No upload, ever
Your IFC models stay on your device. Nothing is sent to a server — ideal for confidential or competition-stage projects.
Material Take-Off · Claude plugin
Carbon-aware take-offs,
without the upload
An AI-assisted, carbon-aware Material Take-Off, wrapped as a Claude plugin. Point it at your local IFC models — it matches every material against ÖKOBAUDAT and hands you a ready-to-use Excel take-off. No upload. Instant results.
Runs locally · IFC in, Excel out · Embodied carbon from ÖKOBAUDAT
A different kind of take-off
Your models never leave your machine
Traditional take-off tools ask you to export, upload and wait. Ours doesn't. The plugin reads your IFC files straight from disk, runs the matching locally, and writes the result back as an Excel workbook — all on your own computer.
No portal, no queue, no project data leaving your control. Just open Claude, point it at a model, and get a costed, carbon-aware take-off in seconds.
Claude · Material Take-Off
Take off the materials from /models/tower-rev7.ifc and add embodied carbon.
Read 2,341 elements. Matched 38 materials to ÖKOBAUDAT.
tower-rev7-takeoff.xlsx written — 11,951 t CO₂e total. ✓
Illustrative — your files stay on your device.
How it works
From IFC to costed carbon in four steps
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Point it at your IFC
Keep your models where they are. The plugin reads IFC directly from your local filesystem — one file or a whole federated set.
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AI matches every material
Materials and layers are matched to the right ÖKOBAUDAT entries automatically — even when the naming in your model is messy or inconsistent.
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Carbon-aware quantities
Quantities are paired with embodied-carbon factors (GWP) from ÖKOBAUDAT, so every line of your take-off carries its climate impact.
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Get an Excel take-off
A clean
.xlsxlands in seconds — materials, quantities and carbon — ready for LCA, tendering or cost estimation.
Why it's different
Built for speed, privacy and carbon
Instant results
No batch jobs, no waiting room. Ask for a take-off and the workbook is ready in seconds.
Carbon-aware
Embodied carbon sits alongside every quantity, turning a quantity take-off into a head start on your Life-Cycle Assessment.
ÖKOBAUDAT-matched
AI matching maps your materials to the German ÖKOBAUDAT database — auditable, standard-aligned and ready for certification.
Excel, ready to use
Output is a structured spreadsheet you can drop straight into your existing estimating, LCA or reporting workflow.
Inside Claude
It's a Claude plugin, so you work in plain language — refine, filter and re-run your take-off just by asking.
Carbon at design speed
Decisions while they still matter
Because the take-off is instant and local, you can run it on every design revision — not just at milestones. Compare options, spot the carbon-heavy elements early, and feed the numbers straight into your Life-Cycle Assessment while there is still time to change the design.
See it feed into LCAAligned with leading certification frameworks
Try it on your next model
See a carbon-aware Material Take-Off built from your own IFC files — locally, in seconds. Visit the product site to get started, or talk to us about rolling it out across your team.