AI strategy and implementation for AEC firms
AEC Hub is a knowledge hub and consulting practice for AI in AEC. We combine independent research, a directory of 510+ tools, industry data, and implementation support.
Services for AEC firms
We provide advisory and implementation support for firms at different stages of AI adoption.
AI strategy
We work with AEC firms of different sizes and at different stages of AI adoption. Some clients have dedicated AI and innovation teams, while others are choosing their first firm-wide use case. We help each firm assess its current tools and workflows, identify practical opportunities, set priorities, and plan how AI should be implemented.
Implementation
When a firm needs implementation support, we configure AI tools, automate workflows, build governed data foundations, and develop enterprise applications around the firm’s existing systems and data. The work can range from testing one workflow to deploying applications across the firm.
Learn, explore, and evaluate
Learn how to implement AI
Articles, study guides, and reports on what works inside architecture and engineering firms, plus the news and events we track each week.
Start with the study guidesExplore AI tools
Describe your task and get recommendations from the 510+ tools we review, then compare them and keep the ones you are evaluating in one place.
Search the toolsEvaluate your AI implementation
Score your firm, cost one workflow, see how foundation models perform on AEC tasks, and check the industry data behind any claim.
Take the readiness scoreSave tools, plans, and your tech stack
A free account keeps your recommendations, saved plans, and tech stack in one place and lets you follow AEC tech companies as they ship.
Featured tools
AEC Hub Proposals
Finds RFPs, extracts every requirement, qualifies the pursuit, and drafts from your past proposals. A person reviews every draft before it goes out.
One featured slot is open
A featured tool gets a labeled card on the homepage, a pinned card at the top of its category in the tools list, a card after matching AI recommendations, and a place in curated stacks. It costs $1,000 a year and includes a review written within 30 days.
Reports and articles
Industry reports built from federal and firm data, and articles on how architecture and engineering firms are putting AI to work. All free to read.
How AEC Hub Recommends Technology for AEC Firms
What the recommender considers when you describe a task: the problem first, the approach before the product, tool fit, what you may already own, and when it says no tool is a good match. Vendor relationships and our own services do not change rankings.
ReadAI Implementation for Architecture and Engineering Firms: What It Takes
Clean project data first, permissions that hold, then one workflow shipped with a person reviewing it. What AI implementation looks like inside an A/E firm, with the medallion data pattern in plain terms, a Copilot governance test, a deployment case study, and a 90-day plan.
ReadHow Should My Architecture Firm Use AI? A Practical Answer
Start with one workflow, measure it, and ignore most of what is marketed to you. Where AI pays back first in an architecture firm (proposals, firm knowledge search, drawing QA), what to avoid, and a 90-day plan any 10-100 person firm can run.
ReadThe Latest in AEC AI and Tech: What Actually Matters
A running answer to the question every firm leader asks: what is actually new, and what does it mean for my practice? Funding, incumbent moves, new tools, and market signals, refreshed monthly from our weekly news tracking.
ReadIndustry data dashboards
Seven dashboards and lookup tools covering salaries, employment, material prices, permits, federal spending, site hazards, and AI benchmark results. Each one is checked against its source and refreshed on the source's schedule. All of them are free and need no account.
AEC Salary Explorer
Pay for 35 architecture, engineering, and construction roles in every state and the largest metro areas.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024
Open the dashboardConstruction Employment Tracker
Monthly employment in residential, nonresidential, and heavy civil construction, with hiring trends by sector.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, updated monthly
Open the dashboardMaterial Price Watch
Monthly producer prices for steel, lumber, concrete, copper, and aluminum, with a volatility rating for each.
Source: Producer Price Index through FRED, updated monthly
Open the dashboardBuilding Permit Heatmap
The residential construction pipeline by metro, split between multi-family and single-family permits.
Source: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, updated monthly
Open the dashboardFederal Infrastructure Spending Tracker
Where infrastructure dollars are going, from agency obligations down to individual contracts by state.
Source: USAspending.gov
Open the dashboardSite Risk Assessment
Enter a project address and get its seismic, flood, wildfire, and weather hazard profile before design starts.
Source: USGS, FEMA, and NOAA
Open the dashboardAEC AI Benchmark Tracker
What AEC-Bench measures, which models have published scores, and what the results mean for firm work.
Source: AEC-Bench and published model results
Open the dashboardNews and events
News
All news- ProductSeptember 8, 2026PlanAId launches AI-assisted building-code review
- AISeptember 3, 2026OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra for long, tool-driven professional work
- ProductSeptember 3, 2026Asite launches an AI project-intelligence workspace for architects
- FundingSeptember 3, 2026Arcadis and Aurecon invest in Nomic and expand firm-wide AI-agent deployments
Upcoming events
All events- Sep15Autodesk University 2026Las Vegas, NV + Online · Conference · through Sep 17
- Sep15INTERGEO 2026Trade Fair Center Messe München, Munich, Germany · Conference · through Sep 17
- Sep16BIM World Copenhagen 2026K.B. Hallen, Frederiksberg, Denmark · Conference · through Sep 17
- Oct1AI Adoption in Construction Summit 2026Jay Conference Chelsea, New York, NY · Summit
How to implement AI in a firm
A strategic view starts with the context an AI needs, not with a tool. An AI model answers from what it can read. The models firms already have access to, through Copilot, Claude, and Gemini, are capable enough for most firm work. What a firm adds is context, and context comes in three layers.
The industry layer is codes, the market, and the tools available. The firm layer is standards, people, and the financial and project data in your accounting, timesheet, CRM, and project management systems. The project layer is the models, the mail, and the drawings for one job.
The firm layer is where most firms are missing a foundation. Its data sits in five or six systems that do not join, so we build data foundations, a data lake, where that data is pulled in, cleaned, and governed. Once it exists, dashboards, Copilot, and any assistant you build read from the same trusted tables.
Model, harness, workflow, and firm context
The model is the smallest of the four parts. The harness around it, the workflow it runs in, and the firm's own context decide whether the output can be used.
The visual guideThe human review loop
Records feed context, the AI drafts, a professional approves or corrects, and the corrections go back into the records so the next run is better.
Our thesis on AIEvidence and citations
An answer a firm can act on cites the mail, the model element, or the spec section it came from, and the method used to get there.
Verifiable AI, explainedBring one workflow to a free 30-minute AI strategy session and leave with a plan for it.
Book a free AI strategy sessionList your tool and confirm its details
A listing is free. Send us your tool and we add a page alongside the 510+ tools we track, with your description, pricing, and a tracked link to your site. The tool appears in search and in AI recommendations whenever it matches what a firm describes, and we correct the listing within a week when you tell us something changed. Once you have checked the details, the page and the card carry a vendor-confirmed mark with the date. Featured placement and hands-on work with the firms adopting your product are described on the vendor page.