical, equipment schedule, and floor plan pages. There's no need to pre-sort or cherry-pick pages. The larger the drawing set, the more time HyperQuote saves your team.

HyperQuote is built primarily for building product distributors in the HVAC/R and plumbing trades — specifically the estimating and quoting teams who receive engineering drawing sets and are responsible for turning those drawings into accurate equipment quotes. HyperQuote is also a great fit for mechanical and plumbing contractors who need fast, accurate equipment counts from drawing sets. If your team is spending hours manually reading drawing sets to build BOMs, HyperQuote was built for you.

HyperQuote is purpose-built for the HVAC/R and plumbing distribution industry — it is not a general-purpose estimating or document processing tool. Every aspect of the platform, from how it interprets engineering drawings to how it structures the BOM output, has been designed around the specific workflows of distributors and contractors in these trades. That focus is what makes it fast to adopt and immediately useful — there's no complex configuration to make it work for your use case.