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title: AVAIL Blog | Randall Stevens
description: BIM and Revit best practices tips, tricks, and processes using AVAIL's industry-leading content management system.
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## Randall Stevens
### Recent Posts
[.png?width=700&name=blog-cover_capital%20resources%20(1).png)](https://blog.getavail.com/capital-resources)
Industry Thoughts
[How AEC Firms Can Transform Everyday Work into Strategic Assets](https://blog.getavail.com/capital-resources)
In AVAIL CEO and Founder’s latest white paper, From Project Knowledge to Capital Resources, Randall Stevens shares how architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry firms can turn
[Read More](https://blog.getavail.com/capital-resources)
[](https://blog.getavail.com/year-in-review-2025)
Industry Thoughts
[2025 Year in Review: Building Better Access to Information](https://blog.getavail.com/year-in-review-2025)
In 2025, AVAIL delivered new content management features, hosted two successful AEC technology leadership events, and continued to assist hundreds of AEC industry firms manage their content so tens
[Read More](https://blog.getavail.com/year-in-review-2025)
[](https://blog.getavail.com/why-avail-for-revit-5-5)
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[New AVAIL for Revit: Full Text Search Drafting Views and More!](https://blog.getavail.com/why-avail-for-revit-5-5)
Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) content management solution AVAIL has streamlined two of its most popular Revit add-ins, Project Navigator and Harvest, to offer a single Revit
[Read More](https://blog.getavail.com/why-avail-for-revit-5-5)
[](https://blog.getavail.com/free-is-failing)
Industry Thoughts
[Why Free Content Management Solutions Are Failing Your Firm](https://blog.getavail.com/free-is-failing)
Following the blog What Does Free Really Get You? AVAIL’s Response to Autodesk’s Acquisition of UNIFI posted in March 2024, CEO and Founder at content management system (CMS) AVAIL, Randall Stevens,
[Read More](https://blog.getavail.com/free-is-failing)
[](https://blog.getavail.com/year-in-review-2024)
Industry Thoughts
[2024 Year in Review: The Information You Need, Faster](https://blog.getavail.com/year-in-review-2024)
2024 was a big year for AVAIL. We released several new workflow-enhancing features, hosted two successful AEC technology leadership events, and continued to assist hundreds of AEC industry firms
[Read More](https://blog.getavail.com/year-in-review-2024)
[](https://blog.getavail.com/why-related-content)
News
[Unleash the Power of Connected Information with AVAIL’s New Feature](https://blog.getavail.com/why-related-content)
AVAIL’s dedicated development team is not only building functionality into the software company’s content management solutions to increase efficiency at AEC industry firms today, but they are also
[Read More](https://blog.getavail.com/why-related-content)
[](https://blog.getavail.com/not-so-sexy-ai)
Industry Thoughts
[Not-So-Sexy AI That Will Transform the AEC Industry](https://blog.getavail.com/not-so-sexy-ai)
How is AVAIL using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to make workflows easier for professionals in the AEC industry? Over the last year, we have been running a series of
[Read More](https://blog.getavail.com/not-so-sexy-ai)
[](https://blog.getavail.com/what-does-free-really-get-you)
Industry Thoughts
[What Does Free Really Get You? AVAIL’s Response to Autodesk’s Acquisition of UNIFI](https://blog.getavail.com/what-does-free-really-get-you)
With Autodesk’s acquisition of former AVAIL competitor UNIFI—now Content Catalog—and announcement that the service will be wrapped into Autodesk Docs, we have been fielding many well-meaning
[Read More](https://blog.getavail.com/what-does-free-really-get-you)
[](https://blog.getavail.com/avail-analytics-2.1)
Release Notes
[AVAIL Analytics 2.1](https://blog.getavail.com/avail-analytics-2.1)
AVAIL Analytics 2.1 Updates
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[](https://blog.getavail.com/improving-navigation-and-search-with-channel-groups-application-mapping-scoped-searches)
Industry Thoughts
[Improving Navigation and Search with Channel Groups, Application Mappings & Scoped Searches](https://blog.getavail.com/improving-navigation-and-search-with-channel-groups-application-mapping-scoped-searches)
Solving Navigation and Search is largely a challenge with understanding context. The more contextual information we have the easier it is to provide the best results. But who wants to spend time
[Read More](https://blog.getavail.com/improving-navigation-and-search-with-channel-groups-application-mapping-scoped-searches)
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