Attentive.ai

subscription plus per-site/per-sheet Win & Set Up the Work

AI 2D takeoff and measurement platform (Beam) that extracts quantities from aerial imagery and plan PDFs for landscaping, paving, snow, and multi-trade construction estimating, plus a BIM CoPilot for Revit. Subscription plus per-site/per-sheet pricing; delivered through a web app with no public API.

Agent-hostile
2.4 /5 composite score
C1 3/5 reflects partly published subscription plus per-site and per-sheet pricing, and C4 3/5 reflects PDF import with XLSX estimate export. RF2 keeps C2 1/5 because delivery is a GUI web app with no public API, CLI, or MCP surface.
Situational

Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion Score Evidence
Value for the price 3/5 subscription plus per-site/per-sheet Source →
Agent Friendliness 1/5 API: none; GUI web app
Ease of adoption 3/5 --
Portability & lock-in 3/5 2 file formats
Interoperability 2/5 1 integrations

Pricing

Modelsubscription plus per-site/per-sheet
Free tierno
Free viewerno
Trialyes
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Evidence

File formats

FormatDirectionSupport
PDF import full -- Plan import.
XLSX export full -- Estimate export.

Integrations

Revit

Sources

Pricing

Also covers

Attentive.ai also appears in these sub-categories:

Site Documentation
The site-documentation placement is quantity extraction from aerial imagery rather than field-capture hardware; C4 3/5 reflects spreadsheet export, and RF2 keeps C2 1/5 because delivery is a GUI web app with no public API.

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