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Don't let submittalspaperwork hold up the job. Done right, back in days, not weeks.

Long gone are the days when the contractor had to verify every item by hand. Beem reads the drawings and the spec book and finds every item in your action submittals, each with its product data sheet. Once compiled, one of our SMEs verifies it. That is the first look.

The second is yours: every item laid out, with the flexibility to pick the brands you prefer. Beem scans the spec and project constraints to list what is allowable for each material, and the pick from that list is yours, with the option to attach alternates. Only then is it ready to download, or to send to the responsible parties.

That is what protects you. You saw every line, so you can trust what you send. What's approved is what you buy, and you just saved weeks on your project timeline.

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Founding offer: your first submittal is free, on one of your real jobs.

The machine at work · pilot builds, to date

0Items scoped
0Product data sourced
0Flagged, not guessed

Who this is for

Electrical, plumbing, or mechanical.

Those three are open now, and every other trade is on the list. If the four below read like your job, the rest of this page is written for you.

You are the one whose name is on the cover A submittal is contractual. When something in it is wrong, the correction is on your dollar, not whoever compiled it.
A job with submittals due inside three months This is worth most on live work, where the lead-time clock has already started.
Packages built by you, a PM, or your rep Whoever does it now verifies every item by hand, loses a week to it, and it still goes out late.
Anywhere from one to a hundred in the field Package size follows the job rather than the payroll. A four-man shop sends the same package a forty-man shop does.

Shop items and custom fabrication parts sit outside this. Sourcing means finding the published product data sheet for a product, and a part your fabricator builds to order does not have one. Jobs with no drawing set or spec book to read from are out too.

The hold-up

You won the job. Nothing ships until this comes back approved.

Every trade has long-lead items.

  1. Bid awardedDone
  2. Submittal in reviewWaiting
  3. Material releaseBlocked
  4. FabricationBlocked
  5. InstallBlocked

Everything right of the submittal waits on one approval, and that approval belongs to the architect and the GC. The package is the part you control. Send it right and early, and the lead time works for you. Late, you pay crew to stand next to material that has not shipped.

Complete packages

Cover sheet, table of contents, every item in your action submittals with its product data sheet behind it, the way your reviewer wants it. Verified by an SME before it reaches you.

What estimating missed

First time your material list gets reconciled against the drawings and spec, line by line. Anything the bid skipped surfaces here, while it is still a fix and not a change order.

Ordering, already sorted

What's approved is what you buy. Download the same package split by vendor, so each supplier gets one clean list. Custom items come with fields for length, quantity and the rest.

The second look is yours

Every item laid out, your preferred brand picked from the allowable list, alternates attached where you want them, the sheet marked by you. Then download it and send it to the responsible parties under your company name.

Proof, not promises

The Beem portal: a sectioned material list with cited items, a flagged weak match, an excluded item, and the rough-in kit grouped under its device
Your portal. Every item cited, one flagged for review, the rough-in kit grouped under its device.
The reference viewer: a real Hubbell cut sheet beside the E-601 device schedule with the named model highlighted and the citation traced
Every claim cited. The real product data sheet beside the schedule that named it, with the citation traced to the page.

Two looks before it leaves your desk.

Long gone are the days of verifying every item by hand. Beem compiles the package from your drawings and spec book, one of our SMEs takes the first look, you take the second, and it goes out while the lead time still has room.

We read your drawings and spec.

Every item in your action submittals, listed and scoped by spec section, each with its product data sheet. Schedules, legends, keyed notes: nothing gets skipped because it sat on page 60.

  • Fixture, panel and equipment schedules
  • Brands-accepted lists and substitution rules
  • Works from spec book, drawings, or both
26 51 00 · Interior lighting · 12 productsScoped
26 27 26 · Wiring devices · 9 productsScoped
26 05 19 · Conductors & cables · 7 productsScoped
26 28 16 · Enclosed switches · 4 productsReview

An SME takes the first look.

Beem scans the spec and the project constraints and builds the allowable list for each material: every brand the spec permits, with its product data sheet from our library of 5,754. Voltage, listing, finish, mounting, brands accepted, each checked and cited. Then one of our SMEs goes through the whole package before it reaches you.

  • The exact pages that cover your product, selected from the full catalog
  • Pass, review or fail on every requirement, traced to its spec paragraph
Input 120–277V per 26 51 00 ¶2.3PASS
0–10V dimming driver requiredPASS
DLC listedPASS
Brand on accepted listPASS
3500K CCT: schedule shows 3500K, spec says 4000KREVIEW

Each item is read against more than the paragraph that names it: what the drawings show it has to do, the NEC lines that govern the product type, and the brand and material limits the project sets. Anything that does not line up is flagged and held for correction instead of compiled into the package, because a wrong product caught here is an edit, and the same one caught after approval is a correction on your dollar.

The second look is yours.

Every item laid out. Pick the brand you prefer from the allowable list, the one you can actually get at the price and lead time you want, attach alternates where you want a fallback, and mark the sheet. Then download the package or send it to the responsible parties. What comes back approved is what you buy.

  • Alternates attach under the item they back up
  • Flagged items come with the reason, so you decide instead of guessing
BLT Series · 2×4 troffer
BLT4-40L-ADP-EZ1-LP835
Wall pack · W1
WDGE2-LED-P2-40K
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Send one job and see it.

Your drawings and spec book come back as every item in your action submittals, a product data sheet against each, verified by an SME. First package is free, on real work.

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Run your own numbers

What is the wait costing you?

A resubmittal is weeks, and the correction is on your dollar. Review you wait through again, crew out of sequence, a lead-time clock that will not start until approval is back. Two sliders, your job.

One resubmittal loop on this job

$17,700

idle crew + overhead burn + rework, and roughly two weeks off the release date

Make it Beem's problem. First package free

Your first package costs nothing.

We're letting in a small first group. Help shape what we build; keep your early rate for as long as you stay.

$0 your first submittal, on a real job
  • Lock in the lowest price: your early rate stays
  • Talk straight to us; roadmap input included
  • Every trade welcome, starting with electrical, plumbing and mechanical

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Where we are

Early, and specific about it.

Beem has taken two buildings end to end: a commercial office building and a multi-purpose facility, electrical and plumbing on both. The counter at the top of this page was counted off those two audits. Nobody estimated it.

There are no case studies yet. The founding packages are how we get them, which is why the first one is free and why we ask to put your results on record.

Frequently asked questions.

We already get our submittals done. What does early actually buy me?+
Float. Long-lead items count their lead time from the approval stamp, so the approval date sets your delivery date whether you planned it that way or not. Done early, the order goes out with room in the schedule. Done late, you are expediting, resequencing crew, or explaining a date to the GC.
Will this catch items we missed at estimating?+
That is one of the things it is for. The submittal is the first time the material list is reconciled against the drawings and the spec line by line, so scope the bid skipped tends to surface here. Found at submittal it is a fix. Found at delivery it is a change order or it comes out of your margin.
How long does it sit with the designers?+
That part is theirs, not ours, and it is why the first pass matters so much. Compiling costs you days and their review costs weeks, and every rejection restarts both. Beem checks every product data sheet against the spec and project constraints, one of our SMEs verifies the package, and every answer cites its page, so the package answers the reviewer's questions before they ask.
Who actually submits the package?+
You do, and only you. We never send a submittal to anyone. When the package is built and verified we put it in your portal, you make the final marks on it there, then you download the finished package and send it to the responsible parties under your own company name. The approval is theirs to give. The package is yours.
What if something in the package is wrong after it is approved?+
That is why the second look is yours. A submittal is contractual: what comes back approved is what you buy and install, and a correction after that point is on your dollar. So nothing goes out that you have not seen and marked, every line cites the page it came from, and an SME has been through it before you. Two looks, then your name.
What do you need from me to start?+
Your drawings, and the spec book if you have it. That's it. We list every product you have to submit and take it from there.
What if a model isn't clear on the drawings?+
We flag it for you to decide instead of guessing. Flagged items show up clearly in your review with the reason, alongside whatever the library has that fits.
How do you make sure nothing gets missed?+
We read the set the way an estimator would: legend first, then every schedule, keyed note and detail sheet, checked against the spec book. Every item in your package cites the sheet or spec clause it came from. Anything we can't verify gets flagged, not filled in.
Who decides which brand and model we submit?+
You do. Beem identifies every item in your action submittals and builds the allowable list for each one from the spec and the project constraints, with a product data sheet against every candidate. You pick your preferred brand from that list, attach alternates if you want them, and mark the sheet. We do the identifying and the legwork; the product decision stays with the people who know their supplier, their pricing and their lead times.
What's in the cut-sheet library?+
5,754 cut sheets from 279 manufacturers, built up across real projects and growing with every one. When an item is scoped, the matching sheets are already there to choose from, narrowed to the pages that cover your product. If you stock something the library has not seen, add it and it goes in the package the same way.
Do you just match products from a database?+
No, and that matters. A database offers products that read as compliant but contradict your schedule. Your drawings name what the job needs and the spec book says which brands are acceptable, so we work from those two documents, put the candidates from our library against each item, and show the page every one came from. Which brand and model you actually buy is your decision.
Isn't this just an AI tool?+
No. A tool is another seat to log into, and the work still lands on your desk. Here you send the drawings and the spec book, and a finished package comes back. Software does the searching and the constraint checking, because nothing else gets through a few hundred items in a day, and then one of our SMEs, a person who has built these packages, goes through it before it reaches you. Nothing carries your name that a human hasn't read first, and which brand you buy is still your call.
What's actually in the package?+
A product data sheet for every item in your action submittals, organized by spec section, under your cover sheet and table of contents. You pick each product and mark its sheet in the portal, so it lands on the reviewer's desk looking like your team built it, because your team did.
Can I use it to order material?+
Yes. At download you can take the same package split by vendor instead of by spec section, so each supplier gets one clean list of what you are buying from them. Custom and shop-fabricated items carry fields for length, quantity and whatever else the fabricator needs. What's approved is what you buy, and the vendor split comes off that same package.
Why do submittals get rejected?+
Mostly wrong or unverified products, missed items, and packages that don't match the spec book. The cost is rarely the rejection itself, it is the weeks: another full review turnaround, and a lead-time clock that will not start until the approval is back. Two looks before it leaves your desk, an SME's and yours, are how the package goes out right the first time: verbatim from your schedules, and flagged where the documents are silent. Grab the rejection checklist to see the 12 ways packages die.
Which trades do you cover?+
Every trade is welcome to join the list. We're onboarding electrical, plumbing and mechanical first, then opening trade by trade. Shop items and custom fabrication parts are outside what we scope in any trade: they are built to order and carry no published cut sheet to source against.
We're a large team. Does this scale past one package?+
Yes. The same service runs at volume: your PMs send documents, packages land in your portal for review, and your people keep every signature. For teams that run many packages a month we start with a measured pilot on one live project. See how the pilot works.
Is my project data locked in?+
No. Your drawings and your packages are always yours to keep. You're never stuck with us.

Two looks, then what's approved is what you buy.

Four to five days back on every package, an SME's look and yours on every line, before procurement is waiting on you.

Start your first package.

Tell us about you and we'll set up your first submittal, free, on one of your real jobs.

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