Hi Product Hunt, I’m Conor, an architect. I’ve spent more than ten years on projects of almost every size, from interior renovations to projects north of $100 million, and every one of them had the same failure somewhere: someone on the project was working from the wrong drawing. It never looks dramatic. Addendum 2 goes out by email and two bidders never open it. A bulletin changes a detail and the field is still building from the set before it. A year later someone is searching an inbox for a warranty. The spread in the numbers turns out to be a spread in the documents. LODE is what I wished existed every time it happened. You issue a set, LODE reads the sheet numbers and revisions, works out which revision of every sheet is current, and compiles the set. Then the rest of the project runs on that set: planning, bidding, construction administration, pay applications and closeout, with everyone looking at the same sheets. A bid that priced a superseded set is flagged at tabulation. The submittal log is built from your spec sections before the first submittal arrives. The closeout deliverables list writes itself from approved submittals during construction. A few things I cared about that most tools in this space get wrong: Nobody outside your firm needs a seat. Bidders open a bid room from a link, the contractor works through a portal, owner’s reps do walk-throughs from a link. Your documents are yours. Export everything whenever you like. The AI assistant, DOC, is off by default and never trains on your drawings. Plans differ by projects, seats and storage, not by features. Every account starts with a 30-day free trial, no card. It is built for the architect’s side of the project, which is the side the big construction platforms were never designed around. If you are an architect, or you work with one, I would like to know what breaks on your projects. Put a real drawing set through it and tell me what it got wrong.

LODE

Construction project management software for architects.

Construction project management software for architects.