Bluerithm 2.0 will be available in the coming days.
This next version of Bluerithm is an important step forward for our platform and for the customers who rely on us. Moving to 2.0 was necessary. As we’ve all witnessed, the technology landscape has changed drastically in the last few years. Despite the challenges and downsides, artificial intelligence is here to stay and is poised to remake entire industries and the ways all of us work. While no one can predict the future with certainty, it’s accepted that many software platforms that aren’t already rapidly evolving will not be around in a few more years. Bluerithm was originally built in 2016 – that’s an eternity ago for modern software. So, we have and are continuing to take major steps and make significant investments to ensure we will not just be around for the long term, but at the edge of what a software platform needs to be in 2026 and beyond.
So, what does that mean? You probably guessed it… but it’s not just the minor, nice to have AI automations bolted onto an aging platform (we have those too, though). It means a complete re-architecture and rebuild of the entire platform. It means treating agentic AI tools, like Claude Cowork, Perplexity Computer, and so on, as first class users that can interact directly with every feature of the platform, without step-by-step human guidance. It means supporting hours-long, complex automated agentic workflows that allow you to offload not just minor administrative tasks, but deploy genuinely autonomous engineering expertise at the whim of a simple prompt… “Hey Claude, here are the docs for this new hospital – do a review then set up my project in Bluerithm based on my template library.”
We plan to be around for the long term, and rather than stick to the common software playbook of riding the coattails of software we built years ago, we decided to take the bull by the horns and build the best platform we can for the modern commissioning industry. Bluerithm 2.0 is about making sure the software you use every day delivers all of the modern capabilities and keeps pace with the way commissioning teams need to work in a rapidly changing industry.
It’s not just AI though. For example, an improvement in Bluerithm 2.0 is the new portfolio and project dashboards. These dashboards give teams a faster, clearer, more customizable way to understand and share project status, performance, and milestones, whether they need a detailed view of a single project or a rolled-up view across many jobs. Project Dashboards help users monitor progress and create high-level status overviews, while Portfolio Dashboards make it possible to see trends and status across groups of projects, regions, offices, clients, campuses, airport programs, and more. They also introduce a more flexible drag-and-drop experience, customizable charts, and easier dashboard sharing for leadership and clients.
An example of how Bluerithm 2.0 can interface with agentic AI tools is our Claude Cowork integration, which points to a fundamentally new way to set up and manage commissioning projects with AI. Rather than acting like a simple chatbot, Claude Cowork can review project documents, follow workflows, make decisions, and take action inside Bluerithm with human oversight built in. That means users can move from drawings and specifications to a working project structure with far less manual setup. The integration can create projects, extract project details from source documents, organize equipment, build out checklists and test forms, support project setup workflows, and in general be delegated work that might otherwise take hours of your time.
Bluerithm 2.0 includes many other meaningful upgrades. Examples: Issue Pins and PDF markups, an updated AI form building tool, big improvements for handling large projects (10,000’s of equipment, 100,000’s of forms), new schedule and calendar tools, new workflow rule builders, and many, many more updates that are in-flight and coming soon. In our April 9th announcement, we highlighted a few of these, alongside the Claude Cowork integration, as part of a broader step forward in how Bluerithm users interact with the platform.
Just as important, getting started with Bluerithm 2.0 will be simple. No migration is required for existing customers. All of your data in 2.0 remains the same. That means you benefit from the new experience without having to take on the burden of a major transition.
Bluerithm 2.0 is not change for the sake of change. It is an investment in staying current, building the right foundation for the future, and delivering a commissioning platform that feels modern in the ways that matter most: visibility, usability, automation, and execution. We believe this is the right move for our customers, the right move for our platform, and the right move for what commissioning software needs to be in 2026 and beyond.
Bluerithm 2.0 is coming soon, and we are excited to put it in your hands.
