Product CMiC Put an MCP Server Under Its ERP — and Made Permissions the Headline Feature NexusAI, announced 2 November at CONNECT 2026, lets users create jobs, budgets and invoices by asking. The sentence that matters is the one about plumbing: every request runs inside the user's existing security settings and permissions. Yesterday this publication covered Autodesk's own warning that two of its three Revit MCP servers can modify your model. Hugo Pegley · Nov 3, 2026
Funding Tendos Raised €12M to Automate the Quote, Not the Drawing Insight Partners led a seed round for a two-year-old Munich company selling AI agents to building-materials manufacturers — the supply side of construction, which has drawn far less of the sector's AI funding than the contractors and design teams. Tendos did not disclose a valuation, individual cheque sizes or any prior financing. Hugo Pegley · Nov 3, 2026
Product Buildots Gave Its Assistant a Task List. Note What the Tasks Actually Are. Dot can now be assigned preconfigured jobs — investigate a forecasted delay, verify a trade partner's claim, compare an activity across a site — and reports back. Announced 21 October, free to existing customers. It is an acting layer, but it acts on the analysis, not on the project record. Hugo Pegley · Oct 22, 2026
M&A Newforma Bought a General-Purpose Analytics Engine and Pointed It at RFIs Lumi AI spent three years building a semantic layer over ERPs for F100 enterprises. Newforma acquired it on 21 October, terms undisclosed, and is attaching it to twenty years of AECO project structure — while publishing a three-part standard it has invited the industry to measure it against. Hugo Pegley · Oct 22, 2026
Funding Pathways Raised $6M to Automate the Document That Gates a Green Bid The New York startup turns plant operating data into Environmental Product Declarations, the paperwork manufacturers increasingly need to compete for construction contracts. Sorenson Capital led the seed. Two cement groups are both investors and deployments — which is the most interesting thing about the round. Hugo Pegley · Oct 22, 2026
Analysis Arcadis Ran 150 Engineers Through an AI Platform for Six Months, Then Wrote a Cheque A €4.87 billion engineering firm has taken a stake in Nomic, the company behind GPT4All, after a trial across 12 countries. The interesting part is not the investment — it is that the trial came first, and the numbers were published. Hugo Pegley · Aug 16, 2026
Product Newforma's Vojo Bets That the Killer AI Feature in Construction Is Filing Your Email The AEC project-information veteran has launched an agent-driven assistant aimed not at the glamorous parts of construction AI, but at the administrative sludge — submittal reviews, document search, and the eternal problem of where to file an email. Hugo Pegley · Jun 12, 2026
Product Procore's AI Bet: What Copilot, Agents, and a $300M R&D Budget Actually Ship At Groundbreak 2024, Procore announced its most ambitious AI push to date. Eighteen months on, we break down what is live, what is still coming, and whether the platform deserves its billing as the most comprehensive AI suite in construction. Hugo Pegley · Jun 12, 2026
