Vision-enabled chat

Drop your drawings.
We'll do the math.

If you've already got floor plans, an architectural PDF, or even a phone snap of a site sketch, we can read it. The bot pulls the dimensions, counts the units, finds the MDF location, and skips the questions you've already answered.

Vision read 28-unit-mdu-floor1.pdf · 2.4 MB
7 unit drops detected on floor 1
What we extract

Six things the bot pulls off your drawing

No re-typing. No filling in fields you've already drawn. The bot reads the file, summarises what it found, asks you to confirm, and only then computes a range.

28

Unit count

Counts apartments, suites, drops, plates from the floor plan.

4

Storey count

Reads sections, elevations, or sheet labels for floor totals.

22k

Square footage

Pulls scale from drawings or measures from dimension lines.

MDF

Comms room

Locates the existing MDF or proposed rack location on plan.

Cable run length

Estimates fibre metres from MDF to furthest unit, per floor.

Entry method

Spots aerial vs buried entry from site plan annotations.

Riser locations

Finds vertical risers and IDF closets per floor stack.

Construction stage

Distinguishes greenfield, retrofit, and occupied from sheet notes.

Live example

A developer drops a 28-unit MDU floor plan

Real conversation, real file, real range. From upload to deposit in under three minutes.

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Hey, BOQ here. What can I help you sort out today?
Hi, we're retrofitting a 4-storey, 28-unit residential building near Belleville harbour. Need fibre to every suite. I've got the floor plan as a PDF.
Perfect, drop the file right here and I'll read it. PDF, image, even a phone snap of a paper drawing all work.

Drop drawings here

PDF, JPG, PNG, HEIC, DWG export. Up to 25 MB.

PDF
28-unit-mdu-floor-plans-belleville.pdf 2.4 MB · 4 sheets · uploaded just now
Got those, looks like a 4-storey, 28-unit retrofit, around 22,000 sqft gross. Reading through it now...
Right, here's what I'm pulling off the drawings. Have a look and tell me where I'm off:
What I read from your file
  • 4 storeys, 28 units total (7 suites per floor)
  • ~22,000 sqft gross area
  • Existing MDF in the ground-floor mechanical room
  • Vertical riser shaft on the north side, every floor
  • Aerial entry shown from the pole on Bridge Street
  • Building looks occupied (fixtures and unit numbers shown)
All correct. The MDF actually has a 24U rack already, room for new gear. Building is occupied so we'd need after-hours work in the suites.
Noted, that's helpful. Three quick gaps I couldn't pull from the drawing:
1. GPON one-fibre-per-unit, or active Ethernet?
2. Target completion?
3. Anyone need a wired drop in common areas (gym, lobby, laundry)?
GPON is fine, June 30 target, and yes please add 3 drops in common areas.
Excellent. Crunching the numbers now, give me a second...
$15,000 - $22,000
Mid-point: ~$18,500 CAD, materials and install included

That's based on what I read off your drawings plus the gaps you filled in. Occupied retrofit means evening-window labour, the rate's baked in. We've done two MDU jobs of similar size on Bay of Quinte in the last year, both landed in this band.

Project class
MDU small (10-50 units)
ONT count
28 units + 3 common
Cable run estimate
~640m single-mode
Splice count
~62 fusion joints
Construction stage
Occupied retrofit
Install window
2 to 3 weeks, evenings
This one sits in Brad's review band, so I've sent him your drawings, the read-back, and your answers. He'll be in touch on WhatsApp inside 4 hours to confirm and book the site survey. Anything else before we wrap?
Nope, perfect. Thanks.
Pleasure. Brad will reach out shortly. If you need anything urgent in the meantime, the office line is (613) 555-1234.
What we accept

Drop almost anything. We'll figure it out.

If your engineer sent it, we can probably read it. If your phone took it, we can definitely read it.

PDF floor plans Best
JPG / PNG photos
HEIC iPhone snaps
DWG export (PDF)
Architectural drawings
Site plans
Hand-drawn sketches
Survey markups
Existing as-builts
Riser diagrams
Don't have drawings? Use the text-only chat instead →
Why upload-first cuts time in half

Three minutes from upload to range

3 min

Upload to quote

From the moment you drop the file to a real cost range, on the screen.

5 fewer

Questions asked

Vs. the text-only flow. We skip the ones the drawing already answered.

100%

Confirmed read-back

We always show you what we extracted before quoting. Catch errors before the math.

With drawings vs without

Same chat. Half the questions.

If you've got the file, the bot skips everything it can read. If you don't, the text-only flow works just as well, it just takes a few minutes longer.

With drawings

3 minutes, 3 questions

  • Bot reads building type, area, units
  • Bot pulls MDF and riser locations
  • Bot reads back, you confirm
  • Bot asks 2-3 gaps, computes range
Text only, no drawings

5 minutes, 8 questions

  • You describe the building in words
  • Bot asks unit count, storeys, area
  • Bot asks comms-room status
  • Bot asks all gaps, computes range
Common questions

Things builders ask before they upload

Will my drawings be shared with anyone?

No. Files stay in our pipeline. Used to quote, then archived to your project folder. Never sold, never used to train external models, never shown to anyone outside BOQ.

What if the bot reads the drawing wrong?

It always reads back what it extracted before it quotes. You catch the error, correct it in chat, the bot re-reads. The site survey is the final lock either way.

Can I drop a phone snap of a paper drawing?

Yes, that's actually one of the most common uploads. As long as the dimensions are legible and the page isn't badly skewed, the bot reads it fine. iPhone HEIC, Android JPG, both work.

What about Revit or BIM files?

Not yet. Export to PDF and we'll read it. Native Revit and IFC support is on the roadmap, but for now the PDF export from your design tool covers 99% of cases.

Is the quote binding?

It's an honest range based on the file plus your answers. Brad's site survey turns it into a binding number. We've never had a survey land outside the bot's range on jobs we have calibration data for.

Got the drawings? Drop them in.

Open the chat, drag the file, watch the bot read it back. Three minutes start to finish, including the deposit if you want to hold the slot.