Getting started
Overview
Get an introduction to Alloovium — an AI-powered document intelligence platform built for construction and AEC professionals.
Introduction
Alloovium helps construction, engineering, and AEC teams extract intelligence from their documents. Upload contracts, specifications, drawings, and reports — then ask questions, fill templates, generate documents, and get cited answers drawn directly from your files.
Everything is organised into Projects. A project is a workspace that holds a set of related documents. You can create separate projects for different contracts, tenders, or job sites and invite specific team members to each one.
Who is Alloovium for?
Alloovium is designed for white-collar construction professionals — project managers, contract administrators, estimators, and engineers — who work with dense technical and legal documents every day.Setting Up Your Workspace
Getting started takes less than five minutes. Here is what you need to do to have your first project ready.
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Create your account
Sign up at alloovium.com using your work email. Your account is scoped to your organisation — all team members share the same tenant.
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Create your first project
Click "New Project" from the dashboard. Give it a name (e.g. "City Road Contract") and an optional description. Projects are private by default.
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Upload your documents
Drag and drop PDF, DOCX, XLSX, or PPTX files into the Document Hub. Alloovium processes them automatically — OCR, chunking, and embedding — ready for AI queries.
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Ask your first question
Open the AI Assistant, type a question about your documents, and receive a cited answer in seconds.
Inviting Your Team
Once your project is set up, invite colleagues by going to Project Settings → Members and entering their email addresses. Each member can be assigned one of three roles:
- Viewer — can read documents and view AI conversations, but cannot upload or create content.
- Editor — can upload documents, fill templates, generate documents, and run analyses.
- Admin — full control including managing members and project settings.
Key Features
Alloovium provides a suite of tools that work together to make document analysis faster and more reliable.
AI Assistant
The AI Assistant lets you ask questions about your documents in plain language and receive accurate, cited answers drawn directly from the content. Every response includes numbered citations that link back to the exact passage — so you can verify the source and navigate to it with one click.
Document Hub
The Document Hub is the central repository for all your documents. Upload PDFs, Word docs, Excel sheets, and PowerPoint files. Alloovium handles OCR, text extraction, and chunking automatically. Documents are processed in the background — you can start asking questions as soon as processing completes (usually 30–120 seconds depending on file size).
Template Filling
Upload a DOCX template and Alloovium fills every field from your vault documents. The output is a completed Word file with tracked changes — accept or reject each fill individually, with every change showing its source citation.
Document Generation
Describe what you need — e.g. "Create a WHS Management Plan for this project" — and Alloovium drafts the document grounded in your uploaded files. Download as DOCX and open in Word for final review.
Next Steps
Once you have your workspace set up, explore the rest of the documentation:
- →Document Hub — learn how to organise and manage your documents.
- →AI Assistant — master querying, citations, and voice input.
- →Template Filling — fill DOCX templates from your vault documents.
- →Developer Quickstart — build integrations using the public REST API v2.