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Last episode ended on a question: who owns your data once it lives in someone else's platform, and what happens when an AI starts reading it? In the series finale I put it to the vendors. Randall Stevens at AVAIL, Sasha Crotty at Autodesk, Andy Rahden at Bentley, Scott Reynolds at UpCodes, Chris Razzell at dRofus, Ross Wagner at Pirros, Marty Rozmanith at Skema, and Aaron Vorwerk at Egnyte each say what a firm keeps, what it rents, and what walks out the door when it leaves. Aaron, Mike Soldan at Egnyte, Andy, and Campbell Yule take on who is liable when something goes wrong. Dimitrie Stefanescu at Speckle, Matt Wash and Ariel Cooke-Zamora at Bimbeats, Holger Kreienbrink at Graphisoft, Jesper Wallgren at Finch, and Clifton Harness at TestFit weigh in on what AI-ready means, and whether to wait until the data is clean.
This episode is especially relevant for principals, CIOs, and BIM managers who sign the software contract or have been told to get ready for AI, and who haven't yet asked what the firm keeps, what it pays for, and what it can take with it when it leaves.
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The last episode made the case that your project history is worth something. This one asks why you can't use it. Two reasons keep coming up: the data means different things to different systems and different people, and it's scattered across far more places than anyone planned for.
Ariel Cooke-Zamora at Bimbeats explains how a data dictionary keeps an AI from misreading your data, and I add a caveat about keeping it pruned. Randall Stevens at AVAIL describes a customer running 180 applications, and says the best information is at the edges of the network. Aaron Vorwerk and Mike Soldan at Egnyte cover where the reasons behind a project's decisions end up, and why governance has to come before AI touches your files. Ross Wagner at Pirros asks how a firm captures what its one all-knowing person knows. Sasha Crotty at Autodesk talks about getting data out of Revit files and how much confidence you can put in it. Andy Rahden at Bentley, Dimitrie Stefanescu at Speckle, Chris Razzell at dRofus, Marty Rozmanith at Skema, and Jesper Wallgren at Finch take on shared language, minimum standards, and where the data should live. Matt Wash at Bimbeats, Scott Reynolds at UpCodes, Campbell Yule, and Theodoros Galanos add the habits, the documentation, and the reasons Theodoros says RAG doesn't work.
This episode is especially relevant for CIOs, BIM managers, and design technologists who've been told to get their data AI-ready and want to know what that means on a Monday morning.
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Arc 3 of the Next AEC Tech Stack series is about your data. Most firms are sitting on years of project information, and every company in this arc says it can turn that into an asset. This first episode asks what that history is worth, and why so little of it gets used again.
Marty Rozmanith at Skema starts with lawyers, whose old cases keep their value for a whole career. Randall Stevens at AVAIL calls project knowledge a capital resource, and says the part firms never capture is why a decision was made. Aaron Vorwerk and Mike Soldan at Egnyte separate a pile of files from data you can use. Ross Wagner at Pirros and Dimitrie Stefanescu at Speckle describe what leaves when your most experienced people do. Matt Wash and Ariel Cooke-Zamora at Bimbeats show what firm data can tell you about your own time and fees. Sasha Crotty at Autodesk says to start with the question you want answered. Chris Razzell at dRofus takes on who pays for good data. Roderick Bates (Chaos), Scott Reynolds (UpCodes), and Theodoros Galanos weigh in on small firms, public data, and why waiting for clean data is the wrong move.
This episode is especially relevant for firm leaders, BIM managers, and design technologists who know the project archive is worth something and can't say how to get at it.
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German Aparicio, Jr. of Trimble joins Speckle's Virginia Senf, Neuron Factory's Salil Pandit, and Pelles.ai's Yael Meretyk Hanan to talk about Trimble's equity-free 0-60 Challenge and what it takes for startups to build real integrations inside a large AEC platform company. We explore founder time versus accelerator upside, Trimble as a system of record looking for systems of action and intelligence, why trustworthy model data matters more as AI gets faster, and why risk reduction is harder to measure than hours saved.
This episode is especially relevant for AEC founders weighing corporate accelerators, practitioners who want to understand what Speckle, Neuron Factory, and Pelles are actually shipping into the Trimble stack, and firm leaders headed to Trimble Dimensions who want a preview of the Demo Day conversation before they get to Las Vegas.
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This is the last episode of Arc 2. The first two asked what these tools can do. This one asks what happens when they get it wrong, who is still on the hook when they do, and what that means for the people coming up in this profession.
Mike Soldan at Egnyte says the bigger risk now is reference content that's five years old, not a hallucination. Randall Stevens at AVAIL points out that running automation across a whole drawing set can leave someone checking every piece of it. Oliver Goldman at Autodesk says the accountability stays with whoever delivers the work, whatever tools they used. Holger Kreienbrink at Graphisoft expects people to check AI output less and less until they sign without looking. Scott Reynolds at UpCodes tested its review against the 1981 Hyatt walkway collapse and the Champlain Towers collapse. Theodoros Galanos asks whether we hold AI to a standard we've never measured ourselves against. Then the harder question: who do firms still hire, and how does the next generation learn when the grunt work goes away? Roderick Bates (Chaos), Marty Rozmanith (Skema), Matt Wash and Ariel Cooke-Zamora (Bimbeats), Prasanta Bose and Michael Jansen (TwinMaster), Jesper Wallgren (Finch), Gavin Nicholls, and Campbell Yule weigh in, and close on the firm of 2030 and why billing by the hour gives the productivity gain away.
This episode is especially relevant for principals who put their stamp on drawings, firm leaders deciding how much to trust these tools, and anyone responsible for training the next generation when the work they learned on is disappearing.
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