Document Control Software

Every Project Delivered with Confidence

The leading document control software purpose-built for Project Managers who need full visibility, accountability, and control across every phase of delivery.

The Hidden Cost of Project Information Chaos

Most Project Managers are held accountable for outcomes they don’t have full control over. Decisions get made in email threads. Approvals get buried in inboxes. Drawings go out without a transmittal record. And when something goes wrong, the audit trail simply doesn’t exist.

The result? Three critical risks that undermine delivery confidence and erode margins:

Accountability Gaps
When approvals, instructions, and change decisions live in personal inboxes and shared drives, there's no defensible record. When disputes arise — and they do — you're exposed.
Version Confusion on Site
Teams working from outdated drawings and superseded documents is one of the most costly and preventable causes of rework in project delivery. Without controlled distribution, it happens constantly.
Workflow Bottlenecks
Manual review and approval processes — chasing sign-offs via email, manually updating registers, hand-tracking transmittals — consume hours of billable time every week and introduce human error at every step.

Generic tools like shared drives, email, and consumer cloud storage were never designed for governed project delivery. They rely on perfect human behaviour under deadline pressure. That’s not a system — it’s a risk.

Built for How Project Managers Actually Deliver

Streamline project information and implement a CDE built for accountable, audit-ready delivery.

Trusted by Leading Project Delivery Teams Across the Globe

Premise
SMEC
AECOM
Jacobs
Aurecon
Bouygues
BMD
CPB Contractors
Fulton Hogan
Lendlease
Queensland Government
Queensland Department of Main Roads
Logan Water Infrastructure Alliance

Why Project Managers Choose 12d Synergy

Purpose-built for AEC project delivery

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Purpose-built for AEC project delivery

From document control and email management through review workflows to formal client transmittal, 12d Synergy covers the full project information lifecycle in one governed environment.

Proven at infrastructure scale

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Proven at infrastructure scale

Trusted on the largest infrastructure projects across the globe for over a decade. Handles hundreds of thousands of documents, emails, and deliverables across concurrent projects without performance degradation.

Protects you when it matters most

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Protects you when it matters most

When disputes arise or QA audits land, 12d Synergy's automatic audit trail gives you a complete, timestamped record of every decision, approval, and document issue. Generic tools can't do this.

Works with your existing tools

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Works with your existing tools

Integrates directly with Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel — tools your team already uses every day. No behavior change required; governed document management happens in the background.

Scales from small firms to enterprise

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Scales from small firms to enterprise

Whether you're managing five concurrent jobs or five hundred, 12d Synergy's templates, workflows, and permission controls scale with your business without the complexity of enterprise-only platforms.

Connect your Ecosystem

Streamline Project Delivery and Information Workflows

The Cost of Waiting

Project information management isn’t getting simpler. The volume of documents, stakeholders, and compliance obligations is increasing — and the consequences of poor control compound with every project.

Document volumes are growing.

A typical infrastructure project generates tens of thousands of documents, emails, drawings, and model files. Without a governed system, retrieval alone becomes a full-time job — and critical information gets lost entirely.

Stakeholder chains are getting longer.

Modern projects involve owners, consultants, subconsultants, contractors, and regulators — each expecting timely, accurate, and traceable information. Every additional handoff multiplies the risk of version errors, missed approvals, and communication failures.

Compliance and QA expectations are non-negotiable.

Clients, auditors, and regulators increasingly demand ISO 9001 and ISO 19650 compliance — with the documentation to prove it. "Show me the approval record. Who issued this drawing to site? What version did the contractor receive?" Manual systems cannot answer these questions reliably.
12d Synergy can.

The Competitive Advantage

Firms with governed project information don’t just reduce risk — they win better work and retain better clients. When procurement panels ask about your quality management systems, you have a platform-backed answer, not a process document no one follows.

12d Synergy gives Project Managers the control, visibility, and accountability they need to deliver confidently — and defend every decision if they ever need to.

Every day without proper project information management is a day you’re exposed to:

Rework from uncontrolled drawing distribution
Liability from incomplete correspondence records
Failed QA audits from missing approval trails
Inefficiency that eats billable hours and squeezes margins

What Project Delivery Leaders Are Saying

“We've definitely seen an ROI benefit in using 12d Synergy. We're now much more efficient in file and document management, and we're able to retrieve documents quicker, and generally be more productive. I would recommend 12d Synergy to other users in town planning, engineering, and project management fields.”

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David Hunter Director, Habitat Planning

“12d Synergy offered a total solution for our engineering business as it provided one place and source for all our project information.”

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Phillip Weightman Principal, Byrne Consultants

Ready to see how it works in your environment?

Premise CAD

Learn how Premise cut $240K in travel costs and boosted collaboration across 13 offices by streamlining their full CAD workflow with 12d Synergy.

ISO 19650 Guide

A clear, practical guide to ISO 19650 for AEC teams, clients, and councils. Learn how it supports digital delivery with Common Data Environments (CDEs).

ISO 9001 for Engineering and Construction Companies

ISO 9001 Guide

Learn what ISO 9001 means for construction and engineering companies in Australia and New Zealand, including requirements, benefits, tenders and document control.

FAQ – Common Questions from Project Delivery Firms

12d Synergy automatically maintains a complete transmittal register as you issue files. Every document sent — to a client, contractor, or internal team — is logged with the recipient, version, and timestamp. No manual registers, no gaps in the record.

Yes. The Outlook integration automatically stamps inbound and outbound emails with the job number and files them to the correct project folder. Decisions and approvals are no longer trapped in personal inboxes — they're searchable, traceable, and accessible to the whole team.

You configure workflows to match your review and approval process — designer submits, PM reviews, client issues. The system assigns work, captures markups, tracks each step, and builds a timestamped audit trail automatically. No manual chase-ups, no steps missed.

Yes. The automatic audit trail, version control, naming convention enforcement, and CDE workflow states support both ISO 9001 quality management and ISO 19650 information management requirements. Several 12d Synergy customers have cited it directly in successful ISO accreditation audits.

Yes, 12d Synergy integrates with project and financial management tools like Projectworks, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Deltek, Total Synergy, and more. This allows project data to flow automatically between your project management and CDE environments — reducing double-handling and keeping job records in sync across systems.

Most teams are operational within 2–4 weeks. Job templates, naming rules, and workflows are configured once and inherited by every new project — meaning setup time drops significantly as your template library matures.