Product Autodesk Answered the Revit Question at AU 2026. Its Next-Generation Assistant Is a 2027 Product. Asked in an FAQ published with its Autodesk University announcements whether Forma will replace Revit, Autodesk's answer — as reported by AEC Magazine and Architosh — was 'over time, yes.' The agentic experience carrying most of the week's ambition was previewed rather than shipped, with rollout and pricing deferred to 2027. Hugo Pegley · Sep 17, 2026
Product Two Levelset Alumni Built a Data Business for Equipment Dealers. Now It Answers in Teams. Filmore put its construction equipment demand data behind a Copilot agent inside Microsoft Teams, in early access from 14 September. The product is modest. The interesting part is that Martin Roth and Josh Nguyen are running the Levelset playbook — assemble proprietary data about who is building what — in a channel this newsroom rarely covers. Hugo Pegley · Sep 17, 2026
Product Motif Shipped a BIM Authoring Tool — and Priced It Per AI User, Not Per Seat The startup founded by two former Autodesk executives launched Motif Design on 8 September, with an architecture that treats AI agents as first-class clients of the project database. The architecture is the headline; the pricing page is the part that should worry incumbents. Hugo Pegley · Sep 11, 2026
Product Bedrock Says Its Excavators Now Work Alone. Three Contractors Put Their Names On It. Sundt, Zachry and Champion Site Prep are named on live projects where Bedrock's retrofitted excavators run without an operator. The named customers are the news — and a separate survey claiming contractor robotics use jumped from 29% to 79% in a year is the number to be careful with. Hugo Pegley · Aug 24, 2026
Product "Trust But Verify": How a Real Contractor Is Actually Using AI on Drawing Sets Novo Construction's CIO on replacing Bluebeam overlays with Buildcheck's Diffs to catch changes between drawing revisions — and on why the value shows up in pricing, before construction starts, rather than in the field. Hugo Pegley · Aug 18, 2026
Product Autodesk Construction Cloud Is Now Autodesk Forma. Here Is What Actually Changed. On March 24, 2026, Autodesk folded its Construction Cloud brand into Forma — its unified industry cloud for architecture, engineering, construction, and operations. The rebrand is more than a logo change: it marks the formal arrival of Autodesk's AI-native platform strategy, including a Project Data Agent now out of beta and geometry-trained AI assistants coming to Revit. 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
