Software built exclusively for fire alarm design, by a team of engineers and NFPA 72 certified technicians. Upload your floor plans, place devices, route circuits, and export professional permit drawings — without bending generic CAD to a job it was never meant for.
Project Falcon was designed exclusively for fire alarm systems, by engineers and NFPA 72 certified technicians. No workarounds. No command-line wizardry. No 3-week learning curve just to draw a circuit.
Drop in any architectural PDF, DWG, or DXF. Multi-sheet sets split into one tab per sheet, and the plan locks to your project — no versioning errors, no accidental overwrites.
More than 30 symbols ready to place: smoke, heat, CO, duct, beam and gas detectors, pull stations, horns, strobes, speakers, modules, panels, annunciators and network modules. Group up to 20 modules in one enclosure.
Pick the system type when you create a project. Devices label themselves by loop and address (L1-D001) or by zone (Z1-SD01), and circuits, battery math and checks follow the system you chose.
Route SLC loops or IDC zones, NAC and speaker circuits with right-angle routing. Networked jobs get panel nodes joined by UTP and fiber runs, with Cat6 reach checked for you. Drag any corner to re-route; every run feeds the calculations and the takeoff.
NAC voltage drop checks end-of-line voltage against the appliance minimum, and battery sizing follows NFPA 72 Annex B for each power supply — updated as you design.
The strobe candela schedule uses your basis-of-design brand's current draw. The EVAC calculator budgets speaker taps against amplifier channels and flags overloads.
One click builds a submittal-ready report: device schedule, NAC voltage drop, total conductor length and EMT runs measured off your drawing, battery calcs, spacing and coverage, and the candela schedule — in English or Spanish.
Export the sheets you choose at print resolution, with your engineer and firm details. The BOM export gives procurement a device schedule by type and count. Paid plans remove the watermark and add your company branding.
Firebuddy answers NFPA 72, spacing, circuit and manufacturer part questions without you leaving the drawing, and it already knows your project's brand, series and system type. Pro and Team plans.
Share a project library with your team, invite teammates, and open the same saved designs from any seat.
Projects are saved to your account and open from any browser — no installs, no license servers. Once loaded, placing devices keeps working on a bad connection.
Your floor plans are never shared, indexed, or used for any purpose outside your account. We treat architectural drawings as confidential by default.
Drop in the architectural PDF, DWG, or DXF for your project and choose conventional or addressable. Project Falcon renders the plan as the base layer and splits multi-sheet sets into tabs. Once you place a device or draw a wire, the plan is locked to your design.
Pick devices from the categorized NFPA 72 palette and click to place. Route SLC or IDC, NAC and speaker circuits between them — labels, voltage drop, battery and candela numbers update as you go.
Export PDF, JPG, DXF or a device BOM, and generate the Engineering Report with every calculation for client submissions, permit packages, and AHJ review.
Engineers and contractors adapt generic CAD tools to fire alarm work: hours spent configuring symbols, building libraries from scratch, and working out circuits by hand.
We are a team of engineers and NFPA 72 certified technicians who have worked on fire and life-safety systems since 2016 — at Bosch, Carrier and Johnson Controls — and we got tired of working around tools that were never meant for this trade. Project Falcon is what we built to solve our own problem.
Every device, every circuit type, every export template is built around real-world fire protection workflows and NFPA 72 compliance requirements. No generic features, no workarounds — just the tools you actually need to design, document, and deliver a fire alarm system.
Start Your First Design →The fifteen are beta users at a single Costa Rican integrator — the company our founder works for — not fifteen separate firms, and not the whole company either. That is also how the software got tested on real submittals before anyone else saw it: the eight buildings went through permit and inspection on drawings produced there.
Start free with no credit card. Upgrade when your project volume grows. Cancel any time — 7-day money-back on all paid plans.
Evaluating for a team, or want to see it on your own drawings? Request a demo.
NFPA 72 is the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code — the standard governing how fire alarm systems are designed, installed, and tested in the US and many international jurisdictions. Using compliant device symbology and circuit designations is required for permit approvals and AHJ acceptance.
Project Falcon accepts PDF, DWG, and DXF files. Sets with several sheets are split into one tab per sheet. Once uploaded, the plan renders directly on the design canvas and is locked to your project to prevent accidental overwriting.
Yes. You pick the system type for each project. Addressable projects label devices by loop and address (L1-D001, L1-M001); conventional projects label by zone (Z1-SD01), check IDC loop resistance and standby current, and size batteries with all zones in alarm.
Yes. Project Falcon carries panel series from major fire alarm manufacturers, filtered to the system type you picked, and your basis-of-design brand drives strobe current in the candela schedule. The device library itself is manufacturer-neutral, so you can design any system with it.
NAC voltage drop, secondary power (battery) per NFPA 72 Annex B, strobe candela, EVAC speaker wattage against amplifier channels, raceway and conductor takeoff, and a spacing and coverage check. The Engineering Report puts them in one document. A qualified engineer still reviews and approves the design.
Yes. The app, the exports and the Engineering Report are available in English and Spanish, for projects in the US and Latin America.
Yes. Your files live in your account only and are never shared with third parties, indexed, or used for any purpose beyond displaying them to you. Architectural floor plans are treated as confidential by default — there is no public gallery or cross-account sharing of any kind.
Yes. There are no annual commitments or cancellation fees. Cancel from your account and your plan continues through the end of the billing period. If you upgrade and are not satisfied within 7 days, contact us for a full refund — no questions asked.
Team subscribers upload their company name and logo, which appear in the header of every exported drawing, so deliverables look like they came from your firm. Pro exports are clean and carry Project Falcon branding instead; free exports are watermarked.
No. The free plan includes every device in the NFPA 72 library, every circuit type, and every calculation on screen, plus watermarked PDF and JPG export. Paid plans add the deliverables: the Engineering Report, DXF and BOM export, cropping and space tabs, and Firebuddy, the AI assistant. Team projects are on the Team plan.
Yes. Because the circuits are drawn to scale, Project Falcon measures them: total conductor length and EMT raceway per circuit and for the whole job, plus a device schedule by type and count. Both appear in the Engineering Report, and the BOM exports on its own for procurement.
Yes. Place panel nodes with network, fiber and gateway modules, then route the UTP and fiber runs between them — Cat6 runs are checked against the 100 m limit. Double-click a panel to jump to the sheet holding its devices, so a campus job stays navigable.
We walk through a real floor plan with you — device placement, circuits, and the calculations behind the submittal. No slides, no obligation.
These are the actual exports from the design in the video, not mock-ups. Open them and check the arithmetic.
Both come out marked preliminary, because that is what they are: an engineering aid. The stamp, the review and the judgement stay with the engineer.
Have a question about a specific NFPA 72 device, need help with a design, or want to talk enterprise pricing? We respond within one business day.
Tell us about your projects and we will walk you through Project Falcon on a real drawing. About 20 minutes, no obligation.