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Planning Applications
Design and access statements, planning statements and validation checks drafted against the local plan, each policy quoted with its version. An architect reviews and submits.
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Architecture AI,
for the work after the render.
A professional still signs the drawings. Planning statements, specifications, BIM checks and bid responses, drafted from your own past projects and standards. The model carries the documentation load; a registered professional still signs what is issued.
Last reviewed 30 October 2026 · Engineering guidance, not legal or regulatory advice.
In context
AI in architecture is mostly discussed as rendering and massing. For a practice, the larger gain is in documentation: planning statements, specifications, model checks and bids drafted from your own past work, with an architect or engineer reviewing and signing everything that leaves the office.
Where it breaks today
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Fees go into documents
A large share of a project’s fee is spent producing documents that resemble the last project’s: design and access statements, specification sections, method statements, bid answers. The knowledge exists; finding and adapting it is the slow part.
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Models are checked late
BIM execution plans set out naming, classification and property rules, but checking every federated model against them by hand happens irregularly, so issues surface at the coordination meeting or on site.
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Accountability is personal
An architect or chartered engineer puts their name to the design. Any tool that writes into a drawing set or a specification has to leave that person fully able to see, check and stand behind what was written.
OUR APPROACH
How AI is used in architecture practice
The AI tools for architects that dominate search results (Midjourney, Gendo, Finch, TestFit, D5) are good at concept imagery, massing and layout. We build the other half: systems that read your archive of issued drawings, specifications, planning decisions and bids, and draft new documents with every clause traceable to its source.
The design rule is that the model drafts and checks, and the professional decides. Under the UK Building Safety Act 2022 the dutyholder regime and the golden thread of building information put named people on the hook for higher-risk buildings; in Spain the Código Técnico de la Edificación and the visado regime do similar work. None of that moves to software. What changes is how much of a professional’s week is spent re-typing rather than reviewing.
HOW IT DEPLOYS
PHASE 01
Index the archive
Past specifications, planning documents, BEPs and bids are indexed with their project, stage and outcome, inside your own environment.
PHASE 02
Connect the tools
Revit, Archicad and IFC exports for models; NBS Chorus or your Word templates for specifications; your CDE for issue and revision.
PHASE 03
Draft, check, sign
Drafts and findings land with the responsible architect or engineer, who edits, accepts or rejects. Only they issue.
What we build
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Planning Applications
Design and access statements, planning statements and validation checklists drafted from the brief, the site and the local plan, with each policy reference cited.
SEE PLANNING APPLICATIONS →02
Specification Writing
Specification sections drafted from your master spec and the model, structured to Uniclass or MasterFormat, with products and standards checked for currency.
SEE SPECIFICATION WRITING →03
BIM Quality Checks
Every model drop checked against the BIM execution plan: naming, classification, required properties and level of information, reported as BCF issues.
SEE BIM CHECKS →04
Tender and Bid Responses
Quality answers for bids and frameworks drafted from your past submissions and project sheets, mapped to the evaluation criteria and word limits.
SEE TENDER RESPONSES →Controls we implement
ARCHIVE INSIDE YOUR PERIMETER
EVERY CLAUSE CITES ITS SOURCE
NO TRAINING ON YOUR PROJECTS
PROFESSIONAL SIGN-OFF BEFORE ISSUE
REVISION-LEVEL AUDIT LOG
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Architecture & engineering use cases
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Specification Writing
Specification sections drafted from your NBS or MasterFormat master and the model, with standards and products checked for currency. Unverified references are flagged, never written.
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BIM Quality Checks
Every IFC model drop checked against the BIM execution plan and ISO 19650 information requirements, reported as BCF issues. A well-formed model is not an approved design.
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Tender & Bid Responses
Tender and framework answers drafted from your past bids, project sheets and CVs, mapped to the criteria. A claim with no source document is shown as a gap, never invented.
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Questions
Questions about Architecture & Engineering Firms.
How is AI used in architecture?
In two broad ways. Design tools generate concept imagery, massing options and floor-plan layouts from sketches or rules. Practice tools, which is what we build, draft and check the documents around the design: planning statements, specifications, BIM model checks and bid responses, drawn from the practice archive. In both cases the architect stays responsible for what is designed and issued.
What are the best AI tools for architects?
It depends on the stage. For concepts and rendering, tools such as Midjourney, Gendo, LookX and D5 Render are widely used; for feasibility and layout, TestFit and Finch; for model checking, Solibri and rule engines on IFC. The gap most practices feel is documentation, which is specific to your standards and archive, and is where a system built around your own work pays off.
Will AI replace architects?
Not the accountable part of the job. Design judgement, client relationships, coordination and the professional duty that comes with signing drawings stay with people, and regulators expect a named person to be responsible. AI reduces the time spent producing documentation and checking models, which is a large part of the week in most practices.
Can AI work with Revit, Archicad and IFC models?
Yes. We read IFC exports from any authoring tool, and Revit or Archicad data through their APIs where a check needs native parameters. Findings go back as BCF issues so they open at the right element in the tool your team already uses, and documents sit in your common data environment with the revision they belong to.
Is our project archive used to train AI?
No. Your drawings, specifications and bids stay on infrastructure you control, or behind hosted-model terms that exclude training. The model retrieves from your archive at the moment of drafting rather than learning from it, so a past client project is cited when it is used, and access can follow the same permissions as your file server.
