Qflow won Bluebeam's Startup Spotlight at Unbound 2025. What happened next was the more interesting story.
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Bluebeam Revu helps construction estimators produce faster, more accurate quantity takeoffs with automatic scale calibration, Dynamic Fill for complex areas, VisualSearch for counting and Quantity Link for live Excel integration. One contractor caught a $50,000 measurement error on the first project.
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