Questions, answered.

The files in the tender package you upload: the specification as PDF or Word (.docx), the drawings as PDF, schedules in Excel (.xlsx) or CSV, the IFC model (IFC2x3 or IFC4) and DXF. Zip files, DWG and Revit are not read yet, so upload the files themselves, and export DWG to DXF and Revit to IFC first. Scanned pages are read with text recognition, and every value read that way waits for you to check it. Modou notes which revision of each drawing it used, so you always know where a figure comes from. It also reads the text on the drawings themselves, such as notes and labels.

A takeoff measures: it gives you areas, lengths and counts for what you point it at. It does not read the specification, and it does not notice when the specification, the schedules and the model disagree. Modou does, with the source for every figure. It also works out the items nobody draws, such as sill flashings, reveals, subframe and fixings, each with its formula. And from an IFC model and the build-up you choose, it makes an order list of the materials in that build-up.

No. Modou prepares the quantities and shows what needs a decision. You check them, you price them in your own calculation software and you send the quote. Questions for the architect are noted for you. Modou never sends them.

No. You upload the tender package in your browser. There is nothing to install and no second system to keep up to date. You keep calculating in the software you already use: Modou exports Excel and CSV files, and CUF-XML files in pilot, which you import yourself. These are files, never a live connection. You can ask questions about a project in the dashboard, or in Slack, Telegram or Discord.

Your documents, prices and decisions stay in your own account and are never shared with other customers. The database runs in the European Union. We do not use your project documents, drawings, prices or calculations to train AI models, unless you give written permission. AI processing is not guaranteed to stay in the EU. Your projects and files are kept for as long as your account exists. You can delete your account at any time. Your login and your profile are then removed straight away, together with files that belong to no project. Your project documents are kept for up to 24 months after that and are then deleted, files included. Email hi@modou.io to have them removed sooner. The security page sets out exactly how that works, and where the limits are.

Yes. Check one project free, no card needed: upload the tender package and Modou shows you what it finds, each with its source. Want a fair test? Take a quote you already calculated and sent, and set Modou's findings against your own calculation, line by line. Recording decisions, exporting the reviewed calculation and more projects ask for a payment method first. You can export the quantities of your free project from its Quantities tab without one.

Because the price depends on your company: how many people calculate with Modou and how many projects you run through it. Every company gets an individual quote, and onboarding plus a dedicated account manager are included in it.

It is built for estimators at façade, cladding and finishing contractors and subcontractors in the Netherlands, who price from a specification, drawings and, where there is one, an IFC model. It works best with an IFC model and with documents that have a text layer. Without a model, quantities come from the schedules and tables in the documents, and Modou also measures straight from the lines of a 2D drawing. That measurement keeps being improved. A scanned page can be read too, but Modou then tells you it knows the page, not the exact spot.

Yes. Create your account on the sign-up page and upload your first project. When you sign up, Modou asks which trades your company does itself, so it reads with your scope in mind. Would you rather set it up together? Book a demo, email hi@modou.io or fill in the contact form, and we will call you back within one working day.

No. You price in your own calculation software, with your own prices, hour norms and margins. Modou hands over the checked quantities as an Excel or CSV file, or as a CUF-XML file (in pilot) made for calculation packages such as Ibis, Kraan nCalc and Vakware. We have not yet confirmed the import in any of those packages ourselves, so check your first file in your own package. It never invents a price.