Product Salamandra Gives the Drafting Away and Meters the AI, for One Code and One Sheet Set Surfaced publicly this week in two contech roundups: a Tel Aviv company whose browser tool takes an architectural DWG and returns a life safety sheet set — core detected, doors and stairs measured, symbols placed under one legend, occupant load tables built per floor, exported as a layered DWG. Manual drafting is free and the AI runs on a daily credit allowance. A second service line drafts for fire safety engineers in 48 hours and says plainly who signs. Hugo Pegley · Nov 10, 2026
Funding Archiboost Raised $6.2M for Drawing Review, Into a Category That Has Already Started Consolidating A San Francisco platform that reads PDFs and Revit metadata together announced a combined pre-seed and seed round on 3 November, led by Marathon Venture Capital and Hanabi Capital, though the two outlets covering it split on which firm led which round. The reports give no valuation and no total raised beyond the $6.2m. The interesting number is not the round — it is 550,000 drawing sheets. Hugo Pegley · Nov 4, 2026
Analysis UpCodes Ran Its AI Over 1,300 Plan Sets. The Most Common Critical Finding Was a Missing Exit Sign. Four months after launching AI Plan Review, UpCodes has published what it found: 180,000+ potential issues across 1,300+ plan sets in 73 jurisdictions, an average of 21 critical issues per set, and 46% of those critical issues in life-safety systems. The $1m-per-project cost figure is modelled, and the release's own footnote says so. Hugo Pegley · Oct 14, 2026
Product Bluebeam Is Giving Its Paid AI Tier to Students for Free, and That Is a Distribution Strategy Bluebeam said on 24 September that Bluebeam Max — the AI subscription tier it launched globally in May, carrying an introductory price of $590 per user a year — is now available at no cost to eligible students and educators worldwide. The tier includes Revu connected to language models over MCP. Hugo Pegley · Sep 24, 2026
