Manage Every Fixture from Schedule to Submittal
Extract fixture schedules from drawings, find cutsheets, and generate submittals — all powered by AI.
Submittal management, built for lighting designers
Lighting design lives and dies by the fixture schedule, and that schedule is exactly where submittals get complicated. Each type — from the recessed downlights to the architectural linear runs to the exterior sconces — carries a specific manufacturer, model, lamp source, color temperature, CRI, driver, dimming protocol, and mounting condition. When submittals come back, any one of those attributes can be quietly wrong, and a substituted driver or a shifted color temperature can wreck the effect you designed long before anyone notices it on the ceiling plan.
The Submittal Builder is built for this kind of attribute-dense work. Point the AI agent at your fixture schedule and it retrieves the correct manufacturer cut sheets, matches catalog and part numbers down to the options and finishes, and pulls the photometric data tied to each type — then compares it all against what you specified. Instead of manually cross-checking a stack of PDFs against your schedule row by row, you get each fixture verified against its intended source, optics, and controls, with deviations surfaced for your attention.
That keeps design integrity intact through the part of the process where it usually erodes, and it saves you the hours normally lost to assembling and checking submittal packages by hand. Whether you are confirming a contractor's submission or building the package yourself, the work compresses dramatically. Submittal.app is free to start at user.submittal.app/signup/builder, so you can run your next fixture schedule through it and see every type checked against spec.
The Challenges You Face
We understand the unique pressures of your role.
Extracting fixture schedules from lighting plans manually
Finding and organizing cutsheets for dozens of fixture types
Creating submittal packages with complete photometric data
Managing substitutions when specified fixtures are discontinued
Tracking fixture procurement across multiple project phases
How Submittal.app Helps
Purpose-built tools for your workflow.
Frequently asked questions
How do lighting designers manage fixture schedules through the submittal process?
The fixture schedule is the reference every submittal must match, type by type, across source, color temperature, optics, driver, and mounting. Submittal.app connects the two directly: the Submittal Builder reads your schedule, pulls the matching manufacturer cut sheets and part numbers, and checks each fixture against its specified attributes, so the schedule stays the single source of truth instead of drifting during review.
What should a lighting designer check on a fixture submittal?
Confirm the exact model and catalog number, the lamp source and wattage, color temperature and CRI, the driver and dimming protocol, finish, and mounting, plus the photometric data. A substituted driver or shifted color temperature can quietly ruin the design. The Submittal Builder cross-checks these attributes against your schedule and flags any that deviate, so nothing slips through unverified.
How can I get photometric data and cut sheets for a lighting submittal quickly?
Manually gathering the correct cut sheet and photometric file for every fixture type is slow and error-prone, especially when catalog numbers include options and finishes. The Submittal Builder locates the right manufacturer documents directly from your schedule and part numbers, assembling them into a compiled package rather than leaving you to download and organize each PDF by hand.
How do lighting designers catch fixture substitutions that hurt the design?
Substitutions often change a driver, optic, or color temperature while keeping the fixture superficially similar, which is easy to miss in a stack of submittals. Submittal.app compares each proposed fixture against your specified type attribute by attribute, surfacing exactly where a substitute diverges. That lets you judge whether it preserves the lighting effect you designed before it is ever ordered or installed.
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