Design intent is spread across drawings, specs, schedules, and hundreds of pages of product data that nobody has time to trace by hand.
Intent gets lost between documents
An item is called out in a drawing note, listed on a schedule, and drawn with a legend symbol. Its requirement is in a spec section. The product the contractor picked is somewhere in hundreds of pages of product data. Checking one item means holding all of it at once, for every fixture, valve, and panel.
AI alone can't carry the stamp
Generic AI tools skim past details in a 112-sheet drawing set and scanned product data. Without a cited page behind every comment, a reviewer has to redo the check anyway.
The hours come out of a fixed fee
A single fit-out sends hundreds of pages in waves. Construction Administration is a fixed slice of the fee. The reading is not, and what slips through gets built.
Beem turns a submittal package into a list of decisions. AI does the reading, a trade expert checks every line, and your team makes the call.
AI reads. A Beem SME checks.
What Beem does
For every item, one record: what it is, where it is marked on the drawings, the basis of design or the comparable spec when none is named, and the contractor's sheet below it, with one word beside it: matches, or does not match.
Your reviewer decides and signs
What your team does
Signs in and opens the trades in review. Works the flagged items with the drawing and the sheet on one screen. Marks each item reviewed, verifies it, sets the action to the contractor under their own name, and issues the revision with its transmittal and logs.
Why a review team can decide from Beem's record.
Every item is traced to the drawings
Beem shows where each item lives. The drawing note that calls for it, the schedule that names it, the legend symbol that proves it on the sheet, and the basis of design or spec it has to meet. The contractor's sheet sits under all of it, and your reviewer decides.
Four packages, matched and flagged in four hours.
Restaurant fit-out, matching pass log
One package's contract review window, matched and flagged in four hours.
Contractor submittal report, received 09/02, due 09/09
Compare the substitution before you decide
Put the submitted product next to the basis of design, feature by feature, every value with the page it came from. When a sheet does not match, your reviewer sees how far off it is, and what would match.
| Feature | Basis of design | Submitted | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flush volume Schedule: 1.6 gpf | 1.6 gpf | 1.28 gpf | Misses spec |
| Handle | Lever, exposed | Lever, exposed | Match |
| Standard | ASSE 1037 | ASSE 1037 | Match |
| Finish | Polished chrome | Polished chrome | Match |
A trade expert reads behind the AI
AI is fast and reads every page. A Beem SME who has worked the trade checks every match before your team sees it, and corrects what the AI got wrong.
Issue the revision. The transmittal comes with it.
Rev 0, Rev 1, each one a frozen record: the transmittal PDF, the comment log, and the change log between revisions. Company profiles print on the finalized submittal, and every entry carries who decided it and for which firm.
What your reviewer sees.
No more hunting across sheets to validate an item. Everything is brought into one place, verified by our SMEs, for your final call. Four views of one line item, drawn from the Beem app as it is today.
In the portal now.
Shipped in September.
Grade a package against the drawings and the spec
Every line item puts what the drawings and specifications call for next to what was submitted. Mark reviewed, verify, set the action to the contractor.
The submitted product beside the basis of design
Feature by feature, every value with the page it came from. The differences come first. Export the comparison as a PDF.
See Compare Materials →Issue Rev 0, Rev 1, with the transmittal
Every line item needs a verified sign-off before a revision goes out. The transmittal PDF, the comment log, and the change log between revisions, with company profiles on the finalized submittal.
Every party on the finalized submittal
Your firm, the contractor, and the suppliers print on the issued package, with the log of who decided what.
Procurement log per trade
Owner and supplier on each line, need-by and order-by dates, a change log per row, and one Excel export.
Warranty documents behind the finalized submittal
Per section, each one the brand's warranty document linked from the cut sheet.
Four trades, matched and flagged in four hours.
A 200-seat restaurant fit-out sent four packages across three months: 330 pages of product data against a 112-sheet drawing set.
The line that does not move.
Beem never determines
Beem matches and flags. Every approval decision belongs to the architect or engineer of record, and the export shows who decided what.
Two lanes, kept apart
Beem writes the comment in its own lane. Your reviewer writes the decision in yours. They stay in separate fields, on screen and in the export.
Verified against the source
Every flag points at the drawing note, schedule, or legend it came from, the spec it has to meet, and the submittal sheet. Your reviewer checks the source before determining.
Sample project
200-seat restaurant fit-out, Maryland
Four packages across plumbing, lighting, electrical, and HVAC, matched and flagged before the architect's team opened them.
