For architects fielding job-site questions by text at night

One door for the contractor

Questions from the field land in the project, next to the drawings they're about — one thread per question, with the current set one click away. Not scattered across your texts, voicemail, and three email chains.

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Answers stay on the project record.

The problem

The 9pm text message

A photo of a framing condition arrives while you're at dinner: “plan says W12, section says W14 — which one?” You answer from the couch, from memory, in a text thread only two people can see.

That answer just became project history that lives in nobody's project. Three weeks later the same question comes back from someone else, or — worse — the wrong beam goes in and no one can reconstruct who said what, when.

The fix is one door: the contractor asks where the drawings live, and your answer lands in the same place — visible to everyone on the project, next to the sheet it's about, on the record.

How it works

Invite. Ask. Answer on the record.

01

Give your contractor one place

Add the contractor to the project with project-scoped access. They see this project — the current drawings, the questions, the answers — and nothing else in your practice.

  • Project-scoped access, not firm-wide
  • The current drawing revision, always at hand
  • No version-of-record ambiguity — see the current-set page
02

Questions land next to the drawings

A field question gets posted in the project it's about, one thread per question, with photos straight from the site — instead of arriving in your texts at 9pm.

  • One thread per question
  • Photos and files attach from the field
  • Everything anchored to the project, not a phone
03

Your answer becomes the record

You answer once, and everyone on the project sees it — client included, if you want. The project's activity feed keeps the chronology, so the answer is still there when the question comes back.

  • Answers visible to the whole project
  • Activity feed keeps the chronology
  • Still there when the question comes back

A field question, where it belongs

Maple Street Residence

Field questions

R. Alvarez — GC · Tue 4:38 PM

Beam depth at grid C3 — plan says W12, section says W14. Which governs?

IMG_2214 — framing at C3A-301 · Revision 4
AW

A. Watts — Architect · Tue 5:02 PM

Section governs: W14. See detail 5/A-501 in Revision 4 — updated in the last issue.

Answered · on the project record

One thread per question — visible to everyone on the project, next to the current set.

The question, the photo, the sheet, and the answer — one thread, on the project.

Get the job site out of your texts

Give the contractor one door, and every answer you give becomes part of the project record instead of vanishing into a phone.

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