Drop a project folder. CAD drawings, BOQs, and change requests sort themselves.
Sortio reads engineering project files on your Mac, files drawings by discipline (AR, ST, PW, TR), groups change requests by CRF number, and keeps revisions versioned. Built for AEC, telecom, and infrastructure project managers running multi thousand file archives.
How it works
Four steps from a 7,000 file project archive to clean, discipline organized folders.
Drop a project folder
Point Sortio at a project root: drawings, BOQs, MOMs, RFIs, change request forms, contractor submittals, AutoCAD plot logs. Sortio scans the entire archive locally on your Mac, including bilingual Arabic and English filenames.
AI reads each drawing
Sortio extracts discipline codes (AR, ST, PW, TR), drawing numbers, revision tags (V1, V2, V3), CRF numbers, project phases, and client or contractor references from each file. All extraction happens on device, so client IP and project drawings never leave your machine.
Files routed by discipline
Architectural drawings land in AR. Structural drawings in ST. Plumbing in PW. Telecom in TR. Change requests go to a CRF subfolder grouped by request number. BOQs and MOMs file by project and date. You preview every move with confidence scores before anything is touched.
Revisions stay versioned
Sortio detects V1, V2, V3 in filenames and keeps every revision in a versioned subfolder, so a new revision never silently overwrites the prior one. DWG and PDF pairs stay together. The original folder is backed up before changes apply, so you can undo any run.
Sortio is filesystem transparent. It works with whatever AutoCAD, BIM, Revit, or PDF workflow you already have, because it reads and writes plain files in your existing folder structure. No new repository to migrate to, no plugin to install in your CAD software.
The engineering filing problem
Three patterns we hear from every AEC, telecom, and infrastructure project manager.
Mixed discipline scan dump
A subcontractor sends a zip of 300 scanned drawings. They're all in one folder: scan_0001.pdf through scan_0312.pdf, mixing architectural, structural, plumbing, and telecom drawings. Someone has to open each one, decide if it's AR or ST or PW or TR, rename it, and file it in the right discipline subfolder. That's most of a day, every time a subcontractor delivers.
CRF revisions overwriting each other
Change request CRF-Change_Request_form-0020 lands in the project folder. Two weeks later, a revised version with the same base name arrives from the contractor. Someone drops it in the same folder. The old revision is gone. By the time the discrepancy surfaces in a coordination meeting, three more change requests have done the same thing.
7,000 file archive with no taxonomy
A telecom archiving project for a ministry client accumulates 7,000+ files over a year: drawings, BOQs, MOMs, AutoCAD plot logs, RFIs, contractor submittals, photos, bilingual Arabic and English documents. By the time the project closes, nobody can find anything. Handoff to the client takes weeks instead of hours.
Engineering project archives are not just big. They're heterogeneous: DWG drawings, PDF submittals, Excel BOQs, Word MOMs, photo logs, change request forms, contractor deliverables, owner correspondence. Sortio understands each file type and routes them into a taxonomy your team already uses, instead of forcing your team into a new tool.
Drawings, BOQs, and submittals never touch our servers
Engineering projects live or die by client confidentiality. Ministry contracts, infrastructure schematics, telecom site layouts, owner drawings, vendor pricing in BOQs: this is exactly the kind of content that cannot be uploaded to a generic cloud AI service. Sortio is built for that constraint. The AI runs on your Mac, against the files in your project folder, and the file contents never leave your machine.
You have two privacy first options. Run Sortio with a local LLM (no API calls, fully offline), or use Bring Your Own Key with your firm's own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Azure account, so the only contract that governs your data is the one your firm already signed. There is no Sortio side cloud step where drawings or BOQs pass through a third party.
Local LLM mode
Run an on device model (Llama, Mistral, or any GGUF compatible LLM) and Sortio will sort your drawings entirely offline. Useful for air gapped environments, ministry and defense clients, and anyone who needs zero outbound network calls during AI inference.
BYOK (Bring Your Own Key)
Plug in your firm's OpenAI, Anthropic, or Azure OpenAI key. Sortio calls the provider directly from your Mac under your DPA, never via Sortio servers. BYOK usage does not consume Sortio AI credits, so unlimited sorting on large project archives is feasible.
Simple pricing
Most project managers start with Pro. When your firm is ready to standardize across project teams, Team adds shared rules, admin controls, and centralized AI policy.
Engineering FAQ
Questions we hear from AEC project managers, BIM coordinators, design firm admins, and telecom and infrastructure PMs.
Sortio reads each drawing's filename and content to detect discipline codes such as AR (architectural), ST (structural), PW (plumbing/wet services), and TR (telecom). It then routes each file to the matching discipline subfolder under your project root. You can configure the exact prefix list in the AI Rule Builder so Sortio matches your firm's naming standard, including custom codes like ME (mechanical) or EL (electrical).
Yes. Sortio detects revision markers (V1, V2, V3, Rev01, Rev02, R01, etc.) in filenames and keeps every revision in a versioned subfolder so a newer revision never silently overwrites the prior one. You see a side by side preview before anything moves. Sortio also pairs DWG and PDF revisions of the same drawing so the two formats stay together when versions roll forward.
Sortio recognizes change request and RFI filename patterns such as CRF-Change_Request_form-0019 or RFI-2026-014, groups them by request number, and files them into a CRF or RFI subfolder. Each request number becomes its own folder so initial submission, response, revised submission, and final approval stay together as a single thread, instead of scattering across the project root.
Yes. Sortio identifies BOQ workbooks (typically Excel or PDF) by filename and content, and files them by project, phase, and date. If you maintain priced versus unpriced BOQs, you can set a rule in the AI Rule Builder to route those into separate subfolders. Sortio keeps the latest BOQ at the top and archives prior versions so the audit trail is intact.
Sortio detects MOM documents by filename patterns and document content (attendees, agenda, action items) and files them under each project in a Meeting Minutes subfolder, ordered by date. You can configure a rule to route MOMs by meeting type, for example, kickoff, weekly progress, technical coordination, or closeout, so the right minutes are easy to find during handoff.
Yes. Sortio's AI is language agnostic. It handles bilingual filenames (Arabic and English, French and English, and other pairs) correctly, including right to left scripts, and preserves the original filename casing and characters unless you ask it to rename. This is important for ministry, government, and international infrastructure projects where bilingual filing is a contractual requirement.
Yes. Most engineering teams archive both a native DWG and a PDF plot of every drawing. Sortio detects these pairs by matching the base name and routes them together to the same discipline and revision folder, so the DWG and PDF for drawing AR-101 V2 always stay alongside each other. You never lose the link between the editable file and the issued plot.
Yes, but with the right tool inside Sortio. The AI sort works best on runs of up to 5,000 files. For larger archives (7,000 to 10,000+ files), Sortio includes an AI Rule Builder that lets you generate deterministic rules from a small sample, then apply those rules instantly to any number of files. Many engineering teams use a hybrid approach: AI sort the first batch, then the Rule Builder for the rest of the archive.
Yes. Telecom site files, infrastructure schematics, AutoCAD plot logs, contractor submittals, ministry correspondence, and project photos are all standard input for Sortio. The on device AI means client and ministry confidentiality is preserved, and the Rule Builder can encode telecom specific taxonomies like site code, region, equipment vendor, and project phase.
When a subcontractor zips up a delivery (drawings, submittals, photos, BOQ updates), drop the unzipped folder into Sortio's watch folder. Sortio identifies each file's type and discipline and merges the delivery into the main project archive in the right subfolders. The subcontractor's original folder structure is preserved as a backup in case you ever need to trace what they actually sent.
Yes. Many engineering archives follow a three party folder structure: Owner correspondence, Client deliverables, and Contractor submittals. Configure the triad once in the AI Rule Builder and Sortio routes each new file into the right party folder based on the sender, recipient, or file metadata. Internal drafts can be routed to a fourth working folder so they never get mixed with issued documents.
Sortio does not have plugins for AutoCAD, Revit, or BIM 360. Instead, Sortio is filesystem transparent: it reads and writes plain files in whatever folders your team already uses, including folders that are synced to a BIM platform, a network drive, or a local CAD project structure. Your existing CAD workflow is unchanged, Sortio just keeps the underlying files organized.
Yes. Sortio runs entirely on your Mac. File contents are processed locally during AI inference, and you can choose either a local LLM (fully offline, no outbound network calls) or BYOK with your firm's own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Azure key (so the only data processing agreement that applies is the one your firm already signed). There is no Sortio side cloud step where drawings or BOQs pass through a third party.
Pro is $14.99/month or $99/year and covers 5,000 AI credits per month, AI sort up to 5,000 files per run, the AI Rule Builder for large archives, auto sort on file change, BYOK with no credit consumption, and unlimited renaming. For firms standardizing across multiple project teams, Team is $29 per seat per month and adds shared rules, admin console, and centralized AI policy.
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