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In this article, Kestrel Labs explains how AI powered building code compliance can help architects check code directly inside the BIM model, reducing manual review, rework, and permitting delays. The conversation explores how computable building codes, Revit based workflows, and traceable compliance results can support faster design decisions, stronger code confidence, and a more efficient future for AEC permitting.

How Kestrel Labs Is Bringing Code Compliance Inside the BIM Model

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We sat down with Chinmayi Suri, Architectural Designer at DGA, and Brandon Levey, Founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.ichiplan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ichi</a>, to learn how the two are working at the intersection of architecture and AI to tackle some of the profession's most time-consuming pain points: building code compliance, QA/QC, and the institutional knowledge that disappears when senior staff retire.&nbsp;
On a recent corporate laboratory project, the team at DGA, a Bay Area architecture firm specializing in life sciences and advanced manufacturing facilities, hit a familiar wall. Their mechanical scope carried a $250,000 line item for fire dampers, and the client wanted that cost justified before signing off. The architects suspected the dampers were not actually required by code for this specific occupancy and assembly configuration, but confirming it the usual way meant setting up a meeting, a senior architect pulling code books, cross-referencing amendments, and chasing answers across the firm. On a project already under deadline pressure, the budget question was at risk of being closed out without ever being properly answered.
Instead, they ran the question through Ichi, an AI platform built specifically for navigating building code complexity. Within seconds they had a cited answer from the code confirming the dampers were not required. The line item came out. The client saved $250,000.
While this is a relatively small sum for highly complex projects, this is just a single example and without that quick verification, the money would not have stayed in the project. It would have come out of finishes, or contingency, or somewhere else the team would rather not have touched. That is the part worth paying attention to. Code research used to be a slow, senior-architect-only task that often gets skipped or rushed under deadline pressure. When it stops being slow, it starts shaping budgets in real time.
<h3 dir="ltr">How Manual Code Work Is Costing You</h3>
Code compliance is one of those parts of architectural practice that almost no one celebrates. It is also one of the most expensive parts of the job, in hours if not always in dollars.
Chinmayi Suri, an architectural designer at DGA, works on cGMP pharmaceutical, life science, and manufacturing facilities that often run past 100,000 square feet and carry layered regulatory requirements. She describes the existing process bluntly. Navigating ADA, fire codes, and industry-specific regulations falls on the most senior architects, the ones who have memorized chunks of code over years of repetition. It is institutional knowledge stored in human heads, queried one Slack message or in-person conversation at a time.
That creates two problems. The first is throughput. Senior staff become the bottleneck on every code question, which pulls them away from the design work they were hired to do. The second is timing. Code checking traditionally happens after the design is mostly finished, so compliance issues surface late, when changes are expensive and the schedule is already tight.
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"This stemmed from frustration really. I was sitting on my computer saying this should not take so long, and that's kind of actually where this all started."&nbsp;&mdash; Chinmayi Suri, DGA
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Her original interest in AI tools came out of that frustration, not out of any particular enthusiasm for AI as a concept.
<h3 dir="ltr">Why Generic AI Tools Fall Short</h3>
The obvious question for any architect frustrated with code research is: Can&rsquo;t ChatGPT do the job? The answer, so far, has been no, and the reasons are useful to understand.
Brandon Levey, founder and CEO of Ichi, comes from a 20-year tech background that includes work at a Department of Energy national lab and running R&amp;D teams at Square. He grew up in his father's HVAC and sheet metal business, which is partly why he ended up building software for AEC. He breaks the gap down into three things.
Accuracy on compliance codes has to be very high. Architects stamp their drawings, and a model that produces plausible-sounding language without citing the exact code section is worse than no answer at all. The documents themselves are also unusually large. A spec package can run 6,000 pages. A jurisdiction comment letter can run 60 pages with 300 individual items. General-purpose tools are not built to parse and cross-reference at that scale with any reliability. And, the answers always depend on the context that lives inside the firm: what counts as a standard detail, which assemblies the client has used before, what the senior architect on this project type would flag.
Chinmayi put it more directly. Generic AI tools require the user to already have deep domain knowledge to know what to ask and to verify what comes back. That defeats the purpose. The point of an AI assistant for code work is to lower the barrier, not require an expert to operate it.
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<h3 dir="ltr">What Agentic Actually Means Here</h3>
Ichi's product is built around what Brandon calls an agentic approach. The term gets used loosely, so it is worth being specific.
In Ichi's case it means that when users ask Ichi a question they aren&rsquo;t interacting with a single LLM, but rather many different agents that are specialized in specific tasks. This approach helps the platform guide users when they do not know exactly what to ask,check its own work, and complete longer, more complex tasks.
A simple example. An architect asks a question about an auditorium in California. A generic chatbot returns a generic answer. Ichi instead asks clarifying questions about occupancy load and square footage, because those variables fundamentally change which code sections apply. That guided flow matters in code work, where a wrong assumption upstream invalidates everything downstream.
The error-checking piece is more technical but arguably more important.
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"Any type of long-running or long horizon task in AI is going to have errors in it. The way that we evolve through that, a lot of the agentic approaches are by using multiple AI agents to check its work."&nbsp;&mdash; Brandon Levey, founder and CEO, Ichi
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In practice that means when Ichi pulls code references from a 60-page comment letter or runs a feasibility study, separate agents are reviewing the output for inconsistencies and gaps before the architect sees it. That internal cross-check is what makes the difference between a curiosity and something architects will actually put their name on.
Want to hear the full discussion?<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsm_sSv2urI" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Watch the complete panel conversation with Chinmayi Suri and Brandon Levey on YouTube.&nbsp;</a>
<h3 dir="ltr">Reducing the Work Architects Enjoy Least&nbsp;</h3>
The most concrete value Ichi delivers shows up in the workflows least enjoyed by architects.
Comment letters are the clearest case. When a jurisdiction returns a plan check, the architect's first job is translation: turning a long PDF into a structured spreadsheet that maps each comment to the relevant code reference, assigns it to the right consultant, and drafts an initial response. Brandon described one user who spent five to eight hours turning a 60-page letter with 300 comments into a workable spreadsheet. With Ichi, that drops to around 20 minutes.
Feasibility and zoning studies follow a similar pattern. A study that previously took two to four hours of senior staff time becomes a 20-minute guided workflow, producing an exportable document with code references already in place.
On the documentation side, the savings come less from automation than from triage. Chinmayi pointed to 700-page document sets where the real value is having AI do the first pass, locating where specific notes or drawing discrepancies live. The architect still verifies and decides. They just no longer have to read every line to find the three that matter.
The work that consumes the most time in an architecture firm is rarely the work that draws people into the profession. Cutting hours out of that work is where most firms will see the first real return.
<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSKu4e2Qg3s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch Ichi in action: See how the platform supports zoning, design, permitting, and inspections across the full project lifecycle.</a></div>
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<h3 dir="ltr">Capturing the Knowledge Before It Walks Out the Door</h3>
One of the more interesting features in Ichi is what the platform calls Memory. It captures the institutional knowledge of senior staff, the kind of judgment and pattern recognition that takes decades to build and tends to leave the firm when those people retire.
Chinmayi described how the idea took shape at DGA.
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"I wish we could put Mark Davis into a notebook LLM."&nbsp;&mdash; Chinmayi Suri, on DGA principal Mark Davis
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The line is partly a joke about a specific colleague, but it captures something the AEC industry has struggled with for a long time. Knowledge transfer from senior to junior staff is mostly accidental, dependent on proximity, mentorship, and time.
Memory works by ingesting organizational standards, past project notes, and client specifications so the AI's answers reflect the firm's actual way of working, not a generic best practice. DGA has started using it as a training tool, exposing younger architects not just to answers but to the prompts and reasoning senior staff use to get there. The platform already syncs directly with OneDrive and soon will with Google Drive, removing another friction point for firms with messy document storage.
This is also where the security question gets practical. Ichi does not train its models on customer data. For firms handling sensitive client information, particularly in life sciences or government work, that distinction is the difference between adoption and a hard no from legal.
<h3 dir="ltr">The Barriers Are Real, but Shrinking</h3>
Adoption is rarely about whether a tool works. It is about whether a firm can afford the time to find out.
Chinmayi named three barriers: time, trust, and security. Time, because evaluating new software is itself a senior-staff task that competes with billable work. Trust, because architects are personally liable for what they sign. Security, because client data cannot be pasted into a public chatbot.
The trust question tends to dissolve through small wins. Firms that successfully adopt AI usually start with a single project, often a smaller one, and prove the tool against a known answer. Once the output matches what a senior architect would have produced, the conversation shifts from whether the tool is reliable to which workflow it should touch next.
The fear of replacement also fades quickly once people actually use the tools. The intelligent part of the work, as Chinmayi pointed out, still comes from the humans using it. AI takes the repetitive parts. It does not make decisions, and it does not stamp drawings.
<h3 dir="ltr">The New Baseline</h3>
The shift Brandon describes has happened fast. In 2024, the conversation in architecture was still about whether AI was real. By late 2025 it had moved to how to implement it. Firms are now being asked in client interviews and RFP responses what their AI strategy is. Within the next year, not having a clear answer will start to count against firms competing for work.
Chinmayi frames it in the only terms that really matter to working architects.
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"You have to start using it. We have to start thinking about using it in our workflow. It is going to become as prevalent to us at some point as Revit is."&nbsp;&mdash; Chinmayi Suri, DGA
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The shift from hand drafting to CAD took roughly a decade. CAD to BIM took another. Each one looked optional at the start and obvious by the end. The shift now underway, from manual code research to agentic compliance tools, is following the same curve. 
Firms picking up the tools now are buying themselves time to figure out how to use them well before that becomes a job requirement rather than a competitive edge.
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Editor's Note
This article is based on an aec+tech Expert Talk, Navigating Code Complexity with AI, featuring Chinmayi Suri of DGA Architects and Brandon Levey of Ichi. The conversation explored why building code review remains one of the most manual and time consuming parts of architectural practice, and how AI can help project teams navigate code requirements, reduce repetitive review work, and make more informed design decisions.
Learn more on Ichi&rsquo;s product page: <a href="../../tools/ichi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.aecplustech.com/tools/ichi</a>
Watch the full conversation here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsm_sSv2urI&amp;t=168s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsm_sSv2urI&amp;t=168s</a>
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In this article, we explore how DGA Architects is using Ichi’s agentic AI platform to rethink building code compliance, QA/QC, and time consuming review workflows. Through a recent project example, the article shows how faster, cited code research helped the team remove a $250K fire damper line item and make better decisions earlier. The piece also looks at how AI can capture institutional knowledge, support junior teams, and become a new baseline for architecture firms as client expectations evolve.

How DGA Used Ichi’s Agentic AI to Rethink Code Compliance

<img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/57eee85d-cd2f-4ffd-842d-2e8a109ebfa4.jpg" alt="" width="1080">The difference between a concept and a market leader lies in the ecosystem in which they operate. If your startup is building the next generation of automation, artificial intelligence, or spatial intelligence for the built environment, this is your final opportunity to apply for the 2026 Trimble 0&ndash;60 Challenge. Applications officially close on May 22, 2026.
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Tech startups in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Owner-Operator (AECO) sector often struggle to gain traction, not because they lack innovative ideas, but because they lack real-world domain context and access to established workflows. The Trimble 0&ndash;60 Challenge is a rigorous, equity-free 12-week sprint designed to help early-stage founders bridge the gap between digital concepts and physical workflows, moving solutions from prototype to real-world deployment.
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General-purpose accelerators can give you cloud infrastructure, but the Trimble 0&ndash;60 Challenge gives you the industry. Recently named the 2025 Accelerator Program of the Year by BuiltWorlds, this program provides what standard accelerators cannot: direct integration with the world's most widely deployed AECO platforms.
Startups selected for the 2026 cohort will receive:
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The 12-week roadmap focuses entirely on rapid development and commercial validation. As Simon Boyles, founder of ScaffPlan, noted after his cohort experience, "We finished the program with a brand new, fully functioning application ready to be commercialized". Similarly, the 2025 winner, Datagrid, successfully built an agentic AI tool that integrates directly with Trimble solutions and over 100 enterprise systems, which is now live on the Trimble Marketplace.
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The program is actively seeking early-stage startups and developers building solutions in three core categories:
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The 2026 Trimble 0–60 Challenge, an equity-free 12-week accelerator for early-stage AEC startups in automation, AI, and spatial intelligence, closes applications on May 22, 2026. Selected founders gain direct integration with Trimble platforms, expert mentorship, non-dilutive cash prizes, and a Demo Day slot at Trimble Dimensions in Las Vegas.

Last Call: Accelerate Your AEC Startup with the 2026 Trimble 0–60 Challenge

Graebert’s ARES Trinity 2027 helps AEC teams automate BIM-to-DWG documentation from Revit, IFC, and Autodesk Forma workflows. It reduces manual drawing updates, supports cloud automation, preserves CAD details, improves feedback loops, and introduces ARES Neo for Revit-based drawing validation.

BIM Has the Intelligence. Why Is Revit Documentation Still Manual?

Lagarsoft is an AEC software development company headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, building production-grade software for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, and Property Tech industries. Founded in 2019 by senior engineers out of CASE Inc. and WeWork, the team brings more than a decade of experience shipping software inside the built environment, combining backgrounds in architecture, real estate, data analysis, automation, software development, and agile management. 

Lagarsoft operates as a US company that is Uruguay-based and globally distributed, with senior engineers and architects working together across the Americas.

The company's origin gives it a distinctive perspective. Its founders first met at CASE, a global Building Information Modeling consultancy that pioneered the idea that "buildings = data," using technology to reshape how architecture and construction teams worked. After CASE was acquired by WeWork, the team helped build software to manage WeWork's massive real estate portfolio. When WeWork closed its Uruguay office, the team chose to continue that vision independently, founding Lagarsoft to bring data-driven, agile software solutions to AEC firms worldwide.

Lagarsoft is an Autodesk Platform Services (APS) Certified Partner. The company designs and ships custom Autodesk software on APS, including Viewer integrations, Model Derivative pipelines, Data Exchange flows, Design Automation jobs, and AEC Data Model queries running in production. It also builds custom Revit plugins that extend the native toolset, automate repetitive tasks, and bridge Revit to the rest of the technology stack so that the model is not the end of the line. Output flows into web viewers, dashboards, generative design platforms, and field tooling. Beyond the Autodesk ecosystem, the same engineering bench handles broader custom AEC software development, from systems coordination and clash detection tooling to portfolio platforms and investor dashboards.
Engineering rigor is central to Lagarsoft's positioning. The company emphasizes production readiness: authentication, secrets handling, dependency hygiene, and audit trails as a baseline, with CI, observability, and a clear rollback path in place before the first deploy. The team favors reliable, well-understood infrastructure such as databases, queues, and caches that hold up under real production load. Increasingly, Lagarsoft helps industrial, manufacturing, AEC, and logistics companies take AI-built applications to production, layering senior engineering discipline around modern AI tooling.

Engagements typically begin with a Build Audit, a focused working session with senior engineers followed by a concise one-page memo delivered within forty-eight hours. From there, work continues as an Embedded Pod: senior engineers operating on a sprint cadence with scoped work and transparent management, adjusted as it unfolds and shaped by what is actually shipping. The company also offers consulting, where it reads the codebase, reviews deploys, and identifies where existing systems are fragile, mapping current processes and technologies against what production-grade looks like for the size and risk of the business.

Lagarsoft's core competencies span BIM, AECO, APIs, Revit, mobile and web development, machine learning, and data analysis. By pairing deep domain knowledge of the built environment with senior software engineering, Lagarsoft helps teams across architecture, engineering, construction, MEP, and real estate get more done with software that performs reliably in real-world production conditions.

Lagarsoft

We are engineers with a background in architecture, real estate, data analysis, automation, software development, and agile management. We have spent the last decade shipping production software inside the AEC industry.

Redefining Engineering Intelligence
Built for industries where precision cannot fail.
Engineering projects do not fail because of the people. They fail because no one made the risks visible in time. ZestineTech bridges engineering and technology to change that — delivering intelligence before it is needed, not after it is too late.
We are an engineering software company building intelligent tools for project delivery teams across architecture, construction, infrastructure, oil and gas, manufacturing, and enterprise operations. Founded by engineers who worked inside complex project environments, ZestineTech was built from a single conviction: the tools available to engineering teams had not kept pace with the complexity those teams were being asked to manage.
That gap — between what engineering workflows demand and what existing software delivers — is exactly where ZestineTech operates.

Who We Are
ZestineTech is a focused, purpose-driven software company headquartered in Pennsylvania, USA, serving engineering and project delivery organizations globally. Our team carries over a decade of direct experience working within engineering environments — not studying them from the outside, but operating inside them at the level where real problems live.
We understand the coordination failures that happen weeks before a review. We know the unauthorized changes that go undetected until they become expensive. We have seen the operational inefficiencies that compound quietly until they become project risks. We build software to solve those problems — precisely, honestly, and without unnecessary complexity.
Engineering done right. The first time.

Who We Serve
ZestineTech operates where precision is not optional and the cost of being wrong is measured in project weeks, not corrections. The teams we serve carry accountability for project accuracy every day and cannot afford to discover what went wrong after it already has.
We serve engineering-led industries across global markets:
AEC — Architecture, Engineering & Construction: Smarter delivery for teams working where coordination failures cost time and money. 
Oil & Gas: Precision-driven engineering tools for complex industrial environments where operational accuracy and compliance are non-negotiable. 
Sustainability & Infrastructure: Engineering the systems that make sustainability measurable, manageable and built to last. 
Manufacturing: Reducing inefficiency and rework across manufacturing operations through intelligent workflow control and process automation. 
Enterprise Operations: Bringing structure, visibility, and automation to large-scale operations that cannot run on manual oversight. 

The Standard We Build To
Clarity — Actionable visibility. No noise. No ambiguity. Engineering teams deserve tools that make complexity legible, not compound it.
Precision — Engineered for accuracy. Built for the real world. We hold our products to the same standard we expect from the workflows they support.
Honesty — Transparent insight. Grounded in reality. We build what works. We say what is true. We do not oversell.
Control — Stay ahead of risk. Operate with confidence. The best tools give teams more visibility and confidence, not less.

Why ZestineTech
Most engineering software is built by software companies. ZestineTech is built by engineers who understand what it costs when workflows break down — in rework, in delays, in coordination failures that should have been caught earlier.
That origin shapes everything: the problems we choose to solve, the standard we hold our products to, and the commitment we bring to every team that relies on our software. We exist to bring intelligence earlier into engineering and operations — helping teams identify risks before coordination breaks down, before delivery is impacted and before small issues become expensive problems.

ZestineTech

MaRS BIM Solutions is a leading BIM consulting and outsourcing company providing Building Information Modeling (BIM), Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), CAD services, and Digital Twin solutions for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.

With more than 20 years of experience, MaRS BIM Solutions helps architects, engineers, contractors, developers, fabricators, and construction professionals improve project delivery through advanced digital workflows, accurate modeling, and data-driven collaboration.

Our comprehensive BIM services include:

Architectural BIM Services
Structural BIM Services
MEP BIM Services
Scan to BIM
CAD to BIM Conversion
Revit Modeling
BIM Coordination & Clash Detection
4D Construction Scheduling
5D BIM Cost Estimation
Revit Family Creation
Shop Drawings
Construction Documentation
Digital Twin Solutions

Using industry-leading platforms such as Autodesk Revit and proven BIM methodologies, we create accurate, coordinated, and information-rich models that support better decision-making throughout the design, construction, and facility management lifecycle.

Our BIM-driven approach helps project teams identify design conflicts early, improve multidisciplinary coordination, reduce costly rework, and minimize project delays. By integrating intelligent 3D models with schedule and cost data, we enable more efficient planning, resource management, and project execution.

MaRS BIM Solutions supports architects with detailed architectural models for design visualization, documentation, and coordination. Our structural BIM services improve engineering analysis, detailing, and fabrication workflows, while our MEP BIM expertise enhances coordination between mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems to reduce installation conflicts and improve construction efficiency.

We also provide Scan to BIM and CAD to BIM conversion services, transforming laser scan data and legacy drawings into intelligent BIM models that support renovation, retrofit, and facility management projects. Our BIM coordination and clash detection services improve communication among stakeholders and help ensure smoother project delivery.

MaRS BIM Solutions serves a diverse range of sectors, including commercial, residential, healthcare, hospitality, industrial, educational, retail, and infrastructure projects. We work closely with each client to develop customized BIM strategies that align with project goals, standards, budgets, and timelines.

Serving clients across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and India, MaRS BIM Solutions has built a reputation for delivering reliable, cost-effective, and high-quality BIM services.

Our commitment to innovation, accuracy, collaboration, and client success helps organizations improve project outcomes, streamline workflows, reduce risk, and maximize value across the entire building lifecycle. Whether supporting new construction, renovation, or infrastructure projects, MaRS BIM Solutions delivers scalable BIM solutions designed to drive efficiency from concept through completion.

MaRS BIM Solutions

MaRS BIM Solutions is a trusted BIM consulting and outsourcing company specializing in Building Information Modeling (BIM), CAD, VDC, and Digital Twin services for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. 

The perfect add-in to make Revit smarter and prevent costly mistakes before they happen.

Guardian is a Revit add-in that trains your teams, cleans your models, protects your work, and tracks model performance. Guardian helps firms reduce rework, improve consistency, and keep project standards on track by combining real-time user guidance, standards automations, proactive project protections, and model performance insights.

Since 2018, Guardian has been dedicated to solving long-standing challenges that plague the AEC industry. Rather than relying on manual oversight and reactive quality control, Guardian enables firms to proactively establish, maintain, and scale standards across projects, teams, and offices. Guardian was built for the BIM managers, design technology leaders, and project teams who believe design should flow smoothly.

Guardian helps firms in four key ways: train your teams, clean your models, protect your work, and track model performance.

Train Your Teams:
Guardian helps users complete the work correctly the first time by delivering real-time guidance directly within Revit. BIM and design technology leaders can provide users with in-the-moment coaching and best practices as they work, helping them complete tasks correctly the first time. By reinforcing standards at the point of action, firms can improve graphical consistency, reduce common mistakes, and ensure best practices across project teams. Combined with project and user-level data, Guardian provides visibility into model performance and user activity, helping leaders identify training opportunities and make data-driven decisions.

Clean Your Models:
Guardian automatically aligns your firm’s Revit and graphical standards. With standards and mappings, firms can clean incoming content and seamlessly sync properties across projects. Additional Revit automations streamline can automate workset assignment, viewport selection, and merge duplicate families. By reducing manual effort and eliminating inconsistencies, Guardian helps teams spend less time fixing issues and more time delivering high-quality project work.

Protect Your Work:
Guardian monitors critical project settings, standards, and modeled elements. Automated protections help prevent accidental edits, deletions, and changes that can introduce risk, rework, or project delays. Rather than discovering issues after they occur, teams can proactively maintain project integrity and confidence in their models.

Track Model Performance:
Through Guardian Backstage, firms gain visibility into project health, model activity, and user behavior across their organization. These insights help BIM and design technology leaders identify opportunities for improvement, measure the impact of standards initiatives, and make more informed operational decisions.

Guardian is designed to support every role involved in project delivery. BIM managers can guide and train teams, enforce standards, and reduce costly mistakes. Firm leaders benefit from improved consistency, reduced rework, and more efficient project delivery that contribute to stronger business outcomes. Designers and project teams can work confidently knowing they are aligned with firm standards and best practices.

Leading firms choose Guardian to improve Revit quality and model performance, train their users more effectively, gain meaningful insights into model and team activity, and scale best practices across offices and project teams. By helping firms establish standards, reinforce best practices, and prevent issues before they spread, Guardian transforms BIM management from a reactive process into a proactive strategy that supports better project outcomes and long-term growth.

"Guardian has saved us time, money, and frustration by helping us enforce standards at the source while giving us real insight through Backstage. It’s helped us grow our templates, families, and team in a smarter, more strategic direction."
-John Wehmer, BIM Manager at Garver USA

Guardian for Revit

Guardian is a Revit add-in that helps firms clean their models, train their teams, and protect their work. Through real-time user guidance, automated protections, and powerful dashboards, Guardian helps teams maintain consistent standards, prevent costly mistakes, and reduce rework before issues spread across projects.

Bimrock AI is a construction technology company building automation tools for MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) designers and engineers working in Autodesk Revit. Our mission is to eliminate repetitive manual workflows that consume engineering hours - replacing them with intelligent, profile-based automation that lets MEP professionals focus on design, not documentation busywork.                                                   

The Problem We're Solving

MEP engineering teams spend a disproportionate amount of their project time on repetitive, low-value tasks. Annotation alone - placing tags on ductwork, piping, electrical panels, fixtures, and equipment across dozens of floor plan views - can consume entire workdays on a single building. Multiply that across disciplines, floors, and projects, and firms lose thousands of billable hours annually to work that follows predictable, repeatable patterns. These are exactly the kinds of workflows that should be automated, but until now, haven't been - at least not without custom Dynamo scripts, manual workarounds, or expensive enterprise platforms that require months of implementation.

Bimrock AI exists to close that gap. We build tools that are powerful enough for complex MEP workflows but accessible enough that any Revit user can adopt them immediately — no scripting, no code, no lengthy onboarding process.

Our Flagship Product: Autotag by Bimrock AI

Autotag by Bimrock AI is our first product, focused on automating MEP annotation in Autodesk Revit. It replaces manual tag placement with a profile-based system: users define tagging rules once - selecting MEP categories, tag families, filters, and placement preferences - then apply those rules to any number of views. The tool handles intelligent tag positioning, automatic overlap avoidance, and batch processing across entire building documentation sets.

Key capabilities include:

- Profile-Based Automation — Create reusable annotation profiles that work like View Templates but for tags. Define standards once, enforce them consistently across every project and every team member.

- Automatic Overlap Avoidance — Intelligent algorithms analyze element positions and adjust tag placement to eliminate overlapping labels. No manual cleanup required after placement.

- Batch View Processing — Queue 40 or more views and process them in a single operation. Tag an entire building's documentation set — across all MEP disciplines and floor levels — while you focus on higher-value design work.

- Full MEP Discipline Coverage — Supports Mechanical (ducts, air terminals, equipment), Electrical (panels, fixtures, devices, cable trays), and Plumbing (pipes, fixtures, equipment), plus general architectural elements.
- Linked Model and Workshared Support — Designed for real-world BIM coordination workflows, Autotag works seamlessly with Revit linked models and workshared projects.

- Custom Family Support — Tag any parameter on any element, including custom Revit families. Not limited to out-of-the-box content.

- Post-Placement Editing Tools — Bulk-edit tags, align leader line elbows, and reorganize annotations after placement for precise control over final output.

- Team Profile Sharing — Share and distribute annotation profiles across team members to maintain consistent documentation standards firm-wide.

Autotag saves MEP teams 30–60 minutes per floor plan on annotation tasks. When batch-processing full documentation sets, teams report saving 2–4 hours per building. For firms producing dozens of projects annually, the compounding time savings translate to hundreds of recovered billable hours.

Autotag supports Revit 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027, runs on Windows 10 and later, and includes a free trial with no credit card required.

Our Platform Vision: Automated MEP Design

Autotag by Bimrock AI is the starting point - not the destination. We are building toward a comprehensive Automated MEP Design platform that covers the full spectrum of MEP engineering workflows within Autodesk Revit:

1. Documentation Automation: Autotag by Bimrock AI (live in Revit today). Automates annotation, tagging, and documentation workflows that consume hours of manual effort on every project.

2. Sketch-to-BIM: Converting early-stage design sketches and schematics into fully modeled BIM elements, accelerating the transition from conceptual design to detailed engineering.

3. Rapid Design: Computational and generative design tools for MEP system layout, including HVAC network analysis, pressure drop calculations, and system optimization. These tools bring building performance intelligence directly into the design workflow - enabling engineers to evaluate and iterate on MEP systems faster than traditional manual methods allow.

4. Coordination: Automated clash detection analysis, spatial coordination, and cross-discipline alignment tools that reduce RFIs and rework during construction.

Each product in the platform shares the same core philosophy: profile-based automation. Define your rules, standards, and preferences once, then let the tools apply them consistently and intelligently across your entire project. This approach scales from solo consultants managing their own workflows to enterprise firms standardizing processes across hundreds of team members and multiple offices.

Who We Serve

Bimrock AI serves the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry - specifically MEP engineering professionals across all project types: commercial, residential, industrial, institutional, healthcare, and data center projects. Our tools are designed for:

  - Solo MEP designers and consultants who need to move fast and deliver high-quality documentation without a large support team
  - Team leads and BIM managers who need to enforce consistent  standards across projects and team members
  - MEP firms looking to standardize documentation quality, reduce QC review cycles, and recover billable hours lost to manual workflows
  - General contractors and design-build firms that need efficient, reliable MEP documentation as part of their integrated project delivery

Technology and Data Security

Bimrock AI's platform runs on Google Cloud Platform with industry-standard security certifications. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Customer data uploaded for processing is automatically deleted within 60 days.

We do not use customer data to train AI models. Customers retain full ownership of all output — tagged views, reports, and exported data remain theirs entirely.

Getting Started

Autotag by Bimrock AI is available for download with a free trial, no credit card is required. Pricing starts at $49 per month for individual users, with team plans starting at $199 per month for five floating licenses.

Enterprise pricing is available for larger organizations. Visit bimrock.ai to learn more, explore our documentation library with 13 step-by-step guides, or join our community on Discord.

Autotag by Bimrock AI Demo: Stop Manually Tagging & Automate Your MEP Annonation

Bimrock AI - Save Hours on MEP Workflows with Revit Automation

Bimrock AI

Bimrock AI is building the future of MEP design automation. We help engineers and BIM managers eliminate manual documentation tedium in Autodesk Revit - starting with intelligent annotation, and expanding into full automated MEP design.     

Unanet Company Overview

Unanet is a leading provider of AI-first ERP and growth software for project-based businesses, with a strong focus on architecture, engineering, and construction firms. Built specifically for the way AEC companies operate, Unanet helps organizations manage the full lifecycle of work — from business development and client relationships to project delivery, financial management, and long-term growth.

Built for the Way AEC Firms Work

AEC firms face a unique set of challenges. They need to balance project delivery, staffing, utilization, profitability, client relationships, and business development — often across multiple systems that do not work well together. Unanet is designed to solve that problem by giving firms a purpose-built platform that connects the critical parts of the business in one place.

Rather than forcing AEC companies to adapt to generic enterprise software, Unanet delivers technology tailored to the realities of project-based work. That means better visibility, stronger collaboration, and faster decision-making across teams.

One Connected Platform for Better Visibility

Unanet helps unify financials, projects, and pursuits in a single intelligent environment. With built-in automation and real-time visibility, leaders can monitor project performance, understand resource needs, track profitability, and make informed decisions using current data instead of outdated reports or manual spreadsheets.

For AEC firms, this kind of connectivity matters. Margins, timelines, staffing levels, and client expectations are tightly linked, and even small gaps in visibility can affect performance. By bringing essential business functions together, Unanet helps firms operate more efficiently while creating a stronger foundation for growth.

ERP Designed for Project-Based Operations

A major part of Unanet’s AEC offering is its ERP solution for architecture and engineering firms. The platform is built to support the operational and financial needs of project-based organizations through capabilities that help teams manage:

Prospects and project pipelines
Active projects and resource plans
Time and expense tracking
Accounting and financials
Reporting and analytics

The result is a shared source of truth for project managers, finance leaders, and business development teams. Instead of working in silos, teams can align around the same data to improve planning, execution, and profitability. For firms looking to gain tighter control over utilization, staffing, and project-based accounting without adding unnecessary complexity, Unanet provides a modern, easy-to-use solution.

CRM That Supports Growth

In addition to ERP, Unanet offers CRM capabilities built specifically for the AEC market. Its CRM platform is designed to help firms strengthen relationship management, improve pipeline visibility, and support more strategic pursuit decisions.

For marketing and business development teams, this means easier access to the client, project, and opportunity data needed to create stronger proposals and presentations. For firm leaders, it means better insight into where opportunities are coming from, how relationships are developing, and which pursuits are most likely to drive profitable growth.

Practical AI for Smarter Decisions

Unanet’s position in the market is also shaped by its focus on AI and smart technology. The company’s AI-first approach is centered on practical automation, faster insights, and better business decisions. For AEC firms, that is especially relevant in an environment where teams are expected to do more with fewer resources while maintaining high standards for delivery and performance.

Rather than treating AI as a standalone add-on, Unanet presents it as a layer of intelligence built into the way the business works. This helps teams streamline tasks, improve forecasting, and focus more time on high-value work across project delivery, marketing, finance, and operations.

Trusted by Thousands of Project-Driven Firms

Unanet’s scale reinforces its position as a trusted technology partner. The company states that more than 4,200 government contractor, architecture, engineering, and construction firms rely on Unanet to help manage projects, financials, and growth. In addition to software, Unanet emphasizes customer success, training, integrations, and related services that support firms through implementation, adoption, and long-term improvement.

Supporting the Future of AEC

At its core, Unanet is focused on helping project-based businesses unlock productivity and perform at a higher level. That mission aligns closely with the AEC industry, where firms are responsible for designing, engineering, and building the environments that shape communities and industries.

Overall, Unanet positions itself as more than a software provider. It is a strategic partner for AEC firms that want connected systems, stronger operational visibility, smarter growth tools, and technology built specifically for the demands of project-based business.

Unanet

Unanet is an AI-first ERP and CRM platform purpose-built for government contractors and architecture, engineering, and construction firms. It unifies project management, financials, resource planning, and business development in one system.

AEODC Inc. is a leading BIM firm specializing in Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. We offer a comprehensive range of services designed to enhance the efficiency and precision of every phase of a project. Our expertise includes Revit Architecture Modeling, Revit Structure Modeling, and Revit MEP Modeling, which allow for seamless integration and coordination across all aspects of the building process.

Our services extend to Clash Coordination and Clash Detection, ensuring that all potential conflicts are identified and resolved early in the design phase, minimizing costly rework during construction. We also provide high-quality Construction Documentation, facilitating clear, accurate plans and specifications that streamline the construction process.

AEODC specializes in Point Cloud to BIM, transforming laser scan data into precise 3D models for accurate representation of existing conditions. Our MEP Shop and Spool Preparation services provide detailed models for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, improving fabrication and installation processes. Additionally, we offer Construction Simulation services, enabling clients to visualize and optimize the construction sequence, reduce risks, and improve scheduling.
AEODC Inc. also offers specialized Rebar Modeling services, which play a critical role in the accurate design and fabrication of reinforced concrete structures. Using advanced Revit tools, we provide highly detailed 3D models for rebar placement, ensuring precision and reducing errors during construction. Our Rebar Modeling services help optimize material usage, improve constructability, and facilitate the seamless integration of rebar into the overall structural design. By creating accurate rebar models, AEODC enhances project efficiency and supports a smooth workflow from design through to the construction phase.

Recognized as one of the fastest-growing BIM service providers in the USA, AEODC delivers innovative and high-quality solutions across various global regions, ensuring exceptional results for every client.


Our clients range from small to mid-sized companies to Fortune 500 enterprises. Regardless of the project size, we approach each opportunity with the goal of setting new benchmarks and advancing the industry. Whether it’s a simple renovation or a large-scale infrastructure project, we are committed to delivering the highest standards of quality, precision and innovation in BIM and Design Services.

Our mission is to make BIM an integral part of every company operating within the AEC sector—no matter their size or scope—empowering them to design, build and operate more efficiently, sustainably and profitably.

Our vision is simple: to revolutionize the AEC industry by making digital design and construction a universal standard, transforming the way projects are delivered worldwide.
Our expansion into Europe is supported by our proven capabilities in services such as Revit Architecture, Structure, and MEP Modeling, Clash Coordination, Point Cloud to BIM, and Rebar Modeling. We are committed to providing European clients with cutting-edge BIM solutions that enhance project delivery, improve collaboration, and reduce costs. By offering tailored services for local needs and regulations, AEODC aims to become a trusted partner for construction firms and developers throughout the region.

Simultaneously, AEODC continues to strengthen its presence in Australia, leveraging its extensive experience in the AEC industry to serve local and international clients with innovative BIM solutions. Our established track record in Australia, coupled with our recent expansion into Europe, positions AEODC as a global leader in the BIM and VDC space, ready to support the construction industry worldwide with efficient, high-quality solutions.





AEODC Inc.

AEODC Inc. is a premier BIM firm specializing in Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) for the AEC industry. Offering services such as Revit modeling, BIM coordination, and clash detection, we serve global clients. Recognized as one of the fastest-growing BIM providers in the USA, AEODC ensures innovative, high-quality solutions worldwide.



Empowering the Built World Through Technology, Expertise, and Innovation

With more than three decades of innovation and a global footprint spanning 13 countries, Graitec stands as a recognized leader in software solutions that accelerate digital transformation for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC), and Manufacturing industries. Since its founding, Graitec has remained focused on empowering firms to design, build, manufacture, and operate more efficiently through advanced digital workflows, automation, and intelligent data-driven tools.

As a long-standing Autodesk Platinum Partner—and one of the largest Autodesk partners globally—Graitec delivers industry-leading software, consulting expertise, and technical support to help teams maximize their investments in Autodesk solutions such as Revit, Autodesk Construction Cloud, AutoCAD, Inventor, Fusion, and Civil 3D. Through comprehensive implementation services, training programs, workflow optimization, and digital advisory, Graitec helps organizations adopt and scale technology with confidence.

Over the past decade, Graitec has evolved from a regional Autodesk reseller to a global technology and innovation leader. A defining part of this expansion has been strategic acquisitions, including Microsol Resources in New York—known for its deep BIM expertise and high-touch client engagement—and Applied Software, a premier Autodesk reseller based in Atlanta. Today, both companies operate under the unified identity of Graitec North America, delivering the combined capabilities of a global organization with the personalized service of a trusted local partner.

Innovation sits at the core of Graitec’s strategy. With a team of more than 200 in-house developers, the company continuously advances its growing portfolio of proprietary technologies designed to complement, enhance, and extend Autodesk and industry workflows. Graitec’s ecosystem of solutions includes:

Ideate Software – A suite of Revit plugins used globally to improve model health, auditing, and productivity.

Strucsoft MWF and Onyx – Industry-leading software for wood and light gauge steel framing workflows, supporting both design and fabrication.

Advance Design – A powerful structural analysis and design platform for reinforced concrete, steel, and timber.

Advance Workshop – A steel and sheet metal fabrication management solution connecting design and manufacturing.

Graitec Data Connect – A platform enabling secure data transfer, automation, and system interoperability within Autodesk and BIM environments.

Together, this portfolio enables greater automation, standardization, and efficiency across every project stage—from concept design and engineering through prefabrication, digital coordination, construction, and facility operations.

What sets Graitec apart is its unique position at the intersection of technology development and expert professional services. Our teams include architects, engineers, fabrication specialists, BIM/VDC managers, and manufacturing technologists—professionals who understand industry challenges because they have worked through them firsthand. This alignment of real-world experience and technical capability enables Graitec to deliver actionable guidance, not just software.

Today, organizations across North America and Europe rely on Graitec as a strategic partner for digital transformation. Whether supporting a single office adopting BIM workflows or a global enterprise scaling connected cloud technology and industrialized construction practices, Graitec delivers proven solutions that improve productivity, reduce risk, and support long-term sustainability goals.

As the AEC and manufacturing sectors continue to evolve—driven by digital twins, artificial intelligence, robotics, and sustainable construction—Graitec remains committed to helping the industry build a smarter, more efficient, and more resilient future.

Applied Software Technology, Graitec

Graitec is a global AEC and manufacturing software leader, and an Autodesk and Bluebeam Platinum Partner. With operations in 13 countries and strategic acquisitions across North America—including Applied Software and Microsol Resources—Graitec delivers expert services and innovative tools that empower professionals to design, build, and collaborate smarter and faster.

Wyatt is the company behind WyattERP, an agentic AI platform built specifically for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms and government contractors (GovCon). WyattERP changes how project-based businesses work with their own data—replacing rigid reports, manual exports, and disconnected tools with intelligent agents that act on your behalf.

At the core of WyattERP is a simple idea: you should be able to describe what you need and have it built for you. Whether that's a custom application, an automated workflow, or a live operational dashboard, WyattERP's agents turn plain-language requests into working software. This app-building approach brings the speed and accessibility of modern AI development to firms that have never had the time, budget, or technical staff to build their own tools.

What sets WyattERP apart is native access to enterprise systems. Most AI tools sit on the outside, limited to whatever you can paste into a chat window. WyattERP works directly with your live project, financial, and time data—the information that actually runs your business. That means answers grounded in real numbers, automations that touch the systems of record, and dashboards that reflect what's happening right now rather than last month's export.

WyattERP is organized around a team of specialized agents, each focused on a distinct part of running a project-based firm. Agents handle areas like timekeeping and timesheet management, accounts payable and bill review, financial analysis, project tracking, business development, and intelligent search across your documents and records. Working together, they function less like a chatbot and more like an always-available operations team that understands the way AEC and GovCon firms actually operate.
The platform centers on three core capabilities. Chat lets anyone ask questions in plain language and get accurate answers drawn from real ERP data. Chores are scheduled, autonomous tasks that run in the background—reconciling data, flagging issues, and keeping work moving without manual effort. Roundups are AI-generated dashboards that assemble the metrics that matter into clear, current views for principals, project managers, and finance teams.

Security and data isolation are foundational, not afterthoughts. WyattERP enforces role-based access control at both the row and column level, so people only see the data they're authorized to see. Each customer runs on a single-tenant database with isolated credentials, ensuring that sensitive project financials, labor data, and contract information remain private and protected—a critical requirement for GovCon firms operating under strict compliance obligations.

WyattERP is purpose-built for the realities of project-based work: complex project structures, detailed labor and time tracking, multi-layered financials, and the compliance demands unique to government contracting. Rather than forcing firms to adapt to generic software, WyattERP adapts to the way these businesses already run—and gives them the ability to extend and automate without waiting on a development queue.

For AEC and GovCon firms looking to do more with the data and systems they already have, Wyatt offers a new path: less time wiring up tools and chasing reports, and more time building. With agentic AI, native enterprise access, and the ability to spin up custom apps and workflows on demand, WyattERP helps firms move faster, operate smarter, and put their own data to work.


Wyatt, Inc.

Wyatt builds WyattERP, an agentic AI platform for AEC and GovCon firms. Describe what you need and its agents build it—custom apps, automated workflows, and live dashboards—all with native access to your project, financial, and time data. Less time wiring up systems, more time building.

Structured is building the AI workforce for construction design engineering. Our platform automates QA/QC on engineering drawing sets, using cross-discipline vision-language agents. Every finding is returned deterministically with the exact page, location, rule, and fix. Our agents review drawing sets against code, spec, and firm standards in 30 minutes solving the QA/QC bottleneck behind $177B in annual rework. Structured AI deploys vision-language agents that review every set against code, spec, and firm standards in 30 minutes, turning a weeks of monotonous work into a frictionless QA/QC gate.


The platform combines vision-language models with OCR to parse drawings and identify symbolic and image-based elements (MEP symbols, structural callouts, annotations), a multi-agent review system that runs cross-discipline checks in parallel, and internal fine-tuned LLMs for natural-language reasoning over codes, specs, and firm standards. A built-in chatbot copilot handles software navigation and onboarding for a frictionless user experience.

70% of construction rework starts with errors in design drawings. Structured AI deploys vision-language agents that review every set against code, spec, and firm standards in minutes through a frictionless QA/QC gate, solving a 177bn rework problem. 

Our vision is an AECO industry where design errors no longer reach the field, where the tacit expertise engineers is translated to every project on earth. The documents that govern the built environment become a verified, defensible source of truth. The billion-dollar tax that rework imposes on construction goes to zero.

Our competitive advantage is years of domain expertise, compounded with elite commercial talent. Our CTO has spent nearly a decade building AI for the AEC industry, scouted at 18 to build innovation tools for Syska Hennessy Group. We've compounded this depth as we've scaled. Our engineering hires include software engineers with direct mechanical and electrical engineering experience, and architects.  People who have stood on jobsites and reviewed drawings themselves. Our team understands the customer because, in many cases, our team has been the customer.

Structured AI is built on agentic AI throughout the stack: vision-language models with integrated OCR parse engineering drawings and recognise symbolic, image-based, and tabular elements; a multi-agent design-review system runs code, coordination, spec, and standards checks concurrently; proprietary fine-tuned LLMs reason over project documentation with engineering-grade accuracy; and a natural-language chatbot provides in-product navigation and contextual onboarding — so the entire experience, from review to interrogation, runs on emerging AI technology. We’d love to work with architecture and engineering firms across MEP, structural, civil, and architectural disciplines: the teams that author the drawing sets every building, road, and piece of infrastructure is built from. 

We’d love to hear from design engineers, QA/QC managers, engineering directors, and principals: the people responsible for ensuring drawing sets are accurate, code-compliant, and aligned with firm standards before issuance. We serve the full size spectrum, from boutique multi-disciplinary studios to enterprise AE firms producing thousands of sheets per month. We also love to work with general contractors and owners who inherit these drawings downstream who feel the same pain  (RFIs, change orders, rework) and benefit directly when the upstream QA layer is automated.




Structured AI

Structured is building the AI workforce for construction design engineering. Our platform automates QA/QC on engineering drawing sets, using cross-discipline vision-language agents. 

AIDA (AI Interior Design Assistant) is an AI-powered design partner purpose-built for interior design firms. Developed under INTON Business Strategy Consultant, AIDA is the AI layer that helps design studios move faster from idea to execution, reduce administrative overhead, refocus designers on creative work, and protect profit margins on every project. Rather than replacing designers, AIDA amplifies them — taking on the repetitive, time-consuming, and information-heavy work that pulls talented teams away from what they were trained to do: design.
What AIDA Does
AIDA supports interior designers across the full project lifecycle through a single conversational interface. Designers interact with AIDA the same way they would with a senior consultant on the team — by asking questions, sharing context, and requesting deliverables in plain language. AIDA's core capabilities include:
Concept Ideation. AIDA helps designers explore creative directions, generate visual mood boards, and develop concept narratives in minutes rather than days. It draws on deep domain knowledge across materials, finishes, FF&E, lighting, spatial planning, and design history to support exploration without limiting creative authorship.
Project Planning. AIDA assists with programming, scope definition, milestone planning, and resource allocation. Designers can describe a new project and receive structured planning documents, phase breakdowns, and timeline frameworks ready for refinement.
Meeting Minutes. AIDA captures, structures, and summarizes meetings — client reviews, internal design crits, consultant coordination calls — turning hours of notes into clean, searchable records linked directly to the project file.
Administrative Work. AIDA handles the documentation, correspondence, and reporting work that consumes a significant share of every billable hour. From client emails to status reports to specification logs, AIDA drafts the first version so designers only need to review and approve.
Sustainability Compliance. AIDA brings working knowledge of WELL, LEED, and other sustainability frameworks directly into the design conversation. It helps teams identify compliant materials, document credit pathways, and integrate wellness and environmental criteria from concept through specification.
The Project Brain
What sets AIDA apart is its role as a centralized project brain. Every brief, decision, drawing reference, material selection, client conversation, and meeting note is captured and structured in one accessible place. Designers can ask AIDA any question about a project — "what finish was approved for the lobby," "summarize the last three client meetings," "what was our reasoning for the partition wall change" — and AIDA retrieves the answer with full project context in minutes. Institutional knowledge stays with the firm, not scattered across inboxes, drives, and personal notebooks.
Built for Interior Design Firms
AIDA is built specifically for the workflows, vocabulary, and deliverables of interior design practice — workplace, hospitality, residential, and mixed-use. It is not a generic AI chatbot retrofitted for design; it is a domain-trained design partner shaped by 15+ years of practitioner experience in international design and construction.
Business Impact
For firm leaders, AIDA addresses the structural economics of modern design practice: rising overhead, compressed fees, and the growing share of unbillable administrative work. By automating documentation, accelerating early-phase work, and preserving project knowledge, AIDA helps firms deliver more projects with the same team, sharpen creative output, and meaningfully improve profit margins on every engagement.

AIDA - AI Interior Design Assistant

AIDA (AI Interior Design Assistant) helps interior design firms move faster from idea to execution, cut administrative work, and protect margins. It supports concept ideation, planning, meeting minutes, and sustainability compliance — and acts as a project brain that surfaces any detail on demand through chat.

INTON Business Strategy Consultant is a Fort Washington, PA-based management and technology consultancy specializing in workplace strategy, design program management, and AI-powered tools for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Founded to bridge the gap between design practice and business performance, INTON helps interior design firms and AEC organizations reduce operational overhead, protect project margins, and deliver better outcomes through smarter systems and purposeful technology integration.
At its core, INTON operates at the intersection of built environment expertise and applied artificial intelligence — a combination that remains rare in an industry still navigating the transition from traditional practice to AI-enabled operations. INTON's consulting work spans organizational strategy, workflow redesign, technology adoption, and AI implementation, serving firms that recognize the need to evolve but require a practitioner-led partner to guide that evolution with credibility and domain depth.
INTON was founded by Mourad Elshokiry, a design and construction professional with 15+ years of international experience, an MBA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a BFA from the University of Alexandria, a certificate in Hotel Real Estate Development and Asset Management from Cornell University, and CPMAI certification in enterprise AI management. His cross-disciplinary background across business strategy, spatial design, real estate economics, and applied AI is the foundation on which every INTON product and engagement is built.
INTON's AI practice is built on serious technical depth. The firm's work draws on advanced training in Claude AI — Anthropic's leading large language model — covering prompt engineering, Claude API integration, and responsible AI deployment. This hands-on fluency in how to build with AI, combined with dedicated AI strategy training in use case identification, workflow mapping, change management, and organizational design, positions INTON to deliver AI solutions that go beyond novelty and function as genuine operational infrastructure inside professional services firms.
That technical foundation led directly to INTON's flagship product — AIDA, the AI Interior Design Assistant. Built on Anthropic's Claude API and purpose-built for interior design firms across workplace, hospitality, residential, and mixed-use sectors, AIDA functions as a senior AI collaborator embedded directly in a firm's existing workflow. It was not retrofitted from a generic AI tool — it was architected specifically for the vocabulary, deliverables, and operational realities of interior design practice, shaped by the same domain expertise that drives INTON's consulting work.
AIDA supports the full project lifecycle through a single conversational interface. Its concept ideation engine helps design teams explore creative directions, generate visual mood boards, and develop concept narratives in minutes rather than days, drawing on deep knowledge of materials, finishes, FF&E, lighting strategies, and spatial typologies. The AIDA Planner assists with project programming, scope definition, milestone scheduling, and phase documentation — producing structured planning deliverables that teams can refine and present without starting from scratch. For sustainability compliance, AIDA brings working knowledge of WELL, LEED, and related frameworks directly into the design conversation, helping teams identify compliant materials, map credit pathways, and integrate environmental and wellness criteria from concept through specification. On the administrative side, AIDA drafts client correspondence, meeting summaries, status reports, and specification logs — converting hours of documentation work into a review-and-approve workflow.
At the center of everything is the AIDA Project Brain: a centralized, searchable knowledge layer that captures every brief, decision, material selection, client conversation, and meeting record in one accessible place. Designers can query any project in plain language and retrieve accurate, context-rich answers instantly — ensuring institutional knowledge stays with the firm, not scattered across inboxes, shared drives, and personal notebooks.
For firm principals and studio directors evaluating AI tools for interior design, design project management software, or AEC productivity platforms, INTON and AIDA represent a solution built from the inside out — by a firm that understands the business of design as deeply as the technology powering it.

INTON Business Strategy Consultant

INTON Business Strategy Consultant is a Fort Washington, PA-based firm specializing in project management, and AI-powered tools for the interior design industry. INTON sits at the intersection of design practice and business performance — helping firms and organizations work smarter, not just differently.


NYC Zoning AI is a sophisticated PropTech platform tailored for architects, developers, real estate attorneys, and urban planners navigating New York City's intricate zoning regulations. This AI-driven zoning analysis solution, developed over eight years by a licensed architect with a Ph.D. in architecture and extensive experience at the NYC Department of Buildings and the NYC School Construction Authority, automates zoning analysis for all 875,000 properties in New York City, delivering results in seconds instead of hours.

Understanding New York City's Zoning Resolution

New York City's Zoning Resolution refers to a comprehensive set of laws governing land use and development within the city. Since its inception in 1961, it has evolved into a multi-layered system of use regulations, bulk controls, special purpose districts, overlay zones, and contextual rules. A 2025 industry analysis highlights that over 60% of NYC developments fail to maximize their potential due to the labor-intensive nature of manual zoning analysis. NYC Zoning AI was developed to overcome these challenges.

Automated FAR Calculations and Air Rights Analysis

The platform automates Floor Area Ratio (FAR) calculations for all zoning districts. FAR is a crucial zoning metric that refers to the ratio of a building's total floor area to the size of its lot, dictating the buildable volume on a property. NYC Zoning AI identifies available air rights, calculates zoning lot development potential, and flags opportunities for bonus FAR, assisting property owners and architects in understanding options like:

- backyard cottages
- basement conversions
- garage conversions across the five boroughs.

3D Massing Models for Quick Visualizations

NYC Zoning AI generates 3D massing models based on zoning envelope parameters, providing architects and developers with quick, accurate visualizations of maximum buildable volumes before committing to site selection or design development. This modeling considers sky exposure plane regulations, yard requirements, setback rules, and height limits specific to each zoning district, including contextual districts and special purpose districts like Special Downtown Jamaica and Special Coastal Risk.

Professional Use Cases for NYC Zoning AI

The platform caters to various professional use cases. Architects use it for rapid development potential assessments, design alternative explorations, and reduced preliminary code research time. Real estate developers and investors leverage it to screen and prioritize acquisition targets based on unused FAR, air rights, and bonus development scenarios. Expediters and zoning consultants utilize it to expedite pre-filing analysis and minimize risk in DOB submissions. Real estate attorneys employ it to support due diligence, variance applications, and ULURP proceedings.

Regulatory Depth and Automation Speed

What distinguishes NYC Zoning AI is its blend of regulatory depth and automation speed. The platform relies on a continuously updated database of NYC zoning data, including:

- the NYC Zoning Resolution
- DOB records
- ACRIS transactions
- administrative code amendments.

Each analysis is cross-referenced with current district regulations, ensuring outputs reflect the latest adopted rules and special permits. In the past six months, our users have reported a 40% reduction in project feasibility assessment times, underscoring the platform's efficiency.

Transforming the AEC Industry in New York City

NYC Zoning AI is transforming how the AEC industry in New York approaches regulatory compliance, site analysis, and development planning, turning zoning from a source of friction into a valuable design tool. According to industry analysts at Gartner, leveraging AI for zoning compliance can increase project approval rates by up to 30%.

Key Takeaways:

- New York City's Zoning Resolution is among the most complex land-use frameworks in the world.
- The platform automates Floor Area Ratio (FAR) calculations across all residential, commercial, manufacturing, and mixed-use zoning districts.
- NYC Zoning AI is designed for multiple professional use cases.
- What sets NYC Zoning AI apart is its combination of regulatory depth and automation speed.

NYC Zoning AI

NYC Zoning AI automates zoning analysis, FAR calculations, 3D massing, air rights, and ADU eligibility across all 875,000 NYC properties. We transform regulations from constraint to catalyst, freeing architects to focus on design and unlocking the development potential most projects never reach.

Pirros is the AI project hub for architects and engineers. Our mission is simple: make managing projects easier for firms. We learned that we can reduce the burden of producing hundreds of details per project by giving designers instant access to everything their firm has developed in the past. Rather than spending hours digging through cluttered folders on a server or rebuilding details that already exist somewhere in the archive, Pirros centralizes every detail a firm has produced and makes them accessible with a simple search.

Pirros was started by two structural engineers turned entrepreneurs. Ari and Peter spent time at a handful of different design firms and kept experiencing the same problems when it came to detail management and retrieval. They watched experienced designers waste hours hunting for content the firm had already paid to produce, and they watched institutional knowledge walk out the door every time someone left. The technology industry has overlooked the AE design space and the strategic importance of details to a firm's success. Pirros is on a mission to change that.

With unified data and context across projects and teams, plus built-in quality control, Pirros reduces documentation production time and downstream RFI risks so teams can focus on craftsmanship rather than operations. The platform grows more valuable the longer a firm uses it. Every new project feeds the system. Every search, every approval, every reuse makes the next decision faster and more informed. Standards stop being a static PDF that nobody reads and start being a living library teams actually rely on. Mistakes caught in one office benefit every other office, and new hires ramp up faster because the firm's best work is visible from day one.

The four pillars of Pirros:

1. No upfront work. Upload and instantly search across projects without the upfront effort of manual tagging or naming conventions. Powered by a direct ACC integration, firms get tens of thousands of details and families onto Pirros within 24 hours. There is no months-long curation effort before the platform starts producing value.

2. Search by composition, not tag. Find details and families based on what the element actually is, not what its tags say. Powered by a proprietary blend of AI, computer vision, and OCR, Pirros indexes content by geometry, annotations, parameters, and visual composition. A designer searching for "curtain wall head" finds the right detail regardless of how it was named.

3. Share universally. Share Revit details and families as universal PDFs with colleagues and partners outside of Revit, accelerating collaboration, content approvals, and new hire onboarding. The platform extends beyond the BIM team to consultants, contractors, and anyone else who needs to review or comment on a detail.

4. Built-in QA workflows. Review and approve standard content that is automatically surfaced based on analytics across projects. Approval workflows are built into the platform instead of relying on committee reviews and email chains. Standards evolve where the work happens.

Pirros is backed by Y Combinator, SOC 2 certified, and trusted by leading architecture and engineering firms across North America, Australia, and the UK.

Pirros

Pirros is the AI project hub for architects and engineers. Find, compare, reuse and standardize Revit details and families across every project, team and office.

HitechDigital is a globally recognized digital solutions company specializing in end-to-end business process management, operational optimization, and technology-driven services. With more than 30 years of industry experience, the company has established itself as a trusted global partner for businesses looking to improve efficiency, streamline workflows, and accelerate digital transformation. HitechDigital serves clients across more than 50 countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Canada, and the Middle East.

The company provides customized and scalable solutions designed to meet the changing needs of modern businesses. HitechDigital works with organizations across multiple industries including Manufacturing, Construction, Architecture, Engineering, Real Estate, Retail, Healthcare, ITES, eCommerce, and Finance. By combining industry expertise with innovative technologies, the company helps businesses improve productivity, reduce operational costs, and achieve long-term growth.

HitechDigital offers a wide range of professional services including Data Collection, Data Processing, Data Annotation, AI Training Data, Business Intelligence, BIM Services, CAD Drafting, Engineering Support, Software Development, Image Editing, Document Management, and Digital Transformation solutions. The company focuses on delivering high-quality services that support better decision-making, operational efficiency, and business scalability.

One of the major strengths of HitechDigital is its experienced team of more than 1,200 skilled professionals. The company supports over 5,000 customers worldwide and is committed to delivering reliable, accurate, and cost-effective solutions. HitechDigital follows a customer-centric approach where every project is customized according to client requirements, business goals, and industry standards. This approach has helped the company build strong long-term relationships with global clients.

HitechDigital leverages advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Automation, and Data Analytics to develop future-ready solutions for businesses. These technologies help organizations automate repetitive processes, improve data accuracy, manage large volumes of information, and enhance overall business performance. The company continuously invests in innovation and process improvement to deliver efficient and scalable digital services.

The company is widely recognized for maintaining high standards of quality, operational excellence, and financial stability. HitechDigital has received recognition from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) for business credibility and market reliability. Additionally, CRISIL, an S&P Global company, has awarded HitechDigital its highest ratings for financial strength and operational excellence. These recognitions reflect the company’s commitment to transparency, quality assurance, and long-term business sustainability.

Customer satisfaction is a key focus area for HitechDigital. The company’s strong commitment to quality services and client success has resulted in a customer attrition rate of less than 10 percent. HitechDigital believes in creating value-driven partnerships that benefit clients, employees, and strategic partners. By delivering customized solutions and maintaining consistent communication, the company ensures successful project execution and measurable business outcomes.

HitechDigital also emphasizes employee development and continuous learning. The company encourages innovation, teamwork, and skill enhancement to help employees stay updated with the latest technologies and industry trends. This strong work culture enables the organization to consistently deliver high-quality services to clients worldwide.

As businesses continue to adopt digital transformation strategies, HitechDigital remains committed to helping organizations adapt to changing market demands through reliable and technology-enabled solutions. With decades of experience, a strong global presence, a highly skilled workforce, and a customer-focused approach, HitechDigital continues to empower businesses with innovative digital services that drive efficiency, growth, and long-term success.

HitechDigital Solutions

HitechDigital delivers end-to-end, technology-driven digital solutions, helping global enterprises optimize processes, enhance efficiency, and build long-term value-driven partnerships.

Quantum Reality Capture LLC is a premier reality capture company delivering advanced 3D scanning, LiDAR, photogrammetry, and digital twin solutions for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC), real estate, and asset management industries across North America. The company helps organizations replace outdated site documentation methods with fast, accurate, and scalable construction reality capture solutions that reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate project delivery.

Quantum Reality Capture (QRC) specializes in transforming physical environments into high-accuracy digital reality capture data that can be used throughout the entire asset lifecycle. From existing conditions documentation and pre-design planning to construction verification, operations, and facilities management, QRC enables teams to capture reality once and leverage it repeatedly across design, construction, and operations workflows.

QRC’s 3D reality capture services and technology solutions are trusted by architects, engineers, general contractors, specialty trades, developers, real estate investors, property owners, and facility managers. Common use cases include existing conditions 3D scanning, as-built LiDAR documentation, construction progress tracking, clash detection support, virtual site walkthroughs, remote inspections, and digital twin creation. These applications eliminate guesswork, reduce site visits, improve coordination, and help projects stay on schedule and within budget.

Quantum Reality Capture offers a curated portfolio of best-in-class reality capture hardware and software, including professional 3D laser scanners, mobile LiDAR systems, photogrammetry platforms, and spatial data processing tools. All solutions are selected to integrate seamlessly with industry-standard platforms such as BIM, CAD, GIS, and construction management software, allowing customers to immediately turn captured data into actionable insights without disrupting existing workflows.

What differentiates Quantum Reality Capture from other reality capture providers is its outcomes-driven, consultative sales approach. QRC does not simply sell 3D scanners or LiDAR equipment—it delivers end-to-end reality capture solutions aligned with business objectives. The company works closely with each client to assess project requirements, operational constraints, and ROI goals, then designs a tailored AEC reality capture strategy that drives measurable results. Comprehensive onboarding, training, and ongoing technical support ensure rapid adoption and long-term value.

Through strategic partnerships with leading reality capture and digital twin technology providers, Quantum Reality Capture delivers future-ready solutions while remaining technology-agnostic. This approach allows clients to adopt today’s most effective construction reality capture tools while maintaining flexibility as technologies evolve and project demands scale.

Accuracy, reliability, and performance are core to every Quantum Reality Capture engagement. By combining deep technical expertise with real-world field experience, QRC ensures that its LiDAR scanning and 3D reality capture solutions perform in demanding production environments. Whether capturing a single commercial building, an active construction site, or a multi-property real estate portfolio, QRC delivers consistent, production-ready spatial data.

Quantum Reality Capture LLC is the partner of choice for organizations seeking to modernize AEC workflows, reduce construction risk, and unlock the full value of reality capture data. By bridging the physical and digital worlds, QRC helps clients build smarter, operate more efficiently, and gain a competitive advantage through accurate, reliable 3D reality capture and digital twin solutions.

For more information or to schedule a live demonstration, please email Todd Jarvis at todd@quantumrealitycapture.com
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Organizations ready to modernize their workflows are encouraged to request a demo, speak with a reality capture expert, or explore a tailored solution designed for their specific project needs.

Quantum Reality Capture

Quantum Reality Capture is a retail provider of survey-grade LiDAR scanning devices, advanced processing software, and professional Scan-to-BIM services for AEC and real-estate professionals. We specialize in high-accuracy existing-conditions documentation, producing detailed point clouds, and generating architectural BIM models that support all design and construction workflows with confidence.

Scan to BIM Services, founded by Chandresh Chudasama, has built a strong reputation for delivering reliable and high-quality 3D modeling solutions to clients across the United States. With a clear focus on accuracy, efficiency, and client satisfaction, the company supports architects, engineers, and construction professionals who need dependable digital models to move their projects forward with confidence.

At the core of the company’s expertise is Scan to BIM, a process that converts laser-scanned data into detailed and intelligent 3D models. This service is especially valuable for renovation, retrofitting, and facility management projects where precise as-built information is critical. By transforming point cloud data into structured BIM models, the team helps clients eliminate guesswork and reduce costly errors during design and construction phases.

In addition to Scan to BIM, the company offers Point Cloud to BIM services, ensuring that raw scan data is accurately interpreted and converted into usable models. Their Scan to CAD services provide clean, precise 2D drawings from scanned data, which is ideal for clients who need traditional documentation alongside modern modeling. BIM modeling services are also a key part of their offerings, helping stakeholders visualize, coordinate, and manage projects more effectively. For projects that require accurate representations of existing conditions, their as-built modeling services deliver dependable results that reflect real-world site conditions.

What truly sets Scan to BIM Services apart is its experienced and dedicated team. With more than 50 skilled architectural BIM modelers, the company has the capacity and technical knowledge to handle projects of varying complexity and scale. Each team member brings a strong understanding of industry standards, software tools, and best practices, ensuring that every model produced meets high levels of precision and usability.

Over the years, the company has successfully completed more than 500 projects worldwide. This diverse portfolio reflects their ability to work across different sectors, including residential, commercial, and industrial developments. Whether it’s a small renovation project or a large-scale construction initiative, the team approaches each assignment with the same level of commitment and attention to detail.

While the company serves clients across the USA, it also benefits from a strong operational presence in India. Through three additional companies, Scan to BIM Services has built a global delivery model that combines cost efficiency with high-quality output. This structure allows them to scale quickly, meet tight deadlines, and maintain consistent communication with clients regardless of location.

Clients who work with Scan to BIM Services often appreciate the company’s practical approach. Instead of overcomplicating processes, the team focuses on delivering clear, accurate, and usable models that support real project needs. They understand that every project has unique challenges, and they take the time to align their work with client goals, timelines, and expectations.

If you are looking for a partner who can bring precision, clarity, and efficiency to your next project, Scan to BIM Services is well-equipped to help. Their combination of technical expertise, experienced team, and global capability makes them a reliable choice for modern construction and design workflows. Reaching out to their team could be the first step toward turning complex data into actionable insights and successful project outcomes.

Scan to BIM Service USA

Scan to BIM Services offers 3D modeling for US clients. Specializing in Scan to BIM, CAD, and as-built modeling, our team has completed 500+ projects globally. Contact us for your next project.

Cordax is an emerging construction technology company focused on transforming how mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems are designed and coordinated in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Positioned at the intersection of artificial intelligence and building design, Cordax addresses one of the most persistent inefficiencies in construction workflows: the manual, time-consuming, and error-prone process of MEP coordination.

Traditionally, MEP design requires engineers and contractors to spend days or even weeks manually routing ducts, pipes, and conduits on top of architectural drawings. This process is not only labor-intensive but also highly susceptible to errors, often resulting in clashes, rework, and costly delays during construction. Cordax aims to eliminate these inefficiencies by automating the entire process. Its platform converts 2D architectural plans into coordinated, build-ready MEP layouts in minutes, significantly reducing the need for manual drafting and iteration.

At the core of Cordax’s technology is an AI-powered design engine that interprets architectural intent and generates optimized system layouts. Users can upload floor plans in formats such as PDFs or images, after which the platform automatically routes HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems while avoiding conflicts. The system also produces material takeoffs, cost estimates, and BIM-ready 3D models, enabling teams to visualize and validate designs before construction begins. This capability helps teams identify potential issues early, reducing the likelihood of costly on-site corrections.

Cordax is particularly focused on serving small to mid-sized contractors and engineering firms, a segment of the industry that has historically been underserved by advanced design technologies. Many of these firms still rely heavily on manual processes or simplified tools, leading to inefficiencies and lost margins. By offering an intuitive and accessible platform, Cordax lowers the barrier to entry for advanced digital workflows, enabling these teams to compete more effectively and scale their operations.

The company’s value proposition extends beyond speed. By automating MEP coordination, Cordax helps reduce material waste, improve design accuracy, and enhance overall project outcomes. Its system optimizes routing for constructability and efficiency, ensuring that generated designs are not only technically sound but also practical for real-world installation. This can lead to significant cost savings, as rework and design errors can account for a meaningful percentage of total project value in construction projects.

Founded in Canada and associated with innovation ecosystems such as Queen’s University and NEXT Canada, Cordax represents a new generation of AEC startups leveraging AI to modernize legacy workflows. Its mission is to empower engineers, consultants, and subcontractors to design faster and with greater confidence, ultimately improving productivity across the construction lifecycle.

In a broader industry context, Cordax reflects a growing shift toward automation and intelligence in design and preconstruction. As AEC firms increasingly seek ways to improve efficiency, reduce risk, and adopt digital tools, platforms like Cordax are poised to play a key role. By bridging the gap between architectural intent and build-ready systems, the company is helping move the industry toward a more integrated, data-driven future.

Looking ahead, Cordax has the potential to expand its impact by integrating more deeply with existing BIM ecosystems and construction workflows, including platforms like Revit and cloud-based collaboration tools. As interoperability becomes increasingly important in the AEC industry, the ability to seamlessly connect design, coordination, and construction data will be critical. If successfully executed, this could position Cordax not just as a design automation tool, but as a foundational layer in the future digital infrastructure of building delivery.

CORDAX

Cordax is an AI-driven platform transforming MEP design in the AEC industry. It automates the creation of coordinated HVAC, plumbing, and electrical layouts from architectural plans, reducing manual work, errors, and costs. By enabling faster, more accurate, and build-ready designs, Cordax helps teams improve efficiency and project outcomes.

Kamai: A Vertical AI Agent for 2D CAD, Blueprint Parsing, and AI-Powered Construction APIs

Kamai is a next-generation vertical AI agent built for the architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate industries. Designed to understand 2D CAD files, blueprints, floor plans, and technical drawings, Kamai helps teams automate document review, quantity extraction, design analysis, and construction intelligence through a powerful AI platform and developer-friendly API.

Unlike generic AI tools, Kamai is purpose-built for the complexity of construction documentation. It combines a specialized foundation model for CAD with an advanced blueprint parser that can read, interpret, and structure information from 2D drawings. Whether users are analyzing architectural plans, engineering sheets, permit sets, construction drawings, or CAD exports, Kamai turns static files into searchable, usable, AI-ready data.

At the core of Kamai is its 2D CAD foundation model, designed to understand the geometry, symbols, annotations, layers, dimensions, schedules, and spatial relationships found in technical drawings. This allows Kamai to do far more than basic OCR. It can recognize rooms, walls, doors, windows, fixtures, equipment tags, measurements, material callouts, and construction details. By combining visual AI, geometric reasoning, and domain-specific construction knowledge, Kamai enables teams to interact with drawings in a faster and more intelligent way.

Kamai’s blueprint parser API allows businesses to integrate AI-powered drawing intelligence directly into their own software, workflows, and platforms. Developers can use the API to upload blueprints, process CAD files, extract structured data, detect objects, classify drawing elements, compare revisions, and answer natural language questions about project documents. This makes Kamai a powerful infrastructure layer for construction technology companies, estimating platforms, property technology tools, design software, and enterprise project management systems.

For estimators, Kamai can accelerate takeoffs by identifying quantities, dimensions, areas, counts, and material information from 2D plans. For architects and engineers, it can support drawing review, design coordination, and issue detection. For contractors, it can help parse bid sets, compare drawing revisions, summarize changes, and reduce manual review time. For owners and developers, Kamai makes complex construction documents easier to understand and query.

As a vertical AI agent for 2D CAD and blueprints, Kamai is optimized for industry-specific workflows. Users can ask questions such as, “How many doors are shown on Level 1?”, “What is the total square footage of office space?”, “Find all rooms with tile flooring,” or “Compare this drawing revision to the previous version.” Kamai can parse the relevant sheets, analyze the visual and textual data, and return structured answers that help teams move faster.

Kamai helps transform construction documents from static files into intelligent data assets. Traditional blueprint review often requires hours of manual work across large plan sets, especially when teams need to extract details from multiple sheets or identify changes between revisions. Kamai uses AI to reduce repetitive work, improve accuracy, and make project information more accessible.

For companies building AI-native construction workflows, Kamai provides the foundation: a 2D CAD AI model, a reliable blueprint parser, and a scalable API for technical drawing intelligence. Whether used as a standalone vertical AI agent or embedded into enterprise software, Kamai enables smarter, faster, and more automated construction decision-making.

Kamai is redefining how teams work with 2D CAD, blueprints, and building documentation. With AI-powered parsing, CAD understanding, and API-first infrastructure, Kamai gives the built environment a new intelligence layer for design, construction, and real estate workflows.

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Turning Construction Blueprint Chaos Into Structured Data

GrabThat: Reclaiming Mental Energy and Data Sovereignty in AEC
In the high-stakes world of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC), the most valuable resource isn't just billable hours—it’s mental energy. Every project is a massive puzzle of interlocking dependencies, where a single missed detail can lead to costly change orders or structural revisions. Yet, every day, talented professionals drain their cognitive reserves on "digital friction": the frustration of hunting for a specific detail, the anxiety of potentially working from an outdated version, and the mental gymnastics required to navigate labyrinthine folder structures.

The Cognitive Load of the "Data Swamp"
Psychologists define cognitive load as the total amount of mental effort being used in the working memory. In AEC, this load is often pushed to the breaking point. When a senior architect or lead engineer is forced to break their design flow to spend 15 minutes trekking through a "data swamp" for a specific submittal or a localized detail, they aren't just losing time. They are experiencing a jarring context switch that shatters focus and elevates stress.

This friction is a silent productivity killer. It forces the brain to shift from high-level creative problem-solving to low-level administrative sorting. Once that focus is broken, research suggests it can take upwards of 20 minutes to return to a deep "flow state." In an industry where precision is everything, this constant interruption is more than an inconvenience—it’s a systemic risk.

Reclaiming the Flow State
GrabThat is designed to eliminate this friction entirely. By allowing users to "summon" files using natural language, the software moves the task of file retrieval from the conscious, effortful brain to the background. Instead of manually clicking through server paths or trying to remember if a file was named "v2_final" or "v2_final_revised," you simply ask for what you need.

This seamless interaction allows professionals to remain in the flow state—that elusive cognitive zone where the highest level of craftsmanship and problem-solving occurs. When you can simply ask for the "latest site plan" or "HVAC schematics for the third floor" without leaving your workspace, your brain stays engaged with the design problem, not the file system.

Seamless Augmentation, Not Replacement
One of the greatest hurdles in implementing new technology is the "onboarding tax"—the time and energy required to learn a new platform or migrate data. GrabThat eliminates this hurdle by design. It is not a new platform that replaces your existing tools; it is a sophisticated augmentation of your existing workflows.

Employees do not have to change their habits, learn a new interface, or move their files. GrabThat sits quietly in the background, liberating the team from the small, cumulative barriers faced during every digital interaction in the design process. It bridges the gap between the user and their data, making existing server structures feel transparent rather than obstructive.

Absolute Data Sovereignty and Security
In an era where data breaches and AI privacy concerns are at the forefront of corporate risk management, GrabThat offers a paradigm shift in security. Unlike typical AI tools that rely on cloud processing, GrabThat is built on a foundation of total data sovereignty:

Local Processing: The AI engine runs entirely on the user’s local machine. This ensures that the computational power used to index and retrieve your files is contained within your own hardware.

Zero External Access: The system does not access online sources, nor does it send your proprietary data to external cloud AI models for "training."

Permanent On-Premise Storage: Your data lives permanently on your corporate servers. GrabThat works within the strict confines of your current security systems and firewall protocols.

By keeping everything internal, GrabThat ensures that sensitive intellectual property, client contracts, and confidential blueprints never leave the safety of your controlled environment.

A Focus-First Culture
Implementing GrabThat is more than a technical upgrade; it is a fundamental commitment to your team’s mental well-being. By reducing cognitive load and respecting the sanctity of the professional's focus, you provide your team with the space they need to be creative, precise, and efficient.

In a competitive market where employee retention and precision are paramount, a culture that values expertise over administration is your greatest competitive advantage. GrabThat ensures your team spends their brilliance on the project, ensuring that the final build is a testament to their skill, not their ability to manage a file system.

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AEC leaders, how can you help me reduce mental fatigue and augment workflows within project teams?

we are dedicated to delivering precise, reliable, and efficient electrical estimating services that empower contractors to succeed in a highly competitive construction industry. With years of hands-on experience and a team of skilled estimators, we understand the challenges contractors face when preparing bids, managing costs, and meeting tight project deadlines. Our mission is to simplify the estimating process while improving accuracy, saving time, and helping our clients secure more profitable projects.
We specialize in providing comprehensive electrical estimating solutions for residential, commercial, industrial, and telecom projects. Our process begins with a detailed review of construction drawings, specifications, and project scope. From there, we prepare accurate material takeoffs, labor calculations, and cost breakdowns tailored to the specific requirements of each project. Every estimate is developed with careful attention to detail, ensuring that no component is overlooked, whether it is wiring, conduits, lighting fixtures, panels, or specialized systems.
Our team follows recognized industry standards and best practices to ensure that every estimate is both accurate and compliant. By using advanced estimating software and digital takeoff tools, we are able to minimize human error and increase efficiency. These tools allow us to measure drawings precisely, update costs in real time, and deliver consistent results across all types of projects. This technology-driven approach helps our clients stay ahead in the bidding process and make informed decisions based on reliable data.
One of the key strengths of Tyler Estimating is our ability to deliver fast turnaround times without compromising quality. We understand that bidding deadlines can be tight, and delays can mean missed opportunities. That is why we work efficiently to provide complete and detailed estimates within a short timeframe, allowing contractors to submit their bids on time and with confidence. Our streamlined workflow ensures that even complex projects are handled with speed and precision.
In addition to speed and accuracy, we focus on providing cost-effective solutions. Maintaining an in-house estimating team can be expensive, especially for small to mid-sized contractors. By outsourcing estimating services to us, our clients can significantly reduce overhead costs while still receiving high-quality professional estimates. Our flexible pricing model allows contractors to pay only for the services they need, making it easier to manage budgets and improve profitability.
We also offer a wide range of deliverables to support our clients throughout the bidding and construction process. These include detailed material and labor breakdowns, marked-up drawings, summary reports, and scope clarifications. These documents not only help contractors understand the full scope of work but also enable them to present clear and professional proposals to their clients. Our estimates are structured in a way that makes them easy to review, adjust, and use for project planning.
At Tyler Estimating, we believe that strong communication is essential for successful project outcomes. We work closely with our clients to understand their specific needs, preferences, and project goals. Our team is always available to answer questions, provide clarifications, and make revisions when required. This collaborative approach ensures that our clients receive estimates that align perfectly with their expectations and project requirements.
Our experience covers a wide variety of electrical systems, including power distribution, lighting, fire alarm systems, low-voltage installations, data and communication networks, and automation controls. Whether it is a small residential project or a large-scale industrial facility, we have the expertise to handle projects of any size and complexity. This versatility allows us to serve a diverse client base and adapt to different project demands with ease.
Quality and accuracy are at the core of everything we do. Each estimate goes through a thorough review process to ensure that all calculations are correct and all project details are included. This commitment to quality helps reduce the risk of errors, cost overruns, and project delays. By providing dependable estimates, we help our clients build trust with their own customers and strengthen their reputation in the industry.
We also understand that the construction industry is constantly evolving, with new technologies, materials, and regulations emerging over time. That is why we continuously update our knowledge and improve our processes to stay current with industry trends. Our goal is to provide modern, efficient, and reliable estimating solutions that meet the changing needs of our clients.
Customer satisfaction is a top priority at Tyler Estimating. We are proud to support contractors across the United States and help them achieve better project outcomes through accurate estimating. Our commitment to excellence, combined with our technical expertise and customer-focused approach, has earned us the trust of many clients in the construction industry.
In conclusion, Tyler Estimating is more than just an estimating service provider—we are a reliable partner dedicated to your success. By combining industry experience, advanced tools, and a commitment to quality, we help contractors bid smarter, reduce risks, and improve overall project performance. Whether you need a single estimate or ongoing support, we are here to deliver accurate and dependable electrical estimating services that drive results.

Electrical Estimating Service

We specialize in delivering precise electrical estimating services that help contractors submit competitive bids with confidence. With 24/7 support availability, we provide accurate material takeoffs, labor calculations, and fast turnaround times to keep your projects on track and profitable.

Advenser is a leading engineering service provider specializing in VDC, BIM, and CAD solutions for the construction industry. With a team of over 300 skilled engineers across architectural, façade, structural, and MEP domains, Advenser supports contractors, architects, engineers, and construction companies in effectively integrating BIM technology into their projects. The focus is on delivering solutions that align with project timelines, industry standards, and budget constraints while ensuring optimal return on investment.

Established in 2007, Advenser has built a strong presence in the global AEC industry. The company offers tailored and customized engineering solutions that cover the entire project lifecycle, from design development to as-built BIM modeling. With its primary engineering center in India and operations extending across the USA, UAE, and Australia, Advenser combines technical expertise with cost-effective delivery, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and efficiency in every project undertaken.

By leveraging advanced technologies and modern practices such as Integrated BIM Project Delivery (IPD), Advenser enables clients to achieve project goals within predefined timelines and quality benchmarks. The company works with a wide range of clients, including construction firms, general contractors, architects, and product manufacturers, helping them streamline workflows, reduce errors, and enhance overall project coordination.

With more than a decade of experience in the industry, Advenser understands that each client has unique requirements. The team invests significant time in understanding project specifications, standards, and workflows to deliver solutions that are aligned with client expectations. The delivery approach bridges the gap between design concepts and real-world constructability through detailed virtual modeling, enabling better visualization and decision-making.

Advenser follows a system-driven production process supported by a well-defined quality assurance framework. This ensures that every project meets the highest standards of accuracy and consistency. By functioning as a virtual extension of the client’s team, Advenser provides the flexibility needed to scale resources and adapt to changing project demands, allowing clients to focus on their core operations without concerns about drafting, modeling, or detailing requirements.

The Advenser Advantage

Partnering with Advenser at any stage of the project lifecycle provides access to a highly experienced engineering team with expertise across multiple disciplines. The team’s proficiency in advanced modeling and detailing software enables them to handle complex project requirements with precision and efficiency. Their cross-functional capabilities allow seamless collaboration across architectural, structural, and MEP domains, ensuring integrated project delivery.

The combination of a strong knowledge base, extensive project experience, and modern infrastructure makes Advenser well-equipped to support diverse project needs. The company has successfully delivered over 5000 projects, demonstrating its capability to handle projects of varying scale and complexity.

Why Advenser

Advenser offers a comprehensive range of BIM solutions tailored to the AEC industry. The organization is supported by state-of-the-art infrastructure and follows a structured “Best Project Practice” (BPP) production process to ensure efficiency and consistency. A refined quality assurance system further strengthens the reliability of deliverables.

The team consists of well-qualified professionals with deep domain expertise and exposure to international BIM standards. Continuous technology upgrades ensure alignment with the evolving demands of the construction industry. Additionally, Advenser provides flexibility in resource allocation, enabling clients to scale teams based on project requirements.

Through a combination of technical expertise, process-driven execution, and client-focused delivery, Advenser continues to support the construction industry with high-quality engineering solutions that enhance project efficiency and overall performance.

Advenser

ADVENSER is a leading engineering service provider specializing in VDC, BIM, and CAD solutions for the construction industry.

Arbel Designs is a leading residential and commercial building design firm committed to transforming ideas into thoughtfully planned, functional, and visually impressive spaces. With a strong focus on innovation, quality, and client satisfaction, the company has built a reputation for delivering customized design solutions that align with each client’s goals, lifestyle, and budget. Whether it is a new custom home, a residential remodel, an accessory dwelling unit (ADU), a home addition, or a commercial development project, Arbel Designs brings creativity, technical expertise, and practical planning to every stage of the process.

At the heart of Arbel Designs is a passion for creating spaces that are not only beautiful but also efficient, sustainable, and built for long-term use. The team understands that every project is unique, which is why they take the time to listen carefully to clients, understand their vision, and translate their ideas into well-crafted design plans. Their collaborative approach ensures that each design reflects the client’s personal style, business needs, and future goals while also meeting local building codes and regulations.

For residential clients, Arbel Designs offers a wide range of services, including custom home design, interior and exterior remodeling, kitchen and bathroom renovations, garage conversions, room additions, and ADU planning. The company specializes in maximizing space, improving functionality, and enhancing property value through smart design solutions. Whether a client wants to modernize an existing home, create more living space for a growing family, or build a detached unit for rental income, Arbel Designs delivers practical and aesthetically pleasing results.

In the commercial sector, Arbel Designs provides expert design services for office spaces, retail stores, mixed-use properties, tenant improvements, and other business developments. The team understands the importance of designing commercial spaces that support workflow, customer experience, brand identity, and operational efficiency. By balancing creativity with functionality, Arbel Designs helps businesses create spaces that are professional, welcoming, and aligned with their business objectives.

One of the key strengths of Arbel Designs is its deep knowledge of local zoning laws, permit requirements, and construction standards, especially in California. Navigating permits and regulations can often be a complex and time-consuming process, but Arbel Designs simplifies this journey for clients by providing permit-ready drawings, detailed construction documents, and expert guidance throughout the approval process. Their attention to detail helps reduce delays, minimize costly errors, and ensure a smooth project experience.

Arbel Designs also embraces modern design tools and technology to improve accuracy and communication. Through detailed layouts, visual concepts, and 3D design presentations, clients can clearly understand how their space will look and function before construction begins. This helps clients make informed decisions and feel confident throughout the project.

What truly sets Arbel Designs apart is its dedication to personalized service, transparent communication, and design excellence. The company believes that successful projects are built on trust, collaboration, and attention to detail. From the initial consultation to final design delivery, the team works closely with clients to ensure every aspect of the project is handled professionally and efficiently.

With a commitment to quality craftsmanship, creative problem-solving, and client satisfaction, Arbel Designs continues to help homeowners, developers, and businesses bring their visions to life. Their expertise in residential and commercial building design makes them a trusted partner for anyone looking to create spaces that are practical, beautiful, and built for the future.

Arbel Design

Arbel Designs is a leading residential and commercial building design firm

The City of Phoenix established the Office of Innovation in late 2021 with the appointment of Michael Hammett as the City’s first Chief Innovation Officer. The Office of Innovation is the central hub for innovation, performance management, and the strategic use of data and performance across the City. The Office identifies national and local grant and technical-support opportunities to address City priorities, and partners with residents and departments to co-create pilot initiatives to reimagine existing City processes and services and implement new ideas to solve the City’s challenges. The Office leads the City Manager’s Performance Dashboard, Valley Benchmark Communities, the Innovate PHX Challenge hackathon series at Venture Café Phoenix, and the Bloomberg Philanthropies, What Works Cities and Smart Cities initiatives.

​The City of Phoenix established the Office of Innovation in late 2021 with the appointment of Michael Hammett as the City’s first Chief Innovation Officer. The Office of Innovation is the central hub for innovation, performance management, and the strategic use of data and performance across the City. The Office identifies national and local grant and technical-support opportunities to address City priorities, and partners with residents and departments to co-create pilot initiatives to reimagine existing City processes and services and implement new ideas to solve the City’s challenges. The Office leads the City Manager’s Performance Dashboard, Valley Benchmark Communities, the Innovate PHX Challenge hackathon series at Venture Café Phoenix, and the Bloomberg Philanthropies, What Works Cities and Smart Cities initiatives.
Our Mission

To partner with residents, City departments, industry experts, community organizations, and universities to develop and implement solutions to the City’s top challenges.

Our Vision

To lead with data, evidence and community collaboration to continue Phoenix’s transformation into an innovative, data-driven, Smart City.



The Office of Innovation partners with residents, City departments, and local and national organizations to advance solutions to some of our City's most pressing challenges — championing the strategic use of data to deliver effective, efficient, and measurable impacts for the City and its communities. ​​​

The Office of Innovation collaborates with Venture Café Phoenix to organize biannual Innovate PHX Challenge hackathons where participants from diverse backgrounds work in teams to address top City priorities. The teams then pitch their innovative solutions to a panel of judges for a chance to win a cash prize and potentially partner with the City to prototype ideas.​​​

Phoenix has achieved Platinum-level What Works Cities certification, the national standard of excellence in data-driven city governance. Launched in 2017 by Bloomberg Philanthropies and led by Results for America, What Works Cities Certification recognizes and celebrates local governments for their exceptional use of data to inform policy decisions, allocate funding, improve services, evaluate the effectiveness of programs, and engage residents. To date, 62 cities in North, Central and South America have achieved certification.

Improving Phoenix with Data and Evidence
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Office of Innovation leads efforts to advance the strategic use of data Citywide, administering the What Works Cities and Valley Benchmark Cities initiatives, and manages and advances the City Manager's Performance Dashboard, among other projects.



Phoenix Office of Innovation

The Office of Innovation partners with residents, City departments, and local and national organizations to advance solutions to some of our City's most pressing challenges — championing the strategic use of data to deliver effective, efficient, and measurable impacts for the City and its communities. ​​​

RPG Squarefoot Solutions, a division of RPG Enterprises, is a trusted provider of advanced Reality Capture, Geospatial, 3D Scanning, Digital Twin, and Visualization solutions for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. With a strong focus on innovation, precision, and project efficiency, RPG helps AEC professionals transform physical spaces into accurate, intelligent, and actionable digital assets.

At the core of RPG’s value proposition is its ability to bridge the gap between the built environment and digital workflows. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as terrestrial laser scanning, mobile mapping, drone-based reality capture, 360° imaging, BIM support, digital twin development, and construction documentation, RPG enables architects, engineers, contractors, owners, and facility teams to make better decisions with higher confidence.

RPG Squarefoot Solutions supports projects across the entire asset lifecycle from pre-design and planning to construction, renovation, operations, and facility management. The company specializes in delivering high-accuracy existing conditions documentation, scan-to-BIM workflows, point cloud data, virtual walkthroughs, as-built documentation, and site intelligence solutions that reduce rework, improve coordination, and accelerate project delivery.

For architecture firms, RPG provides reliable existing conditions data that helps teams design with confidence and avoid costly field verification issues. For engineering and MEP teams, RPG delivers highly detailed spatial data that improves coordination and supports clash-free planning. For contractors and construction managers, RPG enhances field verification, progress tracking, quantity validation, and renovation planning. For owners and facility managers, RPG enables smarter asset visibility through digital twins, interactive site records, and centralized visual documentation.

What sets RPG apart is not just access to high-end scanning and capture technology, but the company’s commitment to making these tools practical, scalable, and outcome-driven for real-world AEC use cases. RPG offers access to industry-leading hardware and workflows, including LiDAR scanning systems, Matterport capture solutions, construction reality capture tools, and advanced spatial documentation services that are aligned with the needs of modern project teams.

In addition to service delivery, RPG also supports the market through technology access and deployment, helping firms adopt powerful reality capture solutions without the friction of high upfront investment. This makes RPG a valuable partner for organizations looking to modernize workflows, improve documentation quality, and gain a competitive edge in bidding, planning, and execution.

RPG’s solutions are particularly valuable for projects involving renovation, retrofit, adaptive reuse, historic preservation, industrial facilities, commercial interiors, healthcare spaces, educational institutions, infrastructure environments, and complex building systems  where accurate field conditions are critical to project success.

With a consultative and solution-oriented approach, RPG works closely with clients to understand project goals, technical requirements, and downstream workflow needs. The result is not just captured data, but usable project intelligence that supports better collaboration between stakeholders, reduces uncertainty, and improves decision-making across teams.

As the AEC industry continues to evolve toward more connected, data-driven project delivery, RPG Squarefoot Solutions stands at the intersection of physical reality and digital transformation. The company is committed to helping AEC firms adopt smarter workflows through precise capture, intelligent documentation, and scalable digital solutions that improve how projects are planned, built, and managed.
Whether the need is 3D laser scanning, digital twin creation, site capture, construction documentation, or geospatial intelligence, RPG Squarefoot Solutions delivers the tools, expertise, and execution support needed to bring clarity, speed, and confidence to every stage of the built environment lifecycle.

RPG Squarefoot Solutions

RPG Squarefoot Solutions is a leading technology solutions provider for the building and environmental graphics industries. We offer advanced services in Managed IT solutions, Reality Capture, and Wide-Format Printing Equipment.


Hitech BPO is a globally recognized outsourcing company with a strong legacy dating back to 1992, built on a foundation of quality, reliability, and continuous innovation. Over the decades, the company has evolved to meet the dynamic needs of modern businesses, specializing in transforming fragmented, unstructured, and complex data into reliable, structured, and insight-ready assets. By doing so, Hitech BPO empowers organizations to make faster, smarter, and more scalable decisions in an increasingly data-driven world.

At its core, Hitech BPO partners with enterprises, technology firms, startups, and data-centric organizations to streamline data operations and unlock the true value of information. The company’s expertise lies in delivering end-to-end data services that support both traditional business processes and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) initiatives. With a strong focus on accuracy, scalability, and efficiency, Hitech BPO ensures that clients can rely on high-quality datasets to power their business strategies and technological innovations.

One of the key strengths of Hitech BPO is its comprehensive suite of services. The company offers advanced data annotation and labeling solutions tailored for AI and ML models, enabling businesses to train algorithms with precision and consistency. In addition, Hitech BPO provides robust data collection services, sourcing high-quality datasets from diverse channels to meet specific project requirements. This is complemented by data cleansing, validation, and enrichment processes that enhance data integrity, eliminate inconsistencies, and improve overall usability.

Beyond core data services, Hitech BPO also excels in web scraping and data extraction, helping organizations gather valuable insights from large volumes of online information. These capabilities are particularly valuable for companies looking to monitor market trends, analyze competitor activity, or build data-driven products and platforms. The company’s ability to handle large-scale data processing projects with speed and accuracy makes it a trusted partner for businesses seeking operational efficiency and competitive advantage.

Hitech BPO’s industry-focused approach further sets it apart. The company delivers customized solutions for sectors such as real estate, eCommerce, technology, and digital platforms, ensuring that each client receives services aligned with their unique business requirements. Whether it’s processing property data, optimizing product catalogs, or managing large datasets for tech applications, Hitech BPO combines domain expertise with advanced tools and methodologies to deliver measurable results.

With a global client base spanning the USA, UK, Canada, and other international markets, Hitech BPO has built a reputation for excellence, reliability, and cost-effective service delivery. The company’s commitment to process optimization, quality control, and continuous improvement enables clients to enhance data accuracy, improve AI model performance, and drive sustainable business growth.

In an era where data is a critical asset, Hitech BPO stands as a strategic partner, helping organizations transform raw information into actionable intelligence and long-term value.

It is an integrated BPO company, assisting companies worldwide in effectively managing their data to drive business success. As one of the leading business process outsourcing companies in India, our extensive domain expertise across various industry verticals enables our clients to scale rapidly and adapt to the evolving needs of the digital world.

Hitech BPO’s consistent efforts at building long-term relationships with our clients backed by a commitment to delivering on-time and qualitative services have been pivotal to our consistent growth above market standards.

Hitech BPO

Hitech BPO is a leading global outsourcing company, established in 1992, specializing in transforming fragmented data into reliable, insight-ready assets for businesses worldwide.

OTJ Architects is a premier architecture and design practice that partners with leading organizations at pivotal moments of transition in their growth and development. With a national presence and a diverse portfolio, OTJ delivers enduring, human-centered solutions that promote diversity, wellness, and sustainability across a wide range of sectors, including commercial real estate, corporate workplaces, government, life sciences, multifamily residential, arts and culture, education, and nonprofit organizations.

At the core of OTJ’s philosophy is a commitment to aligning design with each client’s mission, operational needs, and long-term goals. The firm’s intelligence-based approach leverages industry-specific research, data-driven insights, and evidence-based strategies to inform design decisions. Rather than relying solely on intuition, OTJ grounds its work in measurable outcomes, ensuring that each project maximizes the value of the built environment and supports organizational performance.

OTJ’s digitally native process further distinguishes its practice. As early adopters of emerging technologies, the firm integrates artificial intelligence, advanced visualization tools, and robust data management systems into its workflows. This digitally integrated approach accelerates project delivery, enhances collaboration, and reduces uncertainty throughout the design process. Clients are empowered with clearer insights and more informed decision-making, resulting in higher confidence and better outcomes.

The firm’s brand-driven design methodology ensures that every space communicates a client’s identity and culture with clarity and impact. OTJ approaches each project holistically, weaving together architecture, interiors, and experiential design to create environments that resonate with users and reinforce brand values. From workplace strategy to specialized environments such as laboratories, secure facilities (SCIF), and theaters, OTJ tailors its services to meet complex and evolving client needs.

Human-centered design remains a guiding principle across all OTJ projects. The firm prioritizes the wellbeing, productivity, and experience of the people who inhabit the spaces it creates. By fostering collaboration, inclusivity, and innovation, OTJ designs environments where individuals and organizations can thrive. This commitment is reinforced by a strong focus on wellness and sustainability, supported by a team of LEED and WELL Accredited Professionals who develop solutions that balance environmental responsibility with economic viability.

OTJ’s impact is reflected not only in its design work but also in measurable client outcomes. Firm-wide studies show that 94% of clients report improved efficiency, 93% report increased productivity, and 92% note enhanced brand image as a result of OTJ’s design solutions. These metrics underscore the firm’s ability to translate strategy into tangible value.

Signature projects highlight OTJ’s breadth and expertise, including innovative workplaces for organizations such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Five Guys, PBS, Adobe, BMW, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The firm has also led transformative projects like the adaptive reuse of Visitation Frederick into a mixed-use and hospitality destination, the design and delivery of the Venue at Thunder Valley Casino Resort, and the renovation of the iconic Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C.

Through a combination of strategic thinking, technological innovation, and a deep commitment to people and the environment, OTJ Architects continues to shape spaces that drive performance, reflect identity, and create lasting impact. For more information, please visit otj.com.

OTJ Architects

OTJ Architects is a leading architecture and design firm partnering with organizations during key moments of transition. With offices nationwide, OTJ delivers human-centric solutions that promote diversity, wellness, and sustainability across commercial real estate, corporate, government, life sciences, multifamily, arts, culture, education, and nonprofit sectors.

ADU Pilot is an AI-powered property feasibility and planning platform built to help homeowners, architects, contractors, real estate professionals, and ADU companies evaluate whether a property can support an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) and what it may take to move a project forward. Our mission is to simplify one of the most confusing early stages of the ADU process: understanding local zoning rules, site constraints, permitting risks, timeline considerations, and preliminary project feasibility before significant time and money are spent.

Building an ADU in California can be highly attractive, but the path from idea to approved project is rarely straightforward. Property owners often start with basic questions such as: Can I build an ADU on my lot? What are the setback requirements? How do easements affect buildability? What will the project likely cost? How long will permitting take? The challenge is that the answers are rarely universal. ADU rules vary by jurisdiction, lot conditions, overlays, topography, access, and existing site constraints. In many cases, homeowners and small builders spend hours or days collecting fragmented information from city websites, municipal codes, planning counters, GIS portals, and consultant conversations just to form an initial opinion.

ADU Pilot was created to make that process faster, clearer, and more actionable. Instead of forcing users to manually research zoning rules, interpret code updates, compare jurisdiction requirements, and piece together feasibility assumptions on their own, our platform organizes relevant property and regulatory information into a more structured decision-making workflow. We help users move from uncertainty to an informed next step.

At the core of ADU Pilot is the belief that early-stage feasibility should be more accessible, more consistent, and more machine-readable. Our platform is designed to analyze property-specific and jurisdiction-specific factors that may affect ADU potential, then present the findings in a way that is easier for users to understand and apply. Depending on the use case, this can include zoning context, lot configuration considerations, setback issues, site constraints, jurisdictional rules, general project risks, and preliminary guidance on what to review next. The goal is not to replace licensed architects, engineers, surveyors, or legal professionals. Instead, ADU Pilot helps users reduce ambiguity earlier in the process so they can approach design, permitting, and consultant coordination with better information.

We serve multiple types of users across the ADU ecosystem. For homeowners, ADU Pilot helps answer the first major question: whether a property is worth pursuing for an ADU project and what the likely constraints may be. For architects, designers, and contractors, the platform can support client intake, pre-design screening, and faster turnaround on early feasibility conversations. For ADU-focused businesses, real estate teams, and operators evaluating multiple addresses, ADU Pilot can help create a more repeatable and scalable research process. This is particularly valuable in markets like California, where local code interpretation and jurisdiction differences play a major role in project viability.

Our work is especially focused on California, where ADU demand continues to grow and state legislation has created new opportunities while also introducing complexity in implementation. We pay close attention to evolving ADU laws, local ordinance differences, building code changes, and practical permitting considerations that affect real projects. By translating this complexity into more usable outputs, ADU Pilot aims to support better planning and more confident decisions.

In addition to feasibility analysis, ADU Pilot is building a broader knowledge layer around ADU regulations, jurisdiction-specific guidance, and property evaluation workflows. We believe the future of this space will depend not only on better software, but also on clearer information architecture: structured content that helps both people and systems understand what is allowed, what is risky, and what deserves closer review.

ADU Pilot stands at the intersection of AI, housing, property intelligence, and the built environment. We are building tools for a real-world workflow where accuracy, clarity, and jurisdiction-specific understanding matter. Whether a user is exploring a backyard ADU for the first time or evaluating multiple properties at scale, ADU Pilot is designed to make the earliest phase of ADU planning more efficient, more transparent, and more decision-ready.

ADU Pilot

We help architects and builders get instant ADU and SFH regulatory analysis, cost estimates, and more.

The Practical Starting Point for AEC AI Strategy

For most AEC firms, the biggest obstacle to adopting AI isn’t the technology itself it’s the “data mess.” Project files, CAD standards, and Revit models are often scattered across disconnected servers, legacy systems, and inconsistent folder structures. Before any meaningful AI strategy can take shape, firms need to first understand how their teams actually interact with this fragmented information environment on a day to day basis.

Our application is a lightweight Windows-based tool that sits directly on individual workstations. It addresses one of the most common and overlooked inefficiencies in AEC workflows: the “file hunt.” Instead of navigating through multiple layers of folders or relying on tribal knowledge, an engineer can simply type a request such as, “Open the latest Highway 99 drainage standards,” and the application locates and launches the correct file instantly.

This may seem like a small improvement, but when multiplied across teams and projects, it represents a meaningful shift in how work gets done.

How This Builds Your AI Strategy

While your team is saving 15–20 minutes of billable time each day, the system is simultaneously performing two critical background functions that lay the foundation for a scalable AI strategy.

Mapping Your Corporate Memory
The tool continuously identifies where valuable resources actually live across your firm’s network. Over time, it transforms what is typically a “dark” and unstructured file system into a searchable, navigable map of your organization’s expertise. Instead of relying on individuals to know where things are, the system begins to surface that knowledge automatically.

Recording Workflow DNA
At the same time, the application captures anonymized data on how your team works. You gain visibility into which standards, templates, and files are used most frequently, and where inefficiencies or bottlenecks exist. This “user interaction layer” becomes incredibly valuable. It provides a data-driven understanding of your workflows, which is essential when deciding where automation or AI can have the most impact.

In other words, before you automate, you need to understand and this is how that understanding is built.

Zero-Risk, Local Execution

One of the biggest barriers to AI adoption in AEC is concern around data security and compliance. This approach removes that barrier.

Because the AI operates entirely on the user’s local machine, no project data leaves your environment. It respects your existing permissions, folder structures, and security protocols. There is no need for a major IT overhaul, cloud migration, or lengthy security review process.

Firms can begin implementing and seeing value almost immediately, without introducing additional risk.

Shape the Future by Fixing Today

What makes this approach powerful is that it does not require a dramatic shift in how teams work. It simply improves what they are already doing.

By solving a very real, everyday problem finding the right file you are also laying the groundwork for something much bigger. You are building the data layer, visibility, and insight needed to support future AI initiatives.

In many ways, this is the most practical entry point into AI for AEC firms. Start by reducing friction today, and in doing so, quietly collect the intelligence needed to shape tomorrow’s strategy.

Rhombic

This is the starting point of your AI strategy roadmap, start shaping your firm's future today.

This platform integrates natural language into existing AEC workflows, boosting efficiency while capturing usage patterns. By identifying how your company accesses project resources, you build the essential data foundation for long-term AI adoption.

Company Overview

Flying Buttress is a specialized managed services provider serving architecture, engineering, and construction firms that rely on complex workflows, high-performance computing, and collaboration across distributed teams. Founded in 2010, the firm was built to address a gap in the market: AED organizations often outgrow generic IT providers but struggle to find partners who understand the operational realities of design and delivery environments.

Rather than positioning itself as a generalist IT vendor, Flying Buttress operates as a vertical-focused technology partner. The company’s work centers on aligning infrastructure, security, and systems architecture with the business objectives of leadership teams. Clients typically engage Flying Buttress when they need more than technical support — they need strategic guidance that supports growth, resilience, and modernization.

Vertical Specialization

Flying Buttress focuses specifically on the AED (Architects/Engineers/Designers) sector, which brings unique demands: large file performance, collaboration platforms, hybrid work environments, data governance, compliance considerations, and uptime requirements tied directly to project delivery. The firm’s specialization enables it to design solutions around tools such as CAD/BIM platforms, rendering workloads, document management systems, and cross-office collaboration models rather than forcing AED firms into generic IT templates.

This vertical depth allows Flying Buttress to speak the language of firm principals, operations leaders, and executive teams — not just IT managers.

Services and Capabilities

Flying Buttress delivers a comprehensive range of services designed for professional services firms that depend on reliable technology:

Managed IT services and infrastructure oversight

Cybersecurity strategy, implementation, and risk reduction

Cloud and hybrid architecture design

Strategic technology advisory for leadership teams

Business continuity and disaster recovery planning

Compliance-aligned security practices

Systems optimization for design and collaboration workflows

The firm emphasizes proactive management and long-term alignment rather than reactive support. Client engagements are typically structured as a joint effort rather than transactional vendor relationships.

Strategic Orientation

A defining characteristic of Flying Buttress is its emphasis on executive-level thinking. The firm’s approach treats technology as a business enabler, not merely a utility. This includes:

Translating technical risks into business risk

Supporting leadership decision-making around growth, mergers, and operational scale

Helping firms modernize legacy environments without disrupting productivity

Prioritizing resilience, security posture, and operational maturity

This orientation makes Flying Buttress particularly relevant to firm owners, managing partners, and C-suite leaders who view technology as part of their competitive advantage.

Reputation and Client Relationships

Flying Buttress has built its reputation through long-term client relationships rather than high-volume churn. Clients tend to stay engaged because the firm demonstrates a clear understanding of their industry, their workflows, and their strategic pressures. The company’s growth has been driven primarily through reputation, referrals, and repeat engagements.

Leadership and Perspective

Flying Buttress’s leadership brings both technical experience and a broader intellectual perspective to the firm’s work. This informs Flying Buttress’s positioning not just as a technical provider, but as a thoughtful participant in conversations about the future of work, professional services, technology ethics, and digital transformation.

Market Position

Flying Buttress occupies a deliberate niche:
Not a mass-market MSP.
Not a commodity helpdesk provider.
But a focused, specialized technology partner for AED firms that need depth, not volume.

This positioning allows us to compete on expertise, clarity, and trust rather than price compression.

Flying Buttress

Flying Buttress is an AEC-focused MSP providing managed IT, cybersecurity, and executive-level technology strategy for firms that need their infrastructure to support real-world design and delivery demands

<h1 data-start="260" data-end="340">Ideate StyleManager for Revit: Clean, Standardize, and Optimize BIM Styles</h1>
<h2 data-start="347" data-end="390">Why Revit Styles Become a Hidden Problem</h2>
Managing styles in Autodesk Revit &mdash; including object styles, line patterns, materials, text types, and view templates &mdash; is one of those tasks that quietly affects every project. When unmanaged, styles accumulate from imported content, linked models, and copied elements, leading to bloated files, inconsistent graphics, and coordination headaches.
Over time, even well-structured projects can drift away from office standards without teams realizing it.
<h2 data-start="853" data-end="885">What Ideate StyleManager Does</h2>
Ideate StyleManager is a Revit plugin built to give BIM managers and architects greater control over project styles. Instead of manually hunting through settings or risking accidental deletions, users can analyze, merge, rename, and remove unwanted styles safely.
The tool makes it easier to clean up project files and enforce consistent standards across teams.
<h2 data-start="1256" data-end="1300">Safe Cleanup with Built-In Style Analysis</h2>
One of the biggest risks in Revit is deleting a style that is still in use. That action can trigger unexpected graphic changes throughout the model.
Ideate StyleManager addresses this with detailed usage analysis. Before merging or deleting a style, users can see exactly where it is applied. This visibility allows teams to consolidate duplicate styles, remove clutter, and align projects with office templates without compromising model integrity.
<h2 data-start="1759" data-end="1815">Improving Model Performance and Documentation Quality</h2>
Style clutter does more than create visual inconsistencies. It can also impact file size and model performance.
By reducing redundant definitions and maintaining consistent graphics, teams improve drawing clarity, coordination workflows, and overall BIM health. For firms working across multiple offices, maintaining a unified visual language becomes much easier.
<h2 data-start="2188" data-end="2225">Supporting Long-Term BIM Standards</h2>
Ideate StyleManager is not just a cleanup tool. It supports long-term BIM governance.
As projects grow in complexity and content libraries expand, style management becomes increasingly important. The ability to proactively monitor and standardize styles helps firms protect documentation quality from early design through construction documentation.
For teams focused on Revit efficiency and model reliability, Ideate StyleManager offers a practical solution for maintaining cleaner, healthier BIM environments.

Ideate StyleManager

Ichi is an AI-powered code compliance and automation platform built for architecture firms.
The platform helps architects navigate complex building codes, automate time-consuming construction administration tasks, and strengthen QA/QC across the entire project lifecycle&mdash;from early design through construction.
Designed specifically for the realities of architectural practice, Ichi augments professional expertise by automating previously manual processes, improving accuracy, and minimizing costly downstream rework. The platform supports both project-level execution and firm-wide knowledge sharing, helping teams work more efficiently while maintaining accountability and control.
Key Features
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Ichi enables architects to quickly search, interpret, and validate applicable building codes and jurisdictional requirements. AI-assisted guidance is presented alongside authoritative source language, allowing teams to confidently apply code requirements during design, documentation, and review&mdash;without relying on generic or unverified AI outputs.
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The platform helps automate and support manual construction administration workflows, including navigating construction documents, responding to RFIs, and reviewing submittals. By reducing the time spent on repetitive coordination tasks, Ichi helps keep projects moving while easing the administrative burden on architectural teams.
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Ichi strengthens QA/QC by assisting with plan set reviews, cross-sheet consistency checks, and document validation across large and complex drawing packages. This allows architects to identify issues earlier, improve document quality, and reduce risk prior to submission or construction.
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Ichi acts as a living knowledge base for architecture firms. Project-specific decisions, jurisdictional nuances, and internal best practices can be captured, shared, and reused across teams and over time&mdash;helping firms preserve institutional knowledge as staff, projects, and regulations change.
Who Should Use Ichi?
Ichi is designed for:
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Architecture firms working across multiple jurisdictions
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Design teams navigating complex or evolving code requirements
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Firms seeking to reduce QA/QC risk and rework
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Architects managing heavy construction administration workloads
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Practices looking to capture and scale internal expertise
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While built with architects at the center, Ichi also supports collaboration with engineers and contractors by improving clarity, consistency, and access to critical project information.
Why Ichi?
Ichi is purpose-built for the architectural profession. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, it is designed to operate within the constraints of real-world practice&mdash;prioritizing accuracy, traceability, and professional responsibility.
By combining AI-driven code compliance, QA/QC automation, construction administration support, and firm-wide knowledge management in a single platform, Ichi helps architects spend less time on rote tasks and more time on high-value design and decision-making. The result is better documentation, smoother project delivery, and more resilient architectural practices.
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Ichi is helping architecture firms modernize how they manage code compliance, QA/QC, and knowledge across their projects, all on one platform.
👉 Visit https://www.ichiplan.com/ to schedule a demo or learn more about how Ichi is helping architects and other AECs build cities of the future.

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CRDR BIM, short for "Clash Resolution Diagnosis Report in BIM," is a specialized tool designed to streamline clash resolution documentation within Autodesk Navisworks. It simplifies compliance reporting and enhances workflow efficiency for BIM managers, coordinators, and specialists by providing a structured approach to documenting resolved clashes. 1. Efficient Clash Resolution Reporting CRDR BIM enables users to generate detailed Clash Resolution Diagnosis Reports that document how clashes have been addressed between different BIM model versions. This feature helps teams maintain accurate records of resolution progress, improving project tracking and compliance. 2. Seamless Navisworks Plugin Integration Functioning as a dedicated Navisworks plugin, CRDR BIM integrates directly into existing workflows, allowing users to compare &lsquo;before&rsquo; and &lsquo;after&rsquo; BIM models effortlessly. This integration ensures that clash resolution documentation remains within the familiar Navisworks environment, eliminating the need for external tools. 3. Intuitive &amp; User-Friendly Interface Designed for ease of use, CRDR BIM features an intuitive interface that simplifies navigation and workflow execution. BIM professionals can efficiently document and categorize clashes without technical complexity, improving productivity and adoption rates. 4. Consistent Viewing Angles for Clear Comparisons CRDR BIM ensures consistent perspective when capturing images of clashes, maintaining uniformity between different model versions. This feature enhances clarity in reports, making it easier for teams to analyze and understand clash resolutions. 5. Customizable Clash Categorization for Precise Documentation Users can categorize clashes into resolved, unresolved, approved, or resolved but connected manually, ensuring a clear and organized approach to documentation. This categorization allows for better project tracking and compliance verification. 6. Flexible Reporting Formats for Easy Sharing CRDR BIM supports HTML and PDF export options, enabling teams to save and share reports efficiently. These reports include detailed images and summaries, making them valuable for project documentation and stakeholder communication. 7. Enhancing BIM Management with Streamlined Reporting By integrating directly with Navisworks, CRDR BIM empowers BIM managers and specialists to document clash resolutions accurately and efficiently. It ensures that compliance reporting is effortless while maintaining a structured and transparent workflow. With its powerful reporting features and seamless integration, CRDR BIM is an essential tool for professionals involved in clash resolution documentation within BIM models.

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D5 Render is a leading real-time rendering solution that revolutionizes the architectural and design workflows. Powered by AI-driven and cutting-edge technologies, D5 empowers architects, designers, and visualization artists to work more efficiently and collaboratively, accelerating creation while ensuring consistently accurate and photorealistic results. -Best balance between speed and quality -Seamless integration with your favorite design workflow -User-friendly for designers, architects, visualizers, and archviz animation professionals alike -Free access and a cost-effective teams subscription option D5 Render is transforming the world of architectural visualization by bringing real-time rendering into everyday workflows&mdash;without sacrificing quality. Designed with architects, designers, and visual storytellers in mind, D5 combines high-speed GPU processing with an intuitive interface, allowing users to create photorealistic renderings, animations, and walkthroughs almost instantly. Unlike traditional rendering engines that require long wait times and technical know-how, D5 simplifies the process through real-time preview and rendering capabilities. Users can drag and drop assets, make lighting and material adjustments on the fly, and see results in seconds&mdash;all while working within a seamless, responsive environment. It also supports live sync with popular modeling tools like SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, and Archicad, streamlining the design-to-render workflow. What sets D5 apart is not just its speed, but also its ability to handle large, complex scenes with remarkable performance. Its AI-powered denoising engine and built-in library of assets&mdash;including vegetation, lighting, and materials&mdash;help elevate visualization without external plugins or post-production tools. Architects and design firms using D5 report significant time savings, improved client communication, and enhanced design decision-making. By eliminating the barrier between modeling and rendering, D5 allows teams to visualize concepts earlier and with greater clarity&mdash;ultimately leading to better outcomes. For firms working on tight deadlines or aiming to elevate their presentations, D5 offers a powerful solution that redefines what&rsquo;s possible in real-time rendering. It&rsquo;s not just a tool&mdash;it&rsquo;s becoming a core part of the modern architectural tech stack. Check out our latest article: https://www.aecplustech.com/blog/rendering-redefined-d5-real-time-revolution-architects-design-firms

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Melt Code is the first building code research AI built for accuracy, transparency, and real compliance decision-making. Unlike generic AI tools that behave like black boxes, Melt Code doesn&rsquo;t just provide an answer &mdash; it shows the full research process so architects and engineers can verify every step and confidently defend their decisions.
Users can ask code questions in plain English and receive reliable, project-specific requirements with:
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Step-by-step reasoning with clear assumptions
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Direct citations to exact code sections for full traceability
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Compliance Paths, mapping multiple valid routes to compliance (based on occupancy, construction type, sprinkler conditions, height/area limits, ratings, etc.) so teams can choose the best design approach
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Exception and cross-reference handling, including circular references across multiple chapters
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Table and diagram understanding, ensuring accurate interpretation of code tables and figures
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Built-in calculations, such as occupant loads, egress sizing, travel distances, and fixture counts
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Personalized compliance illustrations, automatically generated to visually explain requirements for a specific project scenario
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Beyond research, Melt Code includes workflow tools that turn compliance into an organizational asset:
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Projects, where teams store project context (location, occupancy, construction type, sprinkler status, etc.) so every question becomes instantly project-aware
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Checklists, allowing firms to build, store, share, and export reusable compliance checklists across teams and project types
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The result is dramatically faster research, fewer senior escalations, reduced consultant dependence &mdash; and most importantly, confidence and peace of mind in every code decision.

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InspectMind AI helps engineers review hundreds of pages of drawings in minutes instead of hours.
InspectMind AI is an AI-powered plan review and code compliance platform built for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. The platform automatically analyzes construction drawings, engineering plans, and technical documents to identify code violations, design inconsistencies, and constructability issues before projects move into permitting or construction.
Traditional plan review and QA processes require engineers, architects, and reviewers to manually analyze hundreds or thousands of pages of drawings. This process is time-consuming, expensive, and prone to human error. InspectMind AI accelerates this process by using advanced artificial intelligence models trained on construction drawings, building codes, and engineering standards.
Users upload their project plans directly to InspectMind, and the AI system analyzes the drawings sheet-by-sheet. The platform detects issues such as missing details, dimension conflicts, structural inconsistencies, accessibility violations, and code compliance risks. InspectMind then generates a structured report highlighting the detected issues along with visual references to the affected drawings.
The platform is designed for engineers, architects, developers, contractors, plan reviewers, and government agencies who want to reduce risk and improve design quality. By catching issues early in the design process, InspectMind helps teams avoid expensive rework, delays during permitting, and construction change orders.
InspectMind AI supports a wide range of building codes and standards including IBC, ADA, NFPA, and local jurisdictional codes. The system can analyze architectural drawings, structural plans, engineering reports, and construction documentation.
Typical workflow:
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AI plan analysis The AI analyzes the full drawing set, identifies potential issues, and compares plans against applicable building codes.
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InspectMind AI dramatically reduces manual review time, improves plan quality, and helps project teams move faster from design to construction.

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Catch construction mistakes before they get built

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Using AI to Automate Building Inspections

ArchiMind &mdash; Compliance Is No Longer Manual
For decades, California architects have done the same thing: finish the drawings, then spend days hunting through CBC chapters, marking up PDFs, and hoping nothing falls through the cracks before plan check.
ArchiMind ends that.
ArchiMind is a native Revit plugin that turns California building code into a live, intelligent layer inside your model. The moment you run an analysis, every room, door, stair, corridor, and restroom is evaluated against CBC 2025 &mdash; automatically, instantly, and without leaving Revit. No exports. No spreadsheets. No guesswork.
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Built for the Code That Actually Governs California Projects
California doesn't run on IBC.
ArchiMind was built from the ground up for this stack:
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This isn't a multi-jurisdiction platform retrofitted for California. This is California, done right.
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12 Domains. One Click. Everything Checked.
ArchiMind evaluates your model across every major CBC review category in a single run:
Occupancy Load &middot; Egress &middot; Stairs &amp; Ramps &middot; Fire Resistance &middot; Height &amp; Area &middot; Light &amp; Ventilation &middot; Chapter 11B Accessibility &middot; Restroom Fixtures &middot; Plumbing Fixture Count &middot; EVCS Parking &middot; Exit Signs &middot; DSA Path of Travel
Every result is tied to a specific Revit element and cited to the exact code section. Not "something might be wrong." Exactly what, exactly where, exactly why.
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Not Just Flagging &mdash; Fixing
Most compliance tools stop at flagging. ArchiMind goes further.
Click GoTo on any failing check &mdash; Revit zooms directly to the element. Click Fix &mdash; ArchiMind corrects it automatically. Door too narrow? Fixed. Handrail too low? Fixed. Ramp too steep? Fixed. Stair too narrow? Fixed. Corridor too tight? Fixed. Every fix is fully undoable with Ctrl+Z. Re-run the analysis to confirm.
Click What's Checked in the dashboard to see every check ArchiMind runs, which ones have auto-fix available, and what's on the roadmap &mdash; full transparency, no black box.
For corridor and stair width violations, the Guide Lines tool draws red dimension annotations directly on your floor plan &mdash; showing exactly how far a wall needs to move. For restrooms, blue annotation boxes appear next to each room showing required vs. provided fixture counts from CPC Table 422.1, plus CBC 11B ADA clear floor area calculations.
This is the difference between a report that tells you what's wrong and a tool that helps you fix it.
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Compliance That Runs While You Design
ArchiMind's Live mode monitors your model continuously in the background. The moment a room change triggers an egress violation or a door swap creates a width issue, you know &mdash; while it's still a 30-second fix, not a 3-day redesign.
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For the Whole Team
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The Numbers
200+ compliance checks &middot; 12 CBC domains &middot; 4 California code layers &middot; Revit 2023&ndash;2026 &middot; CBC 2022 &amp; 2025 &middot; CPC 2025 &middot; Chapter 11B &middot; DSA IR 10-2 First CBC run free. No credit card required.

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MeltPlan is the AI-native planning engine for the built environment, built to help architects, engineers, and contractors plan projects better &mdash; earlier, faster, and with far more confidence. Construction planning today is still fragmented across disconnected tools, spreadsheets, PDFs, and tribal knowledge. Teams are forced to manually connect decisions across code compliance, estimating, scheduling, and value engineering, which leads to slow iterations, missed scope, costly rework, and avoidable project risk.
MeltPlan solves this by creating a unified planning platform that connects the four planning pillars that shape every project: code compliance, cost, schedule, and value engineering. Instead of operating like a black-box AI assistant, MeltPlan is built for accuracy and transparency. It understands real AEC context &mdash; including codes and standards, building assemblies and elements, quantities and scopes, and project-specific conditions. Every output is designed to be defensible, with clear assumptions, step-by-step reasoning, and verifiable sources.
At the core of MeltPlan is the belief that planning isn&rsquo;t just producing a schedule or an estimate &mdash; it&rsquo;s making the right decisions early, before mistakes become expensive field problems. MeltPlan helps teams move from &ldquo;searching and guessing&rdquo; to &ldquo;knowing and deciding.&rdquo;
Today, MeltPlan offers two core products:
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Melt Code is the first building code research AI built to make compliance transparent and decision-ready. Instead of giving a generic answer, Melt Code provides project-specific compliance requirements along with a step-by-step reasoning trail and direct citations to every relevant code section. It also maps out Compliance Paths, guiding architects and engineers through multiple valid routes to compliance based on project variables like occupancy, construction type, sprinkler conditions, height/area thresholds, and fire ratings. Melt Code understands exceptions, cross-references, tables, diagrams, and code math &mdash; and can generate project-specific compliance illustrations to make requirements easier to interpret and communicate. It also includes workflow tools like Projects and Checklists, helping firms capture institutional knowledge and standardize compliance across teams.
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Melt Takeoff is an AI-assisted takeoff service designed for contractors and estimators who need speed without sacrificing trust. It combines AI vision for fast quantity extraction with onshore, field-experienced senior estimators who verify outputs and add detailed allowances for scope not shown on drawings. Melt Takeoff detects hundreds of building elements, flags drawing/spec conflicts, structures takeoffs in MasterFormat&reg;, UniFormat&reg;, or custom standards, and delivers interactive outputs with sheet-linked traceability and clean Excel exports. It enables faster bids, fewer missed scope items, and more confident pricing.
Together, Melt Code and Melt Takeoff form the foundation of the MeltPlan platform &mdash; a connected planning engine that brings clarity, speed, and trust to preconstruction decision-making.

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Quantum Reality Capture (QRC) partnered with the City of Greenville and DP3 Architects to provide comprehensive LiDAR scanning and Scan-to-BIM services for the multi-story commercial and retail property located at 206 S Main Street in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. The project involved documenting approximately 90,000–100,000 square feet of existing building conditions to support future redevelopment planning, renovation workflows, and architectural coordination efforts.

Using advanced mobile LiDAR scanning technology, QRC captured highly accurate interior and exterior spatial data throughout the downtown commercial facility while minimizing disruption to surrounding businesses and active operations. The collected data was processed into survey-grade point clouds and translated into an LOD 200 Revit model, giving architects, engineers, and project stakeholders access to reliable digital documentation for design development and project planning.

In addition to the BIM model, QRC delivered coordinated site plans, floor plans, reflected ceiling plans (RCPs), exterior elevations, and roof plans to support comprehensive redevelopment and facility planning initiatives. The project was completed within an accelerated 15–20 day timeframe through QRC’s structured reality capture workflow, mobile LiDAR technology, and rigorous quality assurance procedures.

This Greenville Scan-to-BIM and LiDAR documentation project demonstrates QRC’s expertise in existing conditions documentation, commercial building reality capture, digital twin workflows, and BIM modeling services for commercial real estate and redevelopment projects. By leveraging advanced LiDAR scanning technology and scalable BIM workflows, QRC helped reduce design risk, improve coordination between project teams, minimize field verification requirements, and provide the City of Greenville and DP3 Architects with accurate digital assets to support informed decision-making throughout the redevelopment process.

The project highlights the growing role of reality capture technology, LiDAR scanning, and spatial intelligence in commercial real estate, adaptive reuse, and downtown redevelopment initiatives across the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.

206 S Main Street – Greenville, SC

The XGRIDS Lixel L2 Pro is an advanced handheld LiDAR scanning system designed to deliver fast, accurate, and intelligent 3D reality capture for architecture, engineering, construction (AEC), surveying, facility management, and digital twin workflows. Combining high-performance LiDAR sensors, visual cameras, and an integrated IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), the Lixel L2 Pro captures dense, survey-grade point clouds in real time while maintaining exceptional mobility and ease of use in the field.
Powered by AI-driven processing and edge computing technology, the Lixel L2 Pro enables professionals to scan, process, and visualize data directly on-site with minimal downtime. Its local processing capabilities dramatically reduce post-processing time, allowing users to generate clean, accurate 3D datasets faster than traditional terrestrial laser scanning workflows. This streamlined approach improves project efficiency, accelerates decision-making, and reduces costly return site visits.
The Lixel L2 Pro is engineered for both indoor and outdoor environments, making it ideal for building documentation, Scan-to-BIM projects, construction verification, as-built modeling, infrastructure mapping, heritage preservation, and industrial facility capture. The device&rsquo;s SLAM-based (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) technology allows operators to move freely through complex spaces while continuously capturing highly detailed spatial data with precision and stability.
With its lightweight ergonomic design and rapid deployment capabilities, the XGRIDS Lixel L2 Pro offers a practical solution for professionals seeking high-speed mobile LiDAR scanning without sacrificing accuracy. The system seamlessly integrates with BIM, CAD, GIS, and digital twin platforms, enabling efficient workflows from field capture to final deliverables.
By combining LiDAR, imaging, and intelligent AI processing into a single mobile platform, the XGRIDS Lixel L2 Pro is redefining modern reality capture technology. Whether supporting renovation projects, construction coordination, facility management, or 3D mapping applications, the Lixel L2 Pro provides reliable, scalable, and high-quality spatial data acquisition for today&rsquo;s demanding industries.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Powered by Multi-SLAM and 3D Gaussian Splatting, CyberColor streamlines the entire workflow from capture to final output.

Quantum Reality Capture (QRC) partnered with LS3P to provide comprehensive LiDAR scanning and Scan-to-BIM services for Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (AB Tech) in Asheville, North Carolina. The large-scale educational facility documentation project included 16 campus buildings consisting of classroom facilities, administrative offices, and student services buildings totaling approximately 500,000–600,000 square feet across the campus. The objective of the project was to create highly accurate existing conditions documentation and scalable digital assets to support future campus planning, renovation, facility management, and capital improvement initiatives.

Using advanced LiDAR scanning and reality capture technology, QRC captured detailed interior and exterior conditions throughout the campus while minimizing disruption to active educational operations. The collected data was processed into survey-grade point clouds and translated into an LOD 200 Revit model that provided architects, engineers, and campus stakeholders with reliable BIM documentation for design coordination and project planning workflows.

In addition to the BIM model, QRC delivered coordinated site plans, floor plans, reflected ceiling plans (RCPs), exterior elevations, and roof plans to support campus-wide facility management and future renovation efforts. The project was completed within an accelerated 30–45 day timeframe, demonstrating QRC’s ability to efficiently manage large-scale multi-building reality capture projects while maintaining high levels of accuracy and quality assurance.

This AB Tech Community College Scan-to-BIM and LiDAR documentation project highlights QRC’s expertise in educational facility reality capture, existing conditions documentation, BIM modeling, and digital twin workflows for higher education campuses. By leveraging advanced LiDAR technology and structured BIM workflows, QRC helped provide AB Tech and LS3P with accurate, scalable digital documentation solutions that improve coordination, reduce project risk, and streamline long-term campus planning and renovation efforts.

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College

Quantum Reality Capture (QRC) partnered with the City of Charleston and Cullum Mechanical to provide advanced LiDAR scanning and Scan-to-BIM services for the historic commercial and mixed-use building located at 200 E Bay Street in Charleston, South Carolina. This multi-story property required highly accurate existing conditions documentation to support future renovation planning, coordination, and facility management initiatives while preserving the integrity of the historic structure.

Using state-of-the-art mobile LiDAR scanning technology, QRC captured detailed interior and exterior conditions throughout the approximately 50,000–65,000 square foot facility. The collected data was processed into survey-grade point clouds and translated into an LOD 200 Revit model, providing stakeholders with reliable and scalable digital assets for design and construction workflows. In addition to the BIM model, QRC delivered coordinated floor plans, exterior elevations, and roof plans to improve project visualization and reduce field uncertainty.

Historic buildings often present challenges due to irregular geometry, outdated documentation, and limited accessibility. QRC’s structured reality capture workflow and rigorous quality assurance procedures ensured highly accurate deliverables while minimizing disruption to ongoing building operations. By leveraging advanced reality capture technology and Scan-to-BIM expertise, QRC helped streamline project planning, improve coordination between stakeholders, and reduce costly site revisits.

This Charleston LiDAR scanning and as-built documentation project demonstrates QRC’s ability to deliver high-quality digital twin solutions, BIM modeling services, and precise existing conditions documentation for historic preservation, commercial renovation, and construction planning projects throughout South Carolina and beyond.



200 E Bay St – Charleston, SC

This case study from Ichi shows how DGA improved its code compliance process by using technology that is powered by Artificial Intelligence. DGA is an architecture firm that handles projects. Before DGA had to do a lot of research to find out about building regulations and zoning requirements. This took a lot of time. They had to work closely with project teams and code consultants. This made the project take longer. There was a bigger chance of making mistakes or having to make expensive changes.

When DGA started using Ichis code compliance platform they were able to make their workflow much simpler. The software helps architects find the building code sections quickly. It also analyzes project documents. Gives accurate compliance insights right away. This meant that DGA did not have to do much manual research. Project teams were able to make decisions and they were more informed during the design and permitting phases.

The case study also talks about how the platform improved the way DGAs teams worked together. Junior architects were able to get code guidance quickly. They did not have to rely on staff as much and this made the projects more consistent.

The partnership between DGA and Ichi shows how Artificial Intelligence can help architecture and construction firms work efficiently. It can also reduce the risk of projects. Speed up the time it takes to complete them. The success story of DGA shows how Artificial Intelligence is becoming more important, in planning and construction management. DGA and Ichi are an example of this. DGA is using Artificial Intelligence to make its architectural code compliance process better.

DGA Turns Hours of Code Research and Documentation into 5 Minutes with Ichi

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The City of Phoenix is enhancing how residents engage with planning and development through its Office of Innovation. Partnering with inCitu, the City is using mobile augmented reality (AR) to let residents preview future projects by simply scanning a QR code (on-site or from home) without needing to download an app. Phoenix has applied a variety of methods for sharing inCituAR project QR codes with the residents of Phoenix.

Residents can view an ArcGIS StoryMap on the Office of Innovation website; scan the QR code on colorful postcards distributed through community partners, the offices of Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and City Council offices and businesses; and by scanning a display at the future location of the development project. The QR codes are also shared via City newsletters and social media platforms

Girasol Apartments: Affordable Housing in focus

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Source: Innovate PHX

The Girasol Apartments, now under construction, will bring more than 115 affordable and market rate units to Phoenix in its first phase, addressing a critical need for quality, secure housing. With inCituAR, residents can see the buildings in 3D before the structure is complete, helping the community connect with the project early on and track progress during construction.‍
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3rd Street Rio Salado Bike & Pedestrian Bridge‍

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Source: City of Phoenix

The Rio Salado Bridge and Pathway, planned for 3rd Street, will connect neighborhoods across the Salt River, creating safer routes for cyclists and pedestrians while improving access to parks and downtown. The project design was chosen from three proposals through a public engagement process, ultimately combining a public art focus from one proposal with the bridge design from another to reflect community input. By sharing the design in AR, the city is ‘closing the loop’, allowing residents and stakeholders to see the results of their engagement, and how this new link will reshape mobility, recreation, and public gathering space in the city.‍
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Phoenix Fire Station #15

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Source: City of Phoenix Office of Innovation Augmented Reality Pilot

Phoenix is utilizing inCitu to enhance community engagement for its General Obligation (GO) Bond-funded projects, including Phoenix Fire Station #15, in West Phoenix. A 1:1 3D model of the station was created and uploaded to inCitu in advance of a ceremonial brick-laying ceremony, to build excitement and engage residents in a new “digital” way. This event was attended by community members, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and members of the Phoenix City Council, Fire Chief Mike Duran III, and other dignitaries. During this event, staff provided a hands-on session with the local community block watch group and students from the nearby elementary school. With 182 views, this event allowed staff to present a 3D model of one of the City’s most important developments, a much-needed fire station, in real time, at the development site.

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"Smart" Chilled Drinking Water Initiative
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The Office of Innovation's Chilled Drinking Water Location Storymap is a resource for locating chilled public drinking fountains in Phoenix.

Phoenix is also leveraging inCitu to advance its “Smart” Drinking Water in Public Spaces Initiative, by creating a 3D model of custom-designed “smart” drinking water and bottle-filling stations. In the past, staff would work with the vendor to haul an actual, steel drinking fountain to community events so that residents could see what made them unique. During a citywide outreach campaign in Summer 2025, the Office of Innovation utilized inCitu to showcase the project and let residents explore the 3D model and see how it will look when placed in their neighborhood, without the heavy lift of bringing the actual fountain. It proved to be more fun for residents, especially youth, and the city plans to continue using the feature to highlight “coming soon” locations.

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A New Model for Participation‍

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With these immersive activations, Phoenix’s Office of Innovation is investing in making city planning more transparent and collaborative. According to staff, incorporating augmented reality into the City’s community engagement efforts has fostered a whole new way to welcome residents into the process. Bringing future projects into the present will continue to help residents engage, provide feedback, and share in shaping a more inclusive and connected city.

Follow the Phoenix Office of Innovation for updates as the projects unfold.


Written in collaboration with Phoenix Office of Innovation

Phoenix Office of Innovation shares Infrastructure, Housing futures with inCituAR

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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">inCitu's integrations for Esri ArcGIS and Autodesk Forma close the gap by creating a direct, automated connection between Autodesk Construction Cloud, the inCituAR augmented reality platform, and Esri's GIS ecosystem, letting AEC teams take a Revit model and place it at real scale on a real street corner - with no manual file export, no format conversion, and no app download required for viewers. 
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The City of Phoenix distributed QR codes via postcards, city newsletters, and on-site displays so residents could preview the Girasol Apartments, a 115-unit affordable housing development, in 3D from the sidewalk before construction was complete. The Central Ohio Transit Authority integrated inCitu into a guided bus tour along the proposed West Broad Street BRT corridor, generating over 2,000 AR views averaging 80 per week as participants shared the experience between events. In Tampa, the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council showed a proposed living shoreline at the actual seawall where it would be developed. In Kauai, the County used inCitu across multiple stakeholder events to support adoption of the island's first wildland urban interface zoning ordinance, which was subsequently passed.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah Vitale, Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council
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inCitu

The City of Riviera Beach, Florida faced a challenge common to growing municipalities: planning staff were spending the majority of their day answering routine zoning inquiries instead of focusing on high-value work like large-scale site plan reviews and strategic urban planning.

Senior Planner Juan Suarez was fielding 10+ walk-in and phone inquiries every week — each requiring manual cross-referencing of GIS maps, PDF zoning codes, and Future Land Use maps. Questions like "What is my property zoned for?" or "Can I open a gym at this address?" sound simple but consumed up to 75% of staff time daily.

Conflation Labs deployed a customized AI Site Plan and Zoning Agent that connected the city's authoritative data sources — including ArcGIS parcel layers, Chapter 31 Zoning Codes, and the Comprehensive Plan — into a single conversational interface.

The AI agent enables planning staff to ask complex zoning questions in plain English and receive instant, map-based answers. It also performs automated site plan review, flagging code violations such as parking dimension errors and landscape buffer issues by reading submitted plans directly against municipal regulations.

The result: a 75% reduction in routine inquiry time and 20 hours per week returned to planning staff — time now spent on strategic, high-value work that moves the city forward.

Automating Municipal Planning in the City of Riviera Beach

Architects and landscape architects lose days to a process that should take minutes: checking whether a site plan actually complies with local zoning codes, setback requirements, overlay restrictions, and municipal development standards.
The current workflow is broken.
Your team submits a plan. The planning department reviews it &mdash; days or weeks later &mdash; and sends back redlines for issues that could have been caught on day one. Setbacks are off. A use isn't permitted in that zone. An overlay district adds restrictions nobody flagged. The design goes back. The timeline slips. The client asks questions.
Conflation Labs is the AI site plan review agent that catches those issues before submittal.
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HOW IT WORKS:
Upload your site plan or enter the project address. Conflation Labs cross-references your drawings against the jurisdiction's actual zoning code, parcel data, GIS layers, and development standards &mdash; not a generic database. The AI identifies compliance gaps, flags setback violations, checks permitted uses, and surfaces overlay restrictions that apply to your specific site.
You get a clear, actionable compliance report &mdash; with visual map output &mdash; before the plan ever reaches a planning counter.
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WHAT IT REVIEWS:
 &rarr; Setback compliance (front, rear, side &mdash; including corner lot variations) &rarr; Zoning designation and permitted use confirmation &rarr; Overlay district restrictions (historic, flood, design review zones) &rarr; FAR, lot coverage, and building envelope standards &rarr; Parking minimums and access requirements &rarr; Conditional use permit triggers
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KEY OUTCOMES FOR AEC FIRMS:
 &rarr; Catch plan rejections before they happen &mdash; not after &rarr; Reduce costly redesigns triggered by late-stage compliance surprises &rarr; Cut site plan QC time from days to under an hour &rarr; Give project managers and QC leads instant compliance confidence &rarr; Respond faster to client feasibility questions with authoritative answers
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BUILT FOR:
 - Architecture and landscape architecture firms in pre-design and design development - QC leads and project managers reviewing drawings before submittal - Firm principals who want faster, more defensible compliance decisions - Cities and planning departments streamlining their own plan review intake
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Conflation Labs is accepted into Founder University (top 10% of applicants) and actively running a design partner program with AEC firms and municipalities.
Starting at $350/month. Design partner spots open for firms ready to co-build the solution around their specific review workflow.

Conflation Labs

Altis Lake is a residential development consisting of multiple mid-rise apartment buildings spread across an approximate area of 417,000 square feet. The project includes 300 residential units, designed to provide comfortable and convenient living spaces. Several ground-floor apartments feature attached parking garages, offering residents easy access and added convenience. In addition to residential spaces, the development includes a range of recreational amenities such as a lush green central park, a two-level clubhouse, and a tennis court, creating an active and community-oriented living environment.

AEODC was engaged by the client to deliver the defined project scope with a quick turnaround at LOD 350. Due to AEODC’s successful experience working on several Florida-based projects, the client recommended the firm for this assignment, demonstrating strong confidence in its BIM capabilities and design expertise.

The project scope primarily included structural modeling and structural layout preparation using Autodesk Revit. The AEODC team developed a detailed 3D structural model and produced accurate structural drawings such as plans, elevations, sections, and detailed layouts to support construction and coordination.

During the project, the team faced challenges including tight project deadlines and complex structural detailing. To address these challenges, the team implemented optimized workflows, advanced Revit methodologies, and strong collaboration between the design and construction teams. Additionally, strict quality assurance and quality control procedures were followed to maintain accuracy and consistency throughout the project.

By effectively managing these challenges, AEODC successfully delivered a BIM-enabled solution that enhanced coordination, improved construction efficiency, and helped minimize potential errors and delays on site.

Altis Lake, Florida

Revit is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) software developed by Autodesk, widely used across architecture, engineering, and construction disciplines. It allows users to design, model, and document buildings and infrastructure in a single, coordinated environment. In Revit, every element in a project is part of an interconnected database. Changes made to one view&mdash;such as a plan, elevation, or section&mdash;are automatically reflected in all other views of the model. This parametric relationship ensures consistency and reduces the risk of errors in documentation.
<h2 data-start="760" data-end="782">Core Capabilities</h2>
Revit supports both 2D drafting and 3D modeling, but its primary strength lies in its data-rich modeling environment. Each object in Revit is not just geometry; it carries information about its physical properties, materials, and relationships to other components. Revit includes tools for architectural design, structural engineering, and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) systems, enabling multiple disciplines to work within the same model.
The software also allows for the creation of schedules, material takeoffs, and detailed construction documentation directly from the model. Because Revit stores all information in one file, edits are reflected across all drawings, schedules, and sheets automatically. This feature is particularly valuable for coordinating complex projects where multiple people and teams are contributing to the design.
<h2 data-start="1643" data-end="1674">Collaboration and Workflow</h2>
Revit is designed to support collaboration in various forms. Worksharing enables multiple team members to work on a single project file simultaneously, with a central model managing updates. For distributed teams, Revit can integrate with cloud-based platforms like Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro, allowing real-time collaboration across locations.
Revit also facilitates interoperability with other software used in the AEC industry. It supports import and export in multiple formats, including DWG, IFC, and DGN, and can connect with analysis tools for energy performance, structural analysis, and daylight simulations. Its API (Application Programming Interface) allows for customization and automation through tools like Dynamo, enabling advanced workflows and repetitive task automation.
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In architecture, Revit is used for conceptual design, detailed design development, and construction documentation. Engineers use Revit for structural analysis and to coordinate MEP systems with architectural and structural elements. Contractors and project managers use Revit models for quantity takeoffs, construction sequencing, and clash detection, ensuring fewer conflicts on site.
Revit is also applied in facility management, as the detailed model can serve as a digital twin of the completed building, providing valuable data for operations and maintenance.
<h2 data-start="3073" data-end="3085">Summary</h2>
Revit provides a unified environment where design, documentation, and analysis coexist in one coordinated model. Its parametric nature, data integration, and multi-disciplinary capabilities have made it a standard in the AEC industry. Whether used for designing a single-family home or a large-scale infrastructure project, Revit enables teams to work more precisely, maintain consistency across outputs, and manage complex building information in an organized way.

Revit

What is Navisworks? Use Navisworks® review and coordination software to improve BIM (Building Information Modeling) project delivery. -- Visualize and unify design and construction data within a single federated model. -- Identify and resolve clash and interference problems before construction begins, saving time onsite and in rework. -- Keep project teams collaborating and connected with Navisworks issues integration in the Autodesk Construction Cloud.

NavisWorks

Architectural Practice Optimization Through Digital Transformation and AI-Enabled Knowledge Management

This case study documents the digital transformation of an architectural practice through the adoption of an AI-enabled knowledge management system designed to optimize design workflows, construction documentation, and institutional knowledge reuse. The project addresses a widespread challenge in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry: the inefficiency caused by fragmented project data, legacy BIM files, and limited visibility into historical construction details.

Traditionally, architectural firms store design intelligence across disconnected Revit models, drawing sets, and file servers, making it difficult to locate, validate, and reuse technical information. This project demonstrates how practice optimization can be achieved by centralizing architectural data into a searchable, AI-powered system that indexes construction details, drawings, and documentation assets across multiple project types and software versions. By ARKI's AI to architectural knowledge management, the firm reduced dependence on manual file navigation and individual staff memory, improving documentation consistency and operational reliability.

From a digital transformation standpoint, the initiative reflects a shift from static file storage toward intelligent data systems that support scalable, repeatable workflows. AI-driven search, automated asset organization, and standardized detail reuse improved construction detailing efficiency, reduced rework, and enhanced quality control across projects. The approach also supported faster onboarding and improved collaboration by enabling team-wide access to approved technical content.

Overall, this case study highlights how AI-enabled knowledge management serves as a foundational layer for architectural practice optimization, enabling firms to improve productivity, reduce documentation risk, and extract long-term value from existing BIM and project data without increasing overhead or staffing levels.

Introducing 906 Studio Architects + Interiors

906 Studio Supercharged Project Delivery with ARKI

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ARKI transforms your firm&rsquo;s past design data (Revit, AutoCAD, PDFs, drawings, etc.) into a centralized, searchable archive.
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Its semantic search understands context and meaning, so users can instantly locate relevant details without manual tagging.
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Acts as a &ldquo;second brain&rdquo; for your firm, consolidating internal project information into a reusable knowledge base.
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Helps firms retain institutional knowledge and avoid reinventing solutions on every project.
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Tracks changes and version history of design elements, automatically deduplicating redundant assets.
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Provides visibility into how details evolved and keeps teams working with the latest and most accurate visuals.
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Uses AI to automatically categorize drawings and details, so assets are organized without manual effort.
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Allows creation of custom collections by project, category, or client for streamlined collaboration.
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Share organized project collections with team members firm-wide or project-specifically.
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Ensures the right people have the right data at the right time.
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Designed to speed up project delivery - companies report up to 50% faster design workflows by reducing time spent searching, reworking, and recreating details.
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Reduces redundant work: By turning siloed project files into a searchable database, firms save time and reduce errors.
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Improves consistency: Version control and automatic organization help standardize details and workflows.
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AI Visual Search | ARKI’s AI reads your drawings visually even when not labelled and organizes your files, enabling effortless search, retrieval, and reuse

File Live Views | Repurpose and adapt previously used 2D and 3D design assets, reducing redundant work and accelerating project timelines

Compare between Revit Versions | Comparison tools help identify design variations and similarities across projects, improving accuracy and version control

AI Asset Versioning | ARKI Versioning and Snapshot capabilities streamline your design assets, automatically de-duplicating identical details across your firm.

ARKI

Sync Your Data | Automatically synchronize project data across your team and tools, ensuring real-time updates and consistency in every stage of design

This case study showcases how MeltCode, MeltPlan’s Code Research AI, is helping architectural firms dramatically reduce the time, cost, and uncertainty associated with building code compliance. Building code research is one of the most time-consuming and high-risk parts of design, often requiring architects to spend 50–300 hours per project flipping through codebooks, navigating keyword searches, and chasing endless cross-references just to ensure they interpret requirements correctly. 

The case study highlights measurable organizational impact reported by firms after adopting MeltCode, including 30% less spend on code consultants, 45% faster code research, and 25% fewer inquiries from junior architects, meaning fewer escalations to principals and senior staff. 

A key takeaway is that MeltCode is built differently from generic AI tools like ChatGPT, which often hallucinate or cite incorrect sources—forcing architects to double-check everything and sometimes restart research from scratch. MeltCode solves this by using an AI system that only reads building codes (not the internet) and comprehensively interprets code content, including tables and images. It delivers answers in 1–4 minutes, supported by confidence scores and detailed reasoning where each step is backed by direct code citations. 

To validate performance, MeltCode was continuously tested using building inspector exams, where it achieved 95%+ scores across multiple inspector exam types, reinforcing its accuracy and construction-aware reasoning. 

Melt Code AI for reliable building code research

Corsair Consulting LLC is a Texas-based geotechnical and civil engineering firm with more than 50 employees. As the company grew, spreadsheets and disconnected tools could no longer support consistent project visibility, accurate budgeting, or reliable invoicing. Corsair attempted to implement a large A/E ERP system, but the rollout quickly stalled because the platform was rigid, complex, and difficult to adapt to the way the team actually worked.

Corsair switched to BQE CORE to bring key operations into one place: project setup, time and expense capture, budget and cost tracking, reporting, and invoicing. The firm also preserved its accounting history by integrating CORE with QuickBooks, avoiding disruption to finance records while modernizing day-to-day workflows.

With real-time dashboards and tighter billing controls, leadership can monitor utilization, backlog, burn rate, and project margins at any moment. That visibility helps managers identify issues earlier, make faster decisions, and keep projects aligned with performance targets. Overall, BQE CORE enabled Corsair to run leaner, reduce administrative friction, protect profitability, and build a more stable foundation for long-term growth. Teams in the office and field collaborate on the same data, reducing rework, improving accountability, and ensuring clients receive timely, accurate invoices backed by clear documentation each month.

Beyond Growth: How Smarter Systems Helped Strengthen Profit and Stability

BQE CORE is an all-in-one, cloud-based platform purpose-built for architecture and engineering (A&amp;E) firms by professionals who understand the realities of the industry&mdash;because it was designed by an architect and an engineer. It empowers firms to manage every aspect of their operations in one place, including project management, accounting, time and expense tracking, billing and invoicing, project-based ERP, and professional services automation.
One of the biggest challenges for A&amp;E firms is balancing high-quality project delivery with the administrative demands of running a business. BQE CORE addresses this by streamlining operations, automating repetitive tasks, and organizing critical information so teams can focus on serving clients instead of managing internal processes. By expediting billing, improving project oversight, and providing deeper performance insights, CORE helps firms strengthen cash flow while optimizing efficiency and profitability.
A Platform Built for AEC Workflows
CORE&rsquo;s origins set it apart&mdash;it was first developed to solve the challenges within its founder&rsquo;s own architecture firm. That real-world experience shaped a solution that aligns with how architects and engineers actually work. CORE integrates front-office activities like project management and CRM with back-office processes such as time and expense tracking, invoicing, accounting, and HR. This creates a seamless workflow and reduces the friction of switching between multiple systems. With the BQE mobile app, firm leaders and teams can access full functionality from anywhere, ensuring flexibility and responsiveness.
Data-Driven Decision Making
CORE provides real-time visibility into key performance indicators, enabling firm leaders and project managers to make better-informed decisions. From high-level firm health metrics to detailed project profitability views, users can drill down into essential numbers such as utilization, realization, overhead, and runway. Project managers can track P&amp;L across clients, phases, and employees, identify where profits are slipping, and make timely adjustments. Accurate time tracking and automated expense capture ensure every billable hour and cost is accounted for, eliminating revenue leakage and improving overall project outcomes.
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BQE CORE

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Lloyd Architects is a Salt Lake City–based architecture firm of 15–20 employees focused on custom residential design, historic preservation, adaptive reuse, and hospitality work. As the firm grew, leadership wanted stronger financial clarity and better operational control without sacrificing the small-firm culture that keeps the team close to clients and to each other. After years of using ArchiOffice for time tracking and invoicing, Lloyd Architects adopted BQE CORE to modernize how the business runs day to day and to create a more reliable foundation for planning and profitability. With several years of data now in CORE, the firm relies on reporting to understand project performance, track where time is being spent by project phase and type, and support employee reviews and long-term staffing decisions. CORE also plays a practical role in monthly operations, including invoicing workflows, payroll support, and clearer visibility into the project pipeline so leadership can plan ahead with confidence. A major improvement came from built-in ACH payments, which reduced payment processing time by 75 percent and eliminated the hassle of paper checks and bank trips. More than half of monthly payments now arrive via ACH, often before the due date, which improves cash flow and reduces administrative drag. Overall, CORE helps letting the firm operate at a higher level while staying personal, organized, and sustainable.

Lloyd Architects Brings Financial Clarity and Faster Payments with BQE CORE

Goldstream Engineering Inc. (GEI) is a civil engineering firm based in Fairbanks, Alaska, serving both rural and urban communities across the state. The firm provides structural, geotechnical, and environmental design services, along with construction management, supporting projects such as utility infrastructure planning, water and wastewater systems, municipal and rural roads, buildings, airports, erosion control, site development, and off-grid work. Before adopting BQE CORE, GEI managed bookkeeping in QuickBooks while relying on a separate custom-built website database and email to handle project tasks, time entry, and project tracking. Over time, that patchwork system became a bottleneck. It required ongoing IT maintenance, and frequent website crashes and data loss disrupted workflows, slowed reporting, and created frustration across the team.

GEI needed a more reliable, all-in-one platform that could consolidate time and expense tracking, project management, billing, and reporting, while also improving accessibility for staff working in the office, from home, or in the field. After several months of evaluating options and running trials, GEI selected BQE CORE because it met their feature requirements and was more affordable than competing solutions. With CORE, the firm centralized key project and financial information, reduced reliance on multiple disconnected systems, and improved remote access through the mobile app. CORE also made it easier to gather information for billing and reporting and helped GEI produce reports faster, supporting smoother operations and better coordination across the team.

Goldstream Engineering Inc. Finds Remote Work Success and Improved Employee Accessibility with BQE CORE

The KFC Outlet located in Kentucky is a single-storey, 4,255 SF retail restaurant undergoing a strategic redesign to align with the brand’s modern visual identity and functional standards. While the architectural language remains consistent with KFC’s established design vocabulary, the project places strong emphasis on refreshing the exterior environment. Key architectural features include the iconic KFC logo integration, stylized decorative windows with shading elements, and distinctive stack walls that enhance the façade. The client finalized the internal layout in advance, enabling AEODC to focus on elevating the exterior architectural expression and ensuring the updated elevations met both brand and structural requirements.

Drawing from our extensive experience in hospitality and QSR BIM projects, AEODC was entrusted with delivering the complete architectural BIM package at LOD 350 on BIM 360 within a tight timeline of under three weeks. Our scope involved developing a precise Revit architecture model of the as-built conditions, enhancing it with the proposed architectural upgrades, and extracting a comprehensive CD set including plans, elevations, sections, and architectural details.

The project came with notable challenges, primarily the accelerated timeline and the requirement to model intricate parametric families such as decorative windows, sun-shades, louvers, cornices, and other façade elements. Additionally, the project needed to be delivered in two distinct phases—existing and new—which demanded exceptional accuracy, planning, and communication to prevent clashes or misalignments during the redesign process.

To overcome these constraints, AEODC implemented optimized workflows by reusing and customizing previously developed stack wall families from other KFC projects, ensuring consistency and speed. Close collaboration between AEODC’s design team and on-site stakeholders led to proactive issue resolution and enabled the early delivery of the existing phase, giving the client ample time for on-site verification before green-lighting the new design phase.

Through strategic coordination, rigorous QA processes, and efficient BIM execution, AEODC successfully delivered a high-accuracy architectural Revit model that supported seamless phased construction, reduced rework, and helped the client achieve a faster, more cost-effective build cycle.

KFC Outlet | Located in Kentucky

pyRevit (with lowercase py) is a Rapid Application Prototyping (RAD) environment for Autodesk Revit®. It helps you quickly sketch out your automation and add-on ideas, in whichever language that you are most comfortable with, inside the Revit environment and using its APIs. It also ships with an extensive set of powerful tools that showcase its capabilities as a development environment. Download and install pyRevit, launch Revit, and note the new pyRevit tab that includes these tools. pyRevit also ships with a handy CLI utility for customized configuration and deployment of your tools, and a telemetry server to monitor pyRevit usage across your teams.

pyRevit

ReviCheck is a game-changer in construction document management. It seamlessly integrates QR code technology with Autodesk Revit, ensuring all stakeholders access the latest data. The problem of outdated drawings, which plagues construction sites with 25% of drawings being out of date, is solved through real-time document status checks using the ReviCheck mobile app.

ReviCheck Tutorial 02 - Web Portal Settings

ReviCheck Tutorial 03 - Revit Plugin Tutorial

Revit Plug-in that Saves Money - ReviCheck Revit Plug-in Tutorial

ReviCheck

The future of coordination lies in clash prevention. Clash Preventor is an Autodesk Revit add-in that allows the user to prevent clashes by running clash prevention tests while he/she works. The tool automatically tests modified elements for clashes. A manual mode also exists allowing the user to check selected elements, visible in view elements, or all elements for clashes as well. The user can filter elements by category, knowing that linked elements and IFC links are supported by this tool as well. When clashing elements are detected, the user is allowed to navigate and visualize clashes in 3D by automatically creating a section box around the elements, and has the ability to tile all open views when he proceeds to solve the clashes for a better visualization. The built-in Clash Browser automatically generates a Clash Report that simplifies the clash resolution process, and that can be exported to an Excel spreadsheet, which can be also imported later on. The tool also includes a Navisworks Report Import mode where users can import HTML clash detection reports generated by Navisworks straight into Revit for an easier visualization and clash resolution process. This tool is a huge time saver as it prevents clashes without wasting the user's time, and because it helps reduce clashes which in turn reduces the time usually wasted on detecting and solving clashes through conventional clash detection tests. Autodesk Revit 2018-2019-2020-2021-2022 editions are all supported.

Clash Preventor

Revizto unifies BIM intelligence and makes it immediately accessible and actionable for the entire project team. With Revizto’s advanced Issue Tracker predefined workflows project team members can identify and manage model-based issues in the 3D space and 2D sheets, including addressing clash groups. Revizto provides unified access to a project’s data both for 2D and 3D workflows, so anyone can use it depending on project requirements.

Revizto Clash Automation - Step 1 - The Building Blocks of Clash Automation

Revizto

Kobi Toolkit for Revit is a powerful plugin that enhances BIM workflows and boosts your productivity. With nine sets of tools and over 40 individual tools, it streamlines complex design processes, automates tasks, and improves efficiency in areas like BIM management, QA &amp; QC, annotation, scheduling, and more. Kobi Toolkit is designed to extend the capabilities of Revit in key areas, and providing more accurate and efficient modeling and analysis of your projects. Some of the most popular tools included in the Kobi Toolkit for Revit are: * BIM Query - BIM Query streamlines property management in your Revit model. It lets you edit Type and Instance properties of selected Categories using the built-in spreadsheet editor, with Excel functionalities like sorting, filtering, and copying parameters. * Filtering tool &ndash; It gives the user the control over the selection of specific elements project, grouped according to the users&rsquo; selection (e.g. by Category, by Level, by Workset). * Power BI Export - With Power BI Export you can use Revit data for creating tables, graphs and visual representations even faster. Power BI allows you to efficiently review and manipulate data without needing to open the Revit file. Perfect for meetings, creating reports or quick reviews. * Project Cleanup - This set of tools provides the ability to create a lightweight file. You can clean up a project, from removing unplaced rooms to purging unnecessary line types or materials, object styles, and views. * Material Legend and Legend by Category automate the time-consuming process of creating legends in Revit. With just a few clicks, you can create a legend for materials or for selected categories. This feature simplifies the workflow and saves you valuable time, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. * Content Admin Kit provides advanced parameter management tools. It simplifies managing shared parameters in tables, converting instance parameters to type and vice versa, and automatically creating and importing multiple parameters from one family to another. This feature streamlines content creation by allowing you to upgrade whole folders of families to the current version, manage calculated parameters, and perform many other tasks. With Content Admin Kit, you can efficiently manage your Revit content and enhance your workflow. ---------------------------------------------------- KobiLabs is the developer of Kobi Toolkits. They take a user-driven approach and build tools around what&rsquo;s needed in the marketplace. Learn more about them and their tools at kobilabs.com.

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Elden Elms is a significant affordable housing development located in California, spanning approximately 141,000 SF across 7 levels. The project consists of 95 thoughtfully designed residential units, including one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom apartments, along with 100 dedicated parking slots. A key aspect of the project is its commitment to inclusivity, with several units specifically reserved for citizens with special needs. As a major community-oriented development, Elden Elms required precise planning, accurate coordination, and robust BIM support to meet tight schedules and design expectations.

Having successfully delivered multiple BIM projects across California, AEODC was strongly recommended for this assignment. Given our track record of executing similar scopes within accelerated timelines, the client onboarded us immediately to ensure seamless delivery of the BIM requirements.

Our scope of work included Revit modeling for architectural, structural, and MEP systems; clash detection and coordination reporting using Navisworks; and a comprehensive Virtual Construction Study (VCS) Report, providing stakeholders with actionable insights to resolve clashes before construction began.

The project posed several unique challenges, particularly missing structural drawing information, undefined wall types, and unclear ceiling levels. These gaps required repeated coordination with the design team and intelligent guesswork to maintain workflow continuity. AEODC implemented optimized workflows, including weekly RFI review meetings, a collaborative approach using VCS insights, and rigorous quality assurance to ensure accuracy and consistency.

By systematically addressing all challenges, AEODC delivered a fully coordinated, BIM-enabled project within a record timeline, significantly reducing onsite delays, minimizing costly rework, and supporting a smooth construction process.

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