AI estimating for electrical contractors
Electrical estimating is counting — thousands of accessories, metres of containment, circuit after circuit — and the counting is exactly what eats the evenings. Nexley takes the drawings and does the measured take-off for you: containment runs, accessory counts, distribution boards and cable routes, itemised and traceable back to each layout, priced from your own rates and put in front of you for review before anything leaves the office.
- Take-offs measured from your drawings
- First fix and second fix priced separately
- Certificates and paperwork kept in order
The take-off is the bottleneck
Ask any electrical contractor where tender week goes and the answer is the same: highlighters on layouts. Sockets, switches, downlights and data points counted plot by plot; tray and trunking measured wall by wall; a containment route re-walked because revision B moved a riser. Get one accessory count wrong across forty plots and the error multiplies quietly through the whole submission. Nexley measures from the drawings directly — you describe the job in plain English, attach the layouts, and get back a measured take-off and bill of quantities with every count referenced to its drawing, so checking it takes minutes rather than redoing it taking days.
Built around how electrical work is actually priced
- First fix and second fix, kept apart. Carcassing, containment and cabling in one section; accessories, terminations, testing and commissioning in another — so your staged valuations mirror the programme instead of fighting it.
- Containment measured properly. Tray, basket, ladder and conduit taken off by run with fittings and supports counted, not guessed at as a lump-sum allowance that either loses you the job or loses you the margin.
- Your rates, not book rates. Nexley prices from the rate library you build up with it, and flags where the tender documents are silent so a provisional sum goes in rather than a hopeful one.
- The whole tender, not just the numbers. Where a submission needs method statements or quality answers, the tendering side drafts them from the job you have described.
The paperwork that follows the work
Winning the job starts a second admin trail: NICEIC assessment visits want your records straight, every EICR produces observations somebody must turn into a remedial quote, and electrical installation certificates have a habit of being chased by main contractors at handover. Nexley keeps that trail tidy — certificates logged against their jobs, remedial work quoted from the coded observations, test results filed where the next person can find them — which is precisely the record a periodic inspection or an assessment visit expects to see.
Put a real drawing through itWhere electrical firms feel it first
Three jobs Nexley takes off the bench on day one.
The forty-plot count
Housing schedules with repeating plot types are made for measured take-off: count the type once, apply it across the schedule, and let the exceptions be the only manual work.
How take-offs work →The EICR backlog
Every inspection report you issue is a remedial quote you have not sent yet. Turning observations into priced quotations the same day is how that pipeline stops leaking.
Automated quoting →The tender you nearly skipped
When measuring costs you nothing but a review, bidding one more job a month stops being a question of spare evenings.
Compare it with hiring a QS →Try Nexley on your next electrical job
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