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The Next AEC Tech Stack

You've felt it already. The tools you've built a career on are being rebuilt underneath you, and not one at a time. Engineering automation is collapsing weeks of coordination into hours. Open SDKs are prying apart file formats that used to be a one-way door. AI is writing the software that manages your project data. And there's a growing gap opening between firms that own and govern their data and firms that don't.

Any one of those would be a normal upgrade cycle. All of them at once is something else. It's a restructuring of how value gets created in this industry, who captures it, and what it takes to compete. When I put that to Martyn Day on TRXL 224, he compared it to watching an asteroid approach. Not because the outcome is decided, but because of the simultaneity.

This series is nine episodes chasing that down with the people building the tools and the people using them. Not a product showcase. The question underneath every episode is the practical one: what does this actually change about your Tuesday?

Three arcs. Nine episodes. Thursdays, August through October 2026.

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Arc 1: BIM 2.0

Your authoring tool is no longer the only game in town. A generation of startups is building around the model instead of inside it, and the incumbents are rebuilding too: Autodesk with Forma, Graphisoft with an AI-assisted Archicad. Which leaves the practical questions on your desk: what's genuinely faster, what just moves the technology tax somewhere else, and what happens to twenty years of content and muscle memory if you move. Releasing Thursdays, August 20 through September 3.

Arc 2: Agentic AI in AEC

"AI" has stopped meaning anything useful in a vendor's marketing (and in your firm's marketing language), so this arc asks what an agent can actually do on a live project today and where it stops. Who signs off when the software says the design passes. What still needs a human to verify. Whether the skill that matters now is explaining a problem clearly enough that a system can act on it, and how you build that on a team that didn't ask for any of this. Coming September 2026.

Arc 3: The AEC Data Play

Every project you finish generates data your firm mostly throws away. The firms treating it as an asset are pulling ahead of the firms treating it as exhaust, and the same move creates the lock-in risk: a platform sitting between you and your own project history is very hard to remove once it's embedded. What's worth capturing, who should own it, and what you're signing up for. Coming October 2026.

Why TRXL, why now

TRXL has been having this conversation since 2020, with an audience of CIOs, CTOs, directors of technology, and the firm leaders making the calls, plus the architects and engineers living with whatever gets chosen. Not a general architecture audience: the people who evaluate, recommend, buy, and then have to actually use these tools.

The Next AEC Tech Stack is where that conversation goes to finish out 2026.

Buckle up.

Catch up on past episodes at trxl.co/trxl.