Fire Sprinkler & Fire Protection Takeoff Software: Count Every Symbol Automatically
SimplyCount finds and marks every fire protection symbol on your plan set (sprinkler heads, risers, valves and standpipe symbols) 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 fire protection 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 fire protection symbol once means it counts that symbol on every future job.
Hand-counting fire protection 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 fire protection 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 published run is 53 unique symbols across 21 pages in 11 minutes, including review, on a laptop CPU with no GPU. How we measured it.
Sprinkler head takeoff, riser counts and the fire alarm overlap
Sprinkler head takeoff by orientation
Pendent, upright, sidewall and concealed heads each carry their own legend symbol, and a bid needs a separate total for each. Heads appear on the FP sheets and again on reflected ceiling plans, which is where hand counts double up: count from the FP sheets and use the RCP to reconcile. In SimplyCount you teach each head symbol once from the project legend; it finds and marks every instance across the set and you sign off a per-symbol total. How to count sprinkler heads.
Standpipe and riser counts
Risers, control valves, fire department connections, post indicator valves, hose valves and flow and tamper switches are sparse symbols that each carry real equipment cost, and they live on riser diagrams as often as on plans. SimplyCount counts these device symbols the same way it counts heads. It does not take linear pipe, fittings or hangers: footage stays in your estimating tool, and the device counts from SimplyCount feed it.
Fire alarm devices on fire protection sheets
Waterflow and tamper switches sit on the FP drawings but are monitored by the fire alarm system, so the two scopes overlap at exactly the symbols a bid is most likely to miss or count twice. Detectors, pull stations and horn/strobes belong on the fire alarm takeoff page; see also counting smoke detectors.
Count from the project legend, not a generic chart
NFPA 13 governs how a sprinkler system is designed and installed, but every plan set defines its own symbols, so the count has to come from that set's legend. That is why SimplyCount learns symbols from your legend rather than a fixed library. The fire protection section of the symbol legend lists the common ones and where they appear.
Drag the line. See every symbol get found.
A real plan sheet: the same detection runs on fire protection plans. Slide to reveal what SimplyCount marks.
Example: a real plan sheet.
Common questions
Can SimplyCount count fire protection symbols automatically?
Can we keep everything inside our network?
How fast is it, really?
Can it learn our custom or non-standard symbols?
Does SimplyCount count sprinkler pipe footage or hangers?
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. 53 symbols · 21 pages · 11 minutes.
Free during early access · Your work email · No credit card · Counting runs on your machine