The fact: On 16 April, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, its most powerful model. The headline news is vision: it now reads images up to 2,576 pixels across — that's 3 times more resolution than before. On the benchmark test for visual accuracy, the score jumps from 54.5% to 98.5%.

The Codito take: Why does this concern you? Because Anthropic explicitly cites “technical diagrams” among its use cases. An execution drawing, a formwork plan, a takeoff overlay — all of these are ultra-dense technical diagrams. Until now, AIs choked on fine lines, stacked dimensions, legends. Opus 4.7 fixes that. For a design office or a site manager, it means you can finally hand a plan PDF to an AI and get reliable quantities back — without re-keying line by line.

What it means for you: If you're losing time manually extracting quantities from plans (takeoffs, schedules, counts), the window for action is open. Don't rework your process month after month: the next 3 years are being won right now.

Thomas runs a civil works company. 25 people. Road works, pipelines, earthworks — nothing exotic. Every week, his estimating office receives new projects to price: plans supplied by the project's lead engineer, as PDFs or on paper.

His surveyor, Nicolas, always starts the same way: he prints the plans, grabs his cutcher — the little wheeled instrument you roll along a plan to measure lengths — and he measures. He writes it down. He copies it into a spreadsheet. He re-enters it into the estimating software.

4 hours per project. Around twenty projects a year.

What we proposed to Thomas during his audit

A few weeks ago, Thomas called us. We identified the case and proposed an AI solution able to read a plan directly and extract the quantities automatically — areas, linear measurements, volumes, item by item.

But we were upfront: the models available at the time weren't yet accurate enough for dense BTP plans. Too many possible errors on busy technical drawings. We had filed the solution under “worth doing, but not just yet”.

What changes this week

Claude Opus 4.7, released on Wednesday, solves exactly that. AI now reads technical plans with a level of accuracy we had never seen before. Our R&D team reopened Thomas's file first thing Thursday morning. The first tests on real plans are conclusive.

We are the AI specialist for the BTP sector in France, certified by Anthropic — the global leader in artificial intelligence. In practice, that means we track the technology in real time. When a threshold is crossed — like this week — our clients are the first to benefit.

Learn more about the AI Audit for BTP

Decree No. 2025-1386 of 29 December 2025: as of this April 2026, every public procurement procedure above €60,000 excl. VAT must go through a digital buyer portal (platforms such as PLACE, Chorus Pro, marches-publics.gouv.fr). Above this threshold, paper bids are now non-compliant.

What this changes for you

If you're a BTP SME that regularly bids on municipal, inter-municipal or departmental contracts in the €60-100K range, this concerns you. Concretely:

• You need to master the DUME (the European Single Procurement Document) — the electronic self-declaration that replaces the piles of supporting documents.

• You need an active account on the platforms, a qualified electronic signature, and the know-how to submit a digital bid on time.

• A poorly completed DUME or a bid submitted late on the platform = bid rejected, even if your price was the best.

The Codito tip

This very week, check that your company has a fully working account on the main public-buyer platforms in your region. For SMEs, that's usually the first thing to slip through the cracks.