What's Next for Bluebeam Revu?
As I review notes from the recent Bluebeam Unbound conference and try to decide what to write about first, this article from Architosh seems to have done all the work for me! This is an excellent review and perspective with insights from a presser that I was invited to sit in on that surfaced some great insight into where Bluebeam is heading. The two take aways on which I will be focused for now are it's angle on how to implement AI and the moves it has made into mobile access.
Its implementation of Anthropics’s Claude AI agent and MCP server technology offers some intriguing possibilities. (from the article below) "Anthropic’s MCP technology enables users to tell an AI agent to do things in the software that are possible for the human user to do, but incredibly time-consuming. Instead of the user manually taking a series of actions in Revu." Of all the current applications of AI in hashtag#construction management, this is the one that I find most interesting due to the way it's integrated into a platform we all currently use, and the way they are further leveraging acquisitions like Firmus to supercharge our current workflows and enable future workflows that are currently not viable for many.
Speaking of acquisitions, the GoCanvas acquisition and integration called TaskLink may very quickly enable the type of mobile access to our Studio Projects that I have dreamed of since I first discovered Revu for iPad and published the course of the same name on LinkedIn for Learning.
Stay tuned as I beta test both of these things in the coming months! The early 2026 release of Revu Max will bring some interesting possibilities for the construction industry as we see Revu bring some of the features at which it has excelled on the desktop, out into the field.
Read the article here -
Bluebeam Rebounds: The Comeback of Construction’s Original Digital Rebel - Architosh