For Partners · Lead Architects · Studio Founders

Your atelier, augmented.

You're paid for design judgement. You spend your week on Eurocode checks, contract redlines, tender packs, and BIM coordination. Vonbuild absorbs the technical production work. Your Saturdays come back.

The architect's workspace: analog drafting on the left, augmented with Vonbuild on the right

Left — the work that was always yours · Right — the work Vonbuild now handles

The six things you do that nobody else can

Because you're the qualified architect on file.

Six recurring weight-bearing tasks that drift onto the partner's desk because nobody else can sign for them. Each one is a Vonbuild Master task.
Pain 1 · Compliance re-runs

RE2020 updated. 34 glazings to re-check.

Every regulation update means re-running EN 13474 / EN 1992 verifications across the façade. Saturday morning work.
Pain 2 · CCAP / contract review

500 pages from the developer at 6pm Friday.

Uncapped delay penalties, asymmetric notification, abusive change-order clauses — the things you find at 11pm Sunday.
Pain 3 · Permit calc note

200 pages. Every element verified. Six weeks.

The bottleneck before every planning submission. Your senior engineer disappears for six weeks each cycle.
Pain 4 · Competition response

24 months of precedent, manually re-assembled.

Win-themes from past projects are in 17 folders, 4 partners' heads, and a SharePoint that nobody trusts. Every bid starts from scratch.
Pain 5 · BIM coordination

12 disciplines, conflicts you'll see at construction.

Federated model assembled too late. Clashes detected on site. Variation order. Client conversation. Your day is gone.
Pain 6 · Retiring seniors

30 years of design judgement walks out.

When your senior architect retires, their unwritten rules go with them. The studio absorbs the loss for years.
Two recurring weeks of an architect

Two use cases. Same week.

The kind of work that used to swallow a Friday-to-Sunday. Real Vonbuild workflows, today.
USE CASE · MASTER LEGAL3 wk → 3 days

CCAP risk-rated against your firm precedent.

A 500-page developer contract arrives Friday 6pm. Vonbuild ingests it, surfaces every clause your studio has historically renegotiated, flags uncapped penalties, asymmetric notification windows, and abusive change-order language — cross-referenced against the 18 contracts you've signed in the last 5 years. Monday 8am: a 12-clause risk matrix on your screen.
See Master Legal in depth →
USE CASE · MASTER SALES6 wk → 1 wk

Competition response composed from your firm's 24-month precedent.

Tuesday's RFP on the new hospital. Vonbuild retrieves the 8 most-similar projects from your archive (won + lost), extracts the win-themes that landed, drafts the framing for the technical proposal, and surfaces the differentiation language that worked. You arrive Monday with the response architecture already articulated.
See Master Sales in depth →
Today vs tomorrow

Saturday is yours again.

The work that used to eat your weekend runs overnight. You arrive Monday to a verified, risk-rated, drafted brief. You spend your week on design judgement.
Input · Friday 6pm
500-page developer contract
PDF · 318 pages of CCAP · 182 pages of annexes
Output · Monday 8am
12-clause risk matrix, cross-referenced against 18 contracts your studio signed in the last 5 years.
Input · Regulation update
RE2020 amendment
Affects EN 13474 thermal performance
Output · Overnight
34 façade glazings re-verified in Robot. 3 units flagged for reinforcement. Spec sheet drafted.
Input · New tender
Hospital RFP brief
280 pages · 6 evaluation criteria
Output · Monday
Win-themes from 8 most-similar past projects. Differentiation language. Response architecture drafted.
The week's most expensive output is no longer technical admin. It's design judgement. Where it belongs.
The cross-functional superpower

Three problems. Three Masters. One Monday morning.

An architect's Friday afternoon contains a code-compliance problem, a contract review problem, and a bid-prep problem. Three different specialists, all running over the weekend, all on your screen Monday.
01
Master Engineering

Runs the code-compliance check.

RE2020 updated Friday. Engineering runs EN 13474 / EN 1992 verifications on 34 glazings, every floor, every façade. Three units flagged for reinforcement. Spec sheet ready for the spec team. Overnight, no input from you.
02
Master Legal

Reads the developer's contract.

500-page contract from the developer. Legal flags uncapped delay penalties, asymmetric notification windows, abusive change-order clauses, missing IP protections. Risk matrix on your screen — clauses you'd have missed at 11pm Sunday.
03
Master Sales

Pulls the winning precedent.

Tuesday's bid on the new hospital. Sales retrieves the 8 most-similar past projects (won + lost), surfaces the win-themes that landed, drafts the framing for the technical proposal. You arrive Monday with the differentiation already articulated.
Result · One Monday morning
vs. four lost weekends

Three problems solved. Three Masters worked. You designed.

Compliance done. Contract risk-rated. Bid drafted. The week you used to live in survival mode becomes the week you spend on design judgement. The work that compounds the studio's value — the work you got into this profession to do.

Live process · Engineering cascade

You consult Engineering. Five agents react. One verified design.

A revised structural drawing arrives. Master Engineering spawns five verification agents in parallel. Eurocode, DTU, deflection, materials, tolerance — all cross-checked, one verdict. Norm-update re-verification auto-scheduled.

Signal

A revised drawing arrives at 14:32.

Any source can fire it: a file dropped in OneDrive / Google Drive / any drive, an email landing in Outlook, a scheduled task firing, or you pressing a button. In this scenario, an event arrives via ONEDRIVE.

Source: ONEDRIVE · drawing-rev-D-structural.dwg
Routing

MASTER ENGINEERING routes.

It classifies the impact across 21 semantic categories and dispatches to the 5 specialized agents concerned. No human in the loop. No meeting scheduled.

5 specialized agents dispatched · 312 ms
Parallel reaction

5 specialized agents. In parallel.

Each agent accesses its own toolset — apps, browsers, MCP connectors, project documents and company knowledge — and produces a structured output. Concurrently, not sequentially.

AGENT
Calc Runner
EC3 ✓
beam check passed
AGENT
Standard Verifier
DTU 39 §4.2
compliance confirmed
AGENT
Drawing Analyzer
δ 12mm
deflection within tolerance
AGENT
Material Spec Checker
S420 OK
yield strength verified
AGENT
Tolerance Auditor
±2mm
dimensional tolerance met
5 outputs produced
Convergence

Outputs return. One narrative.

The 5 specialized agents return their outputs to MASTER ENGINEERING. It reconciles them into a single decision card.

1 reconciled decision
Validation

Handed to you. One click.

Master Engineering returns the verification. Calcs run, standards confirmed, deflection within tolerance, materials verified, dimensions OK. Full evidence chain. One trace ID. Drawing stamped, ready to issue.

3 min · signal → decision
Self-scheduled trigger

T+30 DAYS LATER. The system wakes itself up.

During the parallel phase, a agent scheduled a follow-up task on its own. T+30 DAYS LATER — without you, without a meeting, without a reminder email — MASTER ENGINEERING wakes itself, dispatches the right agent, and executes autonomously. You delegated the mental load.

T+3minT+30 DAYS LATER · auto-fired
Auto-fired · 0 human intervention
Admissible · Provable · Defensible

How to sleep at night.

Your signature still goes on the calc note. Your decennial liability still applies. Four guarantees that hold up in front of an insurer, a regulator, and a client.
Guarantee 1 · The number comes from the certified tool

Zero hallucination on technical outputs.

When you need a Eurocode check, the agent opens Robot or ETABS via Computer Use and runs it there. The certified software produces the number. The agent orchestrates. Same legal weight as if your engineer had clicked through manually.
Guarantee 2 · Reproducible decades later

Decennial liability defence built-in.

Every verification preserves: inputs, model file hash, software version, output. Re-runnable in the same software years after Practical Completion. When the building's façade fails in year 7, the file is there — every input traceable.
Guarantee 3 · You sign, not the AI

Human in the loop, always.

The agent prepares. You sign. Every irreversible action — calc note submission, contract redline send, bid pack release — blocked until you click Approve. Your registered architect / SIA stamp still goes on the work. Liability stays human.
Guarantee 4 · Your design IP stays yours

Tenant-resident execution.

Tenant-resident inside your existing Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. Your design files, your client material, your studio's IP — never trains the foundation models. DPA on request. No "AI trained on architects' work."
Live demo · Guarantee 3 in motion

This is what "you stamp" looks like.

The calc note is assembled, the compliance check passed, the developer's contract redline summarised. The modal blocks. Your registered-architect stamp is yours to place. Decennial liability stays with you.
Works where you work

No new UI for the studio.

Vonbuild drives the tools your team already uses. Revit, AutoCAD, Robot, your shared SharePoint, your Outlook matter folders — the agent operates them with your licences and credentials.
Operates inside your studio stack
Revit 2027 (native MCP)AutoCADRobot StructuralETABSBIMcollabSharePointOutlook (web)TeamsPlus any software with MCP
No new UI
Your team opens the same project folder. The agent has populated it.
Your licences stay yours
Robot, ETABS, Revit — agent operates them with your studio's authenticated session.
Drafting in Vonbuild
Notes, contracts, bid responses drafted in the built-in editor. Export to your studio's templates on completion.
For every architect, not just one

Every architectural specialization, covered.

Whether you're a design lead, a computational designer, a BIM manager, or a heritage specialist — the Masters speak your vocabulary.
Principal ArchitectLead ArchitectDesign LeadComputational DesignerBIM ManagerHeritage ArchitectLandscape ArchitectInterior ArchitectFaçade SpecialistSpec WriterSustainability LeadProject ArchitectStudio FounderAssociate Architect
For your managing partner conversation

How to justify Vonbuild to the studio.

Don't tell your partners you bought an AI tool. Tell them you bought capacity. Three bullets, ready to repeat.
Bullet 1 · Capacity
complex projects

"We absorb twice as many complex projects with the same headcount."

Recovered time on coordination, contract review, and compliance redirects to project capacity. Industry pattern: 480–600 hours per person per year recoverable on document workflow. At 100 EUR/h rebillable that's 50–60K per architect per year.
Bullet 2 · Senior preservation
100%
judgement work

"Our senior architects design. They don't chase documents."

The expensive talent — the partners and senior associates who carry the studio's design DNA — spend their week on judgement work, client conversations, and competition strategy. The administrative weight that drives burnout and attrition is removed.
Bullet 3 · Liability defence
10+ yr
reproducible

"Decennial liability defence built into every project."

Calculation lineage reproducible decades after handover. When a façade fails in year 7, your studio walks into the dispute with every verification re-runnable in the same software, every input traced. The kind of defence that's hard to price — but easy to value when you need it.
Industry benchmarks (Monograph 2025, Part3 2025) compressed by the workforce model. Calibrated to your studio in the demo.

Start with the project you've been postponing.

The competition you keep meaning to enter. The contract you skim-read and filed. The compliance check you've been doing in your head. Drop it into Vonbuild. See the output by Monday.