Austin and I spent the end of April at the Autodesk AECO Technology Partner Summit in San Francisco. It was a useful read on where the AECO ecosystem is heading — and where AI, BIM, and the platforms underneath them are converging.
A few things stood out:
- The conversation has shifted from "will AI matter in AEC" to "where in the workflow does it land first."
- BIM-native is becoming the default expectation for new tooling, not the exception.
- The partner-ecosystem view of Autodesk's roadmap aligns closely with what we're hearing from design firms directly.
- Compliance, QA/QC, and code reasoning kept coming up as the categories closest to ready.
We left with sharper conviction about where Kestrel sits in this picture, and a lot of conversations to continue. We've written more about that picture in AI building code compliance in Revit and the compliance data layer for the built environment.
More to come from the work this summit kicked off — including live demos at the AIA '26 Innovation Zone in June.
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