Is Machinae Build metal building quoting software?
Short answer. No, and the distinction matters. It produces a quote-grade quantity schedule — neutral measurements a supplier can price — and stops deliberately one step short of both a bill of materials and an estimate. It never outputs a dollar figure. What it removes is the part where a quote takes three days because nobody agrees what building is being quoted.
What it produces
- Areas, lengths and counts measured off the building the customer is actually looking at: footprint, wall and roof areas, trim and gutter lengths, opening counts.
- In feet —
ft,ft2,ea— because the spec, the renderer and the market are in feet. Metric is a display conversion, never stored. - Against a frozen revision, not arbitrary client JSON: a quote must reference bytes that cannot change under it afterwards.
- As CSV, plus GLB and PDF artifacts, queued from that frozen revision and produced where artifact export is enabled for the deployment.
- With provenance on every item, so a reviewer can tell a calculated figure from a supplier's claim.
What it deliberately does not produce
- No prices. Ever, in the measurement path.
- No member schedules. How many purlins at what gauge is a function of the supplier's system, their span tables and an engineer's signature. Publishing a guess would invite it to be mistaken for a fabrication BOM, which is the single most expensive confusion available in this product.
- No waste, laps or trim allowances. A supplier's panel width sets their lap and their yard sets their waste factor. Items that need it are marked for the supplier to apply and left net.
- No labour, freight, tax or margin.
- No proposal document, e-signature or payment collection.
Why "quote-grade" and not "estimate"
An estimate carries somebody's cost assumptions. A quantity schedule carries measurements. Handing a supplier measurements they can price with their own numbers is faster than handing them an estimate they have to unpick — and it cannot be mistaken for a fabrication document, which is the failure mode worth designing against.
What it does before the quote
The building is code-checked first: the structural system is routed from the clear span, and the check names the standard behind each item. So the quantity schedule is measured off a building that has already been told, for example, that a 16 ft or wider opening needs an engineered header, or that a cold-formed truss clear span of 60 ft or more triggers special inspection under IBC 2206 / 1705.2.5.
Related
- What the 3D output actually is: the outputs, in detail
- Why this is not a CRM either: CRM and lead management