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Arc 2 Partner Promo Kit — The Next AEC Tech Stack

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  • TRXL 241, "From Autocomplete to Agent: Where AEC Actually Is," Thursday September 17, 2026, trxl.co/241
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Autodesk — Oliver Goldman, VP, Software Architecture, AEC Solutions

“What you're seeing in the rollout is less about the order in which the ideas occurred to us and more about the depth and the complexity of the work that needs to be done to bring those experiences to market.”
Oliver Goldman
“Ultimately, I'm responsible for the products that I deliver. I'm accountable for those, and it doesn't matter what tools I use or how good they are or they aren't, I still carry that accountability.”
Oliver Goldman
“Building Layout Explorer is a generative AI model. It actually uses a large language model under the covers. The user interface doesn't have you chatting with it.”
Oliver Goldman
“Part of the MCP server vision that we have is not that you'll ignore Autodesk Assistant, but that you'll use Autodesk Assistant in combination with some of your own agents… Maybe you built an agent that's trained on your data or your ways of working.”
Oliver Goldman
“You could literally spend all your day just watching the stream of announcements and trying to download the latest models and never get anything else done. But at the other extreme, you run the risk of… just ignoring it entirely and not getting any benefit from it… and then the world's going to move on and you're going to miss out.”
Oliver Goldman

Bentley — Greg Demchak, VP, Emerging Technologies

“We've been using AI and machine learning for the better part of five, six years for use cases like image classification... to find things like defects, exposed rebar, rust, cracks in the road. This is something we had in the market before the whole LLM explosion took place.”
Greg Demchak
“There's no agent that's actually signing off on the structural analytics or the final documentation. What the agent does is basically radically accelerate your time to that deliverable. It's still the human in the loop to check and verify all that.”
Greg Demchak
“Do you want to put your work on autopilot and be able to totally trust it, or do you want to be involved in it? And if you want to be involved in it, then you've got to be involved in it.”
Greg Demchak
“You do try to remove some bias in these systems by creating multiple agents, multiple personalities that will cross-check, test, criticize, try and tear down your argument — you create a counterpoint, so you don't get into this sycophant type loop.”
Greg Demchak
“Show me this complete building model, isolate all the concrete, and colour code the concrete based on the quantity of embodied carbon... That is something you can do today.”
Greg Demchak
“The model context protocol is really just a way for AI to understand the APIs that already exist in the software. These APIs have a long history of being used and they're quite trustworthy.”
Greg Demchak
“The more information you embed into the geometry itself, the better results you're going to get... So it's not making as many assumptions.”
Greg Demchak
“It's kind of like a real intern — you're letting an intern come into your office and mess with your BIM model... there is a period of time over which you build trust in the system.”
Greg Demchak
“You'll be able to call an agent that runs into this structural package that maybe runs an energy simulation over here, and then produces a rendering with a diffusion model over here, and then brings it all back together.”
Greg Demchak

Bimbeats — Matt Wash & Ariel Cooke-Zamora

“It's easy to draw a parallel to visual scripting in Grasshopper, where each step is a node. But now some of these nodes are essentially magic — I input something, some magic happens, out comes the output.”
Ariel Cooke-Zamora
“At the end of the day, it's going to be someone's professional stamp on the piece of paper… it's going to be the person with the stamp that's going to be held liable.”
Ariel Cooke-Zamora
“That's caused an awareness that the tech is moving faster than the laws we have in place… My answer was about a stamp on a piece of paper. That's an ancient methodology for validating who's in charge.”
Ariel Cooke-Zamora
“If you had asked me this question a few years ago, I was all in on people honing in on a niche… I think things are moving so quickly now that the opposite might be true… that you need people that are generalists, and you need to have someone who is completely comfortable throwing out the way they've done things for the last five years.”
Ariel Cooke-Zamora
“There is no way that the AI was ever going to tell me what it felt like to feel in that space.”
Matt Wash
“If you're training it on the knowledge of your people, I think that's where it will change. You will still employ the same people, but their interaction with how they get experience and knowledge will be different.”
Matt Wash
“Right now, AI is the drug, and everybody's being given this drug, and everybody's lapping it up and really getting addicted to it. And at some point, there's obviously going to be a cost to that.”
Matt Wash
“Before, when they saw it was a Python script, they knew it was a hacky Python script… Now, this application looks like it was professionally coded and would look like it spent hundreds of hours of effort. That's the bit I think is tricky.”
Matt Wash
“A lot of projects are going to pencil out that didn't pencil out in the past, and I'm hoping for a boom in construction because of that.”
Ariel Cooke-Zamora
“Everybody wants something that's quick and easy and get instant gratification or instant reward, and essentially that's what the agents have allowed us to do with the Bimbeats data.”
Matt Wash
“Revit crashes. I lose an hour of work. I smash my head against the wall, and I open Revit again, and I keep working. And IT probably had no idea that this even happened.”
Ariel Cooke-Zamora

Chaos — Roderick Bates, Senior Director, Product Operations

“Just building a building, I don't care whether you're licensed or not, it's still hard to do. It is a complex process that incorporates a number of different disciplines, a number of different procurement streams that you might have, a lot of time, a lot of effort.”
Roderick Bates
“There's no doubt that there's going to be people losing their jobs because of AI. Full stop… AI doesn't care. It may seem very human, but it does not care.”
Roderick Bates
“They know that when we say we're not going to train on their data, we're not going to train on their data. Whereas smaller scale startup… they might just find out that, 'Oh yeah, actually, we were training on the data. I'm sorry.' And sue us. We're not worth anything.”
Roderick Bates
“We saw one of our competitors basically offering free AI visualization… 'Wow, how are they doing this?' Well, it turns out they were just burning investor money.”
Roderick Bates
“At one point people complained that everyone who used Enscape had a similar-looking output. Now they're telling me they really like the way Enscape treated light and materials. Eventually you stay around long enough and people appreciate the aspects that were once a liability.”
Roderick Bates
“The AI easy button, back when everything was free, is no longer there. Before, you just couldn't model that much, so you didn't render that much. Now you just don't want to pay that much, so you don't want to render that much.”
Roderick Bates
“There's a good chance… learning will not be as much of a part of the production process in architecture going forward.”
Roderick Bates
“The number of people really willing to put in the effort to do these types of things has always been small. The people that could do a great hand sketch at a firm have always been in the minority.”
Roderick Bates
“They're more willing to get feedback from AI than they are from people. If AI tells you it's ugly, you're like — oh, okay. Whereas if someone told you that, it really would hurt.”
Roderick Bates
“If you could almost ingest all of the work of, say, Frank Lloyd Wright, and then you could show him your project and just have him critique you, it'd just be brutal.”
Roderick Bates

Egnyte — Mike Soldan, SVP, Global Technology Solutions

“Instead of just bolting AI onto a process, they're looking at it and saying: how do I rearchitect how we look at that?”
Mike Soldan
“AEC content is hyper complex. It's got nested tables, stamps, handwriting, versioning — all things that are very, very painful for a modern LLM.”
Mike Soldan
“They deploy Claude across the entire firm and all of a sudden they're getting hundred, hundred-fifty thousand dollar token bills in a month, going: wow, this math is starting to not math.”
Mike Soldan
“It's not even really hallucination anymore… The bigger risk is my reference content is five years old instead of two years old than it is to hallucinate something and totally fabricate something.”
Mike Soldan
“It's a low-margin business, so every mistake, every little thing is just eating another point away at your four percent. There's a bit of the devil you know: I'm going to do four percent again.”
Mike Soldan
“An atomic agent… is something that you can write a task for that can get something done at a certain level. And then you have to orchestrate them, and that's how you drive the bigger process.”
Mike Soldan
“What we're really doing here is business process analysis, the same thing that humans have done to try to make businesses more efficient for 50 years. You just have better tools to do it that are more automated.”
Mike Soldan

Finch — Jesper Wallgren, CPO & Co-Founder

“AI is great at a lot of things, especially going from zero to one, but it's not the hammer you should use on everything, everywhere.”
Jesper Wallgren
“I heard one firm that had written a document that checked a thousand things in the Revit model, and there were so many things going wrong, you just stop listening.”
Jesper Wallgren
“I think for sure it will be possible to prompt a building in the future. The more interesting question is: do we want to prompt a building?”
Jesper Wallgren
“I don't think you should design anything that should last for 100 years in 100 seconds.”
Jesper Wallgren
“At the end of the day, you are the architect, it's your building. Finch is just a tool. It's a great tool, but at the end of the day, it's your building.”
Jesper Wallgren
“Prompt architecture, for me, that sounds like the person that goes to the architect. They speak. They say, 'I want the building with this, and that,' and then the architect goes to work and turn[s] that into drawings.”
Jesper Wallgren

Graphisoft — Holger Kreienbrink, Director, Product Intelligence & Partnerships

“Where we want to see AI is on the tedious tasks — placing dimension lines, cleaning up plan files, placing labels, doing the checks. This is what no one wants to do.”
Holger Kreienbrink
“I see AI as a very well-equipped and educated draftsperson — I tell this draftsperson I want the design like this, and then it will do it. That's the North Star.”
Holger Kreienbrink
“Token spending will be huge if we are not cautious. It becomes a second licence cost, and it can be even more expensive than the licence cost if you overuse it.”
Holger Kreienbrink
“Everyone is expecting that AI will reduce costs. Maybe it will not. It will make us more efficient, but still we need to pay a price for that efficiency.”
Holger Kreienbrink
“Never have I seen so much progress in the whole BIM industry as in the last two years. For the last twenty years everything was just evolution — and now there is a lot of disruption.”
Holger Kreienbrink
“You don't have to be the first. You can be the second or the third — but then do it properly.”
Holger Kreienbrink
“There will be a lot of individual solutions solving tiny little problems, and they cannot live on their own. They need a connecting data layer.”
Holger Kreienbrink
“You cannot just prompt something and then hope this will become a building.”
Holger Kreienbrink
“Creativity needs to come from the human being. I always believe in that, and I always try to fight for that.”
Holger Kreienbrink

Skema — Marty Rozmanith, CTO & Co-Founder

“Deterministic things — scripts, Grasshopper, Revit journal files, Dynamo — you put in the same inputs, you get the same outputs every time. Versus AI, which is probabilistic.”
Marty Rozmanith
“The AI itself writes a script, which is deterministic, and then runs it — because if you ask it to do it again, it will produce the same result. It's the combination of using AI to interpret your goal, driving deterministic things, that yields the greatest results.”
Marty Rozmanith
“I call that democratizing technology… When technology gets in the way and imposes a tax, we should eliminate it and reduce that friction so that tax isn't there anymore.”
Marty Rozmanith
“You actually need to know a lot more about putting a building together in order to draw a building in Revit than you had to in order to draw it in AutoCAD… So if there's a lowering of the bar now, maybe it's about time.”
Marty Rozmanith
“What we don't want is an AI to be a black box, where you feed it twenty years of firm history and it starts spitting out designs and you don't know why.”
Marty Rozmanith
“A human's going to get annoyed at having to remember which of the five hundred inputs it is. An LLM doesn't.”
Marty Rozmanith
“In copilot, the human in the loop is ever-present. In agentic, the human only reviews the end thing when the AI says I've completed the goal. That doesn't absolve you of responsibility for it.”
Marty Rozmanith
“What the agentic stuff opens up is for you to make custom tooling that in the past would have been way too expensive or unapproachable — that for your firm's workflow might be very, very useful.”
Marty Rozmanith
“Revit is — and people might bristle when I say this — a data entry tool. People sit in front of it for eight hours and put in walls, doors, windows and staircases.”
Marty Rozmanith
“It's actually forcing that question back upon us because I think we lost sight of what it actually is. It became about production. So when production's free, just like renderings became free…”
Marty Rozmanith
“To get to a certain standard of care required a certain number of hours. I think that equation is now going to be fundamentally broken.”
Marty Rozmanith
“Autodesk has to have an AI story. They're a publicly traded software company, so they had to do something. Whether that something is useful remains to be seen.”
Marty Rozmanith
“Building APIs on systems that are file-based and architected thirty years ago probably isn't a good strategy.”
Marty Rozmanith
“It's not paying to be a Luddite and say, 'Well, nobody's using AI,' or, 'We're not going to use it,' because it can save you a hell of a lot of time.”
Marty Rozmanith
“How is [the traceability aspect of AI] impacting the apprenticeship profession that is architecture, and how does that change how that same profession either values or doesn't value their time?”
Marty Rozmanith

TwinMaster — Michael Jansen & Prasanta Bose

“A lot of things you see in the market today are single-purpose — AI for drawing, AI for energy consumption. Arch-e works across the entire lifecycle, across disciplines, across KPIs, and across software platforms.”
Michael Jansen
“Ninety-five percent of the tools calling themselves AI tools are actually LLM wrappers — a bit of code wrapped around an existing LLM. Otherwise we're just going to go from thirty algorithmic tools to thirty AI tools, and it's no better.”
Michael Jansen
“You must be a good writer… because that's what is going to help you make a good design, a good system.”
Prasanta Bose
“You have to get out of this thinking of living and dying by the fee… A fee is time-bound. Job's over, your fee is gone, next job. That's the business model.”
Michael Jansen
“The art of the impossible becomes now art of the possible.”
Prasanta Bose
“When you talk to your lawyer or your doctor, you divulge a tremendous amount of private information. Thanks to privilege and the Hippocratic Oath, they're not supposed to divulge it. Same thing with your AI service provider if you're in AEC.”
Michael Jansen
“I don't fault AEC professionals for their risk aversion. I understand it. It's really the job of the vendor to prove it.”
Michael Jansen
“I would not rely on the incumbents to be spearheading all the innovation in the industry. I think that's foolish.”
Michael Jansen
“The underlying premise of TwinMaster is that it should be able to work with partial information, and this is the holy grail of partial design.”
Prasanta Bose
“A lot of the assistance you're seeing added on to Revit and Trimble and other tools like this—these are not agentic systems. They count doors and windows… It's not really agentic behavior. Arch-e is a multi-agent system that is fundamentally different.”
Michael Jansen

UpCodes — Scott Reynolds, CEO & Co-Founder

“We're going to queue it up for you, and we're going to show those mistakes, and we're just going to let you decision on those.”
Scott Reynolds
“We process 60,000 changes per month across the United States, across all our jurisdictions.”
Scott Reynolds
“The juniors don't know what they don't know. The seniors don't know what they do know.”
Scott Reynolds
“You never have a decision in isolation. You always have the traceability.”
Scott Reynolds

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Episode 4 — From Autocomplete to Agent: Where AEC Actually Is

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