Never Manually Count Another Symbol
The AI symbol-takeoff tool for electrical estimators — counting runs on your own machine — the count you can defend.
Turn hours of hand-counting into minutes. SimplyCount finds and marks every symbol on your plan set — so you bid faster and stop burning nights on the highlighter.
SimplyCount doesn't replace your judgment — it does the tallying. You review and sign off on every number.
Free through at least December 15, 2026 with a verified company email — no credit card. Other domains? Request access. Or book a pilot on your own plans →
Windows 10/11 · 16 GB RAM minimum · no GPU required — full requirements
Drag the line. See every symbol get found.
This is a real plan sheet. Slide to reveal what SimplyCount marks — receptacles, fixtures, switches — in the time it takes to read this sentence.
Your plan
Counted
Every symbol on this sheet marked — 12 are live: tap to review
You lose evenings tallying by hand. One miscount can sink a bid.
Counting symbols eats hours you don't have when a bid is due Friday.
A single missed or double-counted device turns a winning bid into a loss.
Inconsistent symbols and standards make hand counts hard to defend.
Fewer people want the tedious work — and turnover keeps costing you.
Turn a multi-day takeoff into an afternoon — and bid more jobs than the firm across town, with the same crew.
Buried in plan sets, re-checking counts at 11pm, hoping you didn't miss a homerun.
Turn a bid around in an afternoon — and defend every number in the room.
Where we're headed: self-learning that compounds across your firm's whole symbol library, more trades and document types, and — eventually — a takeoff that counts itself.
Import → point at your symbols → review & export
Import your plans
Drop in your plan set as a PDF. Every sheet is ready to count.
Point at your symbols
Pick the symbols you need — the engine finds every instance, every sheet.
Review & export
Confirm the marked-up detections and export a defensible count.
Built for the estimator — not a generic AI demo
Finds every instance
The engine sweeps the whole plan set and marks every symbol — no highlighter, no tally sheet.
Defensible, uncapped counts
Real totals you can stand behind in a bid — never an estimate dressed up as a total.
Any plan — even a phone photo
Blueprints, P&IDs, scanned pages, even a photo of a drawing taken on your phone — grainy, cluttered, or rotated.
Compounds with every job
Every symbol you teach is saved for every future job — your library and your speed compound the more you count.
Runs on your machine
Desktop install, encrypted local database, no cloud required to count — the only thing that ever phones home is a small license check, never your drawings. Great for a locked-down or remote jobsite. Exports to Excel, CSV & PDF. Managed hosted runs are available for enterprise — talk to us.
Teach a symbol once
Save it and count it on every future job — almost no ramp-up for your team.
The count lands in your estimate — not another silo
Export counts to Excel, CSV or PDF and drop them into whatever you bid in.
| Symbol | Description | Count | Sheet | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ◐ | Duplex receptacle | 142 | E-201 | — |
| ⬡ | 2×4 lay-in fixture | 88 | E-201 | — |
| ▤ | Single-pole switch | ≥ 37 | E-202 | floor |
Example export. Unverified counts show as a floor (≥), never dressed up as a total.
Only one is fast, flexible, and yours to defend
- Hours per sheet
- One miscount sinks a bid
- Hard to defend a hand tally
- Force your drawings onto their servers — no on-prem option
- A percentage you can't defend
- No answer when IT says "keep it in-house"
- Minutes, not nights
- Counting runs on your own machine — drawings never leave it
- A count you sign off on
Counting happens on your machine — that's the product
Most takeoff tools force everything through their cloud. SimplyCount installs on your Windows desktop — same engine, same 168× benchmark, same count you sign off on — and your drawings never touch a third-party model.
On your desktop
Installs on your machine, inside your firewall. Counting runs entirely locally and plan sets are never uploaded — they stay in an encrypted local database. The standard license validates periodically over HTTPS — that check is what runs the free access period, and it never carries your drawings; a fully offline build is available on request for air-gapped environments. Built to pass a strict security review.
Enterprise: managed hosted runs
For enterprise engagements, our team can run the engine on a plan set for you and return a marked-up count to review and sign off. This is a bespoke arrangement, not a self-serve mode — talk to us.
Same engine. Same human sign-off. Same defensible count.
Purpose-built to count — not an LLM you rent by the token
Most "AI" tools wrap a large language model and charge by the token — your drawings go to someone else's cloud and the meter runs on every query. SimplyCount is purpose-built machine learning that detects symbols. Different machine, different bill, different trust model.
No token meter — ever
Token-based tools bill you per query, so processing more plan sheets costs more — forever. SimplyCount has no LLM in the loop, so there is no per-token tax to pass on: during free access, counting costs nothing at all, and whatever commercial pricing turns out to be, one thing is already fixed — no meter running on every sheet.
Self-learning AI — not an LLM
It's real, purpose-built AI that learns your symbols — teach it once and it counts them everywhere. It just isn't a chatbot you rent by the token or hand your plans to. The right AI for the job, not a rented general model.
You review every mark
It marks every symbol it finds, right on the sheet, so you check the number yourself — unverified counts show as a floor (≥). A count you can audit and sign off on, not a black box you take on faith.
No tokens, no meter — it's your AI to run, not rent. Want AI narrative on top? Export clean counts to any model you already run and keep your frontier tokens for the last mile. See how your plans stay yours →
What is hand-counting costing you?
A transparent estimate from our real benchmark — 168 pages counted in about an hour. Change the numbers to your typical job.
Estimate only, scaled from the SimplyCount benchmark (60 symbols across 168 pages in ~1 hour, including review). Your mileage varies with plan complexity.
The Electrical & Construction Symbol Legend + Takeoff QA Checklist
A reference every estimator can use — whether or not you ever open SimplyCount.
Download the PDF (no email)You sign off — not the model
The riskiest thing you do is put a number in a bid. Here's how SimplyCount keeps that number yours.
Human-in-the-loop
You review each symbol’s detections on the marked sheet and accept or reject them before anything leaves the app. The count that goes in your bid is the one you approved.
Your drawings stay on your machine
Plan sets are processed locally in an encrypted local database, inside your firewall — they are never uploaded to us or to any third-party model. (Enterprise: managed hosted runs and a fully offline build are available on request.)
Honest totals, flagged
If a count isn't fully verified, SimplyCount shows it as a floor (≥), not a total — so nothing dressed-up ever lands in your bid.
How accuracy is measured — and why the count you sign off is the number that matters — is on the benchmark page. The strongest test is your own plan set.
Counting runs entirely on your machine — plan sets are never uploaded.
For IT & security
Desktop install; plans are processed locally in an encrypted local database, inside your firewall, and are never uploaded. The standard license validates periodically over HTTPS to our licensing provider — it carries license state, not your drawings, it's how the free access period runs, and a brief disconnection never interrupts counting; a fully offline, non-validating build is available on request for air-gapped environments. Managed hosted runs are also available for enterprise — talk to us. Forward the Trust & Security page to whoever signs off on your tools — it lists exactly what's implemented, and claims nothing more.
Download the security & data-handling one-pager →Pilot SimplyCount on your own plans
We're partnering with a handful of electrical shops as founding firms: run it on a real bid, keep the time you save, and — only if you're happy — become one of our first named case studies. No commitment to publish.
Or skip the wait — Start Free now — free with a verified company email, no card.
Pricing, guarantee & support — nothing hidden behind a signup
Pricing
Start free with a verified company email — no credit card (other domains, request access). SimplyCount is in a free access period through at least December 15, 2026 — when it ends, keeping counting takes a paid subscription, and everything you've already counted stays viewable and exportable. Pricing for the commercial release has not been set — the public number is published here before online checkout opens, so you'll never be charged a price you haven't seen. Evaluation need more runway? Talk to us.
Guarantee
Try it on your own plans free, no card — and nothing is ever held hostage: walk away anytime and your exports go with you. Your counts stay viewable and exportable even after free access ends, and if you run on-prem, your data never leaves your machine.
No learning curve
If you can use a highlighter, you can use SimplyCount. Import, point, review, export.
The things estimators ask first
What files does it take? Only electrical plans?
What if it misses a symbol — or double-counts?
Can it learn my custom or non-standard symbols?
Where does my plan data live? Is it private?
Can we keep everything inside our network?
Can we run it fully air-gapped / inside our firewall?
Can I get the counts into Excel?
How fast is it, really?
What does it cost?
Never manually count another symbol
Start free with a verified company email — run your first plan and see a number you can defend. 168 pages · 60 symbols · ~1 hour.
Free through at least December 15, 2026 with a verified company email · No credit card · Counting runs on your machine