Launching September 2026

See the jobsite with total clarity

One application that carries the whole project: model, quantities, budget, schedule and site — connected, and every number traceable back to what it was measured from.

Request access — September See how it works
15-day trial
No credit card
IFC + PDF takeoff
Budget$4.62M
ScheduleWk 19
Line of BalanceL08 – Zone B
Resources28 active
Cost−2.4%Under budget
Productivity87%
RFI23 open
Progress68%
Photos126
Change Orders4
Submittals15 open
Issues17 open
TakeoffIFC + PDF
Quantities2,842 m²
Daily Reports23 today
Field Notes18 new
The Problem

Your project isn't short on data.
It's short on context.

Daily reports, photos, takeoff, weekly scheduling, RFIs, punch lists, safety items, NCRs, specifications, submittals, change orders and markups live in different places — which makes it hard to see the whole picture.

Searching instead of building The crew spends the morning hunting for the latest version across tools that do not talk to each other.
The same update, typed everywhere A number that lives in four places gets duplicated, mistyped, and out of date — and nobody can tell which copy is right.
Decisions without the full picture Without the context attached, the call gets made on whatever screen happened to be open.
One project. Twelve disconnected workflows. That is where the risk starts.
Daily ReportLatest updatein the chain
PhotosLatest uploadin the chain
TakeoffLatest takeoffin the chain
Weekly ScheduleThis weekin the chain
RFIOpenin the chain
Punch ListOpenin the chain
SafetyOpen itemsin the chain
NCRIn reviewin the chain
SpecificationsLatest updatein the chain
SubmittalsIn reviewin the chain
Change OrdersOpenin the chain
MarkupsLatest versionin the chain
Context is missing — the data exists. What connects it does not. One chain — every source lands on the same model, the same floor, the same zone.

Twelve sources, and not one of them knows about the others — so the right number is whichever screen you happened to open.

The same twelve, on one chain: every quantity, every cost and every photo tracing back to the same model, the same floor and the same zone.

What VDClens is

Five stages. One chain. No copying between tools.

Every other stack asks you to export from one program and import into the next, and to trust that nothing changed on the way. Here the quantity you measured on the model is the same one the budget prices, the schedule sequences and the site reports against.

01
Model
IFC or DXF, opened in the browser. Isolate, section, measure. No plugin, no conversion.
IFC + DXF
and PDF, when there is no model
02
Quantities
Measured against the location breakdown — building, floor, zone — so a number always knows where it came from.
100%
traceable, screenshot included
03
Budget
Unit prices broken down to the resource: labour, material, equipment, and the burden on top of each.
4
levels: chapter → item → resource → burden
04
Schedule
Gantt and line of balance on the same data, with the crews the budget already priced. Move one activity, everything downstream moves.
4D
week plan drawn on the model
05
Site
Daily report, punch list, inspections and RFIs — from a phone, standing up, with gloves on.
0
bars of signal needed to open it
248.30 m²
Slab · concrete C30 · one measurement
traceable
01ModelIFC · element 3nQK7b · Sample Tower
02QuantitiesTower 1 · Level 8 · Zone B · measured by J. Rivera, 12 Aug
03Budget$33,232 · unit $133.84/m² · labour + material + equipment
04ScheduleWeek 19 · 4 days · crew C-2 · line of balance
05Site62% placed · daily report #118 · 3 photos

One measurement, five readings. Nobody re-typed it, nobody re-measured it — and eighteen months later the screenshot of where it came from is still attached to it.

One number. One origin.

Every quantity carries the screenshot of where it was measured, the level and zone it belongs to, and who measured it. Not in a separate document — attached to the number itself.

So when the budget prices it, the schedule sequences it and the site reports against it, they are all talking about the same thing. Nobody measures it twice. Nobody reconciles two spreadsheets that should have matched.

That is what the chain is for. Not to save clicks — to produce a number you can defend eighteen months later. A quantity that cannot be traced is a quantity nobody will sign.

Platform

Six pillars, and they know about each other.

Six pillars that cover the project from the first feasibility study to closeout — and the reason to have them together is that a change in one is already a change in the others.

Design
Studio
From concept to constructible design. Clarity from the first sketch.
Precon
Lens
Quantities and takeoff on IFC, DXF and PDF. The numbers, known.
Build
Build
Budget to the resource, line of balance and 4D. Stay ahead of the site.
Field
Ground
Daily report, punch list, inspections and RFIs — from the phone.
Documents
Specs & Submittals
Specs, submittals and the drawings they answer to.
Later
Connect
Subcontractors and suppliers — coming after launch.

These are not modules.
They are workflows.

The point is not that there are six. It is that a project moves from Studio to Connect without losing context on the way — which is why a change in one is already a change the others understand.

Inside the product

Not a mockup. The viewer, with a real project open.

Two IFC models — architecture and structure — loaded in a browser tab. The levels come out of the model, the issues are pins on it, and the RFI carries its thread, its photo and its answer.

01 No plugin. No install. That is a browser tab, on a laptop, with thirteen thousand architectural elements open.
02 The issue is a pin on the model Not a row in a list that says «seventh floor, more or less». It is at the point where it is.
03 The levels come out of the model Nobody typed them. Elevations, counts and categories are read from the IFC when it loads.
04 And it answers back The RFI carries its thread, its photo and who answered. Eighteen months later it is still attached to that spot.
Scheduling Intelligence

Plan with confidence. Build with updated reality.

The schedule is not a separate file. It is the same measured quantities, the same crews and the same costs — seen along the calendar. Move one activity and everything that depends on it moves with it.

Master Schedule
Activity Wk 18Wk 19Wk 20Wk 21Wk 22
Structure
MEP Rough-In
Walls & Partitions
Finishes
Closeout
Line of Balance · MEP Rough-In
Level 10May 26
Level 09May 22
Level 08May 19
Level 07May 15
Level 06May 12
Planned pace Today
Budget committed
$4.62M
74% of contract · +2.4% this week
Crew on site
28
across 3 active levels
Productivity
82%
of planned pace · on track

Live interface, not a screenshot — pick another activity.

Why it matters
  • Schedule, budget and crews stay aligned — because they are the same data
  • See a delay while it is still a slope on a chart, not when it is already lost productivity
  • Update once and the whole team is current — office and field read the same board
Field to Office

From issue to resolution — without a single email thread.

A pending item that nobody answers is not a communication problem. It is a wall that gets built wrong, and it costs what it costs to take it down again.

A superintendent on the jobsite raising an item from his phone, and an engineer in the office seeing that same item on the model in the VDC Lens viewer.
Field The item goes up from the phone Photo, note and the spot it is at
Office It lands on the model On the level and the element it belongs to
One record Same item. Same context. Nobody retypes anything

The third step is the one that decides the other three. The person who answers never creates an account — they get a link, not an invitation. Every field we would ask them for is an answer we would not get, and an answer that never arrives is a pending item that stays open.

Pricing

One price, and it does not surprise you.

Annual is ten months: pay 10, use 12. Cancel anytime.

Free
$0/mo
Read a PDF. Nothing expires.
Open and navigate PDF drawings
1 project
No card, no time limit
Studio
$29/mo
Measure, mark up and compare two revisions of a drawing.
Takeoff on PDF and DXF — measure and quantities
Markup: revision clouds, callouts, text
Compare two revisions and see what changed
Sheets and deliveries — SD, DD, CD
Specs and submittals
Lens
$69/mo
Everything in Studio, plus the model: IFC in a browser tab, clash and model revisions.
Everything in Studio
3D BIM viewer — IFC, isolate, sections
Clash detection inside the viewer
Compare two model revisions
Quantities from the model, and VR
Build
$119/mo
Everything in Lens, plus the money and the time.
Everything in Lens
Budget down to the resource
Unit prices with your own price list
Gantt, line of balance, planned vs actual
Weekly 4D map on the model
Ground
$169/mo
per office seat · minimum 2
The site joins in. Per seat, minimum two office seats.
Everything in Build
Ground: daily reports, punch, inspections
RFIs, from the site and from the office
Change orders and warehouse
Field seat $50 · collaborator seat free
Who it's for

One change on level 8, and seven people who read it differently.

A buyer wants 802 and 803 as one apartment. That single request goes through the shear wall, the stair, the budget, the schedule and the sales table — and the seven read it from the same record, without anyone typing it again.

Broker / Realtor

Your buyer wants 802 and 803 as one apartment. You raise it once, with both units attached, and it stops being an email thread nobody can find.

802 + 803two units, one buyer
Developer / Owner

Decide with the numbers in front of you: one unit less to sell, a change order with a price on it, and what it does to what is already sold and reserved.

287 m²one unit where the table had two
Architect

Redraw the two as one with the stair where it fits, and check the code still holds — egress, occupancy and the unit count the permit was issued on.

1 unitwhere the permit counted two
Structural Engineer

The opening in the shear wall and the slab cut for the stair. Measure the impact on the model and say what it takes to compensate it — before anyone demolishes anything.

1.80 × 2.40 mof opening in the shear wall between the two
MEP Engineer

Two kitchens, two panels and two meters become one — and something crosses the wall that is about to be opened. See it in the viewer before the opening is drawn.

2 → 1panels, meters and risers to resolve
Cost Estimator

Price the change order down to the resource: demolition, the reinforcement the structure asks for, the stair, and the finishes that stop being two apartments.

$48,600priced down to labour, material and equipment
General Contractor

Level 8 is already poured. Know what this moves in the schedule and what has to be undone, on the same board where the RFI and the punch already live.

6 dayson a level that is already poured
Founding Customer Program

Join VDC Lens during our launch and lock in your founding price for as long as your subscription remains active.

Half the published price On the plan you pick, from the day you come in — the table above, cut in half.
It is not an introductory month The price rides with the subscription. As long as it stays active, it does not go up.
Cancel anytime Nothing to sign and no minimum term. What you lose by cancelling is the founding price.
Become a founding customer

Cancel anytime. If you cancel, your founding price will no longer be available.

The whole project. One chain.

We are opening accounts in September, a few at a time so we can set each one up properly. Leave your email and you go in the first round.

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