Designed by people who've built it. Priced by software we wrote ourselves.
Cindra is a specialist design and estimating studio for smart homes and high-end electrical projects. Tender-ready designs for architects. Priced, buildable estimates for electricians. Fixed fees, fast turnaround, Australia-wide.
Hero visual — marked-up lighting plan
or Cindra takeoff UI on dark
Two services. One engine.
Every project runs through Cindra — our own takeoff-to-quote software. It counts every symbol on your drawings, resolves each one to a real product, and checks the design against Australian standards. That's why our work is faster, more consistent, and more buildable than anything done by hand.
A complete, tender-ready smart home design — lighting, automation, AV, networking and security — whether the project is architect-led, builder-led, or your own home. Documented so any qualified contractor can price it and build it.
Straight electrical, home automation, or both on the one job. We return a fully priced estimate — symbol counts, SKU-level bill of materials, labour, and a client-ready quote — while your competitors are still colouring in plans on the kitchen table.
Your project deserves better than a brochure and a guess.
Ask an integrator to "design" your smart home and you'll get a spec for whatever they resell. We're the alternative: independent designers who've commissioned Dynalite, KNX, C-Bus, Lutron, Control4 and Savant systems for two decades — and we document them so the tender is genuinely comparable.
- Lighting & control design — circuiting, dimming methods, keypad layouts, scene logic
- Full documentation set — drawings, schedules, technical specification, bill of materials
- Standards-checked — validated against AS/NZS 3000 and platform limits by our design engine
- Tender-ready — issued so multiple integrators can price the same scope, like-for-like
- Platform-independent — we specify what's right for the project, not what we resell
Lighting plan / design documentation spread
(e.g. marked-up floor plan with keypad schedule)
Win the jobs. Skip the late nights.
Estimating is the highest-value work you do at the lowest-value time of day. Send us the tender package and get back a complete, priced estimate you can stand behind — built in Cindra, our own takeoff-to-quote platform.
- Full takeoff — every point, fitting and outlet counted from your drawings
- Real bill of materials — resolved to actual SKUs from a live materials library, including switchboard schedules
- Labour & pricing — assembled into a margin-controlled, client-ready quote
- Fast turnaround — days, not weeks, so you never miss a tender deadline
Cindra takeoff screen — symbol counts on a floor plan,
or a finished quote / BOM screenshot
Why we're different
Plenty of people will draw you a plan or type numbers into a spreadsheet. Here's what they can't do.
Our designs come from twenty years of installing and commissioning the systems we specify — Dynalite, KNX, C-Bus, Lutron, Control4, Savant — plus the networking, cameras and AV that hold it all together. Every drawing we issue has been sanity-checked by people who've had to make one work on site.
Every takeoff runs through Cindra, the estimating platform we built ourselves. Symbols are counted systematically, resolved to real products, and priced from a live materials library — so nothing gets missed and every estimate is consistent.
AS/NZS 3000 rules, circuit limits, DALI universe capacities and platform constraints are encoded into our design engine. Compliance issues get caught at design time — not at rough-in.
We design for architects and estimate for contractors. That means our designs are priceable and buildable, and our estimates understand design intent. Nobody else sits on both sides of the table.
Three steps. No mystery.
Email or upload your plans and brief. We confirm scope and quote a fixed fee within one business day.
Your project goes through the Cindra engine — takeoff, materials, standards checks — then a human expert reviews every line.
A tender-ready design or a client-ready estimate, delivered in days. Revisions included, no lock-in.
Got a project on the boards or a tender on the clock?
Tell us about it. We'll come back within one business day with a fixed fee and a turnaround date.