Resources for the people
who use Sage.
Briefs, product deep-dives, guides, and comparisons, written for the audience that actually reads them. Every piece lives on the web and as a PDF, built from the same source so what you read online is what you hand to the AHJ, the architect, or the principal at the next meeting.
One audience. One complete intro.
Each brief is the document we'd hand someone on day one if they were about to spec, sell, or service Sage. Read end-to-end.
Engineer & Distributor Brief
The central battery system, properly specified. Code-anchored design, architecture comparison, project economics, the specifier arsenal, and the basis-of-design language to put Sage on the next spec.
Agency Brief
This is what changes when your agency reps Sage. 100% Overage. Sage Live included. Wall-mount cabinet. The eight sales angles your reps walk into the design review with, every one earned by a specific Sage design choice.
One product line. Everything you can ask about it.
When a specific Sage product carries enough technical and commercial nuance to warrant its own document (the install economics, the variants, the architectural edge, the workflow), it lives here.
Sage Relays
The relay that doesn't add labor, and doesn't need UL 924 / 1008 ALCR hardware. Six SR variants, how Sage picks the right one per host fixture, field vs factory install, companion pairings, and the architectural edge that saves ~$150 per dimmable emergency fixture.
Sage Central Battery
One system powers an entire building's emergency lighting from wall-mounted cabinets. Open battery system on standard lead-calcium: no proprietary parts, no factory service contracts. Keystone tiers compared spec-by-spec. Sage Live™ monitoring, NEC 700.3(F) maintenance handled.
Sage Live™
The cloud-connected monitoring layer that ships standard on every Sage cabinet. Monthly + annual NFPA self-tests run unattended and log themselves. Faults push by email in real time with per-fixture precision. Multi-site fleet view for portfolio operators. The audit trail is already a PDF when the AHJ asks for it.
Olympus (LCM)
The Local Circuit Monitor that satisfies NFPA 7.9.2.3 single-circuit egress failure at the panel. Branch-level utility sensing, millisecond transfer to DC emergency, Class 2 wiring up to 1000 ft from the cabinet. The device that makes Sage code-compliant at the clause level, not just architecturally.
Specific workflows. Step by step.
When you know what you're doing and just need the Sage way of doing it.
How to Design with Sage
Three steps. Tell Sage about your project. Sage produces the design package: fixture layout, relay selection, cabinet placement, wiring, code compliance. You review and submit.
How to Install Sage
What a Sage install looks like in the field. Cabinet mount, LCM placement, MC daisy-chain, fixture relay swap, commissioning. The contractor walkthrough.
Decision-time framing. Honest comparisons.
Real BOM math. Real code conformance. The case for Sage made against the architectures it actually competes with.
Sage with Generators
Generators back the building. Sage backs egress. On many projects the answer is both: take the lighting off the genset and the downsize often pays for Sage.
Sage vs Battery Packs
Centralized vs per-fixture. On our worked reference design, 111 battery locations become 2 cabinets. Compliance burden, service economics, and the architectural difference that makes Sage the answer on every spec-driven commercial project.
Sage vs Inverters
Two centralized systems, one modern architecture. On the worked reference design Sage installs 49% lower on day one and runs the decade at 7× lower upkeep. Inside: the inverter's itemized ledger, the ALCR mechanism, and why there is no crossover point, ever.
The deep library. Reference, positioning, territory.
Knowledge Base
Nineteen articles covering UL 924, central battery vs unit equipment, what a Sage Relay actually is, NFPA test cycles, and the questions specifiers ask Sage most often.
Why Sage Wins
The case for a credible second central battery brand: the market gap, the architectural moves Sage made differently, the agencies and spec writers who land on Sage and why.
Markets
Where Sage is active today, where agencies are being recruited, and the territorial picture across the United States.
Have a project, a spec, or a question? Send it.
For project-specific engineering review, photometric studies, custom CSI sections, or territory + agency questions, direct contact is welcomed once the foundational details are in hand.