Trusted by leading structural steel fabricators, erectors, and engineers
Steel Estimating is Where Time and Margin Get Lost
Most steel fabricators still run takeoffs and bid decisions on manual counting and incomplete visibility.
Committing estimator hours to jobs that were never a real fit — wasting capacity and margin on dead ends.
Missing critical risk signals buried across hundreds of drawing sheets, specs, and revision sets.
Structural changes accumulating silently across revisions — each one quietly eating into your estimated number.
Primary Capability
Know Which Jobs to Bid Before You Commit
Upload a drawing set and get a structured Bid Intelligence Summary in minutes.
- Structural scope inclusions and exclusions
- Risk scoring across schedule, phasing, and constraints
- Project metadata extracted directly from documents
- Fit assessment based on your company profile
- Stop wasting estimator hours on the wrong jobs.
- Identify hidden risk early.
- Make better go / no-go decisions with confidence.
See Ferra in Action
A full takeoff on real structural drawings — inside Ferra 1.5.
Core Product Features

Bid Intelligence
AI bid analysis with document-grounded answers directly from your plans and specs.
Learn About Bid Intelligence
Steel Takeoff
AI steel takeoff software that detects beams, columns, and structural scope across full drawing sets.
Explore Steel Takeoff
Revision Control
Compare drawing revisions and catch structural changes without redoing your takeoff.
See Revision Workflow
3D Model Generation
Turn validated steel takeoffs into exportable 3D models for review, coordination, and detailing.
View 3D OutputBuilt for Real Steel Estimating Workflows
“ Ferra gives us clarity on which jobs are worth bidding before we commit estimator time. Being able to quickly understand scope and risk upfront has changed how we evaluate opportunities and where we focus our effort. ”
Trent Hollis
“Everything looks right. The way it stitched those sheets was insane how clean that was.”
Jakob Harker
Why Ferra
Built for Structural Steel. Not Generic AI.
Ferra is purpose-built for the complexity of structural steel estimating.
- Trained on real structural steel drawings
- Designed around actual bid workflows
- Built by operators, not outsiders

Ready to see it in action
See How Ferra Fits Into Your Steel Estimating Workflow
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