AI takeoff and priced BOQ, Gulf

Takeoff to priced BOQ.In hours, not weeks.

Nodus reads your villa drawings, measures every quantity, and prices it against a live UAE market database, producing a Bill of Quantities that is ready to tender.

Built to the codes the Gulf works to
ACI 318ISO 19650Dubai Building CodeRICS NRM
Villa ground floor.pdf
BED 1 · 14m² LIVING · 26m² MAJLIS · 32m² KITCHEN · 18m² BATH · 6m² BED 2 · 16m²
Priced BOQ, generated automatically
Concrete C30, foundations86.4 m³
Reinforcement steel9.2 ton
Blockwork, 200mm412 m²
Estimated totalAED 0
Who it is for

Made for the people who price the build

Villa contractors

Win more tenders with faster, sharper pricing, without growing the estimating team.

Quantity surveying firms

Cut the manual takeoff hours and turn more bids around in the same week.

Consultants and developers

Get a quick, reliable cost picture early, before committing to a tender or a budget.

On the ground

Built for real projects in the Gulf

From villa sites to tender rooms, Nodus is grounded in how construction actually gets priced here.

The problem

Estimating is the slowest, most manual step in construction

01

Days to weeks per BOQ

Manual takeoff across dozens of drawing sheets, repeated for every tender.

02

Prices go stale fast

There is no live local price reference, so estimators lean on scattered files and memory.

03

High cost, no scale

More projects means more people and more hours. The work simply does not scale.

15–30%

of project cost is lost to material waste in the UAE, driven largely by inaccurate quantities. Precise, priced BOQs cut straight into that waste.

Why speed and accuracy decide the job

Price it too high and you lose the tender. Too low and you lose the profit.

Tendering is a tight window. The bid that lands fast, with quantities you can trust, is the one that wins the work without quietly eating the margin.

Priced too lowLose margin
Right priceWin, healthy margin
Priced too highLose tender
UNDERPRICEDTHE SWEET SPOTOVERPRICED
TOO SLOW

You miss the deadline or rush the numbers, and the bid goes out weaker than it should.

TOO HIGH

A competitor wins the project on a sharper price, and the work walks out the door.

TOO LOW

You win but lose money, because the quantities missed what the build actually costs.

Nodus is built to hit the middle: fast turnaround, quantities you can trust.

How it works

Three steps to a finished BOQ

We built it for villas first, because they are the most repeatable project type.

STEP 01

Upload drawings

Drop villa drawings (PDF or CAD) straight into Nodus. No manual setup, no templates.

STEP 02

AI measures everything

The model detects spaces, performs the takeoff, and structures every item for you.

STEP 03

Get a priced BOQ

Quantities are priced from the local database and exported, ready for the tender.

See it in action

From days to minutes

Watch a project go from raw drawings to a complete, priced Bill of Quantities.

nodus · live demo
Why Nodus

Not another takeoff tool

Global tools stop at quantities. Nodus delivers the priced BOQ, calibrated to the Gulf.

Local price engine

Pricing built from real UAE market data, suppliers, and past tenders. That is the part no global tool has.

Hours, not weeks

Automated takeoff turns days of manual sheet by sheet work into one short session.

Arabic and English

Built for how the Gulf actually works, with bilingual output and local conventions.

Ready to tender

A complete, structured, priced BOQ, not a raw quantity dump that needs a second tool.

Made for the UAE

Local municipality standards and supplier reality built in, instead of a foreign tool bolted on.

A moat that compounds

Every project deepens the price database, making the output more accurate over time.

Working with us

A simple path to your first BOQ

We keep onboarding light, so you see value on a real project fast.

1

Share drawings

Send the villa drawings for a real or sample project you want priced.

2

We process and price

Nodus runs the takeoff and prices it against the local database.

3

Review the BOQ

You get a structured, priced BOQ to review against your own.

4

Refine and scale

We tune it to your conventions and roll it into your tendering workflow.

The opportunity

A large market, digitizing now

0%
of project cost lost to material waste from inaccurate quantities
UAE construction data
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villas due in Abu Dhabi and Dubai through 2026, each one a BOQ
market reports 2025
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UAE construction market, growing around 4.2% a year
market reports 2025
Standards and compliance

Built to the codes the region builds on

Output that lines up with the standards your projects are reviewed against.

Structural

ACI 318BS 8110EurocodesASCE 7

Cost and contracts

FIDICRICS NRMCESMM4 / SMM7POMI

BIM and delivery

ISO 19650IFC (ISO 16739)

Local and sustainability

Dubai Building CodeADIBCEstidama PearlAl Sa'fat

Nodus also works across the wider engineering codes our services practice is built on. See the full standards list →

Moamen A. Shekib
Technical Office Engineer · Academic Sustainability Researcher · Construction Project Management Specialist

A technical office engineer with a project management specialization and published academic research in sustainability, with hands-on experience in quantity surveying and cost estimation on projects up to AED 300M.

Leadership

Built by someone who lived the problem

Technical office and quantity surveying experience on real projects, up to AED 300M in scale.
Academic sustainability researcher, with published work in life-cycle assessment and value engineering.
Construction project management specialization across the full project cycle.
Backed by specialized engineers and project managers across the industry and the region.

Nodus is built on a working engineering practice already trusted by UAE contractors.

Our services arm is where our real pricing data comes from, and our first proving ground.
See our engineering services →
FAQ

Questions, answered

What exactly does Nodus do?
Nodus reads construction drawings, measures the quantities for you, and prices them against a live UAE market database. The result is a priced Bill of Quantities that is ready to tender. We start with villas.
How is it different from tools like Togal or Kreo?
Most global tools stop at quantities and are not calibrated to local prices. Nodus delivers the priced BOQ using real Gulf market data, in Arabic and English, built around local standards and conventions.
Which project types are supported?
We are starting with villas, the most repeatable project type, then expanding to wider building and commercial work over time.
How accurate is the pricing?
Pricing is drawn from real market data and improves with every project run. Your team still reviews the output. Nodus removes the manual grind, not your judgement.
Is my project data kept private?
Your drawings and project data are yours. We treat client data as confidential and use it only to produce your BOQ unless you agree otherwise.
When can I use it?
We are onboarding early users now from villa contractors and QS firms in the UAE. Request early access and we will be in touch.

See your first priced BOQ

We are onboarding early users from villa contractors and QS firms across the UAE. Request access, or book a short call to see it on your own project.

hello@nodusuae.com· WhatsApp +971 54 170 0822· nodus.service@gmail.com· nodusuae.com·United Arab Emirates