2026.03.22
Our team has been busy at work, rebuilding the foundation of Framework, in order to allow use to ship new features in coming weeks. Below you’ll notice several new under the hood improvements. Over the coming weeks, you’ll see several new features launched to help streamline your construction projects.
Added
- Team Collaboration & Permissions — Invite team members to your projects with role-based access control. Four permission levels (Owner, Admin, Editor, Viewer) control who can edit documents, manage members, and access AI tools. Invitations are sent via email and support both email and Google sign-in. The project owner’s subscription covers all in-project usage so collaborators don’t need their own paid plan.
Changed
- Redesigned App Shell — The entire application layout has been rebuilt. A new icon-only navigation rail on the left edge replaces the old text sidebar, giving more room to your documents and conversations. Resizable sidebar panels, a cleaner top bar with a project switcher, and a unified layout that merges the Hub and project workspace into one seamless experience. The mobile layout was also rebuilt with full-screen navigation and a bottom tab bar.
- New Design System — Updated the color system with a warm stone palette, tighter radii, and refined typography across the entire interface. Dark mode now uses warm neutrals instead of pure grays. Buttons, cards, badges, and inputs all received updated styling. The note editor has refined heading sizes and cleaner formatting.
- Smarter AI Conversations — The AI is now better at managing long, document-heavy conversations. It uses its tools more efficiently early on and wraps up with a clear written answer before running out of time. Complex queries that previously timed out should now complete without interruption.
- Help & Bug Reporting — New help menu in the top bar with separate flows for reporting bugs, requesting features, and getting help. A new user avatar dropdown provides quick access to settings and sign-out.
- Improved Document Reading — The AI now self-corrects more reliably when it has trouble locating a document, instead of getting stuck in a retry loop.
Fixed
- Chat Streaming Animation — AI responses now stream with a smooth typewriter effect. Words fade in as they arrive with a blinking cursor while generating.
- Onboarding Redirect Loop — Some Google sign-in users were getting stuck in a loop during onboarding. This has been resolved.
- AI Crashes on Long Sessions — Fixed a bug where long AI conversations could crash and enter a retry loop with no way to recover. These sessions now complete gracefully.
- Conversation History Loss — In rare cases, a failed AI response could cause previously saved messages in the conversation to disappear. Message history is now fully protected.
- Memory File Errors — Memory files used across multiple conversations in the same project could cause errors. This has been fixed with improved handling.
- Email Notification Links — Links from notification emails now navigate directly to the correct view in the new layout.
Performance
- Faster Conversation Loading — Conversation lists now load significantly faster, especially on projects with many conversations.
- Faster Onboarding — The profile setup step during onboarding now completes in 1–2 seconds, down from 5–15 seconds.
- Smoother Chat Streaming — Reduced unnecessary screen updates during AI responses for a smoother experience.
- Faster Dashboards — Project dashboard and project list pages now load faster.
2026.03.13
Added
- Contacts & Companies — Built-in project directory that tracks the companies and people on your projects. Upload your drawings and the AI automatically extracts company names, roles, phone numbers, addresses, and contacts from title blocks, stamps, and letterheads. Review what the AI found, approve the ones that belong, and your directory is built. Companies are saved globally so they auto-populate on future projects. Brand your note and estimate exports with any company’s logo and contact details in one click.
- Google autocomplete for project addresses — Project addresses now use Google Places autocomplete instead of manual text fields. Start typing, select a suggestion, and get a properly formatted address with all components plus lat/lng.
- In-App Upgrade Dialog — Free users now see a polished in-app upgrade flow instead of being redirected to a separate billing page.
- Personalized Suggestions — Chat suggestion chips are now personalized based on use cases selected during onboarding. Estimating users see takeoff prompts, not generic suggestions.
- Dynamic Browser Tab Titles — Browser tabs now show context-aware titles like “Acme Tower | Framework” instead of the static default.
Changed
- Refreshed UI — Applied the new design strategy across the entire interface. Updated component styles, cleaner neutral tones, solid input backgrounds, softer shadows, and tighter border radii throughout the app.
- Smarter Document Analysis — Replaced the two-prompt analysis system with a single unified prompt that classifies documents first, then applies type-specific rules. Drawing sets are now correctly analyzed per-sheet instead of being grouped coarsely.
- Longer Chat Sessions — AI chat timeout raised from 600s to 800s. Complex multi-tool conversations that were hitting the limit should now complete without interruption.
- Upload Error Messages — File upload failures now show clear messages explaining what went wrong (expired session, network issue, file too large, billing limit) instead of generic errors.
- Performance — Seven heavy workspace components are now lazy-loaded.
Fixed
- Google OAuth Sessions — Users signing in with Google were intermittently getting logged out. Large OAuth tokens exceeded cookie size limits; migrated to a chunked cookie API that handles them properly.
- Duplicate Subscriptions — Rapid clicks during checkout could create multiple subscriptions. Added server-side guards at both the API and webhook levels.
- Past-Due Subscription Handling — Past-due subscriptions weren’t being recognized, allowing duplicate subscriptions to be created on top. Past-due status is now detected across the entire billing system.
- AI-Generated Lists — Lists created by the AI in notes were rendering as flat, unformatted text without bullets or drag handles. Fixed the serialization mismatch; both new and existing notes now render correctly.
- Editor Drag Handles — Block drag handles in the note and company editors weren’t appearing due to a padding conflict.
- Editor Placeholders — The “Type something…” placeholder in empty paragraphs wasn’t showing due to a missing CSS property.
- Chat Stability — Fixed several issues causing errors on longer conversations: signed thinking block corruption, server-side tool results not persisting correctly, orphaned tool calls accumulating, and missing timeout protection.
- Drawing Analysis — Drawing sets were being grouped into coarse chunks instead of per-sheet because the drawing-specific prompt was never triggered. Now handled by the unified analysis system.
Security
- Chat Rate Limiting — The chat API now enforces a sliding-window rate limit of 60 requests per minute per user.
2026.02.20
Added
- Estimates & Takeoffs — Full construction estimating module with a spreadsheet-style editor. Create estimates from scratch or let the AI build one from your uploaded drawings and specs. Every line item includes CSI MasterFormat division, code, description, type, quantity, unit of measure, rate, and auto-calculated total. Toggle between Takeoff and Estimate views. Group by division, type, or custom sort codes with automatic subtotals and nested sub-groups. Export to Excel (with live formulas and formatting), PDF, or CSV.
- Note Export — Export project notes to Word (.docx) with styled formatting, branded colors, and proper heading and list structure. Access via a new dropdown menu in the note editor toolbar.
- Google Sign-In — Users can now sign in directly with their Google account.
- Updated Colors and Typography — Updated the color palette to a branded blue with warm stone neutrals – consistent branding throughout the interface. Improved the look and feel of all upgrade banners.
Changed
- Hub Redesign — Redesigned the Hub layout, sidebar navigation, and project pages for improved responsiveness and clearer information hierarchy. Projects page includes better data fetching, loading skeletons, and project filtering.
- Project Unarchiving — Restore archived projects from the projects page.
- Document Upload Pipeline Refactor — Replaced the document upload pipeline to be more reliable and faster. We replaced the API we used to process PDFs, and changed the model to a faster model. This has resulted in significantly reduced upload times and fewer errors.
- Notes Editor Redesign — Redesigned the notes editor with refined typography, warm tones, softer heading and bold weights, and improved spacing.
Fixed
- Encrypted PDF Handling — PDFs with encryption flags no longer fail during upload.
- PDF Compression Errors — responses indicating a file “could not be made smaller” are now handled gracefully instead of throwing an error.
- Upgrade Button Routing — Corrected the upgrade button link so it no longer returns a 404.
- Mobile Layout — Fixed mobile sheet gaps for improved visual consistency. Mobile estimate footer and viewer corrected.
Removed
- PDF Viewer Search — Removed the search overlay from the PDF viewer (unused).
2026.02.13
This week we’ve been hard at work making changes to the platform. Most of these changes have either been requested by you (the people) or through our review of how you use the platform. Below is a summary of all of the changes our team has deployed this week:
- FEATURE – NOTES – (requested by Mark) – We deployed the new notes feature – people can use notes to document information in the chat, or have the AI generate long form content from it’s findings. In the future we’ll be expanding notes to allow for different formats to be created (think spreadsheets, and gantt charts) and allow more fine grained interaction by the AI agents.
- ENHANCEMENT – Increased Upload Limits (requested by Luis) – we refactored the upload process to allow for larger uploads, users can now upload files up to 100mb with no limits on page count. If your file is large, our system will now automatically break it down into volumes for proper processing.
- ENHANCEMENT – Reduced time for processing documents – we reduced the amount of time it took to process documents by batching some of the reviews, this has shrunk average file upload time by a factor of 10.
- ENHANCEMENT – Document Upload Email Notifications – now when you upload a document you can navigate away from it and we will send you an email when the processing is completed.
- FIX – Conversations and note creation were timing out after 120 seconds of interaction. We have now increased this limit to 600 seconds to give more time for our AI models to interact with your documents.
- FIX – Input box height was set a strict dimension resulting in a limited viewing area on mobile and desktop. We’ve added auto adjustment so it increases as you type to a maximum.
- FIX – During chat, the AI was retrieving the wrong drawing ID for some users, this has now been corrected and should no longer occur.
- FIX – Rolling context window was not functioning properly returning an error some users. This has now been corrected.
- FIX – Project deletions weren’t working for some users, this should now function properly.
- FIX – Visual modifications to menus on mobile including updated icons.
