Case Study: Value Lighting achieves 50% faster take-off counting with Countfire

How Value Lighting reduced count time by 50%

Value Lighting, a Dallas-based lighting contractor that has grown from a small “mom and pop” shop to a 130+ person company across several states, struggled with slow, manual take-off counting using a linear system that exported to Excel. Seeking faster, more accurate estimating for large multi-floor and multi-building projects, they evaluated and adopted Countfire’s estimating software, notably its autocount feature.

By implementing Countfire, Value Lighting automated take-off counting across complex, multi-floor jobs and streamlined the handoff to quoting. Countfire cut count time by about 50%, increased the number of quotes sent by roughly 20%, moved count jobs through the calendar about twice as fast, and turned day-long counts into sub-half-day tasks on large projects — improvements Daniel Martin credits in part for Value Lighting’s growth to over $50M in annual revenue.

Value Lighting

Daniel Martin

Estimator