What moves, and what does not.
What the system takes over
- Knowing at any moment which revision of which drawing is current, and who is holding which one
- Checking a submission package against the authority’s own completeness list before it leaves the office
- Putting every contractor’s quote into one comparable table, position by position, with the gaps marked as gaps rather than as zeros
- Turning what you saw and said on site into the dated Protokoll, photos referenced and deadlines pulled out
- Carrying the open actions out of every Protokoll and keeping the people responsible aware of them
- Finding the governing passage in DIN, LBO, GEG or the Bebauungsplan, with its citation, never a paraphrase
- Holding every date the practice is exposed to: Einwendungsfristen, Nachtragsfristen, Gewährleistung
What stays with you
- The design
- Whether a solution is buildable and good
- Whether a quote is credible, not merely the cheapest
- Whether something complies
What we build
The drawing register
Every drawing, every revision, who received what and when. Small and unglamorous, and it removes a recurring worry: “does the Statiker have rev C” becomes a two-second question with an answer you can show.
The quote comparison
Seven PDFs in, one comparison out, position by position. Unpriced items are flagged as gaps, not counted as zeros. That is the real trap in an Angebotsvergleich: the cheapest quote is very often the one that left something out. The tool flags. It does not decide.
The same-evening site Protokoll
On site you photograph and talk. That evening the Protokoll exists: dated, with photos referenced, defects listed, responsibilities assigned and deadlines pulled into a reminder list. The document that used to be written at 22:00 or not at all now needs fifteen minutes of editing.
The standards finder
Searches your own library of standards and the Bebauungsplan and returns the passage with its citation. It looks things up. It never paraphrases a norm, because a paraphrased norm is a liability.
The completeness check
Before submission, against the authority’s own list. It catches the missing Nachweis before the Bauamt does, which saves weeks.
Where it stops
No generated plans, and never the sentence “this complies”.
Read more
No massing suggestions, no layout proposals. Not because software cannot produce something plan-shaped, but because the architect’s stamp carries liability and the design is the entire value of the practice. A design produced by software and signed by a human is the worst of both.
On compliance it finds the norm and never rules on it. The sentence it may output is “§34 BauGB, paragraph 2, may apply here — check.” The sentence it may never output is “this complies.”
How you see it working
Protokolle written the same day: near 100%. Hours per Angebotsvergleich: a weekend becomes about two hours. Submissions returned incomplete since the check went in: none so far. Time to answer “which revision is current”.
What it asks of you, and when we say no.
What it asks of you
Talking on site instead of writing at night. You photograph and dictate while you are there, and you spend fifteen minutes that evening editing the Protokoll instead of two hours writing it.
When we say no
When a practice wants generative design tools. That is a different profession from ours and, for a three-person office doing conversions, it solves a problem they do not have while adding liability they cannot carry.
What clients say
The Protokoll used to be written at ten at night or not at all, and “not at all” was winning. I photograph and talk on site now, and the same evening the document exists with the photos referenced and the deadlines pulled out. Fifteen minutes of editing instead of two hours of writing. He adopted our folder structure rather than imposing his own, which sounds small and meant we actually kept using it.
Angebotsvergleich was a weekend. Seven quotes in seven formats and I did it in Excel by hand and I was always afraid of missing something. It normalises them by position and flags the unpriced items as gaps rather than as zeros, which is the actual trap — the cheapest quote is usually the one that left something out. It flags and it does not conclude. Two hours now, and the judgement is still mine.
Tell us what you are dealing with.
Thirty minutes, free, no preparation. We tell you honestly where AI could change something for you, and where it would not.