Δ TerraIQ
For earthworks & civil estimators

Bid every earthworks job.
Even with no survey.

Send your next tender — existing survey or not. Get a QS-checked cut & fill takeoff back with prompt turnaround, every volume shown against the surface. No existing ground in the set? We build it from open LiDAR.

CESMM4 · Class E MasterFormat Div 31 NRM2 · AS 3798 · NZS 4431 LiDAR: LINZ · 3DEP · ELVIS · EA · HRDEM
Earthworks Takeoff — Cut / Fill QS-CHECKED
ProjectKaimai Rise Stg 2
DatumNZVD2016
ExistingLiDAR 1m
OperationCut m³Fill m³Haul m³
Topsoil strip 150mm3,180—+3,180
Bulk cut (plateau)12,940——
Cut → engineered fill—9,610—
Undercut / soft spots420——
Import subbase (GAP)—1,240−1,240
Net · export16,54010,8503,750
Existing ground: open LiDAR (NZVD2016, 1m)+ query list · 5 items
0 surveys
needed to price a bid-stage cut & fill
~90%
of the manual surface-building, gone
3×
more tenders priced, same team
5 markets
open-LiDAR coverage: NZ·AU·US·UK·CA
The earthworks bottleneck

Half your bids can't even be priced.

You can't compute cut and fill without an existing surface — and half the tender sets don't have one. So you digitise contours by hand, buy a survey, or pass on the job. And when you do price it, get the balance wrong and you eat the haul bill on a job you won.

How it works today

Build the surface by hand — or gamble

  • ✕Half a day digitising contours to build existing ground — per bid
  • ✕No survey in the set → the job can't be priced at all
  • ✕Offshore bureau: 48 hrs, black box, "which existing ground did they use?"
  • ✕Volume risk is yours — misjudge the balance, you eat the haul
With TerraIQ

Send drawings, get a checked cut/fill

  • ✓Cut, fill & mass-haul measured to your standard, m³ or CY
  • ✓No survey? Existing ground built from open LiDAR — so you can still bid
  • ✓Cut/fill heatmap + section proofs — the working shown, QS-checked
  • ✓Prompt turnaround — price the dirt while it's hot
The pack

What lands in your inbox

Everything you need to price the dirt with confidence — and put your name to the number.

01

Cut & fill takeoff

Volumes in m³ or CY: topsoil strip, bulk & detailed excavation, cut, fill, import & disposal — by zone, every quantity traced to a drawing reference and the datum used.

02

Mass-haul summary

Cut-to-fill balance, net import/export, and haul distances where the drawings show them — so you price cart-away and borrow, not guess it.

03

Marked-up surface

A cut/fill heatmap over the plan plus section proofs against the existing and design surfaces. This is the working — no black box.

04

Live-formula Excel

Yellow inputs, green calculations. Change a rate or a bulking factor, the tender number moves. Yours to keep and reuse.

05

Priced tender summary

Strip / excavate / cart / fill / compact / import built up to a submittable number, with the rates exposed and labelled.

+

QS spot-check

A chartered QS reviews every pack — including the existing surface and datum — against the drawings before it ships. That check is the guarantee, not a refund promise.

Three steps

Just send the drawings. We do the rest.

1

Send a set

Upload your tender or IFC drawings — PDF is fine. Include a survey if you have one; if not, just tell us the site and we'll pull the LiDAR.

2

We build & measure

Existing ground from your survey or open LiDAR, cut/fill measured to your standard, then a chartered QS checks every line and the datum.

3

Get the pack

With prompt turnaround: cut/fill takeoff, mass-haul summary, marked-up surface, 3D model and a numbered query list.

Pricing

Cheaper than the survey you'd have bought

Your first takeoff is free so you can judge it against your own hand. All prices in US dollars (USD).

An in-house earthworks estimator is $70–110k a year and hard to find. An AGTEK / Carlson seat is $4,000–10,000 a year. An offshore takeoff is $299–800 and a black box. One won earthworks job is worth tens of thousands. A checked-and-shown cut/fill takeoff is $75. (USD)
Onboarding a limited number of founding earthworks firms — your first takeoff is free.
Per takeoff
$75 USD

Pay as you bid. One flat price per takeoff.

  • Full checked pack, per job
  • Open-LiDAR surface if no survey
  • Prompt turnaround
  • No commitment
Start free
Growth · most firms
$799/mo USD

For firms bidding every week. Volume takeoffs at one predictable price.

  • Up to 20 takeoffs / month
  • Priority turnaround
  • Named QS reviewer
  • LiDAR surface pulls included
  • Rolling rate library
Get your free takeoff
Bureau · Enterprise
$1,999/mo USD

White-label for estimating bureaus and multi-trade civil GCs.

  • Unlimited / high volume
  • White-label deliverables
  • Self-serve upload / API
  • Multi-trade packages
Talk to us

Run associated trades in-house — drainage, concrete, rebar, roading? Talk to us about a combined takeoff so one drawing set prices your whole civil scope.

Combine trades

Your next takeoff, free.

Send one real drawing set — survey or not. We'll return a QS-checked cut & fill takeoff with prompt turnaround, every volume shown against the surface, and yours to keep whether you buy again or not.

Chartered QS checked NDA on request Your files stay yours

We'll reply within one business day. Your files are used only to return your takeoff.

Beyond the takeoff

Earthworks throws off more problems than volumes.

If AI can measure your dirt, it can help with the rest of the numbers too. These are live conversations, not products yet — if one's a headache for you, reach out.

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