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>I think that granularity of message is important - and I think you can really excel here. > >Rather than presenting the whole plan on PDF - tell them EXACTLY what they need to know BY ROOM/BY LOCATION that pertains to them at that moment. >

This.

In my former life as an architectural designer and project manager for a design-build firm, we experimented with creating document sets that provided this level of room-by-room information. The documents were color printouts on 11x17 sheets, folded and contained in a binder. 160,000 SF remodel. Labor intensive to say the least, and only possible at all because we were doing mostly finish work.

But an app could make this level of granularity practical. The advantages to all stages of construction are numerous, from takeoffs to punch lists and inspection.

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