“We helped companies do this before, in an informal, piecemeal fashion, now it’s all tied together on a single collaborative platform,” says Richard Lee, CEO Bluebeam. “We spent over a year working on this.”

One of the first companies to build on the API is FieldLens Inc. The New York Citybased firm crafted a mobile and web-based communication app. The API integration lets a user input a full, linked set of Bluebeam documents into FieldLens. The links and document markup features work inside FieldLens, says Doug Chambers, CEO FieldLens. The company also announced a new tool it calls LiveLayer that overlays realtime project conversations happening in FieldLens onto Bluebeam PDFs