Drawing Intelligence Agents for Construction
Palladio AEC Agents read full drawing sets, automate takeoff, estimate total project cost, surface value‑engineering options, and let your team ask questions or explore design ideas in natural language.
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Problems
Your Drawings Hide Millions in Decisions.
Preconstruction teams are buried in PDFs and sheets. Manual takeoffs, vendor-driven pricing, and opaque drawings make it easy to overpay and miss value‑engineering opportunities before the job even goes to bid.
Opaque Cost Drivers
Key cost drivers are buried across plans, elevations, schedules, and specs—making it hard to see what really moves the budget.
Manual Takeoffs & Spreadsheets
Estimators spend days clicking through PDFs and updating fragile spreadsheets just to get a baseline quantity takeoff.
Overspecified Materials
Doors, glazing, finishes, and MEP often get overspecified, adding 5–15% to CapEx with no meaningful change in performance.
Slow Q&A on Design
Answering basic questions like “what if we change this door type?” requires pinging multiple teams and waiting for updated drawings.
Agents
Ecosystem of Construction Drawing Agents
A domain‑trained, verification‑first micro‑agent system that parses drawing sets, runs automated takeoff and cost estimates, explores value‑engineering options, and helps teams reason about design in natural language.
Drawing Ingestion & Structuring
Ingests full plan sets—plans, elevations, sections, schedules—and builds a linked, queryable representation of the project.
Automated Takeoff Engine
Generates quantity takeoffs for doors, windows, walls, finishes, and more, with traceable links back to the source sheets.
Cost & Budget Intelligence
Combines quantities with cost libraries to estimate total project cost and highlight the assemblies that move the budget most.
Product & Spec Matching
Maps specified elements to real products and alternates—linking drawings to catalogs, vendor SKUs, and procurement options.
Drawing Q&A Copilot
Lets teams ask questions like “where are all Type G doors?” or “how many SF of tile are in unit A1 bathrooms?” and get instant, cited answers.
Value‑Engineering Explorer
Surfaces VE options—by door packages, glazing ratios, finishes, and more—with estimated savings and tradeoffs for developers and owners.
Results
Developer-Ready Impact
Real, measurable impact from preconstruction—faster budgets, clearer VE options, and project‑level savings that move IRR, not just line items.
Faster preconstruction analysis
Fewer RFIs & redesign loops
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Developers & Owners
Trusted by developers, owners’ reps, and GC partners looking to de‑risk budgets and lock in VE savings before GMP.
Steps
How It Works
Step 1
Upload architectural, structural, and MEP plans, elevations, sections, and schedules from PDFs, BIM exports, or shared drives.
Step 2
Step 3
Generates quantity takeoffs with citations back to drawing locations and schedules.
Step 4
Step 5
Maps elements to products and alternates, with links out to suppliers and procurement workflows.
Step 6
Teams
Built for Developers & Project Stakeholders
A shared understanding of the project for everyone who cares about cost, risk, and design.
Integration
Plugs into Your AEC Stack
Connect in minutes using PDFs, BIM exports, shared folders, or direct APIs.
Make Every Drawing Set Understandable — Structured, Searchable, Cost‑Aware.
POC in 7 days. Start with a single project and see the VE savings and insight unlocked.