Rudus
AI Takeoffs for Concrete
About Rudus
Rudus is an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform enabling concrete contractors to win 3x more projects yearly. It automatically identifies every concrete structure like footings, walls, columns, and slabs on plans, eliminating the manual work and reducing estimation time by 70%. Concrete is the most-used material on earth after water, and demand is surging with the AI infrastructure boom.
Public traction evidence
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- Hacker News
Launch HN: Rudus (YC P26) – AI for concrete contractors
Hi HN, we’re Rishi and Sahil. We’ve developed Rudus ( https: www.rudus.ai ), an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform built for concrete subcontractors. Takeoff is the process of measuring and quantifying materials from concrete plan sheets. Rudus identifies every concrete...
- LinkedIn
Learning the concrete estimating market in person
For the past month, I've flown across the country to nine cities with boxes of donuts, met 50 estimators, held 20 contract discussions, and collected more than 200 business cards. Go learn the world of your ICP. That work is shaping Rudus.
- LinkedIn
Rudus replaces concrete-estimating workarounds
I've been going door to door across the country and keep seeing estimators run six monitors and a maze of workarounds. Rudus puts plans, schedules, Excel, and details in one place, and AI flags conflicts so estimators do not have to keep copying and pasting.
- LinkedIn
Learning concrete estimating from Terry Roy
Terry Roy beat every other estimator on the team and became our concrete-estimating advisor. We have spent more than 100 hours on Zoom learning from his expertise, and this retired estimator is helping teach Rudus how concrete work is really done.
- LinkedIn
Rudus fits how concrete subcontractors estimate
We built Rudus to fit how concrete subs actually estimate. Teams using it spend about 70 percent less time per takeoff. Thanks to the American Society of Concrete Contractors for the conversation.
- YouTube
Rudus: Accelerating Takeoffs for Concrete
https://www.rudus.ai/ Backed by Y Combinator