New integration links submittals, RFIs, and drawings to schedule activities and field tasks, giving general contractors one view of what is approved, what is blocked, and what happens next

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Outbuild, the scheduling intelligence platform for construction, has announced an integration that connects critical project documentation from Trimble® ProjectSight® project management software to Outbuild’s scheduling and planning software. General contractors using both solutions can now manage submittals, RFIs, and drawings alongside the schedule those documents drive, without manual updates across spreadsheets and systems.

Only 8.5% of construction projects finish on time and on budget,1 and teams lose an average of 5.5 hours a week searching for revised drawings and updates.² Documentation and scheduling have long lived in separate systems. A submittal approval slips, a drawing gets revised, an RFI goes unanswered — and the scheduler finds out days later, usually in a status meeting. The Outbuild and Trimble ProjectSight integration helps contractors close that gap across three workflows.

Submittals connect to schedule activities. Submittals created in Trimble ProjectSight sync to Outbuild and can be linked to schedule activities, driving updates to planned submission and approval dates automatically. Status updates sync bidirectionally throughout the submittal lifecycle.

RFIs are captured as Roadblocks. RFIs created in Trimble ProjectSight are automatically imported into Outbuild as Roadblocks, so they are visible on the schedule. Each RFI can be associated with a specific Lookahead task and managed through its lifecycle in Outbuild, with status changes syncing back to Trimble ProjectSight in real time.

Drawings link to Lookahead tasks. Drawings in Trimble ProjectSight can be tied to Outbuild Lookahead tasks. Linked drawings are accessible in the task detail, keeping the current set where the work is being planned and helping teams avoid costly rework.

“We believe the schedule is the single source of truth on a project, but it only works if it knows what the rest of the project knows,” said Franco Giaquinto, CEO of Outbuild. “This integration takes the documentation general contractors already manage in Trimble ProjectSight and puts it directly within your scheduled activities, Lookahead tasks, and Weekly work plans.

“Our customers want project controls and scheduling to behave like one system, not two,” said Matthew Ramage, associate vice president, project delivery at Trimble. “This integration brings field-connected scheduling to the ProjectSight workflows construction teams rely on every day.”

For general contractors running both platforms, procurement and design risks become visible as schedule risks the moment they appear, rather than at the next update cycle. Project managers see approval exposure against the dates that depend on it. Superintendents open a Lookahead task in the field and find the current drawing attached. Leadership sees the downstream effect on schedule health across the portfolio in the Outbuild Executive Dashboard, without a single status meeting.

“As a construction team, scheduling and coordination are critical to our daily operations, and Outbuild has significantly improved both,” said Connor Britt, Director of Construction at Envoy Real Estate. “The platform is user-friendly, intuitive, and purpose-built for construction professionals. The visual layout makes it easy to track project progress, assign roadblocks, and make real-time updates without confusion or delay.”

The Trimble ProjectSight integration is available now to Outbuild customers and via the Trimble Marketplace, a centralized hub that simplifies the discovery and purchase of verified integrations, applications, and extensions — built by both Trimble and trusted third-parties — to complement Trimble solutions and expand connected technology ecosystems.

It follows Outbuild’s 2026 platform releases, which introduced Project Intelligence capabilities and a set of AI agents — Outbuild Assistant, Schedule Health, Co-Builder, and Schedule Generator — built on construction logic.

About Outbuild

Outbuild is the scheduling intelligence platform for construction, connecting the field, the office, and leadership around a single source of truth. The platform combines full CPM master scheduling with Lookahead planning built on Last Planner methodology, Roadblocks, Schedule Impact Requests, mobile and iPad field tracking, portfolio analytics, and Outbuild AI. Hundreds of contractors across more than 10 countries use Outbuild to plan and deliver work. Learn more at outbuild.com.

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