Your Project Files Should Live Where the Work Happens

During countless demos with window and door dealers, we kept seeing the same problem.

The company had Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, or another cloud storage service. The files were technically organized somewhere, but the project itself told a different story. Photos were buried inside folders. PDFs had names that only made sense to the person who uploaded them. Installation pictures lived separately from the opening they belonged to. Someone would eventually ask, “Where is that photo?” or “Which window was this file for?”

The problem was never that these companies lacked storage. The problem was that storage had no connection to the actual work.

That is exactly what we wanted to solve with the new WindSketch Filesystem.

Files That Understand the Project

Every image, video, audio file, document, or PDF uploaded to WindSketch keeps the context of where it came from.

A file uploaded at the project level belongs to the project. A photo uploaded inside an area keeps that association. A file added to a specific opening stays connected to that opening. The same applies to files attached to a particular point in the sketch.

Instead of navigating through layers of folders trying to remember where something belongs, WindSketch organizes files according to the structure of the project itself.

When you open the Filesystem, you can quickly see where a file was uploaded, who uploaded it, and when it was added. More importantly, you understand why that file exists.

A File Can Become a Conversation

Files in WindSketch are not just attachments.

Any file can become the starting point of a Discussion Thread.

Imagine an installer uploads a photo showing rotten wood around an opening. From that photo, someone on the team can immediately start a discussion, mention the project manager, and ask whether additional work or engineering review is required.

The project manager receives the notification, opens it, and WindSketch takes them directly to that discussion with the relevant file highlighted.

There is no need to copy the photo into a text message, send an email explaining which project it belongs to, or search through a shared drive trying to understand the context.

The file, the conversation, the people involved, and the project are already connected.

Project Files and Generated Files

The Filesystem also separates two important categories.

Project Files contain the files your team adds while working on the project: jobsite photos, videos, PDFs, documents, measurements, audio notes, and other project information.

Generated Files contain documents created automatically by WindSketch as the project progresses, such as sketch PDFs, quote PDFs, and other generated project documents.

Instead of downloading documents and uploading them again into another storage system, the project becomes its own source of truth.

Cloud Storage Is Great. Context Is Better.

Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox are excellent places to store files.

But window and door projects need more than storage.

They need to know that this photo belongs to Opening W3, inside the Master Bedroom, on this specific project. They need to know who uploaded it. They need to know what the team discussed about it. And months later, when someone opens that project again, all of that information should still be there.

That is the idea behind the WindSketch Filesystem.

Not another folder in the cloud.

A file system built around the way window and door projects actually happen.