Someone on your project is working from the wrong drawing.
LODE compiles the authoritative drawing set from every issuance — automatically, traceably, always ready to download. Then it keeps the whole project on that set: bidding, construction administration, financials, closeout. One source of truth for everyone — from the first sketch to the final closeout.
ASI 03 affects 6 sheets. Three revisions concentrate around the north stair assembly. One new sheet added: A201A.
Missing a revision costs more than you think.
70%
Of construction rework is design-induced — it starts with the drawings, not the field.
Autodesk / Quality
48%
Of all rework traces to poor data and miscommunication — the right version not reaching the right person.
PlanGrid / FMI
5.5 hrs
Lost every week searching for current drawings and project data.
PlanGrid / FMI
$177B
Wasted annually in U.S. construction on rework, conflict, and hunting for information.
PlanGrid / FMI
Most of it is preventable. The drawings existed. The revision was issued. Someone just didn't have the current set.
Here's how it actually happens.
The Field Superintendent
The crew builds the north stair to the bid set. ASI 02 moved it eight inches — the revision was issued, it just never made it past an email thread. The architect points at the revised drawings. The super never had them.
Rework in the tens of thousands. Days of delay.
The Project Manager
Six people in a coordination meeting argue about a detail that Bulletin 3 already resolved. Two hours on a question that was answered six weeks ago — because nobody in the room had the current set.
Hours of billable time. Zero progress.
The Architect
An RFI arrives about a condition ASI 01 addressed months ago. The contractor is working from the original bid set — three months into construction. Now it’s a credibility problem, not a drawing problem.
Client frustration. Another RFI. The log grows.
The whole project, on one record.
Point tools cover a phase — a CA platform here, a markup app there, a whiteboard somewhere else — and projects bleed in the gaps between them. LODE is the whole arc on one record, built for architects: from the first trace on Sketch Paper to the final closeout set, nothing drifts, because nothing leaves. This is the actual navigation of a LODE project:
Three steps. No learning curve.
Upload your issuances
Base set first. Revisions as they arrive. Drop a PDF — drawings or specs — and LODE handles the rest.
LODE compiles the current set
Sheet detection, revision resolution, reference tracking — automatic, for drawings and CSI spec sections alike.
Run the project on it
Field sets for the crew. The revision record for the file. RFIs, submittals, and pay apps that cite the sheets they touch.
Live Review
The review cycle, flattened.
A review cycle is a chain of events — each reviewer marks their own copy, and the review only exists once somebody merges the versions. LODE flattens the chain into one live document: every markup lands on the same sheet as it's made, so the review is a single composite, always current, with nothing to collect and nothing to reconcile.
Everyone works the same sheet — together or on their own time. When you overlap, you see each other: live cursors and presence.
Comments resolve in place: owned, timestamped, and tied to the revision they were made on.
Reviewers join by link. A consultant marking up one package doesn’t need a seat.
Then bring it into the field.
Compiling the set is step one. LODE gives your team the tools to mark it up, measure off it, and work through what changed — all on a non-destructive layer that never touches your source PDFs.
Comments & threads
Open and resolved discussions, pinned to the sheet they’re about.
Measure & count
Calibrated linear and area measurements, plus a count tool. Numbers carry forward across revisions.
Revisions keep your work
When a sheet is superseded, you choose which comments carry to the new sheet and which retire with the old.
Sketch Paper
Sketch, trace, repeat.
Every project gets an infinite canvas — pre-record space for the thinking that starts before the first issuance and never really stops. Lay real trace over any sheet, draw on it, stack trace on trace, fan the stack to compare options — together, live.
A placed sheet stays pinned to the version you dropped, and tells you when a revision supersedes it. When something's worth keeping, save it to Files and it becomes part of the record — one deliberate door between the thinking and the truth.
Meet DOC.
DOC reads the record and answers in plain language. Ask what changed in an issuance. Ask about a sheet, a region of a drawing, a spec section — or where that material decision from a year ago landed. DOC answers from your project, because your project is all in one place — to exactly the extent you allow it.
ASI 03 affects 6 sheets. Three revisions concentrate around the north stair assembly, including a revised guardrail condition on A201 and a new enlarged plan on A201A. The roof assembly on A301 has been updated — this sheet has been revised in 3 of 4 issuances to date.
No sheets were removed. One sheet added.
DOC is optional and off by default — enable it per project. Every feature of LODE works without it, and your drawings are never used for training.
Your documents are yours. Full stop.
We claim no rights to your files. Download everything, anytime. They’re yours.
Delete everything, anytime. Permanently.
Your drawings are never shared or sold. Period.
Processed to compile. Never stored for training.
AI is optional. Every feature works without it. Enable DOC per project, only if you want it.
Winding down? Keep all your drawings in cold storage from $9/mo. Pick back up whenever you’re ready.
LODE is a tool, not a platform that monetizes your data. We make money when you subscribe. That's it.
The old toolchain, retired.
Not a feature checklist against any one product — a comparison against the way document control actually gets done today: inboxes, shared drives, per-seat platforms, and a coordinator holding it together by hand.
| Others | LODE | |
|---|---|---|
| The lifecycle | A different tool for every phase — and gaps between them | One record, first sketch to final closeout |
| The current set | Whoever kept the latest email attachment | Compiled automatically from every issuance — one authoritative set |
| Revision history | Overwritten files and renamed PDFs | Every issuance preserved — reconstruct the set at any point in time |
| Markups | Flattened into the file, or lost with it | A non-destructive layer, tied to the sheet and the revision it was made on |
| Design review | Rounds of markups, merged by hand | One live composite — nothing to collect, nothing to reconcile |
| RFIs, submittals, pay apps | Scattered across inboxes, spreadsheets, and PDFs | Registers on the record, linked to the drawings they cite |
| Subs & consultants | A seat for everyone, or nothing | A secure link and a portal — no seat required |
| Your files | Check the terms | Yours. Download everything, delete everything — anytime |
| AI on your drawings | Check the terms | Off by default, per-project opt-in, never trained on |
| Buying it | Per-seat, per-module, ask for a quote | A subscription. That’s it |
Stop managing revisions manually.
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