Bobyard

Bobyard is an AI takeoff and estimating software company for the construction industry. Its platform reads construction drawings and blueprints to automatically extract quantities and organize takeoffs, cutting manual estimation work by 50-90% for trade contractors in landscaping, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and finishes. Trained on millions of drawings, Bobyard automates AI takeoff, manual takeoff, OC conversions, and estimate generation so contractors can increase bid capacity without expanding estimating staff. Bobyard was surfaced as a portfolio company of 8vc and added to the API Evangelist network. It publishes product documentation and a live status page (including an Inference API component) but does not currently expose a public developer API, OpenAPI, or SDKs.

Bobyard is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Construction, Construction Technology, Estimating, and Takeoff.

Bobyard’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 8 more developer resources.

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20.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyConstructionConstruction TechnologyEstimatingTakeoffArtificial IntelligenceContractorsPreconstruction

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Composite quality — 20.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bobyard
name: Bobyard
description: Bobyard is an AI takeoff and estimating software company for the construction industry. Its platform reads construction
  drawings and blueprints to automatically extract quantities and organize takeoffs, cutting manual estimation work by 50-90%
  for trade contractors in landscaping, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and finishes. Trained on millions of drawings, Bobyard
  automates AI takeoff, manual takeoff, OC conversions, and estimate generation so contractors can increase bid capacity without
  expanding estimating staff. Bobyard was surfaced as a portfolio company of 8vc and added to the API Evangelist network.
  It publishes product documentation and a live status page (including an Inference API component) but does not currently
  expose a public developer API, OpenAPI, or SDKs.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bobyard/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 8vc
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.bobyard.com/share-image.png
tags:
- Company
- Construction
- Construction Technology
- Estimating
- Takeoff
- Artificial Intelligence
- Contractors
- Preconstruction
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://bobyard.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.bobyard.com/get-started/introduction
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.bobyard.com/get-started/support
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.bobyard.com/blogs/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.bobyard.com/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.bobyard.com/
- type: Login
  url: https://app.bobyard.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.bobyard.com/legal/terms-of-service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bobyard.com/legal/privacy-policy/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.bobyard.com
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/bobyard-lifecycle.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bobyard-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bobyard-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence