Bedrock vs zzTakeoff: takeoff tool or full estimating platform?

zzTakeoff is a fast, well-built cloud takeoff tool with real-time collaboration, AI page naming, and import from Bluebeam and PlanSwift. Bedrock covers the same takeoff ground and continues through the rest of the bid: formula-driven assemblies, a live cost database with crews and equipment, 3D earthwork, and a proposal with e-sign and view analytics. Choose zzTakeoff if measurement is the job and your pricing already lives somewhere else. Choose Bedrock if you want quantities, pricing, and the signed proposal to be the same document.

zzTakeoff is a strong cloud takeoff tool with real-time multi-user collaboration, AI page naming, AI scaling, and a shared template and assembly library. Bedrock covers that same takeoff ground and keeps going — formula-driven assemblies, a live cost database, 3D earthwork, proposals with e-sign and analytics, and QuickBooks Online export — all in one document.

zzTakeoff focuses on measurement and collaboration. Bedrock delivers the full estimating lifecycle: takeoff → assemblies → cost database → proposal, tuned for the trades that self-perform.

• Best for: Trade-specific contractors and self-perform GCs bidding weekly
• Best for: Teams that want assemblies to auto-drive rebar, forms, mesh, and labor
• Best for: Estimators who want proposals and e-sign built in — not bolted on
• Why teams switch: No native 3D earthwork (TIN, cut/fill, haul balance)
• Why teams switch: No built-in proposal builder with e-sign and view analytics
• Why teams switch: No accounting export to QuickBooks Online
• zzTakeoff does this better: Direct import of existing Bluebeam and PlanSwift takeoffs — Bedrock re-runs takeoff on the same PDFs instead
• zzTakeoff does this better: Lighter footprint if you only need measurement and hand quantities to someone else to price
• zzTakeoff does this better: Simple, generic condition model that any trade can learn in an afternoon

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