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Snaptrude Agent is live.
It does real design work with your team, from a site to a construction-ready LOD 400 model with structure, MEP and drawings. Cut the budget or change the brief, and the agent updates the layout, coordinates the structure and MEP, and redoes the drawings. And you can take the work back to your existing software with your families intact.
Firms like Jacobs, Studio+, Kajima, VMDO and Dekker design on Snaptrude, and since September more than 2,000 designers have run over 25,000 tasks through the agent.
Today we're launching @snaptrude Agent, the most advanced agent for building design.
It does real design work with you, from a site to a construction-ready LOD 400 model with structure, MEP and drawings. Then can go back to your existing software with your families intact.
About a year ago we bet the company on AI. Honestly the insight came from software engineering. It wasn't long ago that autocomplete felt like a big deal, and now engineers direct agents that write a lot of the code. I think the same shift is coming to how we design buildings, and it's already started.
Most designers I meet aren't short on skill, they're short on time. Take the call every design team dreads, the client cuts the budget by 30%. Today that's a bad month for everyone. With the agent you're the director. You decide where the cost comes out, and it updates the layout, coordinates the structure and MEP, and redoes the drawings. So when design exploration gets this cheap, we go from 3 options to 300, and more options means better buildings.
Since August our users have gone through more than 140 billion tokens, and firms like Jacobs, Studio+, Kajima, VMDO, Dekker and hundreds of others use Snaptrude today. In our early access, more than 2,000 designers have run over 25,000 tasks through the agent since September.
We also built a benchmark for this, AECBench, because in AEC an almost correct answer is still wrong. It gives AI the same brief an architect would get, has its design in a real BIM model, and scores the result against the brief and against how architects review design. We're publishing the first results today, link below.
Thank you @prashanthp at @Accel and Shub and the team at @foundamental for backing us when this was still a bet, and the Snaptrude team, who built every bit of this. Really proud of you all.
Thanks to our investors, @scottbelsky, @andreasklinger, @thilokonzok, @immad, @CindyXBi, @DanilaVladi, @jmwass, rahulchaudhary, @adamecourt, Zach Ginsburg, Alex duff, Paul grossinger, really appreciate all the help along the way.
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Construction has barely changed in decades and products like @Snaptrude are leading its transformation.
When we began working with @altafganihar, we saw a sector overdue for modernizing its workflows. With the launch of Snaptrude Agent, they've built the most advanced agent for building design with published benchmarks on real design tasks.
Congratulations to @altafganihar and the entire @snaptrude team on this milestone.
Today we're launching @snaptrude Agent, the most advanced agent for building design.
It does real design work with you, from a site to a construction-ready LOD 400 model with structure, MEP and drawings. Then can go back to your existing software with your families intact.
About a year ago we bet the company on AI. Honestly the insight came from software engineering. It wasn't long ago that autocomplete felt like a big deal, and now engineers direct agents that write a lot of the code. I think the same shift is coming to how we design buildings, and it's already started.
Most designers I meet aren't short on skill, they're short on time. Take the call every design team dreads, the client cuts the budget by 30%. Today that's a bad month for everyone. With the agent you're the director. You decide where the cost comes out, and it updates the layout, coordinates the structure and MEP, and redoes the drawings. So when design exploration gets this cheap, we go from 3 options to 300, and more options means better buildings.
Since August our users have gone through more than 140 billion tokens, and firms like Jacobs, Studio+, Kajima, VMDO, Dekker and hundreds of others use Snaptrude today. In our early access, more than 2,000 designers have run over 25,000 tasks through the agent since September.
We also built a benchmark for this, AECBench, because in AEC an almost correct answer is still wrong. It gives AI the same brief an architect would get, has its design in a real BIM model, and scores the result against the brief and against how architects review design. We're publishing the first results today, link below.
Thank you @prashanthp at @Accel and Shub and the team at @foundamental for backing us when this was still a bet, and the Snaptrude team, who built every bit of this. Really proud of you all.
Thanks to our investors, @scottbelsky, @andreasklinger, @thilokonzok, @immad, @CindyXBi, @DanilaVladi, @jmwass, rahulchaudhary, @adamecourt, Zach Ginsburg, Alex duff, Paul grossinger, really appreciate all the help along the way.
Things that used to take days now take minutes to execute. Snaptrude aligns real workflows with architects. Renders executed in Snaptrude.
You can now go from a finished multifamily design to a full pro forma, without leaving Snaptrude. MFR Configurator sets up the building, Pro Forma pulls the project data, you set your assumptions, and it builds a workbook with linked formulas. snaptrude.com/app-builder
Snaptrude's curated apps are built to work for everyone, which means they are not built for how your team works.
Remix any of them into your own version. Your unit types, your standards, your rules. Private until you publish it to your team.
snaptrude.com/app-builder
You count the units, then find out the parking doesn't fit, so you start over.
An architect described that exact workflow in plain words and got a working app on his model. No code.
App Builder is live in Snaptrude.
Test fits are pitch work. Fast, unpaid, and usually drawn twice.
Point this app at a floor plate and you get the layout, three circulation options, a BIM model, and the sheets.
Two days of work in one pass.
An architect built this multifamily configurator. Not a developer.
He described the workflow in a prompt. App Builder made it. Unit mix, circulation, efficiency, cost, all connected to the model.
What are you going to build next?
Apps and App Builder are live in Snaptrude.
Turn your firm's design workflows into software. Describe the workflow, define the rules, get an App that runs on your building model.
Head to snaptrude.com to try it out
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Every firm is unique. Now your software will be too.
Today, we’re introducing Apps and App Builder in @Snaptrude.
Everyone is asking: Can AI design?
The jury is still out.
But there is another question we can answer today: Can AI make design software adapt to the way you work?
For decades, one design product was built for an entire industry. Firms with different methods, standards, and knowledge were expected to adapt to the same software.
A Snaptrude App is a design workflow turned into software. It captures the inputs that matter, the rules your team follows, and the outcomes you need, all while operating directly on a connected building model.
App Builder uses AI to help create these Apps. You describe the workflow and define the decisions and constraints. App Builder turns that knowledge into a purpose-built experience inside Snaptrude.
Our AI Agent can suggest what to do. An App can execute a workflow.
Our first two Apps, a multifamily configurator and a facade builder, are available to every Snaptrude user starting today.
But the breakthrough is not that we shipped two more workflows. It is that we no longer have to decide which workflows every firm gets.
We are not automating design decisions.
We are automating the execution of design decisions.
The last generation of design software compelled every firm to adapt. The next generation will adapt the software to every firm.
Apps are now live inside Snaptrude for all users.
App Builder early access is now open. Link below to apply.
Most AI renderers ignore your geometry. You put in a carefully designed massing, and the output drifts, wrong proportions, invented details, a building that looks vaguely like yours but isn't.
Nanobanana in Snaptrude works from your actual model. You're directing the mood and lighting, not correcting what the AI decided your building should look like.