Product Structured AI Stopped Reviewing Drawings and Started Reviewing the Model They Came From Less than four months after a $4.2M seed, the drawing-review startup has shipped a platform that loads IFC or native Revit alongside the PDF set — so a finding on a sheet resolves against the element that produced it, not a flattened export. Hugo Pegley · Oct 6, 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 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 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
