Today we're opening Vereyo to every contractor. Upload a plan set, and Vereyo reads every sheet, runs a takeoff for every trade and hands back a priced, editable estimate in minutes.
It started with the rebuild
Matt Russell has built homes across Southern California for 25 years as the head of Level 42 Construction. After the January 2025 fires, the rebuild work poured in: whole neighborhoods in Altadena and the Palisades full of families who needed their homes back.
Every one of those jobs started the same way, with a stack of plans that someone had to take off by hand. Nights and weekends went to counting outlets, measuring walls and pricing drywall one sheet at a time. The math was slow, and families were waiting on it.
Nicholas Jarecki has been writing software since he was a kid, and served as technical advisor on the MGM/UA film Hackers. He went on to found TopSend.com, an award-winning email platform, and was an early investor in Robinhood, Calm and other internet startups. He has spent his career turning slow, manual work into software.
When he and Matt sat down with a set of plans, the question was simple: what if the plans could read themselves?
We don't infer. We measure.
Matt knew what a real estimate needs: every trade, every room, every line a sub is going to ask about. Nick built the AI to read the drawings — floor plans, electrical sheets, schedules and elevations — and measure everything on them. Every wall, every outlet, every square foot, taken off the plans themselves, not guessed from a house that looks similar.
Then comes the part we cared about most. From the beginning, we believed you should be able to check the AI's work. So Vereyo does the math, and you verify the results. Every measurement is drawn right on the plan, so you see it with your own eyes. If a wall is missed or a count is off, you fix it on the drawing and the estimate updates. You can dial in everything.
“Other tools ask you to trust a number. We show you where every number came from.”
That's what sets Vereyo apart, and it's how we built it:
- Upload a PDF plan set. Vereyo reads and sorts every sheet on its own.
- Each floor and structure, including ADUs and detached garages, is separated automatically.
- Framing, drywall, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, flooring, paint and more are measured at the same time.
- Every quantity is marked on the drawing, so you can see it, check it and adjust it.
- You get a priced estimate with your own rates, ready to send, or to go straight out to subs for bids.
We bid our own jobs with it
Vereyo isn't a lab project. Level 42 runs its own jobs through it, and if an estimate isn't good enough to bid a real rebuild, it doesn't ship. When something is off on one of our projects, we fix it for everyone.
“I spent 25 years doing takeoffs by hand at the kitchen table. We built Vereyo so the next builder doesn't have to.”
Built with our customers
We're based in Los Angeles, and we're starting with the builders we know: GCs and trade subs rebuilding LA. They're not just using Vereyo. They're building it with us.
Every plan set a contractor uploads teaches us something. A sheet drawn a new way, a trade we hadn't priced yet, a detail that only shows up on a hillside rebuild. When a customer tells us what's off, we fix it, and every builder on Vereyo gets that fix the next time they upload.
That's how Vereyo grows: one feature at a time, one plan at a time, one job at a time. Built by builders, for builders.
Try it on your own plans. There's no credit card required, and your first estimate is minutes away. Then tell us what we should build next.
— Matt & Nick