For UK subcontractors

Takeoff, estimate and bill every job in one place.

Blue Shuck gives solo tradespeople and small firms a low-cost, spreadsheet-fast workspace — from blueprint to application for payment, now with an AI takeoff assistant to speed up quantities. Pay only when you need more active projects.

No card required · From £0 · Cancel anytime

Blueprint takeoff
Everything, one workflow

The unified takeoff-to-billing toolkit

Every plan gets every feature. The only thing that changes is how many jobs and teammates you run at once.

Blueprint takeoff in the browser AI-assisted quantities Estimating + progress billing CIS & VAT reverse charge Card & BACS payments Team roles & seats

Upload & render blueprints

Drop a PDF drawing and view it right in the browser. No plugins, no CAD licence.

Calibrate the scale

Set your drawing scale in seconds so every measurement comes out accurate.

Trace & count takeoff

Click to count fittings, trace runs to measure lengths, and aggregate quantities per job.

AI takeoff assistant

Let AI read schedules & legends to extract quantities, detect the drawing scale, and suggest rates from your library — you stay in control.

Estimating matrix

A fast spreadsheet-style grid. Quantity, unit, rate, markup and live totals.

Progress billing ledger

Schedule-of-values billing with retainage, balance to finish and amount due.

UK tax built in — CIS & VAT

Automatic CIS deductions on labour and VAT domestic reverse charge, right on your Applications for Payment.

Get paid by card or BACS

Share an Application for Payment and let clients pay by card via Stripe — straight to your bank — or by bank transfer.

Work as a team

Invite your estimators, QSs and admins with owner, admin, member and read-only viewer roles.

One-click PDF export

Send a clean, branded estimate and application for payment to your client.

Estimating on blueprint
How it works

From drawing to paid, in four steps

01

Create a project

Spin up a job and invite the drawing.

02

Take off quantities

Calibrate, count and trace on the plan.

03

Estimate & bill

Price the work, then bill progress each month.

04

Export & win

Export a professional PDF and get paid.

Simple, honest pricing

Pay for active projects, nothing else

All features on every plan. Archive a finished job to free up space, or upgrade when you need more running at once.

Free

Try the full workflow on one live job.

£0/mo
1 active project

1 user seat

Free forever · no card required

  • PDF blueprint upload & render
  • Scale calibration
  • Trace & count takeoff tools
  • Estimating matrix
  • Progress billing ledger
  • UK CIS & VAT reverse charge
  • Client card & BACS payments
  • Branded PDF & CSV export
Fair-use AI included
  • AI quantity extraction from drawings
  • AI drawing-scale detection
  • AI rate suggestions
Most popular

Growth

Run several jobs side by side.

£29/mo
Up to 5 active projects

5 user seats · extra seats £7/mo each

Billed monthly · renews every 30 days · cancel anytime

  • PDF blueprint upload & render
  • Scale calibration
  • Trace & count takeoff tools
  • Estimating matrix
  • Progress billing ledger
  • UK CIS & VAT reverse charge
  • Client card & BACS payments
  • Branded PDF & CSV export
Fair-use AI included
  • AI quantity extraction from drawings
  • AI drawing-scale detection
  • AI rate suggestions

Scale

No limits for busy firms.

£79/mo
Unlimited active projects

20 user seats · extra seats £7/mo each

Billed monthly · renews every 30 days · cancel anytime

  • PDF blueprint upload & render
  • Scale calibration
  • Trace & count takeoff tools
  • Estimating matrix
  • Progress billing ledger
  • UK CIS & VAT reverse charge
  • Client card & BACS payments
  • Branded PDF & CSV export
Fair-use AI included
  • AI quantity extraction from drawings
  • AI drawing-scale detection
  • AI rate suggestions

Win the job. Bill it right. Get paid.

Start free today — no card, no commitment.

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