What else you could use, and when it beats us.

02 If your problem is routing and approvals

• ▪ Procore. The construction management platform most general contractors standardize on. If your GC requires it, you are using it whether or not you buy anything else.
• ▪ Autodesk Construction Cloud and Build. The same category, and the natural fit for teams already working in Revit and Autodesk Docs.
• ▪ Oracle Primavera Submittal Exchange. Built for formal, high volume review exchange between contractor, engineer, and owner.
• ▪ Newforma. Aimed at the architect and engineer side of construction administration.
• ▪ Trimble ProjectSight. Contractor-side document control with submittal tracking and review turnaround reporting.
• ▪ Submittal Kit does not replace any of these and does not try to. It is the step before: the package you upload into them.

03 If your problem is building the package

• ▪ Submittal.app. Aimed at subcontractors and suppliers, and the closest thing to a direct alternative. Hand it a parts list and it assembles a package from manufacturer documents.
• ▪ Parspec. Strong in the electrical distribution channel and widely used by distributors preparing product submittals.
• ▪ Trimble Submittal Manager. Built around a distributor product database, so it fits best when your items are catalog electrical material with clean part numbers.
• ▪ Mbue. Reads drawing schedules and specification sections to generate electrical product data submittals.
• ▪ BuildSync. Pulls submittal requirements out of the specification and formats packages, with integrations upstream into the general contractor's platform.
• ▪ Submittal Kit. The same job, scoped to control system integrators: projects modeled as sites and panels, a shared parts library, per-item catalog highlighting, a permanent revision log, and the site O&M manual built from the same equipment register.

04 If your problem is the PDF itself

Bluebeam Revu is the tool most people in this trade already own and already know, and it is genuinely excellent at combining, bookmarking, stamping, and marking up PDFs. If you issue a manageable number of packages a year, assembling them by hand in Revu is a legitimate answer and always has been.

What Revu will not do is remember what you sent last time, match a bill of materials against a parts library so the datasheet is already attached, or keep the revision record for you. The question was never whether Revu can build the package. It is how many hours per package you want to spend building it.

05 If your problem is drawing the panel

EPLAN Electric P8 and Pro Panel, AutoCAD Electrical, Zuken E3.panel, and ELDAPRO are electrical CAD: schematics, terminal plans, wire and cable lists, panel layouts, and the manufacturing handoff. Some of them will also emit a documentation package at the end.

Submittal Kit does not draw panels and has no ambition to. It takes the drawings you already produced and routes them into the submittal package, the O&M manual, and the as-built redlines.

06 If you need the whole subcontractor back office

• ▪ eSUB. Built for trade subcontractors, with submittals sitting alongside daily reports, change orders, and job costing.
• ▪ Contractor Foreman. An inexpensive all-in-one for small crews, with submittal tracking as one module among many.
• ▪ SubmittalLink. A focused, lower cost submittal and RFI tracker.
• ▪ If document assembly is not actually your bottleneck, and what you need is field reporting and job costing, one of these will serve you better than we will.

07 When Submittal Kit is the wrong choice

• ▪ You need to draw the panel. That is CAD, and we are not it.
• ▪ Your general contractor mandates a platform and your only real job is uploading into it. Buy nothing and use theirs.
• ▪ Your submittals are catalog electrical material rather than engineered control panels. A distributor-database tool will match more of your parts automatically than we will.
• ▪ You issue a handful of packages a year. The hours saved will not clear a subscription, and Bluebeam and a careful afternoon are the honest answer.
• ▪ You need job costing, payroll, or field reporting. Different category entirely.

08 Where we think we are genuinely better

• ▪ The structure matches how integrators deliver. A project holds sites, sites hold panels, and panels hold the equipment, rather than a flat list of submittals with the structure kept in somebody's head.
• ▪ One equipment register produces both deliverables. The site O&M manual is built from the same parts and datasheets as the submittal, so closeout is not a second document project at the worst moment of the job.
• ▪ The record outlives the package. Issued revisions are frozen byte for byte, and the stamp, the response date, and the returned markup attach to the revision they answer.
• ▪ It is built and supported by a project manager at an integrator. There is no ticket queue: the person who wrote the code answers the mail.