Share a plan with your architect
You marked up a plan. Now you want your architect to see it, answer your questions, and add their own remarks. You don't want to send them a Hemma account, you don't want to give them access to your invoices, and you don't want to start a new email thread with screenshots. Sharing solves all three. One plan, one link, full collaboration.
01What sharing actually does
When you share a plan, Hemma generates a secure link tied to your architect's email address. They open it, confirm their email, and get a view of that one plan: your annotations, the document itself, and a place to reply.
That is everything they get. No access to your other plans. No view of your budget. No window into your contractors or invoices. The share is scoped to a single plan, and the rest of your project stays private.
02Send the link
Open the plan you want to share, then look for the share option in the plan view. Enter your architect's email address, and Hemma sends them an invitation. The link expires after a period you choose. You can revoke it at any time.
Use the email address your architect already gives out professionally. Hemma uses it to verify them on every visit, so a stable address keeps things friction-free.
03What your architect sees
Your architect receives an email with a link. When they click it, Hemma asks them to confirm the email address. A quick safety step that means no one else can use the link if it gets forwarded. Then they enter their name, agree to terms, and the plan opens.
What they see:
- The plan itself, exactly as you uploaded it.
- Every annotation you and others have placed, with all replies and resolved status.
- A reply field on every annotation, and the ability to drop pins of their own.
What they don't see:
- Any other plan, file, or document in your project.
- Your budget, contractors, or messages.
- Who else is on your project beyond the people who annotated this plan.
04What your architect can do
Architects work with a deliberately smaller toolkit. They can:
- Drop pins to point at a specific spot on the plan.
- Reply to any annotation, including yours. Replies show their name and arrive in your sidebar.
- Mark annotations resolved when a question is answered.
They cannot draw circles, arrows, rectangles, or freehand shapes. Those tools belong to you. The thinking is simple: your architect's job is to advise, not to redline. Pins and replies cover almost every conversation that needs to happen.
05Replies stay in sync
Every reply, from either side, triggers an email to the other people on the annotation thread. Your architect replies and you get a notification. You reply and they get one. Nobody has to log in just to check whether anything changed.
Inside Hemma, new replies show up with an unread indicator on the annotation card. You can scan the sidebar at a glance and see exactly where the conversation has moved.
06Revoking access
If the project is finished, the share is no longer needed, or you simply changed your mind, you can revoke the link from the same place you created it. Revoke is immediate. The next time your architect tries to open the plan, they see a notice that access is no longer available.
The annotations and replies they added stay on the plan. Revoking access does not delete the conversation. It only stops new visits.
07A different model from CC'ing them on email
The old way: forward a PDF, attach a screenshot, write a paragraph explaining what to look at, hope the reply lands in the same thread, lose track when the next plan revision arrives. The new way: one link, one document, one conversation that stays attached to the drawing.
Your plan stays the source of truth. Your architect joins the conversation. The thread stays in one place.