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What shipped. What is still on the list. Dated.

27 August 2026 — Bid letter. Tabs cut.

  • Workspace tabs: Plan, Takeoff, Panels, BOM, Bid. Price, Analysis, and Verify are off for now.
  • Bid is the proposal letter: takeoff by type with hours and material, devices by drawing, markups, scope, exclusions, assumptions, payment, schedule, stamp, print.
  • Labor column and markups sit on Bid. Stamp stays locked while a price is UNKNOWN.

24 August 2026 — Unsure marks, panel index, homerun drop, vendor pack

  • Takeoff opens on I'm unsure — per-hit confidence, click the mark, keep or drop.
  • Panels tab: schedule → circuit → devices on that homerun. Spare/space stays labor only.
  • Homeruns: wire size from the breaker, LF from a measured or calibrated run, voltage drop %. No scale, LF is UNKNOWN.
  • Split floors stitch. Match-line duplicates count once.
  • BOM → Send pack: cover letter + RFQ CSV + needs-quote. Load the vendor file back. UNKNOWN is still UNKNOWN.

23 August 2026 — Plan board and landing

  • Plan board: click-hold pan, scroll-wheel zoom, full screen hides chrome.
  • Homeruns drawn as EMT — orthogonal 90s, not fan curves.
  • Takeoff tab (was Count). Totals on every sheet. Markup on the drawing writes into the grid.
  • Excel grid: insert row above or below, right-click menu, pinned totals.
  • Landing: sample drawing walk, comparison tables collapsed until you open them.

22 August 2026 — Takeoff engine

  • Devices on lighting and power: fixtures, receptacles, switches, specials.
  • Homerun measure → EMT, wire, couplings, straps, connectors, elbows.
  • Vertical drops at receptacles and switches. 10% waste on raceway only.
  • Assemblies explode to whip, hangers, T-bar clips, box, fittings.
  • Demo sheets carry labor. Existing-to-remain is not new material.
  • Kind column: counted vs derived.

22 August 2026 — BOM, Bid, Catalog

  • Excel-style BOM: filter, sort, copy, paste, multiple sheets, cell edits.
  • Bid recap letter with stamp for print. UNKNOWN never stamps as $0.
  • Shop book save / restore. Named revisions. Re-run keeps edited cells.
  • Vendor file import (CSV) onto the same families. Five street books on commodity.
  • RFQ export a distributor can upload.

August 2026 — In the shop now

  • Teach a glyph and match it on the open sheet.
  • Live job, no account required to try.
  • Split any two tabs. Full screen.
  • $300 a named user a month.

On the list — not here yet

  • Shop-wide cloud books when you sign in.
  • OCR on poor-quality scanned PDFs.
  • One-click live Graybar / Crescent file (CSV import is here now).
  • How-to video. Open the sample job today.
  • Metric scale as a first-class unit toggle.

Count rules on the engine: 22 August 2026. Help.