Guys, I'm not trying to pooh-pooh on the parade, but it looks like none of the founders have ever touched the construction industry.<p>A) There is no organ for document submittal or review from the limited options here
B) You assume that this will supplant printing costs. At $700/per (assuming iPad and case) + $30/month for cellular data, you're looking at ~$1,100/year/iPad. They're fragile and small compared to printoffs. Construction sites are rough places. Dust, dirt, sand, rain, idiots, you are dealing with everything here. If an iPad lasts 6 months on a construction site, you're doing it wrong.
C) Printing costs of $3500/$1munit means that to break even, you need only 3 iPads per $1million job. That's 3 sets of plans, aka 3 supervisors. Highly improbable.<p>Again, as a field construction engineer, I'd love to have a rugged tablet that would be useful, but in terms of idiot-proofness and reliability, nothing's going to supplant a full size plot or clutch of 11x17s anytime soon.<p>The big construction companies are the same ones that require 4 signatures to activate a corporate cell phone. Please consider the path before sinking too much more time and effort.<p>You're in the SF Bay, so get Granite or Teichert on board, and see if you can move from there. A pilot case study showing how often they're broken, etc would be a good plan.<p>I'd personally pivot into rentals. Rent the iPad + plangrid package at a rate of $100(?)/month/iPad. Construction companies are much more open to rentals even if they don't save money than capital expenditures.<p>If you'd like more background or insight into a field engineer trying to bring his small corner of the industry into modern times, feel free to shoot me an email: tommytgt <at> gmail.com