Attentive.ai buys Takeoff Monkey in first deal as Beam AI tops $500B in bids
What's the deal? Attentive.ai has acquired Takeoff MonkeyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a landscaping takeoff and estimating specialist, in its first-ever acquisition. Terms were not disclosed. The San Jose company builds AI workflow automation for construction and field services.
Why now? Estimating teams face pressure to bid on more work with the same headcount, and manual takeoffs — the measuring that decides how many bids a team can submit — remain the bottleneck. Takeoff Monkey brings specialist knowledge of landscaping workflows that Attentive.ai lacked.
What's the endgame? The acquisition lands alongside two product moves. Attentive.ai's Beam AIDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → now offers instant, do-it-yourself takeoffs across seven trades, adding landscaping, paving, concrete-rebar, and electrical to HVAC, plumbing, and steel. It is also widening in-app estimates so contractors can go from takeoff to estimate in one workflow.
Beam AI reports more than 1,300 contractors in the US and Canada have priced over 500,000 jobs on the platform, representing $500 billion in construction bids. That figure is a company usage metric, not revenue or market share.
What they said: "We built Takeoff Monkey because landscapers were losing bids to the clock," said Tommy Lather, founder and chief executive officer of Takeoff Monkey. He said Attentive.ai's model does takeoffs "in minutes" versus the hours his team spent measuring by hand.
Co-founder and chief executive officer Shiva Dhawan framed the goal as capacity: "Contractors need the capacity to pursue more work, but estimating teams can only take on so much when takeoffs and other preconstruction tasks require significant manual effort."
The signal: The deal follows Attentive.ai's $30.5 million Series B led by Insight Partners and reflects a rush to automate construction estimating. Rivals are moving too — Bluebeam is rolling out AI estimating tools, and BobyardDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → is extending its AI workflow from takeoffs into bids. Larger players are consolidating as well, headlined by NemetschekDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →'s roughly $2.4 billion agreement to buy HCSSDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.
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