Who builds AmpCount

Agustín Policano

Agustín has spent about five years building production web software with React, Angular, Next.js and Node, including checkout and booking flows that real customers depend on every day. At AmpCount he works end to end, from the PDF parsing and symbol matching to the review screens and the exports estimators bring into their pricing software. You can find his work history on LinkedIn.

He isn't an electrical estimator, and this site doesn't pretend otherwise. That's why both the product and the guides are built around things you can check yourself: every count links back to its marks on the sheet, and every fact about another product, every statistic and every code reference links to its source.

He also builds and runs other software products: Menutto, a digital menu with online ordering for food businesses in Argentina; MapsLeadExtractor, which finds local business leads on Google Maps and audits their websites; and HumanizerPro, a tool for revising AI-assisted text.

Why AmpCount exists

On a commercial electrical bid, the count of devices and fixtures comes before any pricing, and many estimators still do it by clicking symbols sheet by sheet. The electrical estimating process puts that count under every labor unit and every material line, so a missed receptacle type is a priced mistake.

Plan sets exported from Revit and AutoCAD already carry each symbol as exact linework. A computer can match those drawings by their geometry instead of guessing from a picture. AmpCount does that one job: it reads the legend, counts every symbol on every sheet, keeps uncertain marks out of the count until an estimator confirms them, and checks fixture counts against the fixture schedule. It doesn't price, route conduit or size wire, and it can't read scanned sheets; the plan sets it reads best, and the ones it can't, are on the home page.

An AI model helps read sheet titles, legend names and the fixture schedule, and can give a second opinion on a doubtful mark. It never confirms a mark and never counts. The guide to AI in electrical takeoff explains why the counting stays deterministic.

How the guides are written

• Facts about other products come from each vendor's own public pages, read on the date shown on the page, with numbered sources at the end.
• Statistics come from public data, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau, AGC and RSMeans, always with their year.
• Code references name the NEC edition they come from. Your jurisdiction may enforce a different one.
• AmpCount is one of the products on the comparison pages. Each one says where the other tool is stronger, and prices appear only when the vendor publishes them.
• No review-site ratings, because we can't verify them. Prices are re-checked every quarter.

The guides, calculators and templates are written for commercial electrical contractors and estimators. If something is wrong or out of date, email support@ampcount.com and it gets corrected, with the new check date.

AmpCount is operated by Beersech, based in Argentina.