The whole lighting package, from one folder.
Hand LumenCount the bid set. It counts the fixtures, shows its work, and carries the job through quote, submittal and delivery.
- Drop in the folderDrawings and specs, exactly as issued.
- Check the flagsEvery place the set disagrees, with both numbers.
- Price the quoteQuantities are already in it.
- Track the shipmentsShare a live link with your customer.
One-minute walkthrough on a sample project. No sound needed.
New: AI takeoff
It reads the set the way an estimator does.
No picking pages and no boxing schedules. Drop in the bid set as it was issued. In about 15 to 20 minutes you get the count on marked-up plans, the quantities in your quote, and a short list of what a person should look at before the number goes out.
First AI takeoff free, then 10 a month with Full Access.
- Reads the whole setFinds the fixture schedules, lighting plans and unit plans on its own, across every PDF in the folder. Electrical sheets alone work too.
- Checks one drawing against anotherCounts the electrical plans and the architect’s ceiling plans. Carries the electrical count and flags every difference with both numbers.
- Multiplies out the unitsBuilds the unit list from the unit matrix or the floor plans, counts each unit type, and does the math per floor.
- Reads the specs and the notesPulls what changes the quote out of the lighting sections, and applies drawing notes like “typical” and “second floor only”.
- Shows its workEach fixture type gets its own colour and a key on the marked-up plans. Anything it could not point to on a drawing is listed, not hidden.
- Lands in your projectOpens as a normal LumenCount project: editable markup, quantities in the quote, and an Excel workbook of the takeoff.
The kind of thing it asks you to check (example)
- Exit signs: electrical shows 12, architect shows 14+2
- Sconce noted “second floor only”+14
- Emergency fixtures need a 90-minute batteryprice
By hand, automatically, or hand it off.
All three land on the same editable markup, and you review every count. Two are free. The third does the whole job for you.
Count it yourself
Click to mark, tag by type, measure runs to scale. A fast counting surface for estimators who trust their own eye.
Let it count the tags
LumenCount reads the fixture schedule and finds each type code on your floor plans, then marks every fixture by type. You review, correct and approve.
Hand over the whole folder
The AI finds the schedules, counts the electrical plans, checks them against the architect’s, multiplies out the dwelling units, reads the specs, and flags where the drawings disagree.
Auto count or AI takeoff: what is the difference?
The auto count can only count what is tagged, on the pages you chose. The AI takeoff reads the whole set and checks one drawing against another, which is where missed fixtures and wrong quantities usually hide. Both are a first pass: review either one before a number goes out.
| Auto count free | AI takeoff Full Access | |
|---|---|---|
| What you give it | One PDF. You pick the schedule and floor-plan pages. | The whole project folder, drawings and specs, as issued. |
| How it finds fixtures | Reads the type codes printed next to fixtures on the plans. | Reads the type codes, then looks at the drawing itself wherever the tags and the symbols do not add up. |
| A fixture with no tag, or one tag serving a group | Not counted. You add it in Markup. | Looked for on the drawing itself. Counted when found, flagged when it is not certain. |
| Checking one drawing against another | No. | Counts the electrical plans and the architect’s ceiling plans, carries the electrical count, and flags every difference with both numbers. |
| Notes on the drawings ("second floor only", "typical") | Not read. | Read and applied to the count. |
| Dwelling units | Counts each unit plan once. You say how many of each unit there are. | Builds the unit list from the unit matrix or the floor plans and multiplies it out. |
| Specifications | Not read. | Reads the lighting sections and lists what changes the quote. |
| Scanned sheets with no text in them | Cannot be counted automatically. | Read as images, and it says where it had to. |
| What you get back | Marked-up plans and quantities in the quote. | The same, plus a review page: flags to resolve, the unit matrix, where drawings disagree, spec notes, and an Excel workbook. |
| Time and cost | Seconds. Free. | 15 to 20 minutes. Full Access: 10 a month, first one free. |
Drawing set in. Submittal package out.
LumenCount carries the whole job in one project, from the first page of the set to the quote and the submittal package, with every step editable until you deliver.
- 1Upload and countDrop in one PDF and LumenCount reads the fixture schedule and counts the floor plans, or hand the whole folder to the AI takeoff. You can also count by hand on the same screen. Every mark stays editable.
- 2Price the packageYour counts flow straight into a quoting workspace, with line items seeded from the fixture schedule. Add pricing line by line or import your fixture list from CSV or Excel.
- 3Submittals and O&MBuild the submittal package and O&M manual from the same project, with datasheets and warranties pulled from your shared library instead of hunted down one by one.
- 4Deliver and trackMarked-up plans, a branded Excel count, the quote and the submittal package, all from one source. Then track every shipment and share a live status link with your customer.
Not just how many. How much light.
The fixtures you counted already know their own output, pulled from their IES datasheets. Lay out each room on the plan and LumenCount reads the light back, without leaving your takeoff or re-keying a thing.
- Footcandles per roomDraw a room, set its ceiling height, and read the average maintained footcandles from the fixtures inside it.
- Point-by-point gridA footcandle heat map across the space, with average, minimum, maximum and uniformity ratios, computed live as you edit.
- Photometric plansExport a marked-up plan with the grid and iso-footcandle contours, a per-room summary PDF, and an Excel schedule.
- Version historySave a takeoff, reopen it later, and save edits as a new version. Addendum a week before bid day? Version 2, without losing version 1.
- Datasheet and warranty libraryA shared library of manufacturer datasheets and warranties feeds your submittal packages automatically.
- Projects dashboardEvery job lives as a project, with takeoff, quote and submittals together instead of scattered across downloads and email.
Free guide
The Package Is Yours Now.
A field guide to running the lighting package at a distributor: quote, submittals, controls, procurement, expediting, delivery, changes and closeout. Set your margin, hold it, and grow it.
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