SYSTEMS · DESIGN DATA & BIM

Your drawings know more
than your systems do.

A design data layer that turns drawings, specifications, contracts and BIM models into structured data your downstream systems can actually use. One interpretation, made once, consumed everywhere.

In live use: the same data layer that feeds our automated quoting engine, deployed for a real manufacturer.

• Document classes parsed: 4
• Systems it feeds: 3
• Interpretations per document: 1
• Status: Live under quoting

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Design information dies in the handover.

Construction's most valuable data is created at design time, then trapped in formats built for printing rather than processing. Every team downstream pays for the same information again.

• Locked in files: Dimensions, materials and specifications sit inside drawings and PDFs no other system can read.
• Re-keyed by hand: Estimators, schedulers and compliance staff re-type the same design data again and again.
• Every re-entry, an error chance: The same quantity typed into three systems is three opportunities to get it wrong.
• Versions drift: The design changes; the spreadsheets built from the old design don't.

Two layers. One design truth
for every downstream system.

The capability splits into an extraction layer that reads documents, and a structure layer that keeps the result consistent, versioned and consumable.

• Document Intelligence: Parses the documents where construction data hides, and turns them into structured, machine-readable inputs. (Drawings and drawing schedules: dimensions, quantities, items; Specifications: materials, standards, product requirements; Contracts: obligations, clauses and dates; Parsing tuned on real project documents, not synthetic samples; Human review points where confidence is low): Answers: what does this document actually say, as data?
• Design Data Foundation: Holds the extracted design truth in one consistent model, so every consumer reads the same version of reality. (BIM model access and element extraction; One consistent data model across document sources; Version tracking as the design evolves; Change visibility: what moved between revision A and B; Clean interfaces for quoting, compliance and scheduling): Answers: which version is true, and who consumes it?

From design files to structured data.

1. Connect the sources: BIM models, drawings, specifications and contract documents come into one pipeline, in the formats you already have.
2. Structure the content: Elements, quantities, requirements and clauses are extracted into a consistent data model.
3. Version and reconcile: Revisions are tracked against the model, so downstream consumers see what changed instead of silently working from stale data.
4. Serve the systems: Quoting, compliance and scheduling read from the same structured source. One interpretation, everywhere.

WHERE THE DATA FLOWS

Every document class has a destination.

Proven where it matters most: quoting.

The clearest test of a design data layer is whether a business will run its revenue through it. Our automated quoting engine, in live deployment for a windows and doors manufacturer, takes its inputs from parsed drawing schedules. Quote turnaround went from days to minutes; the parsing layer is part of why.

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WHO IT SERVES

If your data lives in documents,
this layer is for you.

• "Our quotes start from drawings.": Drawing schedules parsed straight into the quoting workflow, so capacity stops depending on who can read plans fastest.
• "Our specs live in PDFs.": Specifications and contracts become searchable, structured obligations instead of documents someone once read.
• "Our models never reach operations.": BIM stops being a design-office artefact: model data flows into costing, compliance and delivery systems.

Design data, in plain answers.

Which BIM tools do you support?

We scope the integration against the authoring tools your team already uses. The point is to meet your design workflow, not replace it.

What if our drawings are PDFs, not models?

That is the common case, and it is what the document intelligence layer is built for: drawings, schedules and specification documents are parsed as well as native model data.

How accurate is the extraction?

Extraction is tuned on real project documents, and confidence is surfaced rather than hidden: low-confidence parses route to a human review step before any downstream system consumes them.

Who owns the structured data?

You do, contractually and practically. Exports are always available in open formats, and your documents stay inside your data boundary.

Is there research behind the drawing intelligence?

Yes. Our WSBE26 paper integrates large language models and computer vision for drawing-based residential compliance review: the same reading-drawings-as-data question this layer answers in production. See Publications & Awards under Research.

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Bring a drawing set.
Leave with structured data.

Send us a representative set of your drawings, specifications or contracts, and we will show you what a single parsed, versioned design truth looks like for your operation.

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