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 of thousands of users can find what they need faster. CEO and Founder Randall Stevens takes a look back at 2025’s success for AVAIL’s content management system (CMS) and Confluence professional development initiative — and shares a look ahead to what’s coming in 2026.
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As we reflect on 2025, the first thing we want to say is thank you. To our customers, partners, and community: your continued trust, engagement, and feedback shape everything we build. Every search performed, every piece of content organized, and every workflow refined reinforces our shared goal: helping teams access the information they need, exactly when they need it. We are grateful for the opportunity to support your work and to continue evolving AVAIL alongside you.
Throughout 2025, we had the privilege to be in community with architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry leaders at Confluence San Francisco, AIA, Autodesk University, and Confluence San Francisco.
In 2025, product development for AVAIL’s content management solution focused on helping teams move faster and work more consistently by improving how information is organized, discovered, and reused.
Additional milestones throughout the year included the AVAIL 5.0 release, continued updates to AVAIL Desktop and AVAIL for Revit, the introduction of AVAIL for AutoCAD and Civil 3D, and AVAIL 5.5, which added full-text search of Revit details—further reinforcing search as the backbone of the AVAIL experience.
Each year, the AVAIL Champion of the Year award recognizes individuals who go beyond implementation—advocating for better workflows, supporting their teams, and elevating content management practices within their organizations.
We are proud to name Steve Bennett as the 2025 AVAIL Champion of the Year. Steve is the Director of Design Technology at strategy-based design firm Taylor Design, which has been a loyal AVAIL customer since 2017.
Steve’s leadership, commitment to improving access to information, and willingness to share knowledge with the broader community exemplify what it means to be an AVAIL Champion.
Our professional development initiative Confluence continued to serve as a cornerstone of the AVAIL community in 2025, creating space for shared learning and meaningful connection.
Confluence San Francisco delivered a focused, one-day event centered on modern content workflows and collaboration
Confluence Lexington, AVAIL’s flagship event, once again brought the community together for a three-day experience featuring hands-on sessions, peer discussion, and forward-looking conversations around design technology
Confluence Podcast – Season 2 extended these conversations throughout the year, highlighting voices from across the industry and exploring how teams are adapting their workflows
Together, these initiatives reinforced Confluence’s role as more than an event—it is an ongoing forum for learning, connection, and shared progress.
Learn more about AVAIL’s professional development initiative by reading the following blogs:
As we look toward 2026, we are excited about a product roadmap focused on further simplifying content workflows while making information more intelligent and responsive to how teams work.
First, we will be releasing an updated Harvest for Revit experience that addresses long-standing challenges around tracking changes to content and further streamlines the publishing process. This release builds on the foundation laid in 2025, with an emphasis on clarity, control, and ease of use. If you visited us at Autodesk University, you may have seen an early preview of our ability to use AI to translate technical notes—those capabilities will be incorporated directly into this upcoming release.
Next in the lineup is a new Content Submission feature designed to simplify how new content enters your approved resources flow. This feature is intended to reduce friction between creation and approval, making it easier for teams to contribute while maintaining consistency and governance.
We’re also working on a new Stream for Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) feature that will provide not only direct access to documents stored in ACC but also the ability to trigger processing of content through Autodesk Platform Services based on Stream Definitions.
Finally, we are developing a new Suggestion Engine that promises to deliver context-specific content at the moment of need. By understanding where users are working and what they are doing, this capability aims to surface relevant information proactively—reducing search time and helping teams make better decisions faster.
Together, these initiatives reflect our continued focus on making access to information smarter, more connected, and better aligned with real-world design workflows.
Thanks!
Randall Stevens | CEO and Founder, AVAIL
Usage data from 2025 highlights both the scale and the human side of how teams rely on AVAIL every day.
In 2025, AVAIL users loaded content into more than 41,000 Revit projects, underscoring how deeply AVAIL is embedded in active, production-level workflows across firms of all sizes.
Search activity matched that scale. More than 100,000 unique text search terms were used across the platform this year. At the top of the list were the fundamentals:
door, sink, table, chair, toilet, light, shower, cabinet, window, desk
I often joke that if you asked a third grader how to build a house, their list would look remarkably similar—and in many ways, that mirrors how professionals search for content in AVAIL. Users start with the basics and expect the system to help them refine, contextualize, and get more specific from there.
That expectation is reinforced by the depth behind those simple terms. The word “door” alone appeared in more than 4,600 unique search permutations, reflecting highly specific, attribute-driven queries tied to real production needs.
Search behavior also reminds us that people are human. Even with well-structured libraries, misspellings and variations are a natural part of everyday workflows. Common examples from 2025 include:
toliet, lecturn, gaurd, fastner, accesible, condensor, difuser, detial, parition
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Founded in 2016 as a solution for architecture and engineering firms to find the information they need faster, AVAIL creates software for the global architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. AVAIL’s content management system (CMS) platform and Revit, AutoCAD, and Civil 3D application tools help designers and engineers take control of their intricate network of files in one visual, streamlined solution. AVAIL’s customers include industry leaders Gensler, Perkins&Will, IMEG, LEO A DALY, and Populous.