Spotlight: Firm Details, a Revit library that stays in the model
A look at Firm Details, a native Revit add-in that turns existing project details into a searchable firm library without a migration.
Most firms already have the details they need. They live in last year’s job, a container model on a server, or a BIM coordinator’s memory. The wasted hour is not drafting. It is opening five old projects to find the one section that was already approved.
Firm Details is a new Revit add-in aimed at that gap — and the product we build alongside this site. It treats the firm’s existing drafting views as a library, without asking the BIM team to export everything into a new system first.
What it is
Details — the product name on the site, from Firm Details LLC — sits inside Revit. Teams connect local or network models, or projects on BIM 360, Autodesk Construction Cloud and Forma. From there they can search, filter and place drafting views without leaving the authoring file.
Sharing is meant to stay in Revit as well: select details, add a note, send them to another user, and they arrive ready to import or put on a sheet. The pitch is fewer exports, fewer email attachments, and fewer “which file was that in?” messages.
A version history keeps earlier thumbnails, who synced an update, and when a detail was replaced. Previous versions can be previewed or downloaded as a PDF. That is the difference between a folder of DWGs and a library a BIM lead can actually govern.
Why it is interesting
The useful idea is not “AI for details.” It is that the library can grow from normal project work.
BIM teams have tried this before: typical libraries, container models, shared parameters, a carefully named folder on the server. Those only work if people remember the path and trust the content. Firm Details is trying to make the search happen in Revit, against the sources the firm already trusts, and to let an admin seed container links by discipline so architecture, structure and MEP do not all inherit the same pile of views.
If the company’s workflow comparison holds, finding and placing a detail is much faster than Revit’s native import path. We have not independently timed that. The more important test for a BIM manager is whether the placed view still matches the current standard after the third project reuse.
What it does not try to be
This is not a CDE, a clash tool or a documentation platform. Models stay in place. Cloud content is described as thumbnails and metadata, hosted on Google Cloud / Firebase in US-Central, with firm-level isolation and encryption in transit and at rest. Administrators can delete a synced project or wipe the firm library.
Supported versions today are Revit 2025, 2026 and 2027 on 64-bit Windows. Older offices still on 2023 or 2024 will have to wait or keep the old hunt-through-projects method.
There is a free tier for up to five firm members, and a Pro seat at $20 a month or $200 a year. AI recommendations (“Recs”) use project metadata to suggest details; Pro unlocks unlimited assistant requests. Treat those suggestions as a search aid, not as a substitute for checking the view against the current specification.
Who should look at it
A small or mid-size team that already keeps container models, and loses time every week retrieving them, is the obvious first user. A BIM lead who wants one searchable library — and a record of who published what — is the buyer.
Install it on a pilot project. Connect one trusted container. See whether people actually place from the library instead of redrawing. If they do, seed the rest of the firm through the admin deployment links.
Firm Details is early. The problem it is aimed at is not. For more, start at firmdetails.com.
Frequently asked questions
What is Firm Details?
A native Autodesk Revit add-in, with a web dashboard, that lets AEC teams search and place drafting views from container models, past projects and a shared firm library.
Does it upload our Revit models?
The company says no. Parsing happens locally. Cloud sync is limited to thumbnails and metadata used for search and display.
Who is it for?
Architecture, engineering and construction teams that already work in Revit and want one place to reuse approved details without rebuilding a library from scratch.
Where do I start?
Create an account at firmdetails.com, install the MSI for your Revit version, and connect a container model or past project.