About
A Mac takeoff app, built by someone who does takeoffs
Project Blueprint is made by Blueprint Labs Ltd, a small independent software company in Auckland, New Zealand. Here is who builds it and why.
Who builds it
Hayden Treherne builds Project Blueprint. He works as a quantity surveyor on commercial construction projects in Auckland, and holds a BSc in Information Systems and Computer Science from the University of Auckland.
That mix is the reason Blueprint exists. Quantity surveying is measuring drawings carefully and being able to show your working. Software is the other half. Blueprint is where the two meet: a takeoff tool written by someone who measures drawings for a living.
Why Blueprint exists
Bluebeam Revu is the standard tool for construction PDFs. Its Mac version had its last update in December 2019 and reached end of life in June 2023. Since then, people who work on a Mac have had three choices: run Windows in a virtual machine, use a browser version without the full takeoff tools, or use a general PDF editor that can't measure to scale.
Blueprint is a fourth choice: a native Mac app that does the core jobs properly. Open a big drawing set, mark it up, measure it to scale, and hand it back to people on Windows without losing anything.
How it is built
- Numbers you can check. Every quantity is traceable to a markup on a sheet with a known scale. Check Takeoff and Verify Scale exist because a wrong scale is the most expensive mistake in a takeoff.
- Your files stay yours. Drawings stay as ordinary PDFs in your own folders. No account, no upload, and text recognition runs on your Mac.
- Plays well with Bluebeam. Blueprint saves standard PDF markups, so Windows colleagues see your work in Revu, and markups made in Revu open in Blueprint ready to edit.
- Pay once. A one-off licence for two Macs, with every 1.x update included. No subscription.
- Metric first. m, m² and m³ by default, because that is how most of the world measures buildings.
- Honest about limits. Blueprint does not do live multi-user sessions, estimating or pricing, and it only runs on the Mac. The comparison page says when another tool is the better choice.
The company
| Company | Blueprint Labs Ltd |
|---|---|
| NZBN | 9429053822574 |
| Based in | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Product | Project Blueprint for macOS 14 or later (Apple silicon and Intel) |
| Payments | Paddle, as merchant of record |
| Support | support@blueprintformac.com |
Project Blueprint is independent software. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Bluebeam, Inc., Autodesk or any other company named on this site.
Get in touch
Questions, bug reports and feature requests go to support@blueprintformac.com. If you write about construction software or run a quantity surveying group and would like a review licence or a demo, use the same address.