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Hexagon Is Paying $535 Million for the Software That Predicts How the Ground Will Move

Rocscience is expected to deliver revenue approaching $50 million this calendar year, more than 80% of it recurring, at EBITAC margins above 40% — roughly 11 times revenue for an asset whose margin is well above the 24–26% Hexagon has set itself through 2030. The strategic case in the release is a feedback loop between monitoring sensors and engineering models. The AI case is sitting on Rocscience's own homepage.

Hugo Pegley

Product

A Sydney Builder's Software Opened Itself to AI Agents — and Put a Human in Front of the Money

Build Paperless says it is the first Australian job management software in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory, with a connector exposing 37 tools over MCP. The more checkable artefact is the npm package it published three weeks earlier, whose documentation does something unusual for a vendor: it tells builders that their own site diaries are untrusted text an attacker can write into.

Hugo Pegley

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