What’s New in Parse: Automated Construction Takeoff, CSI Filtering, and Smarter Document Outputs
The latest Parse sandbox release is the most significant update we have shipped yet. This one goes well beyond polish. Automated construction takeoff, dynamic fixture quantification, CSI filtering, and copy-paste-ready output are now live in the sandbox and ready for you to push.
- Automatic room takeoff (new)
- Dynamic fixture detection & quantification (new)
- New and expanded canvas tools
- CSI filtering (new)
- Summarize in list (new)
- AI Document Chat improvements
- Automatic scoping on upload
- Faster document prep
We also fixed some important issues:
- Large file uploads work reliably
- Adding and removing pages on document comparison
Automated Construction Takeoff: Rooms and Fixtures, Detected on Upload
Automated construction takeoff now runs the moment a document lands in Parse. No manual setup. No configuration. Rooms and fixtures are detected and quantified automatically, giving estimators a working quantity list before they have touched a single page.
Automatic Room Takeoff
What changed:
Rooms are automatically detected and quantified on document upload.
Why it matters:
This is what construction document automation should look like at its core. Upload your plans and come back to room counts already pulled, without an estimator running through each floor manually.
Dynamic Fixture Detection and Quantification
What changed:
Parse now identifies and counts fixtures across your plans, including security cameras, access points, furniture, and other layout-based objects. Quantities update dynamically as detection runs.
Why it matters:
Automated construction takeoff now extends beyond room counts into everything else living on your drawings. Fixtures that used to require a dedicated manual pass are caught and counted in the same upload cycle.
Canvas Tools: More Flexibility for Visual Validation
What changed:
Updated canvas tools now support visual room detection and more flexible detection and validation of dynamic objects directly on the plan.
Why it matters:
You can review what Parse detected, validate it against the drawing, and work with objects interactively without leaving the canvas. Faster QA, less tab-switching.
CSI Filtering: Narrow by Trade, Instantly
What changed:
You can now filter results by CSI division to isolate specific trades and their associated quantities.
Why it matters:
CSI filtering removes the most tedious part of reading a full document output. Instead of mentally sorting through everything to find what applies to one trade, you set the filter and see only what matters. For estimators managing multi-trade bids, this alone changes the pace of a scoping session.
Summarize in List: Copy-Paste-Ready Output by CSI Division
What changed:
A new Summarize in List option is now available under Interpreted Results. It organizes quantities into a clean, bulleted list broken down by CSI division, ready to copy and paste directly into a bid or scope document. If automatic processing is enabled, the list is generated without any extra steps and lives under the Documents tab.
Why it matters:
This is what construction document automation looks like at the output layer. Not a raw export you still have to reformat. A division-organized summary that goes straight into your document without cleanup.
Scoping, Chat, and Performance Improvements
AI Document Chat
What changed:
Full-document context is improved and responses are more consistent across longer documents.
Why it matters:
Ask Parse a specific question about any part of the document and get a reliable answer back. The improvement is most noticeable on large plan sets where context used to degrade mid-conversation.
Automatic Scoping on Upload
What changed:
Scoping now runs immediately on document upload with clearer summaries from the start.
Why it matters:
Scope visibility used to require a separate step. Now it is part of the upload cycle, so your team knows what they are working with before they have opened a single page.
Faster Document Preparation
What changed:
Queued processing improvements reduce wait time after upload.
Why it matters:
On large or complex plan sets, wait time used to slow the whole workflow. Files are ready sooner, so your team spends less time watching a progress bar.
Bug Fixes
Large File Uploads
What changed:
Documents over 100 MB now upload reliably. The current file size limit remains under 1 GB.
Why it matters:
Large plan sets were failing silently on upload. That is fixed.
Document Comparison
What changed:
Fixed an issue where adding or removing a single page caused changes to appear across every page in the comparison view.
Why it matters:
Comparison results are now accurate to the actual changes in the document, not an artifact of how the pages were added.
These updates are live now!
Automated construction takeoff, CSI filtering, fixture quantification, and summarized list outputs are all live in the sandbox today. Upload your documents, push the new features, and tell us what is working and what is not. Everything you find shapes what ships next.
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