AIQS LIMITED

What AIQS LIMITED does

AIQS LIMITED operates an AI-powered SaaS platform that delivers instant quantity surveying and cost estimation services to UK builders and professional quantity surveyors. The platform analyzes uploaded construction drawings in multiple formats (PDF, DWG, PNG, JPG, XLSX) using computer vision and process automation to generate material take-offs, apply live weekly-updated national supplier pricing, check compliance against UK Building Regulations (Parts A-S), and produce NRM2/SMM7-compliant Bills of Quantities, project timelines, and risk advisory notes — typically within minutes per project.

The company's core technology combines drawing-parsing AI with a continuously refreshed UK supplier pricing database and an embedded regulatory knowledge layer. A distinctive commercial feature is its postcode exclusivity model, under which only one builder per UK postal area is permitted to subscribe, creating territory-based switching costs and limiting local competition for subscribers. The product-led go-to-market is fully self-serve via the company website, requiring no sales team and no credit card for the first-month free trial.

AIQS generates revenue through monthly (£295) and annual (£195/month, £2,340/year) subscriptions with a fair-use cap of 20 quotes per month. The primary customer segment is UK small and medium builders needing faster tender turnaround at a fraction of traditional QS fees (£2,000-£5,000/month), with professional quantity surveyors serving as a secondary segment seeking automation of manual take-off work. The company is privately held, founder-led (contact: [email protected]), bootstrapped with no disclosed external funding, headquartered in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, and serves only the UK market with Scotland and Northern Ireland currently excluded.

Name

AIQS LIMITED

Legal name

AIQS Limited

Website

https://aiqs.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Short description

AIQS LIMITED provides an AI-powered SaaS platform that delivers instant quantity surveying, automated material take-offs, and live UK supplier pricing for UK builders and professional quantity surveyors, with a one-builder-per-postcode exclusivity model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Monthly Subscription: Standard monthly subscription at £295/month providing full access to the platform including automated quantity take-offs, live supplier pricing, BOQ preparation, up to 20 quotes per month, project timelines, and risk analysis
2. Annual Subscription: Annual subscription at £195/month (£2,340/year) offering the same full platform access as monthly plan but at discounted rate. First month free trial applies.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

AIQS provides a SaaS platform that uses AI to analyse uploaded UK construction drawings (PDF, DWG, PNG, JPG, XLSX) and generate instant quantity take-offs, live-cost material schedules priced against current national supplier rates, professional Bills of Quantities in NRM2/SMM7 format, project timelines, UK Building Regulations compliance checks and risk notes. The service is sold as a self-serve monthly or annual subscription (£295/month or £195/month annually) to UK construction builders and professional quantity surveyors who need fast, accurate cost estimates to win tenders. The platform also enforces a one-builder-per-postcode exclusivity model that locks competitors out of the subscriber's territory.

Product overview

AIQS LIMITED offers AIQS, a single unified SaaS platform providing instant quantity surveying services for UK builders and quantity surveyors. The platform combines automated material take-offs (from the core AI Platform), live national supplier pricing, Building Regulations compliance checking, professional Bill of Quantities generation, project timelines, and risk mitigation advice into one integrated workflow. The service is delivered via monthly or annual subscription at £295/month or £195/month (annual), with a 20-quotes-per-month fair use policy. A distinctive competitive feature is postcode exclusivity—one builder per postal area can lock access, preventing local competitors from using the service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AIQS Platform AI-powered SaaS platform that delivers instant quantity surveying for UK builders and professional quantity surveyors. Customers subscribe on a monthly or annual basis, lock a UK outward postcode for exclusivity, upload construction drawings, and receive in minutes a complete quote pack including automated material take-offs, live national supplier pricing, professional Bill of Quantities (NRM2/SMM7), project timelines, UK Building Regulations (Parts A-S) compliance checks, and risk-mitigation notes.

Quantifiable outcome

• Quotes returned in minutes vs 3-7 days with traditional QS
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Buildertrend: End-to-end construction management SaaS for residential remodelers and small builders. Comparable SMB builder customer base, with estimating/project management features that overlap with AIQS's quote workflow.
• ConstructionOnline (by UDA Technologies): Construction estimating and project management platform aimed at SMB builders. Comparable feature set (estimating, take-offs, client communication) and a similar SMB self-serve positioning to AIQS.
• Houzz Pro: Software suite for small residential remodelers and builders offering estimating, project management and client collaboration. Targets the same SMB builder segment as AIQS, particularly in the UK extension/refurb market.
• Buildsoft: Provider of estimating software for residential and commercial builders. Closely comparable product offering to AIQS in the cost estimating and take-off category, though traditionally desktop-oriented.
• Causeway Technologies: UK-based construction software vendor providing estimating and quantity surveying tools (e.g., Causeway Estimating). It is the most direct on-shore competitor to AIQS for the UK QS and contractor market.

Emerging players

• PlanRadar: Construction SaaS for defect, task and documentation management. Adjacent to AIQS as a digital workflow layer on UK construction sites, with overlap in contractor-facing automation.
• Bluebeam (Revu): PDF-based markup, take-off and collaboration tool widely used by UK QS practices and contractors. Comparable at the drawing review and take-off layer, increasingly adding automated quantity extraction.

Broad incumbents

• Candy (by RIB / Schneider Electric): Enterprise estimating and project controls suite widely used by QS firms. Targets the professional QS segment that AIQS also addresses, but at a larger and more enterprise scale.
• Procore Technologies: Leading global construction management platform with preconstruction and estimating modules. Not QS-specialized, but a major incumbent that could add AI take-off functionality and challenge AIQS at scale.
• Autodesk Construction Cloud: Autodesk's construction portfolio (including Takeoff products) competes on the same drawing-based quantity take-off workflow that AIQS targets, but as part of a much broader design and build software suite.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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