Members, tonnage, and connections,measured off the real structural set.
Ruh AI counts the members, tonnage, and connections off your structural set, priced on your own rates and signed by your estimator.
- ✓Members counted by shape and size, tonnage totaled by grade
- ✓Connections, base plates, and anchor rods taken off the details
- ✓Live in about a week on Bluebeam, Procore, and Excel
The steel bid crew.
The agents that carry a structural steel set from measured takeoff to a priced, signed proposal.
From framing plans to priced steel bid, one motion.
Send the steel set
Framing plans, steel schedules, connection details, and the Division 05 spec, straight from the invitation. Sheet and detail classification starts immediately.
Members, tonnage, and connections run
Beams, columns, and braces counted by shape and size off the framing plans, tonnage totaled by grade, and bolts, welds, base plates, anchor rods, and embeds taken off the connection details.
Fabrication and erection priced
Members, connections, metal deck, and miscellaneous metals such as stairs, railings, and ladders priced on your own rates for material, fabrication, and erection, with galvanizing and shop paint carried where the spec calls for it.
Your estimator signs
Review by confidence and coverage score, adjust the assumptions, and export into your own proposal format.
The steel bid squeeze.
Coverage decides the year
Steel fabricators and erectors bid more work than a small estimating room can count by hand. Every set that sits unpriced is a job that goes to the shop that got a number out first.
The connections hide the margin
Member tonnage is the easy part. The margin hides in the connections, the base plates, the anchor rods, the embeds, and the miscellaneous metals that are easy to miss on a fast manual takeoff.
Lump-sum leaves no room to be wrong
Most steel goes out as a lump sum. A missed embed, the wrong grade on the tonnage, or a light connection count does not surface in a change order. It comes straight off the shop's margin.
What is a structural steel takeoff?
A structural steel takeoff counts the members off the framing plans by shape and size, totals the tonnage by grade, and takes the connections and base plates off the details. AI steel takeoff software runs that count as one measured pass on the real structural set — Ruh prices it on your own rates across nine stages, and your estimator signs every line.
The takeoff is the bid
Steel estimators tell us the same thing: the number is only as good as the quantities behind it, and counting members, connections, and miscellaneous metals by hand off a PDF takes hours. When the member list, the tonnage, and the connection count run as one measured pass on the real framing plans, the same room prices more sets and keeps senior judgment on the connection details, the fabrication approach, and the erection sequence, which is where a steel bid is actually won or lost.
Built for how steel is measured
Structural framing, joists and deck, and miscellaneous metals are different takeoffs, and the pipeline treats them that way. Beams, columns, and braces are counted by shape and size off the framing plans, tonnage is totaled by grade, connections such as bolts, welds, base plates, anchor rods, and embeds are taken off the connection details, metal deck area is measured and totaled, and stairs, railings, ladders, and embeds are counted off the details and reconciled against the steel schedules and the Division 05 spec. Galvanizing and shop paint are carried by the spec so you are not pricing a finish the job does not call for.
Priced on your book, signed by your estimator
The quantities are priced across nine stages on your own historical rates for material, fabrication, and erection, whether that is structural framing, joists and deck, or miscellaneous metals, with galvanizing, shop paint, and shipping carried where the spec calls for it. Every line is labeled measured, derived, or assumed with a confidence and coverage score, so a light spot in the set is visible in the review instead of buried in a lump sum. Nothing goes out until your estimator signs it, and it all runs inside your own tenant on Bluebeam, Procore, Autodesk, and Excel, live in about a week.
Steel numbers that hold up.
Judge it on your own steel set, not a demo.
Built to work together.
See it on your own steel set.
A free 30 minute walkthrough on a real steel set, no card. We run the takeoff live and you decide if you move forward.
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Frequently asked questions
What steel estimators ask before trusting an AI takeoff on a real set.
How accurate is the structural steel takeoff?
Can Ruh run AI agents for steel estimating?
Does it actually read our framing plans and connection details?
Can it price on our own steel rates?
What does a structural steel takeoff example look like?
How are miscellaneous steel and metal deck counted?
Does it fit the software we already run?
Can it give a quick budget number and a full bid?
Run your next structure on Ruh.
Send one steel set. We run the takeoff and walk you through the member list, the tonnage, the connections, and the miscellaneous metals on a 30 minute call. If it does not hold up against your estimator, you have lost nothing.