NEWFile Cabinet now keeps every drawing revision — searchable for years.
File Cabinet · The Project's File SystemNEW

Your project's
entire paper trail.
Searchable in seconds.

Every drawing revision, permit, contract, and site photo — organized per project, per phase, per task. Subs see their scope, clients see their portal, office sees everything. Find any file in seconds, even two years later.

Unlimited storage·Mobile capture·5-year archive
builderpad.com / Maple Residence / FilesSearch 148 files…
Drawings · 42 files · 2.4 GB
Sorted by last updated
AI FILING
permit-final-stamped.pdf→ Permits
Auto-routing · 1.2s
A-101 · First floor plan v4CURRENT
Updated 2 days ago · Jess M. · 1.4 MB
A-001 · Site plan v3
PDF · Andre R. · 5 days ago
S-201 · Structural v2
DWG · Andre R. · 1 week ago
M-301 · MEP rough-in v1
RVT · Mira C. · 3 weeks ago
— What File Cabinet holds4.8M+ files across 1,247 active builds
Drawings & plansEvery revisionPDF, DWG, RVT, JPG. Markup, version, roll back any drawing to any prior version, one click.
Site photosSnap to fileiPhone camera → categorized to the right project, phase, and task. Geo-tagged. Tied to the daily log.
Permits & warrantiesAll filedCity permits, lien releases, warranty docs, inspection signoffs. Searchable by build, by year, by sub.
Searchable1.4s avgAcross every file in every build. Filename, content, tags, sub. Even two years later.
— How it works —

Your own cloud drive,
built for the whole build.

01INGEST

Drag, snap, or forward.

Drag and drop on web. iPhone camera in the field. Or forward emailed PDFs from any vendor. File Cabinet meets the doc where it lives.

Capture surface · web · mobile · inbox
02ORGANIZE

Create folders. Keep every version.

Build the folder structure that fits your jobs — drawings, permits, selections, site photos. Keep every version of a drawing in one place. Set who sees what: subs see their scope, clients see their portal, the office sees it all.

Folders · version history · role-based access
03RETRIEVE

Search anything. From anywhere.

Office desk, jobsite phone, or homeowner portal. Filename, content, tags, vendor, sub. Even two years post-handover, during a warranty call.

Typical search · 1.4s avg · 5-year archive
100%
File durability
— Receipts, not just claims

Across 4.8M+ files, 1,247 active builds, and five years of warranty archive — every revision retained, zero files lost. Searchable, restorable, and audit-ready every day of those five years.

4,832,419
files stored · 2026
1,247
active builds
5 yrs
warranty archive
— Why it works on construction files

Built for construction docs.
Not generic
cloud storage.

Drive starts blank. Dropbox starts blank. Most platforms charge you to start built. File Cabinet ships with the folders, version control, and role permissions a residential build actually needs — day one.

Construction-shaped folders, day one

Drawings, Permits, Selections, Contracts, Site photos, Warranties, RFIs, Submittals, Inspections. Every phase has its place before you upload your first file.

Drive / Dropbox: empty foldersBuilderPad: 14 phases ready

Drawing version control with rollback

Every revision retained. v1, v2, v3 — roll back any drawing in one click. Drive silently overwrites; most platforms charge a premium tier.

Drive: silent overwriteBuilderPad: every revision retained

Role-scoped access in one layer

Subs see their scope. Clients see their portal. Office sees everything. One permission layer for the whole project — not ad-hoc share links you have to revoke at handover.

Generic share links: revoke hellBuilderPad: one permission layer
— Power features

Everything around the filing
that makes it find-able.

Version stack

Every revision kept. Roll back to any of them.

v4today100%
v38 days80%
v24 weeks55%
Role-scoped access

Subs see their scope. Clients see their portal. Office sees everything. One permission layer, every project.

Forward-to-file

Forward any emailed PDF to inbox@builderpad.com. AI routes it to the right project, phase, and folder — in 1.2s.

Mobile camera → filed

Snap a site photo, a delivery slip, an inspection signoff. Categorized to project, phase, and task before you put the phone down.

Warranty zip

Every revision. Every permit. Every signoff. One bundle, handed over.

At handover, export the entire project archive — drawings (every revision), permits, warranties, site photos, signoffs — as one searchable bundle.

Audit trail

Every download, every access, every revision — logged. CPA, lawyer, and lien-dispute ready at year-end.

— Field notes

The reason your office admin stopped being the human file server.

T

he Monday job builders gave their office admin used to start at 7 a.m. with 40 unread emails, each with a PDF attached. Permits from the city. A revised plan from the architect. A subcontract from the framer. A change-order PDF from the kitchen designer. Each one had to be saved, renamed, routed to the right project folder, and shared with the right people — before any actual project management happened.

File Cabinet absorbs the routing in real-time. Forwarded emails land in the right project, the right phase, the right folder. Subs upload directly to their scope. Mobile photos auto-categorize. The admin's Monday stops being a filing morning, and starts being whatever she actually wanted to do when she took the job.

"
She got her Mondays back.
MC
Mira Chen
Cascade Builds · Seattle

First Monday after File Cabinet went live, I had 40 emails with PDFs by 8 a.m. — same as always. By 9:30 every one was in the right project folder, the right phase, shared with the right subs. I drank a coffee that was still hot.

MC
Mira ChenProject Coordinator · Cascade Builds · Seattle, WA · 48 jobs/yr
Files in the cabinet · month 11,247across 14 active jobs
Time hunting for filesHours → secondsOne organized place per job — web, mobile, or client portal.
— Bring one of your active projects —

Stop being the file server.
Start being the project.

Book a 30-minute session. We'll wire File Cabinet to one of your real projects on the call — folders, permissions, version history, and a year-end zip preview.

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