# Changelog: The biggest release since we launched — History, Revisions, Reports, and an AI Agent that maps for you

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**Created:** [September 10, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.realtimelca.com/t/changelog-the-biggest-release-since-we-launched-history-revisions-reports-and-an-ai-agent-that-maps-for-you/493 "2026-09-10T18:52:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![martinromby](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.realtimelca.com/martinromby/32/22_2.png) [@martinromby](https://community.realtimelca.com/u/martinromby)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.realtimelca.com/t/changelog-the-biggest-release-since-we-launched-history-revisions-reports-and-an-ai-agent-that-maps-for-you/493/1 "2026-09-10T18:52:38Z")

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Dear [@Community](https://community.realtimelca.com/groups/community)

This is the biggest release we have shipped since Real-Time LCA launched.

Projects are rebuilt around a single left rail. Every change you make is now a version you can restore. Milestones can be saved as named revisions and returned to. Reports have a proper builder. The AI Agent can do the mapping for you — and asks before it writes anything. And the AI can read an EPD PDF straight into the Library.

The entire user guide has been rewritten against this release. Let’s dig in.

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## 🧭 A new project structure

Every project now shares one left rail — **Dashboard** , **3D model** , **Materials** , **Transport** , **Waste** , **History** , **Reports** , **Settings** — so the same navigation follows you from an empty project through to a delivered report.

Creating a project is now a short dialog: country, name, building type, calculation type, and the models the project will hold. Everything else moved into Settings.

 ![Project dashboard annotated](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/7/7d992d021f8202254fa8894228a322fc7cdd83b8.webp)

## ⚙ One Settings page

Project, building area, calculation, models, classification, transport (A4), installation (A5), energy use (B6), members, and integrations now live on one page with one **Save**.

- A **Sections** panel is both a table of contents and a status list — complete, edited but not saved, or needs attention before the configuration can be saved — with a plain-language count underneath (_1 of 8 sections needs attention before this configuration can be saved_).
- **Your limit value** shows the budget the project is judged against, and where it came from.
- **Manage** holds the project-level actions: integrations, members, clone, delete.

 ![Project settings annotated](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/e/e56d7cee3f291d7adf7d81579f7304eeab8add7c.webp)

📖 [Project Settings](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/project/project-settings)

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## 🕰 History — every change is a version

Changes to base information, materials, and mappings are now recorded as **versions**. Each entry carries its version number, what changed, who changed it, when, and where it came from — in-app, service, or an integration. Filter by change type, search the log, limit it by date, or export it.

**Restore** never overwrites your project. It builds a _new_ project from the state at that version — materials and project information, transport and waste mappings, custom emission factors, and the history up to that point — and leaves the original exactly as it was.

 ![Project history annotated](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/d/d361805ba3446d91003b97841c076d5dfabd08cb.webp)

📖 [History](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/project/project-history)

## 🔖 Revisions — named save points

Any version can become a named revision: _Initial Design_, _Detailed Design_, _Planning submission_. The project is always on exactly one revision, and everything you do is saved to it — it never drifts away from the revision it is on.

- **Preview** opens a revision read-only, for any user. **Continue from this** moves the project’s working state onto that revision, and every open client follows live.
- Each revision shows who saved it, when, and the emission figure at that point — with the change from the previous revision beside it (_0.13 kgCO₂-eq/m²/year, −0.1_). The delta between revisions tells the story of the project on its own.
- The revision name in the breadcrumb is a switcher, available on every page of the project.
- **Reports are pinned to the revision they were taken from.** That is what makes a delivered number reproducible: months later you can preview the revision a report was issued from and see exactly the figures behind it, even though the live project has moved on.

Save a revision at every milestone you report on. It costs nothing.

 ![Revisions annotated](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/d/d7b98f8bc76c989d60f1b57d84c7743e08d5a64d.webp)

📖 [Revisions](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/project/revisions)

## 📋 Clone, rebuilt

Cloning now copies the project’s **current state** — materials, mappings, settings, team, and its history so far — into a brand-new project, leaving the original untouched. The dialog names the exact state being copied, and asks what should happen to the 3D model: a **new** Speckle project for the clone, or the **same** published models feeding both.

Pick a new project when the variant will diverge geometrically. Pick the same one when only the assessment differs — swapping EPDs, testing a different calculation type, trying alternative transport distances against one model.

 ![Clone project modal](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/4/4eebfa64bea04c81e6b068bf2a04d792915a5332.webp)

📖 [Clone a project](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/project/clone-project)

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## 📄 The report builder

**Reports** in the project rail opens a builder: a page list, a live preview of exactly what will print, and the three controls that apply to the whole document — a **mapping incomplete** warning, a marker for the pages that take your input, and the report **language**.

- **Cover** — project name, headline result, your client logo.
- **Overview** — your project description, a slot for a building render or photo, the QA/QC fields, and which life-cycle modules the result covers.
- **Results** — the calculation method and every project parameter behind the number, then the total against the limit value.
- **Additional Results** — ranked impacts and the cumulative curve, each with a note box beside it. The chart shows what happened; your note says why it matters.
- **Background Data** — the active standard values and every EPD used, with its declaration number. The page an auditor turns to first.

Which reports a project offers depends on its **country** : every project gets the **LCA Report** PDF, plus the **Excel reports** its country’s scheme or authority expects. Anything you have generated before stays listed and reachable.

 ![Report cover](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/a/a0b969a37c8754c7fa361310ac7417a64bae0992.webp)

📖 [Reports](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/project/reports)

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## 🤖 The AI Agent

The agent opens beside whatever you are working on and picks up the project you are in.

**It can map for you.** It resolves the materials, reports what is blocking them, finds candidate EPDs, and states what it is about to do — which EPD, for which materials, and why — then waits for a yes. Anything that changes data pauses for **Approval needed** , naming the exact operation, with **Allow** , **Deny** , and every tool call it has run visible above the prompt. Afterwards it summarises what changed: the EPD used, the lifetime it set, how units were converted, and how much mapping coverage went up.

[[IMAGE: images/user-guide/screens/AI Agent approval needed.png]]

Every one of those changes is an ordinary entry in History — and can be restored.

**It answers product questions from the documentation.** “How do I…” questions are answered from the guide, with a **Sources** list linking the pages it drew on.

**Skills** are reusable instructions you can attach to a message — hotspot analysis, comparing relevant EPDs, mapping a material. Curated skills are maintained by us; duplicate one to adapt it, or write your own from scratch.

 ![AI Agent skills](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/d/db0bf4fdec3b1deee4284f06d66ceeeeb6ed4476.webp)

**Usage** and **History** track tokens and sessions across the workspace, by month and by feature. Both export.

📖 [AI Agent](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/integrations/ai-tools/ai-assistant)

## 📑 Extract From PDF

On the Create Material form, **Extract From PDF** reads an EPD document and fills the form for you — name, life time, owner, data source, dates, EPD type and specification, declared and mass values with their units, and the indicator tables. Roughly 15–60 seconds depending on the document, and anything it could not find stays empty and flagged, so the gaps are easy to spot before you save.

Across roughly **10,000 values from 35 test files, extraction returned 98% of the values correctly** , with 11 individual entries wrong — the rest were missing or flagged for review. That comes from a neuro-symbolic approach: generative AI does the reading, symbolic rules reason over the output to catch hallucinations.

It is an accelerator, not a substitute for checking. A wrong indicator value is invisible once the material is in the Library — it just produces a wrong answer in every project that maps to it. Check the declared and mass units, **Valid to** , type and specification, and spot-check A1–A3 before you save.

 ![Extract from PDF result](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/6/6c050f9b33507776aa8b24dda81ff391caa160f8.webp)

📖 [Extract From PDF](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/library/materials/create-materials/extract-from-pdf)

## 🏷 AI Classification, reworked

From **Mapping tools** on the Materials page, pick the building components to classify — **Only unclassified** hides anything that already has a code — and review the proposals in a table: existing code, object class, proposed code, whether it is a change, an **AI confidence** score, and a per-row **Apply** tick. Object class and proposed code are both editable, so you can correct a proposal instead of rejecting the batch. **Accept** writes the ticked rows; **Reject** discards the lot. What you accept is recorded in History.

 ![AI classification annotated](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/c/cdd2dece7555d07a3660260af45a8e4ed7c07c08.webp)

📖 [AI Classification](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/integrations/ai-tools/ai-classification)

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## 🧱 Mapping

 ![Material mapping annotated](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/a/a6c4a2b5652d8c0aad7ebf900212a2872eb8c0cf.webp)

- An empty project offers four ways to start: upload an **IFC** model, upload an **Excel** file, add a material or type **by hand** , or load a set of **sample building elements** to explore the workflow. The **New** menu in the inventory header offers the same routes at any time.
- Drag an EPD or construction onto a row, onto a group, or onto the strip at the top to drop it into a new group. Mapped rows turn green and show the EPD beneath the element name.
- The **flag** button limits the library to EPDs allowed for the project’s country; the funnel filters by data source, category, and validity.
- **Auto Mapping** now lands as a **preview** — rows tagged _Auto Mapped_, the header swapped to _Accept or Reject Auto Mapping_, nothing written until you accept. Drop a different EPD onto anything that looks wrong first.
- Missing a lifetime? The app asks for it there and then, with the lifetime table one click away.

 ![Auto mapping annotated](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/4/4baaefe09f834b985aff99e4062e6d3caa2bb887.webp)

## 🚚 Transport and ♻ Waste

**Transport** is one row per mapped material — how many items use it, total tonnage, emission per tonne, and the resulting total — with the vehicle type and distance you set. Defaults come from the country’s data, set once for the whole project in **Settings → Transport (A4)**, so here you only adjust the exceptions.

**Waste** lists your scheme’s categories on the left and your mapped materials on the right, each with the emission it contributes, the wastage assumed on top, and the mass available to sort. **Assign** sends a material to a category and shows the fraction percentage it represents.

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## 📚 The Library

- **New** in the toolbar creates a material or a construction.
- Rows now carry EPD type, standard, dataset, declared unit, declaration number, and headline GWP — plus **Valid to** and an **Expires soon** warning when an EPD is close to its end date.
- **Compare up to six materials** side by side: an attribute overview, and a per-module **Lifecycle Stages** tab where you pick a calculation type (_Full LCA (A–D)_) or toggle individual stages. The comparison downloads.
- Materials show the collections they belong to as a chip on the row, so a saved material is recognisable while you scroll.
- Constructions get **Edit** , **Clone** , and **Delete** from the row menu, filters for units, owners, and organisations, and a dimensions dialog with a 3D preview, a λ-value for insulation, and the unit conversion spelled out.

 ![Compare materials lifecycle stages](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/3/319cbd03e1dfda01c6fd4e4ba68bbf6f33a305a5.webp)

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## 🎓 Tutorials, inside the app

A library of short videos at the bottom of the left sidebar, reachable from any page. Cards show the category and duration, a tick marks the ones you have already watched, and chips filter by category.

The best part: open the player’s **⋮** menu and choose **Picture in Picture**. The video pops out into a small floating window that stays above the app, with its own play, skip, and progress controls — so you can do each step as you watch it. Playback speed is in the same menu.

 ![Tutorials annotated](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/4/4c0020ce9a5b4ecc8edd0372d76308a5c3fda83a.png)

📖 [Tutorials](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/tutorials)

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## 🔌 Speckle and imports

- You now **create your own Speckle account** from **Account menu → Speckle** , choosing the password you will use in the connector. The dialog also holds **Reset password** , **Sync projects** , and the connector download — and the server address to sign the connector in to.
- A project’s connection is configured from **Settings → Integrations** : a **new connection** for its own stream, or a **shared connection** so two projects read the same published model. Once connected, the row reports the models in sync, when they were last published, and offers **Sync now**.
- **Excel** and **IFC** uploads moved to the inventory’s **New** menu. Imported rows are tagged with their source, the **Datasource** filter separates Excel from Speckle, and an imported item’s **Quantity** tab shows the current value alongside the **original** from the sheet — so an edit never hides what was uploaded.
- IFC imports run in the **background** : keep working, and the project updates itself when processing finishes.

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## 📊 Dashboard and Projects

- A **filter bar** above the dashboard applies to every number and chart on the page — models, life-cycle stages, indicator, and units.
- Any chart opens **full screen** with **Absolute** , **Relative** , and **Stage breakdown** views.
- The **project breakdown** table has a column manager, including material properties and a per-stage emission split.
- The projects page adds a denser sortable **list view** , and each card shows the revision it is on, its **% USED** bar against the limit value, and **% mapped** — so an emission figure is always read in context.

## 💬 Help that answers first

**Feedback** in the top-right corner now offers the AI Agent, the user docs, and the community _before_ the form. **Issue** and **Idea** still go straight to us, with the page you were on attached automatically.

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## 📖 The user guide, rewritten

Every page has been rewritten against this release, with annotated screenshots that render properly in both light and dark mode, and brand-new pages for the [3D model viewer](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/project/model-viewer), [History](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/project/project-history), [Revisions](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/project/revisions), [Reports](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/project/reports), [Clone a project](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/project/clone-project), [Extract From PDF](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/library/materials/create-materials/extract-from-pdf), and [Tutorials](https://docs.realtimelca.com/user-guide/tutorials).

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This is the release we have been building toward since the platform launched: a project that remembers everything it has been, milestones you can name and return to, reports you can reproduce years later, and an assistant that does the work — and asks before it writes.

Go break it, then tell us what to sharpen next. 👇

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**Author:** ![MarkLabrosse](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.realtimelca.com/marklabrosse/32/206_2.png) [@MarkLabrosse](https://community.realtimelca.com/u/MarkLabrosse)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 7:46am UTC](https://community.realtimelca.com/t/changelog-the-biggest-release-since-we-launched-history-revisions-reports-and-an-ai-agent-that-maps-for-you/493/2 "2026-09-15T07:46:36Z")

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Fantastic work on this release! I especially love the 3D hotspot, the possibility to go back on earlier version and to make specific revisions, and the report.

I have a little request for the report. Right now the bar is filled out even if we haven’t used all of the CO2 budget.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/f/fa2225335ce5685ec9a7a47daf288d83a54886e0.png)

I can see that you have already changed this on the dashboard

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realtimelca/original/2X/8/8e56e596988f8f73585c3c8bfe27c87bd2354fb6.png)

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**Author:** ![martinromby](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.realtimelca.com/martinromby/32/22_2.png) [@martinromby](https://community.realtimelca.com/u/martinromby)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 11:30am UTC](https://community.realtimelca.com/t/changelog-the-biggest-release-since-we-launched-history-revisions-reports-and-an-ai-agent-that-maps-for-you/493/3 "2026-09-15T11:30:54Z")

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Hi @MarkLabrosse  
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Will fix this asap.