Turn every drawing set into data you can query.

FAQ

• Is this a takeoff tool?

  It does the takeoff and then keeps the result. A traditional takeoff produces quantities for one project at one moment and is rebuilt from scratch next time. REAL abstracts the same drawings into records that stay queryable across the portfolio, so the counts remain available for lease verification, asset registers, and later projects.

• How does it know which drawing version is current?

  Version sequence and supersession are read from the sets themselves rather than from upload order. The current version is identified, earlier ones are marked superseded, and extraction runs only against the drawing that governs, which is the difference between a right answer and a plausible one.

• What does it extract from a drawing set?

  Areas by type, door and window schedules, fixture and equipment counts, parking, and the mechanical, plumbing, and electrical records carried on the sheets. Every extracted value keeps a reference back to its source sheet, so any figure can be checked against the drawing.

• Can it read as-builts, or only bid sets?

  Both, and the comparison between them is often where the value sits. Bid sets, permit sets, and as-builts are read the same way, and differences between them are surfaced, which is where unbilled scope and square footage disputes originate.

• How does it capture asset data that is not on a drawing?

  From site photography and survey imagery. Signage, flooring, roofing, and visible equipment are identified along with a condition assessment, which improves record completeness and reduces the repeat site visits manual capture requires.

• Can we query across the whole portfolio, or one project at a time?

  Across the portfolio. A question about fixture counts or parking across thirty projects is answered from the abstracted records rather than by opening thirty sets, with source sheets cited for every figure.

• Does this replace the system we store plan sets in?

  No. Document management systems store and version drawings, and several were built for real estate rather than construction. REAL reads what is in them and turns the contents into records you can query, compare against leases, and hold asset data against.

• Is our data secure?

  REAL runs in a single tenant on your data, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, and your data is never used to train any model.