Press kit
Everything an editor or journalist needs to write about Ncored, a desktop PDF editor built by a practising architect in Vilnius, Lithuania, for architects, engineers, BIM coordinators, and construction managers.
What Ncored is in one paragraph
Ncored is a desktop PDF editor for architects, civil engineers, structural engineers, mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineers, BIM coordinators, construction managers, and landscape architects who open heavy construction drawing PDFs every working day. It opens 50 MB plus drawing sets exported from ArchiCAD, Revit, AutoCAD or Vectorworks in under a second on a current generation laptop, with scroll, zoom, pinch and pan staying smooth after the file is open. The drawing stays on the local drive, with no cloud upload required.
Verified key facts
Story angles worth pitching
These are the story angles that fit Ncored honestly. Each is verifiable against the product and the founder background.
1. The privacy-first PDF category in the AI cloud-upload era
As AI PDF tools (Adobe AI Assistant, ChatPDF and others) get adopted across professions, users are quietly handing over confidential documents to cloud LLMs without realising it. The local-first PDF category, once a niche, is becoming a privacy-relevant alternative. Ncored sits in this category alongside SumatraPDF, PDF-XChange Editor and a few others, with the AEC-specific angle of confidential construction drawings and NDA projects.
2. The Mac contractor problem after Bluebeam Revu for Mac EOL
Bluebeam Revu for Mac native app reached end of life in June 2023. Bluebeam iPad ended sale on December 31, 2025. Revu 20 reaches end of life on December 31, 2026. Mac architects and contractors who once ran Revu locally now face Bluebeam Cloud in a browser, Parallels with the Windows Revu, or a different desktop tool. 2026 is the real transition year for desktop construction PDF software on Mac.
3. Practising architect builds his own desktop tool in spare hours
David Samveljan runs Noir architects, a working architecture studio in Vilnius, Lithuania. Ncored was built in spare hours alongside the studio practice after years of fighting general-purpose PDF tools that stalled on every heavy ArchiCAD or Revit export. Indie founder story with verifiable architecture practice as the trust anchor.
4. The two-axis performance test most listicles skip
Every "fastest PDF for construction" article measures one thing: how quickly the file opens. That is half the story. The complete test is two axes: cold open time AND post-load smoothness on scroll, zoom, pinch and pan. Most general-purpose PDF tools pass axis 1 and stall on axis 2 with heavy vector drawings. Ncored published a public benchmark page where anyone can verify the claim themselves.
Quote from the founder
"I am a practising architect. I built Ncored because I was tired of waiting eight to twelve seconds every time I opened a heavy ArchiCAD or Revit drawing in Acrobat, and then watching every zoom stall. Most PDF tools were built for office documents like contracts and reports. Architects, engineers, and contractors are not their priority. Multiply the wait by a dozen reopens a day across a project, and that is real lost time."
David Samveljan, founder of Ncored and architect at Noir architects, Vilnius
Logo and brand assets
Download Ncored brand assets for editorial use. Trademark applies in all uses (see notice at the bottom of this page).
Product screenshots and benchmark
The public benchmark page documents the test methodology and comparison numbers for Adobe Acrobat, Bluebeam Revu, Foxit, Nitro PDF and Apple Preview on a 50-200 MB+ ArchiCAD-exported construction drawing.
- Benchmark page (verifiable methodology)
- Product homepage with feature overview
- Blog index with technical posts on AEC PDF workflows
What Ncored does not do
Honest scope statement for editorial accuracy. These features are tracked on the roadmap based on real user requests but are not currently shipped.
- Multi-user real-time collaboration sessions (Bluebeam Studio style)
- Takeoff-grade quantity bidding workflows
- Mobile or iPad field markup
- Digital signature workflow platform
- Forms engine
Press contact
For interviews, screenshots beyond the kit, free editorial licences, or specific benchmark runs on your own files:
- Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn: David Samveljan
- Response time: usually within 1 to 2 business days