# What BuildX Studio is

> BuildX Studio is the drawings app for shop-drawing submittals, redline review, estimating, subs, crews, and purchase orders, signed in with your MyBuildX account.

Source: https://docs.buildx.pro/docs/studio/overview/

BuildX Studio lives at https://studio.mybuildx.com. It is a separate app from the MyBuildX workspace, built for the people who handle drawings: drafters, project managers, and reviewers at general contractors and trade contractors. You sign in with your MyBuildX account.

## What you can do

- Set up **Projects** (Studio also calls them jobs) and add **submittals**: a package of PDF drawings for one spec section.
- Compare drawing files side by side and run **Analyze Redlines** to turn markups into a list of **Revision Items**.
- Price takeoff rows in the estimate workbook (**Price the measured work**) and keep a shared **Unit rate library**.
- Keep a company directory of **Subcontractors**, run **Prequalification** reviews, and store vendor terms in the **Company Library** and standard scope in **Exclusions**.
- Organize **Crews** per job and track **Purchasing** (purchase orders by job).
- Ask questions about a drawing set in **Ask Documents**.
- See every job at once on **Dashboard**, **Portfolio**, and **Operations**.

## The navigation

The left sidebar groups pages like this:

| Group | Page | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | **Dashboard** | Your jobs, focus list, revision health, usage |
| | **Portfolio** | Bids, exclusion counts, and open reviews per job |
| | **Operations** | Per-job status flags (Behind, Watch, On pace) |
| | **Revisions** | Every revision item across all jobs ("Punch lists, all jobs") |
| Project work | **Projects** | Your jobs and their submittals |
| | **Tasks** | Revision items still marked To Do |
| | **Bid Calendar** | Revision items by due date ("Due dates, all jobs") |
| | **Ask Documents** | AI questions about a drawing set |
| Cost intelligence | **Purchasing** | Purchase orders by job |
| | **Crews** | Crews, foremen, and rosters per job |
| | **Unit Rates** | Material and labor averages from your takeoff rows |
| Company library | **Subcontractors** | Companies you build with, by job |
| | **Prequal** | Prequalification questionnaires and decisions |
| | **Company Library** | Vendors, subs, GCs, and customers with agreed terms |
| | **Exclusions** | Standard exclusion sentences |
| | **Connectors** | Which integrations are configured |

Press ⌘K (or the search button in the top bar) to jump to a page or project, start a **New project**, open **Account settings**, or switch between light and dark mode. On a phone, a bottom dock shows **Home**, **Projects**, **Revisions**, **Calendar**, and **More**.

## How Studio connects to MyBuildX

- **Sign-in**: one account. Studio has no password of its own. See [Getting into Studio](https://docs.buildx.pro/docs/studio/getting-in.md).
- **Billing**: handled on MyBuildX. BuildX Studio is $200 per month, purchased from MyBuildX.
- **Data**: Studio keeps its own projects, takeoff rows, estimates, and bids. They don't appear on MyBuildX's Jobs, Estimates, or Takeoff pages, and MyBuildX jobs don't appear in Studio.
- The sidebar's workspace menu and the MyBuildX icon at the bottom take you back to https://mybuildx.com.

## Good to know

- Studio works best on a laptop or desktop. Drawing review and the estimate workbook are wide tables.
- Studio has no RFIs, change orders, schedules with task dependencies, or time tracking.

## Related

- [Getting into Studio](https://docs.buildx.pro/docs/studio/getting-in.md)
- [Projects and submittals](https://docs.buildx.pro/docs/studio/projects-submittals.md)
- [Bidding a job](https://docs.buildx.pro/docs/gcs/bidding-budget-spine.md)