Case Study: Green Mountain Electric Supply (GMES) saves days of manual work and boosts estimating accuracy with Countfire

How Countfire saves days of manual work at GMES

Green Mountain Electric Supply (GMES) faced slow, labour‑intensive estimating: their team did manual takeoffs from drawings, which was accurate but “excruciatingly time consuming,” especially as more plans were reviewed on screens and GMES expanded fire alarm quotations. Project Quotations lead Steve Towle looked for an automated solution and selected Countfire’s automated takeoff software to speed up and standardise the process.

Countfire’s takeoff tools—zones, check sheets and background auto‑remove—were implemented to automate counts and generate editable spreadsheets. The result: dramatic time savings (one takeoff that took three hours manually was done in 15 minutes with Countfire), improved accuracy (it caught missed devices and Steve estimates background removal alone could cut misses by ~25%), and measurable ROI in labour hours as team members can do many more quotes in the time previously required for one. Countfire freed capacity, reduced overhead, and paid for itself through efficiency gains.

Green Mountain Electric Supply (GMES)

Steve Towle

Project Quotations