AI for security integrators, tested first on bids you already priced.

Not every bid becomes an install, but every bid leaves a full trail: the security plans, door and camera schedules or the walk-through it started from, your estimator's counts, the bill of material, the labor and the proposal that went out. Twenty to thirty of them, some won and some lost, make a test where each line already has your team's answer beside it.

Survey tools already make part of the list. System Surveyor builds a bill of material in the background as devices are placed on a floor plan, with mounts and accessories tied to each device, and exports it to PDF or Excel. D-Tools System Integrator links drawing items to the BOM. The count is only the start: checking each line against the spec, adding power, cable and labor, and writing the scope and exclusions is what this test measures.

The spec draws the lines a BOM follows. When SIA and SecuritySpecifiers worked with CSI on MasterFormat 2016, access control was split from intrusion, video surveillance got its own category, and electrified locking devices moved into Division 28 from Division 08, as Ray Coulombe described in The Construction Specifier. The University of Houston's master door hardware section sends access control devices at openings to Section 28 13 00, Access Control, so one door's reader, lock and cable can sit in different sections of one bid set.

RMR contracts come second for a reason tied to the limit on this page. Monitoring agreements and account records can hold emergency call lists, passcodes and zone descriptions, so their copies need more redaction. Bid sets carry far less: drawings, schedules and parts. The method gets proved on the lighter file first.

The trade is credentialed and licensed. BICSI's RCDD is its cabling design credential, PSA is a network owned by its integrator members, SIA writes standards such as OSDP, published by the IEC as 60839-11-5 in 2020, and The Monitoring Association, the Central Station Alarm Association until 2017, gives Five Diamond status to monitoring centers. Texas treats a business that sells, installs, services or monitors alarm systems as an alarm systems company under Occupations Code chapter 1702; California licenses alarm company operators and registers their agents after DOJ and FBI background checks. Design, device placement and coverage stay with those license holders and your client.