Verso Plans is for the whole front end of a job. A set of plans lands in your inbox, and before you commit to a bid you need to read them - what's the scope, where are the tricky details, roughly how big is it? Verso Plans gets you those answers fast, and then carries you through the takeoff when the job is real.
Open the PDF, calibrate any page to its scale, and start working: measure rooms and runs, count fixtures, mark up details to discuss with the team, and drop notes on anything that needs clarification. Set up conditions and every line you draw becomes quantity - lengths, areas, counts - feeding a priced worksheet where you set the rates and margin. Switch to the model and the walls, ceilings and openings build themselves from what you've drawn, so you can look at what you've priced instead of imagining it. When a revision shows up, compare it against the old set and see exactly what changed before it costs you.
The AI tools read the paperwork so you don't miss the traps: point them at the contract or the spec book and get a checklist review of scope, exclusions, and flags - using your own AI key or running fully local. When the bid moves forward, the proposal writes itself from the job - your letterhead, the scope you took off, your standing exclusions - out to Word or PDF. Export the worksheet to Excel for the office and share a flattened PDF with your markups so everyone's looking at the same thing.
Built by a working drywall and framing subcontractor, for how bidding actually goes.
- New Proposal tab turns a finished takeoff into a bid letter: your letterhead and logo, the GC picked from your address book, pricing broken out by section, alternates priced separately, and a scope you write once and reuse. Qualifications, inclusions, exclusions and conditions are kept as standing lists you tick per job, so most of a proposal is checked rather than typed. Bid or budget wording follows one switch, and the finished document exports to Word or PDF.
- The Rates Library has been removed. Rates are now typed straight into the Worksheet, which lists every condition including ones with no takeoff yet, adds a Height column for linear work, runs in condition order, groups by class, and exports to Excel or copies to the clipboard.
- Takeoff and Details windows open the same project on a second screen. Sheets can be marked To do, Done or Question and filtered by that mark, and a reissued sheet can now be compared against another plan set directly on the canvas. The drawing background is lighter for long sessions, and plan sets no longer re-optimise on every open.
- Projects no longer require plans: spec review and contract screening now work as standalone workflows, so you can start a bid from just the spec book or front-end documents.
- Specification accepts multiple PDFs with drag and drop, and each checklist scans across the whole set at once.
- Spec and Contracts now share one design, with a pre-scan preview showing every field a checklist will look for.
- AI engine selection lives in Settings and is reflected on both pages.
- New Rates Library tab with auto-applied saved rates.
- Worksheet adds a Library column, section grouping, sort arrows, and a bigger Total.
- Front-canvas Library start screen replaces the old Open dialog.
- Units now uppercase and color-coded (FT, SF, EA).
- Faster worksheet recompute on heavy takeoffs.
- Verso Plans 1.0.0 — initial release.
- Fast PDF takeoff and markup for construction drawings: calibrated measurements, count pins, polylines and area, a priced worksheet with margin and cost adjustments, and styled multi-tab Excel exports. Includes a 30-day free trial.
