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
Product Nemetschek Turned 'Max' Into a Tier Across Three Brands. The MCP Servers Are the Part That Travels. On 28 and 29 October the Group shipped Allplan Max 2027 and gathered Archicad Max, Allplan Max and Bluebeam Max under one platform — architecture, engineering, construction, one premium AI tier each. Three weeks ago this publication reported Graphisoft's AI as mostly a roadmap. It has landed — and on the construction leg, Bluebeam Max, the Group names Claude, GitHub Copilot CLI and AnythingLLM as supported MCP clients. Hugo Pegley · Oct 29, 2026
Product Lumber's Insurance Agent Reads the Subcontract First. The Design Choice Is That It Never Approves a Sub. Lumber announced on 21 October that its Certificate of Insurance Agent is available to Procore customers, through what it calls the Procore Agent Marketplace. The company says a general contractor may carry 200 to 300+ active COIs and spend 10 to 15+ hours a week checking them against subcontract terms. The agent validates coverage against each subcontract rather than a generic checklist — and the release is explicit that it never approves or rejects a subcontractor itself. Hugo Pegley · Oct 23, 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
Product Document Crunch Can Now Read the Drawings. That Is the Hard Half of Contract Risk. On 21 October, Document Crunch — a Trimble company since April — extended its CrunchAI risk review from contracts and specifications to construction drawing sets, available to all users immediately. Trimble's own SEC filing puts what it paid for the company at $246.4 million, a figure the April announcement did not disclose. Hugo Pegley · Oct 21, 2026
Product Procore's New AI Interface Is a Push-to-Talk Button. It Can Answer, But It Can't Yet Act. Procore launched AI Go at Groundbreak 2026 on 21 October — a voice-first mobile app in open beta in North America, with a Meta AI-glasses integration in closed beta. Read alongside the NVIDIA and IBM announcements of the same morning, the pattern is a company shipping the asking layer first and the acting layer later. Hugo Pegley · Oct 21, 2026
Product EarthCam Opened Its Jobsite Cameras to ChatGPT and Claude. The Agents Get Finished Detections, Not Raw Images. Seven new AI models and an MCP connector, announced 20 October. EarthCam says its own AI analyses jobsite imagery before anyone asks a question — ten times faster than a customer's agent reading raw pixels, and cheaper in usage credits. The architecture is the announcement. Hugo Pegley · Oct 20, 2026
Product Access Construction Pushed Its Group-Wide AI Layer Across Estimating, Site and ERP Access Evo now spans Access ConQuest, Access Fonn and Access Coins with four named capabilities and human-in-the-loop approvals, available from 15 October across key markets including the UK, Ireland, the US and Australia. Evo itself is not new: on the group's own dating, it debuted in HR software in mid-2024. The claim worth marking is the company's own: that Access Construction is 'now the only provider that connects context across the entire construction lifecycle.' Hugo Pegley · Oct 15, 2026
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 · Oct 9, 2026
Product A Façade Manufacturer Has Shipped Its Factory's Limits as a Revit Plug-In AEC Magazine reported on 5 October that Kora Studio 1.0 has launched: a Revit plug-in that checks every façade panel against production data as the architect draws it. The company says a parametric family that takes two days to build is done in about five minutes and compliance checks that take nearly two months run instantly. The interesting part is who built it — Dextall, which manufactures the panels, and whose own April release put the saving at 315 hours per project. Hugo Pegley · Oct 5, 2026
Product Buildertrend Is Putting AI Into Submittals and AIA Billing — the Paperwork That Separates Residential From Commercial The announcement lists four AI features, a Bluebeam integration, a Sage Intacct sync and AIA-style progress invoicing. Read as a group rather than a feature list, it is a residential platform building the document and billing apparatus that commercial work runs on. Hugo Pegley · Sep 29, 2026
Product TrueLook Puts a Number on Its Camera Archive: 5.5 Billion Images, 26,000 Projects, 399 Days The Winston-Salem company says its construction cameras have captured more than 5.5 billion images and streamed over 6 million hours of video since 2005, across 26,000 projects in 19 countries. The 22 September announcement is a scale claim staked a few weeks ahead of an October release it calls a new generation of Jobsite Intelligence, without naming a capability, a date within the month or a price. Hugo Pegley · Sep 28, 2026
Product Endra Launched the E in MEP and Bought the M in the Same Announcement Less than four months after a $50 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, Endra launched Power Studio for electrical design and acquired Planlabs, a five-person Swiss lab working on mechanical systems. Terms were not disclosed. The sequencing is the story: an MEP platform being assembled one discipline at a time, partly built and partly bought. Hugo Pegley · Sep 21, 2026
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
