New AI-powered platform takes specialty contractors from bid through closeout in a single system, replacing the spreadsheets, generic software, and guesswork the industry has relied on for decades
DENVER, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ō, the operations platform built for demolition, abatement, and remediation contractors, today announced the general availability of Takeoff & Estimating, an AI-powered solution that carries a contractor's project documents all the way from a priced bid through to closeout, in a single system, with one source of truth.
For as long as the industry has existed, demolition, abatement, and remediation contractors have had to make do with tools that were never built for them: general contractor estimating software that doesn't understand scope items like abatement classifications or salvage value, spreadsheets that lose the story behind a number the moment a job closes out, and separate systems for bidding, tracking, and reporting that never talk to each other. Takeoff & Estimating changes that. It is the first estimating platform designed from the ground up around how these specialty contractors actually scope, price, and win work.
Takeoff & Estimating is powered by FLO, ō's AI, which reads a contractor's own project documents — surveys, drawings, photos, and scopes of work — and turns them into a structured, priced bid in the contractor's own numbers. From there, that same estimate becomes the job's single source of truth: the numbers a team bid are the numbers they build from, track against, and close out with, without re-entering data into a second or third system along the way.
"We spent years in the field with demolition, abatement, and remediation estimators before we wrote a line of code, watching how they read a scope of work, walk a job site, and build a number they can stand behind," said Atul Kalantri, Chief Product Officer at ō. "That research is the reason Takeoff & Estimating works the way these teams actually think, instead of asking them to adapt to software built for someone else's industry. Every part of it, from how it reads project documents to how it prices a job, reflects how estimating really happens in this trade."
Rick Kuhlman, President at HEPA Environmental Services, a ō customer and Takeoff & Estimating beta users said, "When we ran our first estimate in Takeoff & Estimating side by side with our old process, we came out at 474 hours versus 480 — practically identical, but in a fraction of the time. That's when it clicked: I could build every bid off a real production rate instead of a gut-feel number, and sleep better knowing there's an audit trail behind it."
For contractors in demolition, abatement, and remediation, a missed scope item is rarely just a paperwork gap. It's often the difference between a bid that protects margin and one that quietly erodes it. A hazardous material classification buried on page 40 of an environmental report, a phase of work implied by a drawing but never called out in the spec, an exclusion that should have been an inclusion: any one of these can turn a well-priced job into one that loses money before a crew ever reaches the site. Contractors have absorbed that risk for decades, not for lack of diligence, but because the tools available to them were never built to check a bid against a full set of project documents.
Takeoff & Estimating is built to catch what other tools can't. By reading a contractor's complete project record including surveys, drawings, specifications, FLO surfaces every item that belongs in the estimate. Contractors end up pricing the job that's actually there, instead of discovering what they missed after the contract is signed.
"Specialty contractors in demolition, abatement, and remediation have been left out of estimating software for far too long, forced to bend their businesses around tools that were never built with them in mind," said Roni Szigeti, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ō. "Takeoff & Estimating closes that gap. It gives these contractors a way to do what they already do best: scope, price, and win jobs, in a fraction of the time, with the confidence of a tool that was finally built for them."
ō was built to give contractors one system to run the business. Now, with Takeoff & Estimating, it gives them a better shot at winning more of the work that fills it.
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ō is a project, safety, and estimating management software platform built for specialty subcontractors in high-compliance industries. Designed by former subcontractors, ō simplifies project management, compliance tracking, field reporting, and now bid-to-closeout estimating with an intuitive, mobile-first platform. By enabling contractors to stay audit-ready and operate more efficiently, ō helps companies save time, reduce risk, and improve safety performance. For more information, visit <>
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