HOLIXORAA Bill of Quantities document sits at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and construction finance. It lists every material, component, and labor task required for a project, with quantities and unit costs. Producing it accurately takes significant time — and producing it wrong creates budget overruns, disputes, and delays that can derail an entire project.
For most architecture firms, BOQ generation is manual, error-prone, and expensive. Archily.pro was built to automate it.
The Manual BOQ Problem
A single residential project BOQ can involve hundreds of line items. A mid-scale commercial project runs into thousands. Each item needs to be extracted from drawings, quantified correctly, and priced against current material costs. When this is done manually, firms typically allocate a quantity surveyor or senior architect several days per project.
The error rate in manual BOQ is significant. Missed items, unit errors, and stale pricing are common. When errors surface during construction, the cost of correction — financially and in client relationships — is far higher than the cost of getting it right at the estimation stage.
How Archily.pro Works
Archily.pro takes architectural drawings and project specifications as inputs and applies AI to extract elements, calculate quantities, and map them to a BOQ template. The output is a structured document with line items, quantities, and cost estimates that a human reviewer can validate and adjust.
The system does not replace the quantity surveyor. It removes the extraction and calculation work that consumes most of their time, leaving them to apply professional judgment to the output rather than doing repetitive arithmetic.
What Firms Actually Gain
The time saving is the obvious win — BOQ drafts that took days now take hours. The less obvious gain is consistency. When BOQ generation follows a systematic process, items are less likely to be missed. The scope of the estimate is more complete, which means the budget it supports is more reliable.
For architecture firms that compete on project delivery, that reliability is a competitive differentiator, not just an internal efficiency.