Compete with big box.
Without becoming big box.
Big-box retailers built their own project-planning technology in-house. An independent dealer shouldn't need a software division to match it. TakeoffIQ gives your yard the same modern estimating and planning experience — built to reinforce the personal service that actually sets you apart.
Independents Are Losing Digital Ground — Not Service Ground
Nobody out-serves an independent dealer. But the project increasingly starts online, and that first step belongs to big box today.
The project starts online
Homeowners plan projects with big-box tools before they ever visit a store. By the time they're in your aisles — if they get there — the materials list is already written by your competitor.
The pro desk is buried
Takeoffs and counter quotes are done by hand while contractors wait. Your best people spend their day transcribing job descriptions instead of selling and serving.
Your edge doesn't show up online
Product knowledge, relationships, delivery you can count on — the reasons pros and homeowners choose the independent yard are invisible in the digital step where projects now begin.
Two Modules. One Platform. Your Yard at the Center.
TakeoffIQ is modular: Pro Desk serves your contractor customers, the Homeowner/DIY Planner serves your walk-in and web traffic. Take the one you need now — add the other later.
Pro Desk
For your contractor customers. The same ProjectIQ estimating engine contractors use directly — delivered through your yard. A contractor texts a job description or photos, and gets back a structured estimate with a full materials list, ready to quote and fill from your inventory.
- ✓Faster counter quotes — takeoffs in minutes instead of a clipboard queue
- ✓Less pro-desk load — your team reviews and refines instead of starting from scratch
- ✓Stickier pro accounts — when the estimate starts at your yard, so does the order
Homeowner/DIY Planner
For the weekend warriors in your aisles. An in-store kiosk and web planner where a homeowner describes their project and gets a real materials list, a rough cost, and an honest DIY-vs-pro read — then shops your store with confidence instead of guessing.
- ✓Converts browsers into buyers — a concrete list beats a vague idea
- ✓Lifts basket size — the full project, not just the item they came in for
- ✓Feeds the referral loop — projects too big for DIY become leads for your pro customers
One, the Other, or Both
No all-or-nothing platform decision. Start where the pressure is today and add the second module when you're ready.
Pro Desk only
Your contractor business is the priority. Speed up quoting, take load off the counter, and make your yard part of every pro's daily workflow.
Homeowner/DIY Planner only
Retail traffic is the opportunity. Give walk-ins and web visitors a planning experience big box can't personalize — anchored to your store.
Both modules
The full loop: homeowners plan at your store, pros quote through your yard, and every project reinforces the next. This is where the ecosystem below comes alive.
The Loop Big Box Can't Close
Big box can build software. It can't build a network of local contractors around your yard. TakeoffIQ ties your homeowners, your pros, and your counter into one reinforcing loop.
A homeowner plans at your store
Kiosk or web, they describe the project and get a real materials list — from your dealership, not a big-box site.
Matched with a ProjectIQ contractor
When the job is bigger than a weekend, the homeowner is connected to a local pro who estimates with the same engine.
The materials come from your yard
The contractor's estimate becomes an order at your counter — and the next project starts the loop again.
Homeowner → contractor → your yard → repeat.
Founding Dealer Program
Be One of the First Yards
TakeoffIQ is launching with a small group of founding dealers — independent yards that want a real say in how the platform grows. Founding dealers don't just get early access; they shape the product.
A direct line, not a ticket queue
Founding dealers work directly with the founder. What your counter team says on Tuesday shows up in the product, fast.
Built around your yard
Pro Desk and the Homeowner Planner get shaped around how your pro desk, delivery fleet, and retail floor actually run — not a generic template.
Founding pricing, locked
Founding dealers lock in founding pricing that stays with them as the platform and the network grow.
One Engine. Two Channels.
TakeoffIQ runs on the same Nauset IQ estimating engine behind ProjectIQ™, our direct-to-contractor product. Contractors can buy it themselves — or get it through your yard with Pro Desk. Either way, the estimates, materials lists, and trade knowledge are the same.
- ✓ProjectIQ™ — the estimating engine, sold direct to contractors (SMS-first)
- ✓TakeoffIQ™ — the dealer product line: Pro Desk and the Homeowner/DIY Planner, sold to your dealership
- ✓Not competitors — one network, with your yard as the hub
The Nauset IQ platform
Direct channel
ProjectIQ™
Contractors subscribe directly. Text a job, get an estimate.
Dealer channel
TakeoffIQ™
Your yard delivers the same engine to pros (Pro Desk) and homeowners (DIY Planner).
Talk to us about your yard.
Tell us how your pro desk and retail floor run today, and we'll show you what TakeoffIQ would look like in your dealership. You'll talk to the founder — not a sales team.