RK Tools
by RK Tools

Pulse

Design with clarity.

A Revit-first system dashboard for electrical and low-current design — built for clarity, shipped in stages, and shaped by the community.

Revit-first·Community-driven·Ships in stages

What Pulse is

Pulse helps electrical and low-current designers understand, validate, and refine their systems faster — by making structure, health, and intent visible in one place inside Revit.

Pulse by RK Tools is a Revit-first control center for addressable building systems. It refines everyday workflows by turning system logic into something you can clearly see, review, and maintain — without getting buried in property panels, schedules, and scattered views.

Pulse ships in stages, starting with a small set of modules and expanding over time. Development is community-driven through Pulse Proposals, ensuring the roadmap stays grounded in real projects and real pain points.

"Pulse is not here to do the work for you. You still design and place the devices, make decisions, and build the model. Pulse helps you understand what you've built: how it's structured, where the weak spots are, and what needs attention — so you can improve the design with confidence."

See the system instantly

Your entire addressable system — panels, loops, zones, devices — in one clear view.

Validate as you go

Gaps and inconsistencies surface early — before they reach review or site.

Visualize design intent

Turn dry Revit data into readable structure that communicates your design decisions.

Confident refinement

Iterate through revisions knowing exactly what changed and what still needs attention.

Consistent across systems

The same clear experience whether you're working on fire alarm, access control, or beyond.

Modules

Pulse ships one focused module at a time. Each one targets a specific system type and expands the dashboard without adding noise to the others.


Design with clarity.

What it is

Pulse Fire is the first Pulse module — a clear control-center view for fire alarm system design inside Revit. It helps you understand what you've built: how devices are organized, where structure is missing, and what needs attention — without replacing the actual design work you do in Revit.

What Pulse Fire does today

  • Custom panel and loop component setup: Define how your system is organized — panels, loops, and key components — so Pulse reflects the way you actually design and review projects.
  • System diagram visualization: See the system as a readable diagram that makes structure and relationships obvious at a glance, helping you review faster and catch gaps early.
  • Sub-element linking: Link related parts of the system — such as PSU → input/output module or door lock → output module — so the design reads like a connected whole, making review and troubleshooting far more intuitive.
  • System metrics: Keep important system signals visible in one place — counts, limits, and health indicators — so you can validate decisions while you work.
  • Revit focus + highlight: Click from Pulse and quickly focus the corresponding elements in Revit with temporary highlights and a one-click reset.
  • Configurable to your project standards: Key fields like Panel, Loop, Address, device type, current draw, and id are configurable — not hardcoded.
  • Safe project storage: Your settings and module data are stored with the project, so your configuration stays consistent across sessions.

What we're implementing next

  • Richer system understanding: Expand beyond Panel/Loop into Zones and additional hierarchy where it makes sense for real projects.
  • A smarter topology canvas: Evolve from a tree-style view into a more visual system canvas: stable panel/loop backbone, device clusters, clearer warning and capacity overlays.
  • Better review workflow: Faster ways to filter warnings, isolate problem areas, and validate changes after revisions.
  • Live voltage drop calculations: Instantly see how design changes impact electrical performance, so you can refine layouts with confidence instead of checking everything at the end.
  • Battery size calculations: Get clear guidance on battery sizing needs based on your system configuration, making compliance-oriented checks easier to manage.
  • AI prompt generation: Generate structured prompts and checklists from your current system state — useful for documentation, review workflows, and turning system insight into actionable next steps.
  • Controlled refinement inside Pulse: More actions that help you maintain consistency by updating mapped values safely, with clear visibility into impact.
  • Documentation outputs (later phase): Project-ready summaries and reports that make coordination and sign-off easier.
Access Control

Pulse Access

Pulse Access helps keep access control design consistent and easy to audit — door by door, revision by revision.

Pulse Access brings clarity to repetitive, detail-heavy work by keeping system structure visible and reviewable. It reduces manual detective work and makes it easier to maintain consistent decisions across the project.

Coming in future stages

  • Pulse Light — Emergency Lighting
  • Pulse Secure — Security & Intrusion
  • Pulse Net — Structured Cabling & Networks
  • Pulse Audio — PA / Voice Alarm / Sound

Pulse Proposals

Pulse is developed as a public product, guided by the people who use it. Pulse Proposals are the way the community helps shape the roadmap.

  • Submit ideas and pain points
  • Discuss real-world use cases
  • Vote on what matters most
  • See what's planned, in progress, and shipped

Open by design, closed by source

Pulse will remain closed-source for now, while still being transparent and community-driven through public proposals and staged releases.

Open-sourcing may be considered later, once the platform is mature and the release model is established. The roadmap — and your voice in it — will always be public.

Roadmap

2026
Q1 Jan – Mar
  • Internal groundwork Architecture, tooling & early prototyping Done
Q2 Apr – Jun
  • Pulse foundation Core architecture, Revit integration layer, internal tooling In progress
  • Pulse Fire — Alpha Panel & loop visibility, device count, early health checks In progress
  • Pulse Access — Alpha Door-by-door structure view, controller mapping, early audit helpers In progress
  • Pulse Proposals launch Public roadmap board, voting & discussion open In progress
  • Pulse Fire — v1.0 Zone & loop review dashboard, gap detection, public release In progress
Q3 Jul – Sep
  • Pulse Access — v1.0 Full access control dashboard, public release Planned
  • Pulse Fire — v1.x Community-driven refinements from Proposals Planned
Q4 Oct – Dec
  • Autodesk App Store release 🤞 Pulse Fire & Pulse Access listed on the Autodesk App Store Planned