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Over the past few weeks we moved Specset's agents and document processing onto a newer generation of AI models. Each change was measured against real construction documents before it shipped.

Faster, more careful answers. The project agent now answers most questions in about half the time, and it is more careful about which document governs a question. Project Reviews reach the plan for your approval in about a minute and a half instead of several minutes, and those plans came out ahead in blind comparisons.

Sharper drawing reads. Schedules transcribe more accurately, especially on scanned sheets where door and panel schedule cells used to be misread. Dense panel schedules come through in a single pass, and fine print in general notes reads correctly. When an issue is marked up on a drawing, the box now lands on the specific row, note, or device instead of outlining the whole schedule.

Quicker comparisons and background tasks. Change detection in Plan Set Comparison runs more than twice as fast. Search filtering keeps more of the results that matter, and review summaries read more clearly.

There is nothing to turn on. New conversations, reviews, and uploads use the new models automatically.

Share a drawing coordination review as a single marked-up PDF. Select issues in the issue list, choose Export, and select Annotated drawings (.pdf). Specset gathers their marked drawing sheets and adds boxed captions that explain each issue beside its location.

Only sheets with visible issue annotations are included. Sheets shared by several selected issues appear once, with their comments together. Add the optional issue index for a compact list with links to the marked drawings, or leave it off to start straight with the sheets.

Flatten annotations is on by default for sharing. Excel and CSV exports remain available in the same menu. Large drawing exports can take a few minutes, so keep the export window open until the download begins.

Read more in Issues.

Plan Set Comparison now opens the revised drawings with changes marked directly on the PDF. Revision clouds and numbered callouts put each change in context, with a searchable change list alongside the plans. Select a change to jump to its location and compare close-ups of the original and revised detail.

Use Download compiled PDF to take the marked-up set out of Specset. The export includes your annotation edits and the changes you choose to include, with an optional change-log cover that links to the revised sheets. Export the full comparison or select specific sheets, ready to share with your team.

Comparisons are also more accurate when drawings have been reorganized. On redrawn sheets, the agent compares individual details, schedules, and notes to separate content changes from layout shifts. It recognizes renumbered sheets and follows details that move to another sheet, reporting the move and any edits without counting the same detail as both removed and newly added.

See Plan Comparison for the review and export workflow.

Design Quality Review works spec-first: it walks your specification sections and checks the design against them. The new Drawing Review agent works from the other direction, leading with the sheets themselves.

• Every sheet gets its own reviewer. The agent fans out across the drawing set in parallel, one review per sheet.
• Cross-discipline checks. Each sheet is compared against the related sheets it coordinates with, across disciplines: structural against architectural, mechanical against plumbing, plans against their schedules and details.
• Coordination defects surface as issues. Clashes, conflicting values, and broken callouts or cross-references land in your Issues list with citations to the exact sheet regions involved.

Run it alongside Design Quality Review rather than instead of it. The two catch different classes of problems. Read more in Design review.

Projects with multiple buildings often ship a spec book and drawing set per building, with the same section and sheet numbers repeated in each. Specset now supports building areas to keep them straight.

• Per-building namespaces. Assign an area to each spec or drawing file, and every extracted section and sheet inherits it. Section 09 91 23 in Building A and Building B are now two distinct records.
• Grouped browsing. The specifications list groups by area and then division, so each building reads as its own spec book.
• Area-aware answers. Search, Q&A, and reviews understand areas, disambiguate duplicate numbers, and can be scoped to a single building.

Areas are opt-in per project under project settings. Read more in Specifications and Drawings.