Resource planning for AEC practices
Who's on what. For how long. How booked are they really?
Allocate team members to projects as a percentage or hours-per-week, track skills and certifications, and see live utilisation dashboards per team.
Allocations, not assignments
In AEC, "assigning" someone to a project is rarely binary. A senior architect might be 40% on Project A, 30% on Project B, and 30% reviewing across five live engagements. Blueprint's resource module models exactly that:
- Allocations have a percentage or an hours-per-week value.
- They carry a
startDateandendDate(open-ended for ongoing work). - Status progresses
planned → active → completed.
Utilisation dashboards roll up these allocations per team, per week, per project — so the PM knows instantly when a designer is over-booked or a site engineer is idle.
Skills and certifications
Every user maintains a skills profile:
- Category: technical, management, domain, certification.
- Proficiency: beginner / intermediate / advanced / expert.
- Years of experience.
- Certification expiry (for permit-bearing engineers).
When a PM needs to staff a new project, Blueprint surfaces candidates by skill + availability — not just by who said yes on Slack first.
Capacity, the honest view
The capacity view shows, for each team member:
- Allocations in the current and next 4 weeks.
- Submitted vs approved timesheet hours.
- On-site attendance (from the time-tracking module).
If someone's allocated at 150%, it shows up red. No euphemisms.
Who this is for
- Architecture practices juggling 10+ live projects.
- Construction firms with a shared pool of site engineers.
- Consulting practices that bill by the hour and need utilisation ≥ target.
Yes. Every invoice captures supplier + buyer GSTIN, state codes, and auto-splits CGST+SGST (intrastate) vs IGST (interstate). Invoices are numbered sequentially within the financial year (April–March) and include all mandatory GSTR-1 fields. TDS under Section 194C is computed automatically.
RA bills carry cumulative and previous-cumulative amounts, reference the previous RA bill, and maintain a sequential RA number per project. This is a first-class invoice type — not a workaround on top of standard invoices.
Yes. Most teams onboard a pilot project in under an hour and run Blueprint alongside existing tools for a month. Bulk imports for vendors, BOQ items, and historical invoices are available on Studio and Enterprise plans.
Data lives on Neon Postgres in India-adjacent regions, with files in AWS S3 / Cloudflare R2. Enterprise plans can pin data residency to a specific region or deploy into your own VPC.