GridReader measures every room on the drawings,
prices it your way and sends the quote.
GridReader is shaped by how a flooring job really runs: the drawing set, the roll, the holdback. Three things that usually live in a spreadsheet, done from the drawings.
How it works
Upload the set
GridReader reads it
Every room measured
Choose flooring
The quote, signed
Invoiced and paid
Riverside Commons, Phase 2 · Type A
Sample job · waste figures are sample values
Beaulieu Canada Residential broadloom
Carpet · Bed 2, Primary, Closet, WIC, Bed 3
Engineered white oak, 7 in plank
Hardwood · Hall, Entry, Living, Den
Torlys EverWood Premier, Coastal Oak
LVP · Kitchen, Storage
Olympia Tile Onyce series porcelain
Tile · Bath 2, Bath, Ensuite
Sheet vinyl, 12 ft roll
Sheet vinyl · Laundry
Q-6FE58A-R1
Revision 1SignedRiverside Commons, Phase 2 · Northline Builders
Signature
Marcus Lindqvist, Northline Builders
Signed content verifiedSHA-256 45eb0539b5efe3d6a2…
What was signed
History
Deposit INV-1001 paid
$113,698.33 · e-Transfer
Each room is measured and checked against the area printed on the plan.
Hover a room to see what was read; anything off is flagged to check.
Type A · 2 bed · 2 bath · ×36 units
11 rooms, 1,040 sf
Hover a room, or tap it on a phone, to see what was measured. The chips filter by status.
Each unit type is measured once, multiplied by the unit table and checked against the plan.
Type A
2 bed · 2 bath · ×36
1,040 sf
1,040 sf printed
Type B
1 bed · 1 bath · ×24
728 sf
7 rooms
Room sum within 0.8% of the stated rentable area on A-001.
The printed figure it disagreed with, or the line it couldn't reconcile. You check one room, not the set.
Laundry · 50 sf
To checkW/D pan and door swing read ambiguously on A-212; confirm the tile extent.
Bathroom 2 · 48 sf
To approveMeasured and priced; waiting for your approval.
One set of numbers, carried from the takeoff to the quote to the invoice. Nothing is re-typed.
Ask with ⌘K
Ask the drawings anything, from anywhere in the app.
Vector or scan
Scans are read too; anything less sure is marked first.
Pages counted first
See what a set will use before anything is read.
Change orders
The revised drawing compared to what was signed, room by room.
Stop scaling drawings at midnight to catch a bid deadline.
Every unit is measured once, from the drawing's own lines, and checked against the area printed on the plan: the same way, every time, on every job.
Your products and rates on every room, with seams, offcuts and transitions.
Waste and coverage come from the maker's data sheets, each with its source.
Primary Bedroom
$24,828.52
Beaulieu Canada Residential broadloom · 6,692 SF · $3.71 / SF
Living / Dining
$62,849.16
Torlys EverWood Premier — Coastal Oak · 10,652 SF · $5.90 / SF
Bedroom 2
$19,099.10
Beaulieu Canada Residential broadloom · 5,148 SF · $3.71 / SF
Primary Ensuite
$38,000.66
Olympia Tile Onyce series porcelain · 2,495 SF · $15.23 / SF
Riverside Commons, Phase 2 · INV-1002
Building A / Type A
Progress invoices follow the signed schedule of values and keep the holdback aside.
Any line can be supply and install, install only, supply only, or a flat charge.
Price this line as
One nap direction on a 13'2" roll, closets cut from the offcuts, no fill under 12 inches. Hover a piece for its size.
Hover or tap a piece to read its size.
Transitions and nosings
Their own priced lines, never buried in the square feet.
Waste with a source
From the maker's data sheets and your past jobs.
Costs stay yours
Glue and underlay are folded into the flooring lines.
Canadian tax
GST, HST, PST and QST split on every invoice.
Your client, your crew and your books work from the same numbers the drawings gave you, from the signed quote to the last holdback release.
Client portal
Proposal · Riverside Commons, Phase 2
E-sign
Deposit · INV-1001
$113,698.33
Payments
Progress invoice 1 · sample figures
Progress billing
Unit 204 · Type A
11 rooms · LVP, carpet, tile
Crew
Invoices · export
Invoice,Job,Client,Status,…,Total,Balance
INV-1002,Riverside Commons, Phase 2,…
INV-1001,Riverside Commons, Phase 2,…
One row per invoice, with tax, paid and balance.
Accounting
Card 1 of 6: Client portal
Installers work from one texted link.
The office sees who did what, and gets paid properly.
Add an installer with a mobile number and text them one link. No password, no app to download.
Quiet on purpose. These are the rules the platform never bends, on every account and every job.
Every job, quote and file is scoped to your company. No query ever crosses accounts.
Every price and tax line is computed in exact decimal arithmetic, never floating point. The cent on your invoice is the cent that was priced.
A flagged room carries why: the printed area it disagreed with, or the line it couldn't reconcile.
Customer PDFs aren't used to train AI models. Line corrections are saved and reused only on your own company's jobs.
Shipped to the platform, newest first.
One nap direction on a 13'2" roll, a 12 inch minimum fill, identical rooms ganged across the roll, ordered in LF and SY.
Mark a whole unit done with one photo, or walk it room by room. Works offline.
Your client e-signs the proposal; the paid deposit turns it into the contract and builds the schedule of values.
Each unit shows its rooms as read from the drawing. Hover a line and its room lights up.
Pricing
US dollars, before tax. 14-day trial · 20 pages · no card.
At 150 pages a month, Pro covers you: 300 pages included.
12-month plan, billed monthly
12-month plan, billed monthly
12-month plan, billed monthly
Pooled pages for bigger teams
Every upload is page-counted and shown to you before anything is read. A set that would go past your allowance is stopped before it is read and nothing is charged: add a top-up or move up a plan, then read it. Top-ups never expire and never renew. Monthly plans cancel anytime.
Measurements are generated automatically. Review them before ordering material or sending a quote.
Yearly pricing is billed monthly on a 12-month commitment. If you cancel before the 12 months end, we bill the difference between the monthly and yearly price for each month you've used (for example Pro: $40 × months used). No other cancellation fee.
Something else? Write to hello@gridreader.com.
Yes. Measurements are generated automatically. Review them before ordering material or sending a quote.
No. GridReader is flooring takeoff software: it measures every room from the blueprint's own lines instead of estimating, checks each unit against the area printed on the plan, and carries those measured numbers into the quote, contract and invoice. See Measured takeoff vs estimating for the full comparison.
Flooring takeoff software measures the floor areas on a set of drawings and turns them into quantities and a price. GridReader does it from the PDF itself: it finds the unit plans, measures each room, multiplies each unit type by the unit table, and flags any room that doesn't match the area printed on the plan.
A 71-page multi-family drawing set was read in 38.5 seconds on our production server (September 2026). Checking and approving the flagged rooms usually takes a few minutes more.
Yes. For broadloom and sheet goods it lays out the roll, keeps one nap direction, rounds each drop up to the pattern repeat, cuts closets from offcuts, and tells you how many linear feet and square yards to order.
Yes. It handles GST, HST, PST and QST by province, and bills progress with the statutory holdback kept and released on time. Every plan has a Canadian-dollar price next to the US one (Pro is C$199 a month on the yearly plan), so a Canadian card is billed in CAD, and the invoices you send your own clients use your account's currency.
The engine measures rooms from the drawing's own vector lines and checks each unit against the area printed on the plan. Anything that doesn't add up is flagged, and nothing becomes a quote until you approve it.
Vector PDFs exported from CAD read best. Scans are read too, and anything the engine is less sure of is marked for you to check first.
No. Glue, underlay and other hidden items stay in your ledger; their price is folded into the flooring lines, to the cent.
Yes. GST, HST, PST and QST are set from your province, split correctly on every invoice, and stay editable.
Nothing is billed. Every upload is page-counted before anything is read, and a set that would go past your monthly allowance is stopped before reading, with nothing charged. Add a page top-up (25 pages for US$29 or C$39, 60 for US$59 or C$79) or move up a plan, then read it. Top-ups never expire.
No. Customer PDFs aren't used to train AI models. Line corrections are saved and reused only on your own company's jobs.
From the maker's data sheets and your own past jobs. Each number shows its source, and anything that is an assumption is labelled as one.
Sets past 100 pages are normal. Every upload is page-counted first, so you see what it will use before anything is read.
Yes. Any line can be supply and install, install only, supply only, or a flat charge such as floor prep or haul-away.
A 71-page set took 38.5 seconds to read. Measured on GridReader's production server, 26 September 2026.
14-day trial · 20 pages · no card
Send it over and we'll read it with you.