Questions estimators ask

Light fixtures by type, exit signs, and lighting controls, including wall switches. You get counts per sheet and totals for the whole set.

It reads the tag next to each fixture and matches it to the fixture schedule in your set. Types come from your schedule, not from a fixed list, so your project's types are used as written. If the set has no readable schedule, it uses the type tags written on the plan.

Counts are reconciled against the fixture schedule. A type whose tags on the sheet have too few counted fixtures beside them is flagged for a closer look, so it gets fixed before it turns into a missed line on your bid.

Yes. Each count is a box on the sheet in the browser app. Add a missed fixture, remove a wrong one, or change its type, and the totals follow.

Counts by fixture type for each sheet and for the set, traced branch wiring and home runs, and the job priced from your price list and labor units, with a bid summary and a proposal with your logo as a PDF or Word file. Export to Excel or CSV, pull the data through the API, or work with it in an AI assistant through the MCP connector.

It traces branch circuits and home runs from the circuit lines drawn on the plan, or builds them from circuit tags such as L-5. When neither is readable, for example on some scanned sheets, the wiring is estimated instead of traced.

Vector PDFs exported from design software give the best results. Scanned sheets can be counted too, and wiring on scanned sheets is estimated.

Yes, through the InstantTakeoff MCP connector. AI assistants and agents that support MCP, such as Claude and ChatGPT, can send a drawing set and get the counts, the review status and the estimate back. See built AI-first.

Yes. Import your vendor price list from Excel or CSV; every fixture type is matched by catalog number, then description, and confirmed matches are remembered for your next bid. Attach vendor quotes, set your own labor units and rates (the starting values are marked as a starting point), build assemblies that add each fixture's whip, box, connectors and supports as one priced unit, add sales tax, overhead, contingency and profit, and download the proposal as a PDF or Word file.

Yes. Everyone in your company account works on the same projects. When teammates have the same sheet or estimate open, you see who is there, their changes appear on your screen as they save, and an activity list shows who changed what. If two people change the same thing, the app asks which change to keep instead of overwriting either one.

The model keeps improving, checked against a held-out test set. Every count is a box on the sheet, so you can spot-check it in seconds, and in your projects a review layer double-checks each sheet. See the accuracy page for how it is measured.

$300 per seat per month, billed monthly, or $3,000 per seat per year, billed annually. See pricing.

Yes. Try a sheet free with the tool on the home page. Drop one lighting plan sheet and the results appear on screen: your sheet with each counted box drawn on it, colored by type, and a count table. No signup and no card.

Yes. No signup, no card and no sales call. You see the results on screen, on your own sheet, with the counts by type for fixtures, exit signs and controls. Leaving your email is optional: it is used to send you the Excel or CSV of that sheet, or to follow up when you ask for the review pass on it.

In your projects, a review layer double-checks each sheet with a second review pass, starting with schedule types that have no matches, before you get the final counts. The free sheet tool shows the quick pass and, live on screen, the checks the review layer runs on that sheet, with the types that need a closer look flagged. You can also ask for the review pass on a free sheet, and we email you if it finds fixtures the quick pass missed. See pricing.

Your drawings are used to produce your takeoff, and drawing sets in your projects may be used to improve our model; we never publish them or show them to other customers. Larger customers can agree a different arrangement in a written contract. Projects stay while your subscription is active; after it ends, you can still view and export your work for 30 days, and your content is deleted within 90 days. Sheets dropped into the free tool may also be used to improve the model, and their result links expire after 24 hours. Details on the security and privacy page.

For the lighting, it can. It counts, checks and prices the job from your price list and labor units, then builds the bid summary and the proposal (PDF or Word). If your shop keeps another estimating system, Excel, CSV and the API carry the numbers over.