Speckle: The all-in-one design review platform for AEC teams

The design review process in architecture, engineering, and construction has changed little over the past decades.

The struggle is real:

• Email threads full of screenshots.
• Sharing static PDFs that are neither interactive, real-time, nor up to date.
• Licenses needed to review others' work spike up costs.
• Reviews that happen too late to make a difference.
• Architects waste time waiting for formal meetings to give oversight to higher-ups.
• Sharing work-in-progress models with clients is still too complex.

Now, new features like Saved Views, Presentations, Filtering, Markups, and Issues let teams review, communicate, make decisions, and close the feedback loop directly within Speckle, eliminating the need to switch tools and contexts.

Speckle's best-in-class 3D web viewer

Jet engines, massive MEP systems, sprawling infrastructure, and high-rise buildings; Speckle’s 3D viewer manages these effortlessly, enabling exploration of models of any size in the browser. No matter which device you’re using, whether you're on the go with your mobile or tablet, or at the office on your desktop.

Pro tip: Drag & drop IFC, Rhino, or other files into Speckle to interact with the models immediately, and embed them in Miro, PowerPoint, websites, and beyond!

Saved views and presentations: Curate the perfect design experience

Seeing your team’s progress shouldn’t mean loading up heavy BIM software or waiting for a coordination meeting. With Saved views, you can capture specific model states, perspectives, filters, and rendering settings and share them instantly with anyone on your team.

Give your internal design reviews a leg up by sharing a guided walkthrough of weekly model progress with teammates and executives ahead of live meetings. Everyone comes prepared and aligned before the discussion even starts.

For client-facing work, Presentations further elevate this workflow. Instead of sending static screenshots or confusing model links, you can craft a curated 3D story that guides clients through your design intent. They can navigate the model at their own pace, explore key viewpoints, and engage directly, all from a simple web link.

With Speckle, you're different; you're offering the industry’s best client review experience. Interactive, narrative, and completely frictionless.

Issues let you turn feedback into action

Every design review generates feedback. Speckle’s new Issues feature transforms those conversations into trackable, contextual actions. Directly inside your model!

Speckle Issues allows your team to:

• Assign ownership, priorities, due dates, labels, and progress statuses—with full backward compatibility for existing comments.
• See issues directly inside SketchUp, Revit, Rhino, and other tools with related objects highlighted!
• Capture screenshots, markups, threads, attachments, and exact model views so visual context stays with the conversation.
• Stay informed with notifications when you’re mentioned, assigned work, or following an issue.
• Filter and manage issues project-wide by status, assignee, priority, or labels using the dedicated Issues tab.

This is particularly valuable when a senior architect spots a missing door, for example, and can immediately create an issue, mark it up, assign it to a junior architect, and close it once resolved—all in the browser, all in one place.

Or when a BIM coordinator identifies a clash, attaches screenshots or specification sheets, links the exact model view, and reviews the issue directly inside Revit or Rhino.

Issues also scale beyond design review: Speckle Intelligence dashboards surface problems across models, show who owns the most open items, and track issue trends over time by model version.

Markups: Skip screenshots, annotate on 3D models

Sketching is how teams give feedback, and designers think. A quick circle around a problem area, an arrow pointing to where something should move, a note. It's instinctive and immediate. That's exactly how it is in Speckle.

Speckle lets you draw and annotate on models in the Speckle 3D viewer to deliver clear, fast feedback that stays with the design.

Express your thoughts through freehand drawing, written notes, or select from a set of ready-made shapes: rectangles, circles, arrows, lines, polylines.

When you save a markup, it's stored as a Saved view along with the "camera" angle, visible objects, and any filters applied when you made the annotation. Those can be, as we've mentioned above, your foundation for creating butter-smooth and captivating Presentations!

New ways to understand your models: Advanced filtering

Data-driven design review requires more than just beautiful models; it needs insight! Speckle’s Advanced Filtering system transforms how you query and visualize your model data.

What you're getting:

• Multi-property filtering: ask precise questions, such as “Show me all doors on Level 04 with missing fire rating.”
• Flexible operators: filter strings, numbers, and booleans with intuitive logic.
• Color by property: instantly visualize your model based on any parameter.
• Quick filter application: apply filters straight from an object’s property panel.
• Filter management and custom sorting: stay organized as you explore complex data.

All these filters integrate seamlessly with Saved Views so you can store filtered model states, revisit them later, or turn them into shareable Presentations.

This combination enables data-rich storytelling: explain design logic, highlight coordination issues, or communicate progress visually rather than verbally.

Speckle design review key benefits in a nutshell:

• Cut review time: Instant online access to 3D models reduces meeting duration and supports decision-making.
• Boost win rates: Presentations let you control the story and make designs easier for clients to approve.
• Reduce rework costs: Precise, in-context comments/annotations lower miscommunication.
• Save on software spend: Stakeholders review models without costly CAD/BIM licenses.
• Accelerate approvals: Clear version history and comparisons streamline sign-off cycles.
• Find issues faster: Multi-property filters and color-coded views let you spot problems instantly.
• Improve coordination efficiency: Federated models and synced views eliminate discipline clashes earlier.

Why it matters

Design review is where decisions get made, and where projects gain or lose momentum. By hosting reviews and presentations directly inside your live 3D model, Speckle helps teams work asynchronously, share progress continuously, and make informed choices earlier!

No more waiting for coordination meetings. No more static screenshots. Just transparent, connected collaboration, wherever you are.

It even works on mobile, so whether you’re in the studio, on-site, or halfway across the world, you always have access to your project’s live BIM data.

Speckle is far more than a web app; it’s a platform that connects your tools, automates your workflows, and enables intelligent collaboration. Speckle is redefining how actionable your model data can be, which is why it works so well for design review: it recognises that this process doesn't happen in a vacuum, on a 2D board, disconnected from the rest of the project data.