Analysis Arcadis Is Plugging Its Own MCP Server Into Autodesk Assistant — and Keeping the Keys The expanded collaboration announced on 28 September carries one hard number: in one example, automation has cut quality reviews from five days to about half a day, drawn from Arcadis initiatives already running in North America and Europe. The more consequential sentence is that Arcadis connects its own Model Context Protocol capabilities to Autodesk Assistant 'while retaining full ownership of what it builds.' Having already taken equity in an AEC AI startup this year, the firm is behaving like a platform rather than a licensee. Hugo Pegley · Oct 5, 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 Torus comes out of stealth with AI agents for engineering documents The Y Combinator–backed startup is building AI that reads P&IDs, datasheets and specs across an entire capital project to catch cross-document errors before they reach the field. Hugo Pegley · Jul 15, 2026
