AI implementation for design firms

Your AI rollout without the guesswork.

DesignHub plugs AI implementation directly into your firm — your tools, your workflow, your team. Built by the same people who have run your CDs, BIM, and rendering for years.

No job posts. No generic playbooks. Just AI that fits.
Revit
Readiness / 001
Move from “we should use AI” to a workflow that runs.
1996Producing for A&D firms since
2–3Weeks to a readiness roadmap
  • Fits inside your Revit, AutoCAD & BIM 360 workflow
  • No long-term contract required to start
  • US & Latin America teams, your working hours
  • $5M E&O insurance included
AI THAT FITSPRODUCTION FIRSTYOUR TOOLSYOUR STANDARDSBUILT TO RUNAI THAT FITSPRODUCTION FIRSTYOUR TOOLSYOUR STANDARDSBUILT TO RUN
30–60%cost vs. hiring in-house
2–3weeks to a readiness roadmap
3–6weeks to first AI workflow live
$5ME&O insurance coverage
The window is now

AI adoption is moving fast. Don’t be the firm catching up.

The firms that turn AI into working production systems will build the advantage before everyone else is ready. Find your first move before the gap gets wider.

Don’t get left behind — book your readiness call

Source: Autodesk industry research on AI adoption across the Design and Make industries.

98%of Design and Make leaders use at least one AI tool.
84%say AI has already increased productivity at their organization.
59%already use or plan to use agentic AI within a year.
The problem

AI in your firm is not a tool problem. It is a workflow problem.

Buying seats does not tell you where a CD review, a submittal log, or a QA pass is actually losing hours. Mapping the workflow does — and that is the step almost every firm skips.

The usual rollout

  • Buy a few licenses and hope adoption happens.
  • Collect disconnected experiments across teams.
  • Ask production to change before understanding it.
  • Measure activity instead of time returned.

The DesignHub rollout

  • Start with the work that slows a project down.
  • Choose tools around your existing stack.
  • Put a useful pilot in someone's hands fast.
  • Train the team and keep the loop running.
The service map

Less AI theatre. More production.

One clear entry point, then the right level of help for your firm. Start small. Build in context. Keep what works.

We do not sell a software shelf. We make the case for the next right move — then help your team make it real.

A — Managed Services

Start here

AI Readiness Assessment

A focused look at where your studio loses time, which workflows are ready for AI, and what should wait.

2–3 weeks · fixed scope
Embedded

Managed AI Services

A practical AI operator inside your team: workflow design, implementation, training, and ongoing iteration.

Month-to-month · from kickoff

B — Firm-Specific AI

Built around you

Custom AI Solutions

Firm-specific assistants, automations, and tools that understand your standards, project language, and production reality.

3–6 weeks · first workflow live
Adoption

AI Fluency Academy

Team training for principals, PMs, designers, and drafters — grounded in the work they do every day.

Per-seat · built for teams
The operating model

A straight line from friction to fluency.

The work is structured, visible, and paced for a real studio — not a lab with unlimited time.

01

Listen first

We map the real work: CD reviews, submittals, redlines, QA passes, and the handoffs between them.

Your current state
02

Find the leverage

We separate high-value opportunities from shiny tools and choose the smallest useful first move.

A ranked roadmap
03

Build in context

Your first workflow lives in the tools your team already opens — not in a disconnected demo.

A working pilot
04

Make it stick

We train the people who use it, measure the time saved, and keep refining as the studio learns.

Durable adoption
What we bring

The parts that make implementation hold.

Good advice is useful. Good implementation is observable six weeks later in the way a team gets work out the door.

01

Workflow mapping

See where work actually queues, repeats, or gets checked twice before recommending software.

02

Tool selection

A grounded shortlist for your stack — Revit, AutoCAD, BIM 360, PM tools, and the gaps between them.

03

Pilot design

Start with a workflow that can prove itself in weeks, not an innovation program that needs a quarter.

04

Team enablement

Give principals and production teams a shared operating language for using AI with judgment.

Why DesignHub

Built by people who know the deadline.

Your team does not need another innovation speech. They need someone who understands the pressure behind a permit set and can make the next week run better.

Production fluencyCDs, BIM, rendering, QA, and the handoffs that make or break them.
Workflow before softwareWe map your current reality before we recommend a new tool.
Low-risk starting pointFixed-scope assessment, no long-term contract, $5M E&O insurance.
Adoption is the deliverableWe build with your team, then leave them able to run it.
The fine print

Good questions are part of the work.

No mystery language. Here is what principals and studio leaders usually want to know before we talk.

A written roadmap covering current workflow gaps, recommended tools by priority, rough cost and timeline for each, and a clear go/no-go recommendation on Managed Services versus a Firm-Specific build.

Our team has run production for architecture and interior design firms for years. We know what a redline set, a submittal log, and a code review actually look like — so the AI we deploy fits your existing workflow instead of asking you to change it.

No. Managed Services and Firm-Specific AI are built to sit inside your existing Revit, AutoCAD, or PM tools. We integrate with what you have before recommending anything new.

Most Readiness Assessments run two to three weeks. A first pilot workflow under Managed Services or Firm-Specific AI is typically live within three to six weeks of kickoff — you will see something running, not just a deck.

No. Firm size does not determine readiness — clarity on what is slowing you down does. Smaller studios often move faster because there are fewer people to align. We scope the engagement to your team, not the other way around.

The Readiness Assessment is a single fixed-fee engagement with no follow-on obligation. Managed Services and Firm-Specific AI are month-to-month after the first term.

Yes — it is priced per seat specifically so firms can train principals, PMs, designers, and drafters together instead of leaving adoption to one person.

Next step

Stop experimenting with AI. Start implementing it.

Start with a free 30-minute AI Readiness Call — no deck, no obligation, just a straight look at where your workflow is slow.

Book a free consultation
No long-term contractFixed-scope assessment$5M E&O insurance