AvailableRevit
BIM & documentation
The documentation and BIM-data workhorse. Archi Automate composes Revit API operations for schedules, parameters, views, sheets, and code checks.
schedulesparametersMEPdocumentationcompliance
The bridges
Four bridges today. One AI surface. More on the way.
Each bridge speaks its host's native API, so the assistant works with the real model — not a lossy export. Add a bridge and every workflow you already wrote gains a new endpoint.
Available
AvailableArchicad
Design & BIM
Where design and BIM meet. Drive zones, GDL objects, layouts, and model data through the Archicad API in the same plain language.
zonesGDL objectslayoutsearly design
AvailableRhino
Geometry & NURBS
Free-form geometry and computational design. Read and build NURBS, meshes, and Grasshopper-ready definitions for facades, structure, and form-finding.
NURBSmeshesGrasshopperfacadesform-finding
AvailableopenBIM (IFC)
Open BIM exchange
Read and write IFC models directly — vendor-neutral. Archi Automate opens an .ifc file as a live bridge, so the assistant can query, validate, and federate openBIM data alongside the authoring tools.
IFC4IFC2x3federationvalidationexport
Roadmap
More bridges
Vectorworks · Tekla · SketchUp
The bridge architecture is uniform. New hosts join the same AI surface — your prompts, skills, and guardrails carry straight over.
vectorworksteklasketchupyour API
The category-defining difference
Not a plugin.
An AI layer across your stack.
Most AEC automation is locked to one tool and one fixed list of commands. Scripts, macros, Dynamo or Grasshopper graphs are excellent when the workflow is known in advance and lives inside a single application — but real projects span Revit, Archicad, Rhino and IFC at once, and most work is one-off.
Archi Automate takes a different approach. You describe the outcome in natural language. The connected AI inspects the live model in whichever host you point it at, composes the required native API operation, previews it in dry-run, and executes approved tasks inside the host's own transaction model.
The result is intelligence that moves with your project — across tools, not trapped inside one.
Single-tool, fixed-command plugins
- Locked to one application
- Fixed feature list
- Cross-tool work means manual export/import
- Black-box execution
Archi Automate
- One assistant across Revit, Archicad, Rhino & IFC
- AI composes the operation on demand
- Read from one tool, write to another
- Dry-run, policy-controlled, audited
What you can do
Query, convert, validate, collaborate, automate.
The same AI surface that answers a one-line question moves data between tools and runs a project-wide workflow — each operation inside the host's own transaction model.
Query any model in plain language
Ask questions of a live Revit, Archicad, Rhino, or IFC model — categories, parameters, geometry, relationships — without schedules or scripts.
Which rooms in the Archicad model have no zone category assigned?
Convert between tools
Translate geometry and data across hosts with intent preserved — not a lossy export. Archi Automate maps source to target through each native API.
Rebuild this Rhino massing as a Revit mass family with matching levels.
Validate across disciplines
Run compliance, naming, and integrity checks against codes like TEK17 — and cross-check one model against another for consistency.
Flag every door that exists in Revit but is missing from the Archicad set.
Collaborate across the stack
Architecture in Archicad, structure in Rhino, documentation in Revit — one assistant keeps the shared data aligned as each discipline moves.
Sync the structural grid from Rhino into the Revit and Archicad models.
Automate multi-step workflows
Describe logic spanning categories, parameters, conditions, and several hosts. Archi Automate composes the operations and runs them in order.
For every facade panel in Rhino, create a Revit curtain panel and tag it.
Govern AI across teams
Per-role read/write modes, scope limits, deletion rules, and audit retention — applied uniformly across every bridge and every seat.
Architects: read-only. BIM leads: dry-run. Director: unrestricted.
Interoperability
Read from one tool. Write to another.
The bridges share one AI core, so data and intent move in any direction. The assistant reasons over the source model and composes native operations on the target — no manual round-trip.
Revit
BIM & documentation
Archicad
Design & BIM
Rhino
Geometry & NURBS
openBIM (IFC)
Open BIM exchange
More
on the roadmap
read · reason · write — any direction
Archi Automate core
MCP · skills · guardrails · audit
read-onlydry-runwrite
Rhino→RevitconvertRhino geometry → Revit BIM
The approved massing and facade logic lives in Rhino. Archi Automate reads the NURBS surfaces and rebuilds them as native Revit mass families, levels, and curtain systems.
design intent preserved, not flattened in a lossy export
Revit→ArchicadsyncRevit data → Archicad zones
Read the room schedule and department data from the Revit model, and write matching zones with the same names and categories into the Archicad project.
one source of truth, two coordinated models
Archicad→RhinovalidateArchicad model → Rhino analysis
Pull the building envelope and storey heights from Archicad into Rhino as clean reference geometry, ready for daylight, energy, or structural study.
analysis on live data, not a stale export
Multi-modal inputs
Anything the AI client accepts becomes a model instruction.
Voice, images, drawings, spreadsheets, regulation PDFs, external APIs — whatever your AI client can read, Archi Automate can ground in the live model of any connected host.
Voice
Speak the operation.
Voice input through compatible AI clients turns spoken instructions into native operations — hands free, mid-meeting, in any connected host.
“Show every column in Rhino that clashes with a Revit beam.”
Images
Drop in a reference.
Hand the AI a site photo, a sketch, or a precedent image. It reads the visual, grounds it in the model, and composes the next step.
“Match the window rhythm in this facade photo on the south elevation.”
2D drawings
Read consultants' PDFs.
Feed in 2D PDFs, DWG snapshots, or annotated markups. The AI extracts intent and maps it onto the live model in any host.
“Tag every door on this consultant's fire-strategy markup.”
External data
Bridge any source.
Excel, GIS, manufacturer catalogues, energy-model results, building-code databases, your own APIs — wired in through the AI client.
“Pull the latest equipment-load table from the consultant SharePoint.”
No ceiling
If you can describe it,
and a host's API can do it,
Archi Automate can compose it.
Each host API is vast. Every category, parameter, view, object, and transaction primitive across Revit, Archicad, Rhino, and IFC. A fixed-command plugin exposes a sliver of one of them. Archi Automate exposes the whole surface of each — composed on demand, in plain language, subject to your policy.
And the system grows in two directions. Add your studio's skills — naming conventions, templates, typology rules, regulation packs — and add new bridges as they ship. As the underlying LLMs get smarter, every workflow you've built gets smarter with them. No migration.
Example prompts
Plain English in. Native operations out — in any host.
Each prompt runs against live models through MCP — read-only, dry-run, or transactional. The same surface that handles one host coordinates two.
Take the approved tower massing in Rhino and rebuild it in Revit as a mass family with floors at each storey height, then report the gross floor area per level.
Claude→MCP→Archi Automate→Rhino→Revit
Compare the Revit and Archicad sets and list every door that exists in one model but not the other, with its level and fire rating.
GPT→MCP→Archi Automate→Revit→Archicad
Read the room schedule and department parameter from Revit and create matching zones in the Archicad model, keeping names and categories aligned.
Claude→MCP→Archi Automate→Revit→Archicad
Cross-check every habitable room on Level 03 against TEK17 §12 daylight and ventilation rules, and produce a punch list of the non-compliant rooms.
Claude→MCP→Archi Automate→Revit
How it works
Four hops from prompt to model — whichever host you point at.
The whole chain is inspectable. You can swap the AI client, pin the policy, or replay any session from the JSONL audit log.
01 · step
AI client
Your existing chat with Claude, GPT, or any MCP-compatible client. No new UI to learn.
Claude · GPT · MCP→02 · step
Model Context Protocol
Open MCP transport carries the request to the Archi Automate core. Standard, inspectable, swappable.
open protocol→03 · step
Archi Automate core
Selects the right bridge, composes the native API operation, and checks it against your active policy and skills.
policy · skills · dry-run→04 · step
Host transaction
Executes inside the host's own transaction model — Revit, Archicad, Rhino, or IFC — with rollback on error.
Revit · Archicad · Rhino · IFC→Safety & guardrails
Three execution modes. One audit trail. Every bridge.
Archi Automate can compose operations across each host's API surface, subject to your active guardrail policy. You set the boundary; the core enforces it the same way on Revit, Archicad, Rhino, and IFC.
Analysis without risk.
Inspect any element, parameter, or relationship in any connected host. The bridge refuses any write operation, regardless of what the AI tries.
Query categories, parameters, geometryNo transactions openedSafe for federated and review models
Preview before commit.
The AI composes the operation, but execution stops at a diff. You see exactly what would change — in either model of a cross-tool flow — and decide whether to commit.
Per-element change previewApprove, edit, or discardDiff exportable to JSONL
Full automation, audited.
Write operations run inside the host's own transaction model with rollback on error. Every step is logged, on every bridge.
Native host transactionsAuto-rollback on exceptionTimeout and API constraints enforced
Code-safety analysis & audit trail.
Every composed operation is screened against a configurable deny-list before execution. Every session writes to a JSONL audit log, regardless of host.
Pattern-based deny-listPer-session JSONL logReplayable for incident review
Inside the app
A small console for a very large surface.
Archi Automate runs as a quiet desktop app beside your authoring tools. A handful of screens — bridges dashboard, guardrails, and AI-client setup — cover the entire operator workflow across every bridge.
DashboardRevit 2027, Archicad 29, Rhino 8 and openBIM (IFC) — all bridged.
Modular by design
Grows with your skills — and with every new bridge.
Archi Automate is a layer, not a product with a fixed scope. Layer in your studio's naming conventions, template libraries, typology rules, regulation packs, or conversion mappings — and the AI combines them with each host's native API.
Skills and guardrails are written once and apply across every bridge. As new bridges ship and the underlying LLMs get more capable, the system you deploy today gets quietly more useful — with no migration.
Office naming conventions
Ship your studio's number/letter conventions as a skill the AI applies in every host automatically.
studiopolicy
Template & layout libraries
Wrap your view templates, sheet layouts, and Archicad master layouts so the AI uses them, not generic defaults.
graphicstemplates
Building-typology rules
School, hospital, office, residential — encode the rules of thumb that govern each typology.
typologyrules
Regulation packs
TEK17, IBC, NBC, fire codes — distil regulations into checks the AI can run against any model.
compliancevalidate
Conversion mappings
Define how your studio maps geometry and data between tools — Rhino layers to Revit categories, and back.
convertinterop
Custom domain skills
Anything you can describe in a doc, you can package as a skill. The AI picks the right one for the task and host.
modularopen
Compatibility
Works with your assistant — and your authoring tools.
Any MCP-capable AI client can drive Archi Automate, and every bridge speaks its host's native API. Bring the assistant you already use.
ClaudeMCP
CodexMCP
CursorMCP
VS CodeMCP
WindsurfMCP
ClineMCP
Gemini CLIMCP
AntigravityMCPJetBrainsMCP
Any MCP clientopen
Host bridges
- Autodesk Revit
2025–2027 - Graphisoft Archicad
29 - McNeel Rhino
8 - openBIM (IFC)
IFC4 · IFC2x3 - Vectorworks · Tekla · SketchUp
roadmap
Platform & protocol
- Model Context Protocol
open spec - Windows 10 / 11
x64 - Multiple host sessions at once
supported - Floating & desktop licenses
both - Voice input via compatible clients
indirect
Versus
Where it fits next to what you already have.
Dynamo, Grasshopper, and macros stay excellent for known workflows inside one tool. Archi Automate covers the rest — the one-off tasks, the validations, and the moves between tools that don't have a script yet.
| Capability | Platform scripts | Single-tool AI plugin | Manual IFC round-trip | Archi Automate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain-language input | ○ no | ◐ partial | ○ no | ● yes |
| Works across Revit, Archicad, Rhino & IFC | ○ no | ○ no | ◐ partial | ● yes |
| Read from one tool, write to another | ○ no | ○ no | ◐ partial | ● yes |
| AI composes the operation on demand | ○ no | ○ no | ○ no | ● yes |
| No manual export / import round-trip | ● yes | ● yes | ○ no | ● yes |
| Dry-run preview before commit | ○ no | ◐ partial | ○ no | ● yes |
| Configurable guardrail policy | ○ no | ◐ partial | ○ no | ● yes |
| Audit trail of every session | ○ no | ○ no | ○ no | ● yes |
| Grows as new bridges ship | ○ no | ○ no | ○ no | ● yes |
Learn & support
Docs, community, and fleet deployment.
Get the most out of your Archi Automate subscription — step-by-step guides, an active forum, and silent-install tooling for IT.
Learn
Choose topics, find answers, get step-by-step instructions, and develop your skills with the full user guide.
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