Glossary
The labels you see in Portravo, in plain words. Each definition matches what the product does today.
Last updated .
- Takeoff (Portravo's unit)
- One trade on one project: the AI draft of that trade's quantities from the plan PDF, your review of each line, and the priced estimate of the lines you confirmed. It is the unit Portravo charges for, $75 pay as you go. Pricing
- Whole-job takeoff
- Every trade on one project in one order. It costs $149 pay as you go, or counts as 3 takeoffs on a monthly plan. Upload and pick trades
- Confirm gate
- The rule that nothing is priced until a person has confirmed or edited the line. Lines left pending are skipped when the estimate is priced, and the estimate says how many were skipped. How accurate is the count?
- Evidence label
- The tag on each takeoff line saying what its evidence shows. Source linked: read from a cited sheet, still needs your check. Needs recount: some symbols were unclear or part of the sheet was unreadable. Sources disagree: the drawings disagree and nothing was corrected for you. Not measured: the plans show the scope but it has no measured quantity yet. Sample takeoff
- Source review
- The view behind a flagged line that shows the sheet it was read from, where you recount it or record which drawing applies before confirming.
- Price provenance
- The source, location and as-of date printed on every priced material line, so you and the customer can see where a number came from and how old it is. What a line item should show
- Portravo benchmark
- Reference material prices authored by Portravo, each with an as-of date, used when no matching local store price is available. A benchmark is a pricing basis, not an observed shelf reading and not a supplier quote.
- Regional index
- A Portravo benchmark price adjusted by a metro cost index for a market without a direct price for that item. Lines priced this way are labeled as indexed. Where does Portravo work?
- Rate card
- Your own hourly labor rates by role. Labor on an estimate is hours times your rate; where a role has no rate of your own, a metro rate from BLS wage data is used and labeled.
- Gated trade
- A trade whose automatic takeoff passed Portravo's accuracy check against a reference result. Only a recorded passing check can mark a trade Gated.
- Assisted trade
- A trade whose automatic takeoff is delivered with the review queue open and no published accuracy claim. Every line still needs your check before pricing.
- Set on site
- In Portravo Live, an on-site allowance for visit scope the assembly catalog does not cover. The estimate labels it as set on site instead of giving it a catalog price, and you review it like any other line. Portravo Live
- Quote audit
- A free check of a supplier quote: send the quote as a PDF, no account needed, and it comes back marked against the Portravo benchmark within one business day. It is a second look, not a price guarantee. Audit a supplier quote
More plain answers on the questions page, and the facts in one place on Portravo facts.