Controls / BMS Takeoff Software — Count Every Symbol Automatically
SimplyCount finds and marks every controls / BMS symbol on your plan set — sensors, actuators, controllers and points on a BMS drawing — in minutes, on your own machine. You review each symbol's detections on the marked sheet and accept or reject them before anything leaves the app, and unverified counts show as a floor (≥), never dressed up as a total.
SimplyCount is on-prem AI takeoff software built for controls / BMS estimators. Instead of dragging a highlighter across every sheet, you point at each symbol from your own legend and the engine finds every instance across the whole plan set. You then review the marked-up detections, reject or add any you need, and export a count you can defend. Run it fully on-prem so your drawings never leave your device. Because SimplyCount is self-learning, teaching it a non-standard controls / BMS symbol once means it counts that symbol on every future job.
Hand-counting controls / BMS symbols across a full plan set costs hours you don't have.
A single missed or double-counted device can turn a winning bid into a loss.
Inconsistent symbols and standards make a hand tally hard to defend.
What you get
- Finds every instance of the symbols you count most in controls / BMS work.
- Learns your custom or non-standard symbols — teach it once, count it forever.
- Exports to Excel, CSV and PDF for your estimating stack.
- SimplyCount runs on your own machine: counting is local, plan sets are never uploaded, and results live in an encrypted local database inside your firewall. The license is checked once, at app launch, over HTTPS — after that, counting runs fully offline; a fully offline build with no license check is available for air-gapped environments at negotiated pricing, and firms that want one shared install can run SimplyCount on a server inside their own firewall.
- SimplyCount's benchmark is 60 unique symbols across 168 pages in about an hour, including review — roughly 168× faster than counting by hand. How we measured it.
Drag the line. See every symbol get found.
A real plan sheet — the same detection runs on controls / BMS plans. Slide to reveal what SimplyCount marks.
Your planCounted
Every symbol on this sheet — found & markedCommon questions
Can SimplyCount count controls / BMS symbols automatically?
Can we keep everything inside our network?
How fast is it, really?
Can it learn our custom or non-standard symbols?
Never manually count another symbol
Request early access with your work email — the team reviews every request, nearest bid deadlines first — then run your first plan and see a number you can defend. 168 pages · 60 symbols · ~1 hour.
Free during early access · Your work email · No credit card · Counting runs on your machine