RESEARCH STUDY · CONSTRUCTION PROJECT TEAMS
Change orders revised in one system but not updated in another. Submittals tracked in email because the tool is too slow. RFI responses buried in a thread nobody can find. If you’ve built a workaround to keep a project on track, we want to understand what broke in the first place.
WHY WE’RE DOING THIS
Nutrient builds the document infrastructure that construction software runs on — the layer that handles PDFs, markups, version tracking, and document exchange inside the platforms your team already uses.
Most research on construction technology focuses on what software can do. Very little asks the people managing submittals, change orders, and closeout packages what actually works day to day — and where documents still get lost between systems.
We’re going directly to project managers, document controllers, and operations leaders to map where document workflows still break. The findings will be published as a research report, not a product pitch.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Eighteen questions across one workflow you pick — mostly multiple choice, with one short free-text field if you want to add context.
We ask for your name and work email so we can send you the report. Everything published is aggregated and de-identified.
Every participant gets the complete research — including data we don’t publish externally — before the report goes public.
Optional 60-minute interview at the end. If you’d like to go deeper than the survey, we’ll pay $150 for your time.
WHAT WE’RE ASKING ABOUT
The persistent gaps between construction management tools and how project documentation actually moves.
A change order gets revised, but the updated version doesn’t reach everyone who needs it. Drawings get marked up in one tool while specs live in another. By the time someone catches the mismatch, work has already been done against the wrong document.
Procore for one thing, Bluebeam for another, and email for everything in between. The document trail lives across five tools and none of them talk to each other — so your team becomes the integration layer.
Someone still has to check whether the submittal was reviewed, whether the RFI response made it back to the field, or whether the latest drawing revision is the one being used on site. The tools track documents — but not whether anyone actually acted on them.
Where you’d trust automation to flag missing documents, extract data, or track status — and where you wouldn’t trust anything except a person checking it by hand.
Nutrient — the document SDK and API platform behind document workflows at thousands of companies (formerly PSPDFKit). We build the document infrastructure that construction software runs on, which is exactly why we want a clearer picture of where document gaps still cause problems on real projects. The findings will be published as a research report, not as marketing collateral for a specific product.
Anyone on a construction project team who manages, reviews, or builds tools for document-driven workflows — project managers, document controllers, project engineers, and operations leaders who handle submittals, RFIs, change orders, drawings, and closeout. What matters is that you know how the workflow actually runs day to day, not just how the software is supposed to work.
Confidential, yes. The survey asks for your name and work email so we can send you the report. If you opt in to the follow-up call at the end, you’ll also share your LinkedIn URL. None of these are attributed to you in the published report. Results are aggregated and de-identified, and any quoted free-text responses are stripped of identifying details and only used when the pattern shows up across multiple respondents. We don’t share your name, email, LinkedIn, or individual answers with anyone outside the research team.
Less than 10 minutes. Eighteen questions total — mostly multiple choice with one short free-text field where you can add context if you want to.
Two things. First, early access to the complete research findings — including data points we don’t publish externally — before the report goes public. Second, if you opt in to a 60-minute follow-up interview at the end of the survey, we’ll pay you $150 for your time.
Only about the research. The final question of the survey asks if you’re open to a 60-minute follow-up call ($150 for your time) — if you say yes, we’ll reach out to schedule it. You won’t be added to a sales sequence or get a demo request off the back of this survey.
Yes, please. The more project managers, document controllers, and operations leaders we hear from, the more useful the findings. Forward the link to anyone whose perspective should be in the report.
Less than 10 minutes. De-identified in reporting. Full report plus $150 if you take a follow-up call.
