For architects whose contractors build from old drawings

One current revision. No version chaos.

Issue a revision and everyone — client, contractor, you — is looking at the same drawings. Superseded revisions are marked and out of reach, and nobody has to text you to ask which set is current.

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Every issuance stays on the record.

The problem

The GC built from Revision 3

You issued Revision 4 two weeks ago. You emailed it, like always — a PDF named something like CD-set-rev4-FINAL(2). The general contractor printed the set they already had on the desk, and now there's a wall where the new opening should be.

Version control by email means every recipient owns a private copy of the truth. Some are current, some aren't, and you can't tell from your side which one anybody is looking at. So you field the same message again and again: “Is this the latest?”

The fix isn't a better file name. It's one place where the current set lives — and where a superseded set visibly stops being the current one.

How it works

Issue. Supersede. One shared view.

01

Prepare the next revision

Add a numbered revision to a drawing set and upload the new sheets to it. A draft stays invisible to your client and contractor until you issue it — no half-finished set ever leaks.

  • Numbered revisions per drawing set
  • Drafts hidden until issued
  • Sheets grouped by discipline package
02

Issue it

Issuing stamps the date and promotes the revision in one step: the new set becomes current and the old one is superseded at the same moment. There is never a window with two “current” sets.

  • One current revision per set — enforced, not a convention
  • Issued date stamped in your firm's time zone
  • Supersede happens in the same step as issue
03

Everyone reads the same set

Your client and contractor sign in and see the current revision — only the current revision. Superseded sheets are marked and no longer open for them, so nobody can build from last month's drawings.

  • Clients and contractors see current sheets only
  • Superseded revisions marked and out of reach
  • Revision history preserved as your issuance record

What everyone sees when they open the project

Maple Street Residence

Drawings
CD Drawings — Current RevisionIssued Jul 18
Revision 4 — 24 sheetsClient & GC viewing this revision
Revision history
Revision 4Issued Jul 18 · Current
Revision 3Issued Jun 02 · Superseded Jul 18
Revision 2Issued Apr 21 · Superseded Jun 02
Revision 1Issued Mar 10 · Superseded Apr 21

The current revision is unmistakable — and the superseded ones are unmistakably not it.

Stop answering “is this the latest set?”

Put the current revision where your client and contractor already look, and let the old ones retire themselves.

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