Skip to main content
Start free

Who it's for Architects and design teams

For architects and design teams

Stop chasing consultants for sections, models and dates

Plannerly helps architects and design teams run ISO 19650 without the chasing. Write the BEP with every consultant in one place, agree who models what, to what level and by when, and check each model against the client's requirements before you issue it. Consultants join free.

Start free See your jobs, in order

Free plan, no card. Every consultant you invite joins free.

app.plannerly.com
Plannerly Docs: the Exchange Information Requirements, with the organisational and project information sections published

Design teams among 100,000+ teams in 100+ countries

  • Foster + Partners
  • Atkins
  • AFRY
  • Zutari
  • BuildEXT

The problem

Why the design team's plan is out of date by the next issue

Sound familiar?

One person writes the whole BEP, and nobody reads it

You write the BEP alone, chase each consultant for its section, then issue a PDF that's out of date by the next design change. Nobody is sure who models what to which level, and missing data turns up when the client checks. The jobs below fix that, in order.

Your jobs, in order

The ISO 19650 jobs a design team meets, in the order you meet them

Set the information requirements

Stop modelling what nobody asked for. See what the client needs for each element at each stage, with the rule that checks it, before anyone starts modelling.

Step 1Episode 3

Turn the EIR into a BEP with AI

Answering the client's EIR for the whole design team eats the tender period. AI drafts each BEP section from the requirement it answers, and each consultant agrees its own part.

Step 2

Write the BEP

Stop chasing consultants for their sections. Each one writes and agrees its own part in one place, and the PDF you issue is always the current version.

Step 3

Scope LOD and LOIN at scale

Model only what each stage needs. Agree the level of detail and information for every element with your consultants, on one grid they can all see.

Step 4

Run the MIDP

Get the design programme out of your inbox. Every consultant's TIDP in one MIDP: each model and drawing named, owned and dated, agreed in the open.

Step 5Episode 1

Agree the RACI

Settle who designs what before the first model, not at the first clash. Each consultant signs a contract with only its own deliverables and sections.

Step 6Episode 2

Check every model with IDS

Know your models meet the client's requirements before each issue. Check yours and your consultants' automatically, and see which property is missing on which element.

Step 7

Connect your CDE

Keep working where you model. Files your team shares in ACC or BIM 360 that match a request fill it in the plan - no download, rename and upload.

Step 8Episode 4

Make it your company standard

Stop rebuilding the BEP for every job. Keep your best BEP, responsibility matrix and scope as templates, and start each new project from them.

Step 9

Case studies

Design teams that stopped rewriting the same plan

A practice that cut over 70% of its BIM admin with reusable templates, a design firm that grew from 6 people to 50+ engineers as it moved from Excel to ISO 19650, an airport team that cut setup from 90 days to 20, and a world-leading studio running BIM requirements across its portfolio.

  • Hungary

    70% less admin

    BIM management time saved

    70% less admin, zero spreadsheet chaos

    SODArchitects · Architecture

    Cut over 70% of BIM administration time with reusable templates and a workflow that replaces Dropbox, SharePoint, and scattered spreadsheets.

    Plannerly saved us a lot of time and hassle. We'd highly recommend it to anyone managing BIM projects.
    Ivo Galantai, CEO · SODArchitects
    • SME
    • BEP
    • Templates
  • Hungary

    8x growth

    6 → 50+ engineers · −10% costs

    From Excel chaos to ISO 19650 at scale

    BuildEXT · General design firm

    Grew from 6 employees to 50+ engineers across 4 departments. Now handles projects 30x larger with 10% lower construction and FM costs.

    I cannot imagine using Excel or Word to start writing a BIM contract anymore.
    András Ábele-Nagy, Head of BIM · BuildEXT
    • SME
    • ISO 19650
    • Scale-up
  • Hong Kong

    80% time saving

    BIM & ESG verification

    No more 90-day BIM setup delays

    MTECH Engineering · Digital construction

    Delivered 16+ major projects at Hong Kong International Airport. Setup time dropped from 90 days to 20 days, with ESG goals embedded from day one.

    With Plannerly, we don't just create a plan, we live it. It's how we put the BIM Execution Plan into daily practice.
    Stephen Au, Director · MTECH
    • ESG
    • Airport
    • 16+ projects
  • United Kingdom

    Global practice

    World-leading architecture studio

    Making global BIM scope visible

    Foster + Partners · Architecture

    One of the world's most celebrated architecture studios uses Plannerly to manage structured BIM requirements across their global portfolio of landmark projects.

    Trusted by one of the world's most iconic architecture practices to manage BIM requirements at a global scale.

    • Architecture
    • Global
    • BIM Management

See all case studiesOwners, design teams, contractors, consultants and educators - filter them by your kind of organisation.

What design teams say

Architects and engineers on working from one agreed plan

  • 5 out of 5

    It gives structure. It restructures everything. Everyone knows what they have to do.
    András Ábele-NagyHead of BIM · BuildEXT

  • 5 out of 5

    Everyone was able to work from different countries in a collaborative way online.
    Sean PillanRegional Design Technology Manager · Gensler

  • 5 out of 5

    We use Plannerly for every proposal!
    Steve GermanoDirector Design Technology · MSA Engineering

Your first job

Start with the BEP

The BEP is where the design team's promises live. The use case shows how to write it with every consultant, agree it on the record and keep it live as the design changes, with a free starter BEP.

  1. Write the BEP (next)
  2. Scope LOD and LOIN
  3. Check every model
Write the BEP first

Free live webinar · Episode 4

Surviving the seven CDEs

Connect them. Keep them in step. Stop re-uploading. Most projects run more than one common data environment, so the single source of truth quietly becomes several and you spend your week re-uploading. How to keep every CDE in step with the agreed plan, so delivered files check themselves off and the dashboards move on their own.

Nov5Thu

Free webinar on Zoom · 45 minutes · How to survive as a BIM Manager

Thursday 5 November 2026

10:00New York 15:00London 19:00Dubai

You'll leave with

  • Every CDE on the project connected to one plan
  • Delivered files matched to the request they fill
  • Dashboards that move as files arrive

Fill this in to carry on.

That email doesn't look right - check for a typo.

Free. One sign-up covers every episode this season, and the replay comes to you if you can't make it. We pass your name and email to Zoom to register you, and Zoom sends your link.

You're in.

Your Zoom link is on its way to your inbox. See you on Thursday 5 November 2026.

Free download

Stop copying the last job's BEP: a starter BEP and the pre- and post-appointment BEP PDFs, free

Free download

BEP Survival Kit: a starter BEP and the pre- and post-appointment BEP PDFs

Stop copying the last job's BEP. Start from an ISO 19650 BEP for Plannerly, with three PDFs from our free training on the pre-appointment BEP, the post-appointment BEP and better BIM management.

  • 1 starter project
  • 3 PDFs
  • Free

BEP starter project

An ISO 19650 BEP in Docs with the pre- and post-appointment sections in place, ready for you to assign, write and share with your task teams.

Open in Plannerly Free account, no card needed.
PDF ISO 19650 Pre-Appointment BEP.pdfThe BEP that goes in with the tender: how the team would meet the client's requirements PDF ISO 19650 Post-Appointment BEP.pdfThe BEP the appointed team confirms and works to PDF Five Steps To Better BIM Management.pdfWhere the BEP fits in BIM management, in five steps

Free training

Learn the design team's side of ISO 19650, free, with a certificate

Level 3 lesson - the BEP

Creating the delivery team's BEP

What goes in the delivery team's BEP after appointment, and who writes each part.

 Level 1 lesson - LOD

Visualizing BIM/LOD/Information Requirements

Show what each level looks like for every element, so nobody has to guess what 'detailed' means.

 Level 1 · Free

BIM Management Basics

Docs, Scope and Verify in short videos: the workflow from planning to model checks, with a free certificate.

4.92 (2,759 ratings) 1h 9m Level 3 · Free

ISO 19650 Expert

The whole ISO 19650 process, from the BEP and the responsibility matrix to handover, with a free certificate. 16,600+ learners have taken our free courses.

4.92 (1,927 ratings) 2h 30m

Setup guides

Set up your BEP and design scope in Plannerly, step by step

Short Help Center guides that walk you through each step in Plannerly. Open one beside the app and follow along.

Learn it properly

Level 3 - ISO 19650 Expert

Creating the Detailed Responsibility Matrix

Open the lesson

Read more

Design team guides to the BEP, LOD and BIM software

The BIM execution plan template

The BEP your design team writes and agrees, already structured for ISO 19650.

Template

7 things to consider for your BEP

What to settle before you write it, with a 16-point checklist.

Checklist

Level of information need (LOIN)

How much detail and information each element needs at each stage, the ISO 7817 way.

Guide

Creating a responsibility matrix

Who designs what, agreed before the first model - with IDS and RACI.

Guide

The 10 best BIM software programs

The modelling, coordination and management tools design teams use, compared.

Guide

From architect to BIM advocate

An architect's route into BIM, and the three Ps that made it pay.

Interview

Questions

BIM management for design teams: your questions, answered

What does ISO 19650 ask of a design team?
Each design firm is an appointed party with one or more task teams. Each task team writes its TIDP - the information it will deliver, when and to what level - and the lead appointed party, often the lead designer, combines them into the MIDP and the delivery team's BEP, then checks the information before it's shared with the client. The free lesson on creating the delivery team's BEP walks through it, and the MIDP and TIDP guide explains each line.
How do we agree who models what with our consultants?
Put every element and milestone on one grid, set the level of detail and information each one needs at each stage, and give every cell one owner and a date. Each consultant sees its own work package, and the grid exports to PDF for signature, to Excel or as an IDS file. Scope LOD and LOIN at scale, and LOD, LOIN and LOA explained.
Can each consultant write its own section of the BEP?
Yes. Assign each section to the person who knows it, choose which teams see each document, and keep comments and suggestions on the section rather than in email. Share sections for review with a deadline, accept or reject suggestions, then publish it, export it or send it for e-signature. Write the BEP, and how to create a BEP in Plannerly.
Does Plannerly work with Revit?
Yes, in two ways. Verify shows the views you publish from Revit and checks the linked elements against your requirements; when the model lives in BIM 360 or ACC, new versions come across by themselves. To push requirements into Revit families, export them from Plannerly to Excel and load them with the Revit plug-in from the Autodesk App Store. Revit models in Verify, and Revit integration.
Can we check our models before we issue them?
Yes. Check your own and your consultants' models against the client's requirements in Verify, in any of over 60 model file formats, and see exactly which property is missing on which element. Models are checked automatically and the charts update as teams fix what failed. Verify checks model information, not geometry: it isn't a clash detection tool yet. The 14-day Pro trial includes model checking. Model checking with IDS.
What's the difference between LOD and LOIN?
LOD (level of development) describes how far an element's geometry and information have developed, usually on the BIMForum scale. LOIN (level of information need, ISO 7817) describes the geometry, information and documentation needed for a particular purpose at a particular milestone, so it starts from why the information is needed. Many projects use both. Level of information need explained, and the BIMForum LOD specification.
Can we reuse our BEP on the next project?
Yes. Keep your best BEP, responsibility matrix and scope in a template project, put SmartFields where each project's details go, and start each new project from it. Make it your company standard, and the BEP template.
Do our consultants pay to join?
No. Every consultant you invite joins at no cost to them. On Pro, editors and viewers are unlimited and you pay per project, not per seat; on Free you're the editor and everyone you invite can view and comment. Compare the plans.

Pricing

Pay per project, with every consultant free to join

Free $0forever
  • Five projects included
  • The account owner edits; everyone they invite can view
  • 100 MB of project files
  • Explore Docs, Scope and Verify
  • You write the BEP; every consultant you invite can view and comment
Start free
5 projects included free Pro
Choose your modules
$249/ month
  • Five projects included
  • Unlimited editors and viewers
  • 50 GB of project files
  • Your branding on everything you export
  • Each project beyond five: $49 a month
  • Every consultant edits its own sections, at no cost to them
  • Unlimited e-signatures for each consultant's contract
  • Add Scope when the level of detail matters
  • Try every Pro feature free for 14 days, model checking included, no card
Start free

Prices in US dollars. You'll see the price for your country in the app.

Know who models what, before the first model

Start free, bring in your BEP and responsibility matrix, and invite your consultants. They join free, and you'll know who models what by the end of the week.

Start free Write the BEP first

Free plan · No card · Everyone you invite joins free