NFPA 72 · IBC 907 · Fire Alarm Plan Analyzer

Your team just got six hours back per estimate

Upload a construction-drawing PDF. Perfect Takeoff places every smoke detector, heat detector, horn/strobe, and pull station — with a full device schedule and marked-up plans — in minutes.

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15 minAverage takeoff time

6 hrsManual time replaced

NFPA 72Code compliance built in

100%Browser-based, no install

The problem

Manual takeoffs are eating your team's time

Every bid your salespeople submit starts with hours of counting devices on drawings. That's time they could be selling.

Before

The old way

4–8 hours per takeoff, manually counting devices
Error-prone — missed rooms, wrong device types
NFPA 72 spacing rules applied from memory
BOM built by hand in a spreadsheet
Revisions mean starting over
One estimator bottleneck — team can't scale

With Perfect Takeoff

The new way

15-minute takeoff from a single PDF upload
Every room covered — NFPA 72 spacing enforced
Automatic scale detection and area estimation
Device schedule and BOM generated instantly
Revisions re-run in seconds
Any salesperson produces a professional estimate

ROI calculator

What is manual estimating costing you?

Enter your team's real numbers. See what you're leaving on the table every month.

Salespeople / estimators

Bids submitted per month

Hours per manual takeoff

Fully-loaded hourly cost ($)

— Hours saved / month

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— Payback period

Based on reducing takeoff time to ~15 minutes per bid. Assumes $4,800/yr license. Adjust any number above.

How it works

Three steps from PDF to proposal-ready

Step 01

Upload your drawings

Drop any construction-drawing PDF — architectural, mechanical, or life-safety. No special format required.

Step 02

AI analyzes every room

The AI reads room labels, measures areas, and places devices per NFPA 72 — smoke detectors, horn/strobes, pull stations, heat detectors, and more.

Step 03

Export your deliverables

Get a marked-up PDF, full device schedule, Excel BOM with labor hours, and a formatted quote — ready to hand to your customer.

Features

Everything your team needs to bid faster

Built specifically for fire alarm contractors — not a generic CAD tool.

NFPA 72 device placement

Smoke detectors, heat detectors, horn/strobes, pull stations, and ANN panels placed per code — with spacing rules, restroom visuals, corridor coverage, and sprinklered-building logic built in.

Multi-floor plan analysis

Handles full plan sets — architectural, RCP, mechanical, and life-safety sheets. Devices placed on the right floor, the right sheet, every time.

Excel BOM with labor

Full bill of materials with device quantities, manufacturer and model selection, unit pricing, and labor hours — exported directly to Excel.

Marked-up plan PDF output

Every device symbol overlaid directly on your floor plan PDF — the output your customer or GC expects to see in a professional proposal.

Right-click reclassification

Any room can be re-typed with a right-click. Device rules update instantly — no re-analysis needed.

Project management built in

Save jobs by customer, address, salesperson, bid status, and due date. Full project history in the browser — exportable to a portable .ptproj file.

100% browser-based, no server

Your drawings never leave your computer. Everything runs locally in Chrome — no upload, no account, no data risk.

FACP system selector

Choose from Honeywell, Notifier, Silent Knight, Bosch, Gamewell-FCI. The BOM auto-selects the right panel tier based on your device count.

Get early access

Ready to bid more jobs and win more business?

Perfect Takeoff is available to fire alarm contractors on an early-access basis. Tell us about your team and we'll be in touch.