AHJ-ready submittal packages in one click.

Who it's for

Fire alarm contractors and low-voltage integrators who assemble AHJ submittal packages — the shops doing design-build, tenant improvements, and system replacements where every job needs a package a plan reviewer will accept.

This is the one part of FireDeck that's genuinely fire-specific: the battery worksheets, panel libraries, and voltage-drop math are built around fire alarm code and manufacturers. If you put together fire alarm submittals, it's for you.

What's in an AHJ submittal package

Plan reviewers want to see, in one place, that the system you're proposing actually works: that the battery will carry the load through the required standby and alarm periods, that every notification device gets enough voltage at the end of its run, that the panel can support the devices on it, and that each part is a listed product with documentation behind it.

FireDeck assembles all of that into a single PDF, in the order reviewers expect:

• Cover page with project, contractor, and AHJ information
• Manufacturer battery (secondary power) calculation worksheet
• Voltage drop calculations for every notification (NAC) circuit
• A full device matrix — make, model, quantity, current draw, and circuit assignment
• Embedded manufacturer cut sheets for every device in the job

Battery calculations the way each manufacturer requires

Every panel manufacturer publishes its own battery calculation worksheet, with its own sections and rules for which devices go where. A device belongs in a section based on what it is — a two-wire conventional detector, an addressable device, a notification appliance, an auxiliary load — not on which circuit you happened to wire it to.

FireDeck mirrors those rules exactly. It pulls standby and alarm current from a maintained device library, places each device in the right section automatically, and applies the manufacturer's formulas — including the details techs get wrong by hand, like IDC zone alarm current being covered by the zone formula rather than added per detector, and NAC devices drawing zero standby on a conventional panel.

• Per-manufacturer worksheet layout (Fire-Lite, Notifier, Silent Knight, Potter), with a general worksheet for other panels
• Standby + alarm current pulled from a maintained library, not retyped
• Devices auto-placed by type and characteristics, with a misc/AUX catch-all
• Safety factor and standby/alarm durations applied to the totals

Voltage drop on every circuit

A notification circuit can pass on paper and fail in the field if the last device drops below its rated voltage. FireDeck calculates end-of-line voltage for each notification (NAC) circuit using the supply voltage, wire gauge, run length, and the load on the circuit — so you can show the reviewer that the device at the end of the run still operates.

Built for every panel — and it flags the impossible

Conventional and addressable systems are both first-class. Conventional detectors work on any panel; addressable devices are protocol-locked to specific manufacturers, and FireDeck knows the protocol families — Fire-Lite and Notifier share FlashScan, Silent Knight uses Farenhyt/Hochiki, Potter uses PAD, Edwards uses Signature.

Because compatibility is checked as you build the job, FireDeck flags an incompatible addressable device before it lands on a panel that can't run it — the kind of mistake that gets a package kicked back.

Cut sheets, fetched and merged automatically

FireDeck maintains a library of manufacturer cut-sheet URLs and pulls the current document for every device in your job during package generation, then merges them into the final PDF. You're not saving PDFs to a folder, checking revisions, or assembling an appendix by hand — it's part of the one-click output.

Build the package the way your reviewer wants it

Different AHJs want different things in a different order. The submittal builder is a drag-and-drop editor: every part of the package is a block you can reorder, include or leave out, or add to with your own text and images. The cover sheet auto-fills from the job — project, contractor, engineer of record, owner, jurisdiction, panel, standby and alarm figures — so you're not retyping it.

Save a layout you like as a template and reuse it on the next job. Keep an AHJ profile for each jurisdiction you work in, and one click orders the whole package the way that reviewer expects, down to the required forms and attachment order.

• Drag-and-drop blocks: cover sheet, calcs, matrix, drawings, cut sheets, custom text
• Saveable, reusable package templates (shop-scoped)
• AHJ profile library — jurisdiction, required forms, section order
• Attach your own images and PDFs, merged as full pages
• Editable sequence-of-operations (input/output) matrix

Design it, not just document it

FireDeck includes a floor-plan canvas: draw walls and rooms, place devices with NFPA symbols, and run cable between them. From that drawing it can auto-generate a riser diagram — a tier per floor, device counts, the FACP, and the SLC and NAC risers running full height — and pull a device schedule straight off the plan.

It can also help lay the system out: auto-place detectors and notification appliances against NFPA 72 spacing rules and run a compliance pass on the drawing. It's still your judgment that signs off — but the busywork of turning a layout into submittal-ready drawings is handled.