IMAGINiT Clarity just crossed a milestone worth pausing on: 5,000,000+ hours saved for customers through automation. That's not a projection or a marketing round-number - it's the sum of every PDF set, DWG export, model health metric extraction, and file sync that Clarity has quietly run in the background since it started automating AEC workflows back in 2015.
Five million hours is an abstract number, though. Here's what it looks like on a Friday morning.
The print set nobody builds by hand anymore
At most firms, someone has to prepare the sheet set before a deadline: gather the latest sheets, check what changed since the last revision, export, package, and send everything out. The task is not difficult, but it steals twenty minutes at a time, often at the worst moment - time that could be spent on work that requires real judgment and is far more valuable and engaging.
Clarity removes the need to remember altogether. Instead of manually republishing a sheet set whenever changes are needed, a firm can schedule Clarity to generate the full PDF set with the latest updates and deliver it to a shared location each week. No one has to track every change, flag it, or publish the set by hand. Saving twenty minutes, three times a week, across active projects is not a rounding error; it is real staff time recovered every week from work that never added design value.
It also removes another easy-to-miss source of friction: the ping. When a partner team is nine time zones ahead, “send me the latest set” used to mean someone stayed late or someone else opened the group chat first thing in the morning to ask where it was. With delivery triggered before anyone realizes it is needed, the file is already where it should be every time, even if the person who would normally send is still yet to start their day. No one has to ask, and no one has to remember to respond.
Multiply that across 70+ built-in task types - DWG exports, coordination models that rebuild themselves the moment a model syncs, files that land in the right folder with the right metadata without anyone re-typing it on the other end - and five million hours stops sounding like a marketing headline and starts sounding like arithmetic: tasks run, times minutes saved per task, times however many people were doing that work by hand.
The point was never the export
The real story behind the milestone isn't that Clarity is fast at producing files. It's what firms get back when that work disappears from someone's day. Time that used to go toward re-running the same export, re-checking the same sheet list, and re-building the same coordination file goes back to the work that actually requires a person: creating, problem-solving, or catching the things automation can't catch. Consistency and reliability aren't just nice side effects of automating the repetitive stuff - they're what free up the hours for what really matters.
What Could Clarity Take Off Your Team’s Plate?
Five million hours saved is the result of thousands of repetitive tasks that no longer needed someone’s time or attention. See what that same approach to automation could look like across your own Revit workflows.
