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.
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.
- 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.