Aperture Works, the Hertfordshire based company behind CIS Invoice and TakeOffPDF, has launched Window Tracer, which is being heralded as the fastest and most complete window and door design software in the trade.

According to Aperture Works, Window Tracer is built for the surveyor on site, not the designer at a desk.

Founder, Paul Edwards, spent more than 20 years in fenestration before starting Aperture Works, and says the team scrapped two earlier ideas before landing on the right one.

“We thought about a 3D window designer. Then a tablet app to draw on. Then we watched what actually happens on a survey,” said Paul.

“Every fitter I know has sketched a job on the back of a fag packet, an old receipt, the corner of a quote pad. It’s not lazy. It’s fast. It works. So, we built Window Tracer to respect that.”

Paul adds that Window Tracer is the simplest and fastest way to design a window or door. Layer in sketch2quote and a surveyor can sketch an opening on any bit of paper, snap it with their phone, and have it converted into a working Window Tracer design ‘in seconds’.

Paul says calls sketch2quote ‘the Netflix moment for fenestration’ and ‘the Uber moment’ for surveys. He argues the trade’s design tools have for decades served fabricators, leaving the small window companies and one-man installers at the front line with software that doesn’t match how they work.

Window Tracer is one of six products in the Aperture Works suite, positioned as the operating system for window and door installers. Spicy Designer, a white-label door configurator that lets installers offer homeowners a branded online designer without being tied to a single fabricator, also launched in June.

Hub CRM is the connective tissue across the suite and is already in beta with installers. Leads, an automated postal outreach tool driven by planning application data, follows later in the year. Both join CIS Invoice and TakeOffPDF, already live.

The waitlist is open now at windowtracer.com.