What’s new in FlowManual.

Project pages are less cluttered: the Takeoff tab is the one place to start a takeoff, tools you have not used yet start as one-line headers, and each header leads with one main action.

The document viewer now shows the PDF on phones, and several pages no longer run off narrow screens.

Electrical takeoffs read panel schedules, luminaire schedules, feeders, and transformers more reliably, and a symbol on a match line is counted only once.

Roofing takeoff: trace roof areas and roof lines such as eaves, ridges, hips, valleys, and flashing, use the pitch read off the sheet, and get true lengths, squares, waste, a materials list, and a Roof report PDF.

Electrical takeoffs handle full drawing sets better, with sheet titles read from the title block, repeated gear checked across the set, and a sheet filter with accept by sheet in review.

The Privacy Policy and Security page now describe more precisely how long our service providers keep data.

Highlights now land on the right words on rotated drawing sheets.

Security and reliability fixes.

Drawing revision compares now include rotated sheets instead of leaving them out.

Document comparisons now catch short notes that were added or deleted between versions, such as a single keynote line, which used to be skipped.

The Equipment tab now says when only part of a schedule was read, instead of showing a partial list as if it were complete.

Electrical takeoffs export a count sheet for Accubid as a PDF or Excel file, with accepted counts grouped by drawing and system for keying into your estimate.

Electrical takeoff counts lighting fixtures by type, wiring devices, electrical equipment, fire alarm, and low voltage devices, and shows existing, demolition, and not-in-contract work without counting it.

Scanned sheets that showed only a blank border in the viewer now display in full.

The takeoff workbench now opens on your most recent finished run.

The Estimate tab links to the takeoff spreadsheet, so you can download takeoff line items in Excel where you build the estimate.

Ask Documents reads more of each document before answering, so questions about long contracts find clauses it used to miss.

Invoice price checks keep every line on long invoices, and an invoice that was only partly read is marked partial instead of reporting no price changes.

Mistyped or expired links now open a clear page-not-found screen with a link back home.

Takeoff exports a line-item Excel workbook for one drawing or the whole project, with one row per item, its sheet and page, its review status, and a summary.

Takeoff review has Undo and Redo for accepts, rejects, added pins, relabels, and removals, with Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z.

Takeoff runs now show how long they took.

Takeoff markups stay aligned while you zoom, and run history stays with the drawing you selected.

Estimation workbooks leave totals blank when rows are unpriced instead of showing zero, and Excel handoffs keep each row tied to its source.

The document viewer and the takeoff page have a chat panel: ask about what is on screen, and select a region of a page to attach to your question.

The takeoff workspace is more compact, mouse and trackpad navigation pan and zoom the way you expect, and empty panels collapse.

A Measurements toggle in takeoff review hides saved outlines so the drawing shows through, and marked-up PDF downloads follow the drawing layers you have on.

The Takeoff counts controls were rebuilt into one consistent toolbar that fits laptop screens.

Takeoff adds starter templates for mechanical, plumbing, and site devices, and you can share takeoff templates with your organization.

Takeoff counts on multi-sheet runs finish sooner because sheets are read in parallel.

Length and area markups imported from Bluebeam Revu come in as real measurements, and On-Screen Takeoff condition imports no longer stop at 15 items.

Measured lengths can carry duct size, pipe diameter, service, and pressure class, roll up by size and service, and tracing adds ortho lock and undo of the last point.

Rotated drawing sheets are now counted, and a page a count skips is always named instead of silently left out.

Takeoff counts now wait and retry when several people count at once instead of dropping sheets, and uploads warn up front when a drawing set is too large for takeoff.

Delete a project from the Projects page, which removes all of its documents and results.

Bring your history, on Account & security, is one checklist for importing past documents, purchase orders, cost data, unit rates, labor rates, and timecards.

Takeoff remembers the pins you rejected, and a saved template can apply itself to new runs.

The Projects page now lists projects that other people shared with you.

Takeoff counts no longer count drawing reference symbols, printed text, line fragments, or blank paper, and a run can be downloaded as a marked-up PDF.

Crews grades your crews from bid versus actual hours with the evidence behind each grade, and Operations lists what is due on each active job.

The Bid vs Actual tab imports job cost and timecard exports and compares them with what you bid, cost code by cost code.

Site Risk Review on the Pre-Con Review tab flags crane, soils, access, staging, and local approval issues from the plans, soils report, and specs, each with the quote it came from.

Contracts get a Risk tab for clause review against your own playbook, redlines that export as Word tracked changes, and an Obligations tab for notice windows and deadlines after award.

Accepted takeoff quantities flow into linked estimate workbook rows as you review, and an assembly applied to a measured area re-prices when you re-trace it.

Estimation workbooks add saved bid totals templates, spread to a target total, branded proposal templates, and imports from other estimating programs.

Send a letter of intent or subcontract for signature through a private link that needs no account, with the signed copy filed back to the project.

Box takeoff: drag a box around an item, label it, and it is saved as a counted item on the drawing.

Takeoff spec check reads the spec book for each counted item type and quotes the governing requirements, substitution language, and basis of design.

The document viewer opens on the page content instead of the margins, the sidebar is larger and resizable, and pages fit laptop screens better.

Start counting opens a blank takeoff run so you can place counts by hand without waiting for a count run.

Estimation workbooks add assemblies, cost codes, alternates, and one-click clone.

Purchasing shows price variability per material family, suggests merges for duplicate vendor names, and downloads a Material Price Brief PDF.

The document viewer adds find in document, a page thumbnails rail, sheet-number navigation, and print.

Generate the submittal register from the spec book, and submittal reviews quote both the spec and the submittal for every finding.

Estimation workbooks are full estimating spreadsheets with multiple sheets, Excel-style formulas, undo and redo, fill handle, dropdowns, locked cells, and Excel import and export.

Workbooks cover bid day with pay items, Bid Summary and General Conditions sheets, a cut and add ledger, snapshots with Lock as bid, and a proposal PDF.

Import your own licensed cost database into your unit rates, and price labor lines from crews and production rates.

Forwarded vendor invoices get their prices checked against your buyout, and your allowed senders list can take a whole vendor domain.

Bid leveling records the award to lock buyout prices, sweeps scope gaps across packages, drafts descope questions, handles bids with several options, and keeps a ledger of every adjustment.

Takeoff counts a whole drawing set as one run and checks the counts against the equipment schedule printed in the drawings.

Drawing revision compare adds automatic alignment, three-point manual alignment, and a synced side-by-side view.

Each document has a review record: assign reviewers, record a disposition for every finding, and sign off.

Bring a drawing marked up in Bluebeam Revu into takeoff, with each markup coming in as a proposed row to review.

Drawing revision compares come with a written summary of what changed, sheet by sheet.

Check a material's current retail list price on its Purchasing family page or by asking in Ask Documents.

Pay application review checks schedule of values math, stored materials, and retainage, with change orders and RFIs alongside, on a new Billing tab.

Search every document in a project for exact text, and save your own column layouts for CSV and Excel exports.

The Procurement tab is a buyout log with vendor, lead time, and need-on-site date for each item, and it works out the date each order has to be released.

Upload PDFs up to 500 MB, and turn an On-Screen Takeoff condition list into a takeoff template.

Measure areas in takeoff: trace an area on the sheet and get square feet from that sheet's scale.

In bid leveling, click the quote in any cell to open the bidder's PDF at that line.

Teach takeoff by example: outline one symbol, save it to a template, and later counts look for items that match it.

Budget vs Bid compares your line-item budget with every bidder, and contract signing reminders flag contracts still unsigned close to the start date.

Drawing revision compares run in the background with live progress, read sheet numbers on scanned sets, and pair sheets between revisions automatically.

Equipment quote leveling lines up vendor equipment quotes tag by tag, so a quote that leaves out equipment no longer looks cheaper.

Takeoff adds templates, Add pin for items a count missed, and Bluebeam export, and drawing compares recognize a detail that moved without changing.

Overlay view in drawing revision compare stacks two revisions in color so anything that moved stands out, and compared pairs are saved to reopen later.

Export the change order log as CSV, and see change orders rolled up across projects on Portfolio.

Takeoff counts: pick drawing sheets, get proposed symbol counts pinned on each sheet, and accept or reject each one before it enters the tally.

FlowManual has a new logo and colors across the app, emails, and PDF exports.

Uploads take whole folders and many files at once with real progress, and large documents are read faster, with page-by-page progress.

Documents get their first read automatically after upload, and Analyze all covers the rest of a project in one click.

Organization workspaces let a company share pricing history and rate books between teammates, invite-only and off by default.

Re-running a comparison keeps the differences you already dismissed or confirmed.

Subcontractor pages show each sub's track record on your own projects, and the RFI and submittal logs show how quickly a party has answered before.

Scanned documents are read page by page, the viewer shows how many pages were read, and Deep re-read retries pages that could not be read.

Rate findings with thumbs up or down across the product, and add a finding the first read missed.

Scope Letter drafts a bid clarifications and exclusions letter from the project's findings and your standard exclusions.

Document reads now cover every construction trade, not only mechanical work.

Vendor compliance tracks certificates of insurance and safety program documents for each vendor.

Ask Documents has a Search toggle for web lookups, with a reminder while it is on that text from the conversation is sent to an outside search service.

The Purchasing map shows how vendors, materials, and projects connect by real spend.

Bid leveling downloads a closeout package with the leveling decision in Excel and a clarification PDF for each bidder.

Direct an RFI to someone outside the project by link, so they can answer it without joining the project.

Tell FlowManual whether you work for a trade contractor, a general contractor, or the owner, and the app tailors its language and examples to that seat.

The Bid Leveling tab lines up competing sub bids item by item with each cell quoted from the bid, carries plugs for missing scope, handles alternates, and exports to CSV.

Pre-con brief builds a pre-construction meeting brief from the project's documents.

Bulletin Review reads a bulletin or ASI against the project's documents, reports the impact on your scope item by item, and drafts a change order request.

Unit Rates holds your own rate library, estimates import from Excel or CostX, and every cost estimate line shows where its price came from.

The delivery log reads promised dates from vendor documents for you to confirm, groups items by PO, and exports on your letterhead.

Turn a finding into a change order request letter on your letterhead, with a contract time line and an optional cost breakdown.

Export discrepancies, scope gaps, vendor prices, and cost estimates as CSV.

Forward vendor quotes and invoices to a project's forwarding address to file them into that project.

Uploads over 10 MB no longer fail.

The Submittals tab tracks status, ball in court, and due dates, and response letters can be drafted from a marked-up review PDF.

Help improve FlowManual, under Data preferences, is an opt-in setting that is off by default.

Code Check flags places where the documents cite the wrong jurisdiction's code or a local requirement that may be unbid scope.

Forward a bid invite email to your FlowManual address and its PDF attachments land in a project with the first read already run, from senders you allow.

A public Security page explains how FlowManual protects your data.