Questions we get asked

Eight construction programs, open in a browser, on our own model. They read the documents a job runs on — drawing sets, project manuals, sub quotes, schedules, compliance certificates, cost reports — and return structured output your team can act on: a takeoff, a code audit, a priced bid, a levelled bid matrix, drafted RFIs and letters, each finding cited to the sheet or clause it came from. It does not replace your project management system or your accounting software.

Neither a chatbot nor a one-off build. The eight programs are finished products, each built for one construction job — takeoff and code audit, spec review, estimating, bid levelling, buyout, schedule, sub compliance and job cost — running on Marapone’s own model with no third-party AI vendor in the path. If a workflow of yours is genuinely outside them, custom work is quoted separately from $4,900 and then runs under your plan.

Drawings as DWG, DXF or PDF (vector or scanned), spreadsheets (Excel, CSV), Word documents and plain text: drawing sets, project manuals and specifications, RFI logs, scope of work documents, subcontractor quotes and exclusion letters, daily site reports and subcontract agreements. If you have a document type that is not listed, put one through the free trial and you will see exactly what the programs extract from it.

It does not replace your ERP, your accounting software or your project management platform, and it does not pull live feeds from site cameras or sensors. It is not a general-purpose chatbot: it processes the documents you give it and returns structured findings, cited to where they came from.

A plan opens the eight programs in your browser for the number of seats it covers, on Marapone’s own construction-trained model, with the reference data packs for your jurisdiction included. What you produce — takeoffs, estimates, levelled bids, reports — is yours, exports in formats that open in Excel, Bluebeam and a PDF reader, and stays yours after you cancel. What you do not get is the source code or the model weights: Marapone runs the engine, which is what keeps one flat price per firm possible instead of a five-figure implementation.

Because the programs are too heavy to run on your laptop and too expensive to hand over. Reading a 400-sheet drawing set takes real compute, and that compute costs money every month whether we charge for it or not. A subscription is the honest shape for that: you pay for what is being run for you, we keep improving it, and you stop paying the month you stop finding it useful. It also means everybody is on the current version.

Five plans, billed monthly or yearly, in CAD. Solo, $69 a month: one seat on the AI Estimator, with a 7-day free trial. Field, $149: adds Blueprint Auditor, so the measuring happens here too and feeds the estimate with nothing retyped, with a 14-day free trial. Crew, $299: up to three seats, adding SpecChecker and ScopeGuard. Pro, $499: all eight programs for up to five seats (extra seats $59 a month each). Firm, $1,199: up to twenty seats (extra seats $39) with a workspace per project, priority processing and a named contact; on yearly billing it includes all five data packs as files, which stay yours.

Seat counts on Crew, Pro and Firm are ceilings, not requirements. One free trial runs per account, on Solo or Field. Pay yearly and two months are free. The same login covers the mobile app when it ships in Q4 2026. Alongside the plans: data packs from $59, and custom build work from $4,900. Pay for a pack and it comes off your first plan invoice if you start one within 60 days. Full details are on the pricing page.

A data pack is the reference library one of the programs reads, sold on its own as files — PDF, CSV and JSON: a code-check ruleset, an assembly schema, a jurisdiction rate table, a bid-levelling template or a master scope checklist. There is nothing to install and no licence key, because there is no software in the box.

The difference is who does the matching. With a pack you read your own drawings, specs and quotes against the library by hand; the program reads them for you and reports what it found, cited to the clause and the sheet. Packs are $59–$99 each, or $349 for all five. A pack is files you keep, so it is not refundable; plans are not refunded either — you cancel from your dashboard and keep access to the end of the period you paid for.

The plan is the cost. Support, every update, unlimited use and every jurisdiction’s data packs are included — no implementation fee, no per-seat AI add-on, no usage charge and no support retainer. Your bill is the same in a busy tender month as a quiet one.

Two things cost extra, and only if you want them: a custom build, if the eight programs genuinely do not cover your workflow, and the data packs as files on their own.

To us. The programs run on Marapone-operated infrastructure, so your documents are uploaded to be read. There is no configuration that keeps processing on your own machines, and we would rather say that here than let you discover it later.

What we do promise: a workspace only your account reaches, no third-party AI provider anywhere in the path — the model is our own — nothing used to train anything, and export or deletion on demand. If an owner or architect has contractually barred putting tender drawings on a third-party service, a plan is the wrong purchase and we will say so. The exception is deployment into your own cloud tenant, which is enterprise work priced as a project.

We have no access to your machine or your network — nothing is installed there. Your documents do sit in our infrastructure, because that is where they are read.

Access to them is restricted to the small number of people who operate the service, and used only for support you have asked for. They are not used to train a model, not shared with a third party, and you can delete them yourself from the dashboard at any time.

They go into a workspace only your account reaches, and they are treated exactly the same as a paying subscriber’s — a trial is a subscription that has not billed yet, and privacy does not vary by plan. Client documents are never used for training and never shared with third parties, and you can export or delete anything from your account whenever you like, including after you cancel.

Delete the project from your workspace and its documents, extracted data and generated reports go with it. Export anything you want to keep first — that export is the copy that outlives the subscription.

For everything at once, your dashboard has two buttons: erase every document, project and result we hold while keeping your account and plan, or close the account outright, which cancels the subscription and deletes the profile, the billing record and the login. Both run in seconds, and a confirmation email lists what went. The only thing kept is the invoice for anything you paid for, in Stripe, because a seller has to keep records of what it sold.

ChatGPT is a general-purpose assistant: it does not know your drawing set, it will not cite the sheet a number came from, and it is happy to give you a confident answer it invented. Both are hosted services, so “it stays on your machine” is not the difference. The difference is what happens to the document: our programs are built for one job each, run on Marapone’s own construction-trained model with no third-party AI vendor in the path, print the sheet and clause behind every finding, and return a structured file — a takeoff, a levelling matrix, a drafted RFI — instead of a paragraph. Nothing you upload trains any model.

No system catches everything, and we won’t claim otherwise. The programs are a first-pass layer, not a replacement for judgment: they reduce what slips through and do it consistently, and your team still reviews the output and makes the call. We publish the benchmark our extraction is scored against, and what it does not measure, on the accuracy page — but the number that matters for your documents is the one the free trial shows you on your own sets, before you commit to anything.

Support is included in the plan: email support on every plan — one business day on Pro, same day with a named contact on Firm — and every improvement lands the day it ships, with no version to buy. What is quoted separately is bespoke work: a new workflow built around your own documents, or an integration into Procore, Sage or your ERP. That is project work from $4,900, and it runs under your plan once it is built.

Those are project management platforms that added AI. Marapone is the AI. The differences that matter: (1) price is set by seats, not by your annual construction volume, and there is no implementation fee — Pro is $4,990 a year for up to five seats against $15,000–$40,000 for a comparable platform package; (2) your documents are read by our own model on infrastructure Marapone operates, no third-party AI vendor receives them, and nothing is used for training; (3) the model is built for construction documents specifically, not a general assistant bolted onto a file store. If Procore already works for your project management, Marapone sits beside it — see integrations for what connects today, and the side-by-side comparisons vs Autodesk Construction Cloud and vs Document Crunch.

No. The eight programs run on infrastructure Marapone operates and arrive in a browser tab, so whatever your team already opens email on is enough — Windows, macOS, Linux, a site laptop, a borrowed one. No GPU, no server, no minimum spec, nothing for IT to approve; the only requirement is a connection. Custom builds that integrate with your own systems are the exception, and anything they need is scoped and quoted before you commit.

All eight programs are finished and running — you sign in and use them the same day. Custom build work is the part with a schedule: one to three weeks from signed scope to the program being live in your account. A customised workflow typically runs one to two weeks; an enterprise integration two to three, longer where a security review or an undocumented API is in the way. The scoping before that typically takes three to five business days.

Yes — that is the point. There is nothing for IT to install, provision or approve beyond the login. You sign in, upload a drawing set and the programs are open; most people run their first real set the same afternoon.

Field, Pro and Firm include a setup call on a real job of yours: where documents go, how to read what comes back, which export lands in your system, and what to do when something looks off.

There is no update path to manage, because there is no version on your side. Improvements reach you the day they ship, at no extra cost and with nothing to download.

What ages is the content, not the code: fee schedules change, rate tables drift, tax and statutory numbers get amended. Those live in the jurisdiction data packs and are republished as the jurisdictions move, on every plan.

The honest other half: because we run the engine, “will this still run in three years” depends on us still being here and you still subscribing. That is why everything you produce exports on demand in Excel, CSV and PDF, why the data packs are sold separately as files, and why there is no annual commitment. If we disappear, your work does not.

Fixing anything that does not work as described is not a support tier, it is the plan. There is no warranty window to run out and no defect you pay to have corrected. Bespoke work is quoted per engagement, because the useful version depends entirely on what you want changed.

That is what the free trial is for. Solo runs a 7-day free trial and Field a 14-day one — make an account, add a card at Stripe, and the plan opens on your own drawings for the full window: unlimited runs, no document cap, no AI credits, no demo data. If it does not produce something useful, cancel before the trial ends and you have spent nothing. One free trial runs per account.

Yes — the market is Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia. Rates, tax, statutory holdback, permit fees and code references are not compiled into the programs; they load from jurisdiction data packs, and the scope knowledge base is indexed by CSI MasterFormat, which is not Ontario-specific. Eight code packs ship today, across Canada, the United States and England, and rate and cost data covers 43 cities across Canada, the US and Europe. Where your market’s pack is younger or not built yet, the regions page says so.

Two to three at a time — we are small on purpose. That limit is on custom work only: the eight programs have no waitlist, and you can sign in today. If the build pipeline is full when you reach out, we will say so and give you an honest timeline.

A free trial. Create an account, add a card at Stripe, and Field opens on a 14-day trial — Blueprint Auditor and the AI Estimator, on your own jobs, unlimited. No sales call and nothing charged until day 15. If you only need the estimator, Solo has a 7-day trial instead; one trial runs per account. If it earns its place, do nothing and it carries on. If it doesn’t, cancel in one click.