基礎 · kiso · foundation, fundamentals

We automate for design & construction, one firm at a time.

We don't replace the tools you purchased. We build what they're missing, using AI to do the work, and staying accountable for what ships.

Using Excel to run your day-to-day business is like using a hammer for a spanner's job.

Firms already run ERPs, project management tools, BIM platforms, but no standardized system fits every firm-specific workflow. The gaps get patched with spreadsheets and one-person workarounds that break the moment someone leaves or a new hire has to learn them.

ARCHITECTURE

Drawing revisions get tracked by filename ("v3_final_REVISED"), not by any real system.

ENGINEERING

Bar Bending Schedules and steel calculations are still built by hand in someone's personal Excel template.

CONSTRUCTION

Site progress and material tracking happen over WhatsApp and paper logs, not a system anyone can search.

Bar schedules, takeoffs, drawing revisions - the jobs your team repeats every week, automated.

No big platform to learn. We take one painful, high-frequency job off your plate, build software that does it in a fraction of the time, and stay accountable for the output. Three we've already shipped:

01 Bends & Curves Engineering Live
STAIR · UP 18R CUT-OUT · PLUMBING TOILET ENTRY SLAB 150 THK 1 2 3 4 5 A B N HB-3 · CONTINUOUS · 4 SPANS SPAN 1 SPAN 2 SPAN 3 SPAN 4 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 5400 5400 5400 5400 21600 OVERALL 4200 PROJECTRESIDENTIAL TOWER DRG NOGF-01 SCALE / REV1:100 · REV A
FIG. 01 - CAD PLAN → RECOGNISED MEMBERS
Engineering · Structural

Bends & Curves

2-3 days / floor now under 2 hrs

Beam detailing and bar-bending schedules, built by hand in Excel, eat 2-3 days on every floor - and one wrong bar means rework and a steel re-order on site. Kiso reads the CAD floor plan and lays out every beam's reinforcement automatically.

95/95columns read right, no manual re-entry
~1 minper beam line, was ~15 by hand
02 3D Takeoff & Estimation Construction Live
847 m³ CONCRETE847 FORMWORK1240 REBAR ·t63
BILL OF QUANTITIES Concrete 847 m³ Steel 63 t Formwork 1240 m²
FIG. 02 - MODEL → QUANTITIES
Construction · Estimation

3D Takeoff & Estimation

a week / tender now half a day

Every tender starts with a manual quantity takeoff off the drawings - slow, and a wrong number quietly eats your margin. Kiso pulls the quantities straight off the 3D model into a ready bill of quantities.

±2%quantity variance, bid with confidence
1 modelto a full bill of quantities
03 Drawing Revision System Architecture Live
R2 R3 · WHAT CHANGED SHEET A-201 · REV R3 1 2 A B OFFICE MEETING ENTRY +280 REVISIONS R0 R1 R2 R3 CURRENT FIG. 03 - REVISION CONTROL
Architecture · Documents

Drawing Revision System

wrong-print rework now zero

"Which drawing is the latest?" - then site pours from a stale print, and it gets broken and rebuilt. Kiso keeps every revision in one place with an instant diff, so the team always builds from the current drawing.

0revisions lost or overwritten
1source of truth per drawing

The longer we work with you, the faster we move, and the less you'll need us.

01

Understand

We learn your workflow inside out: the exceptions, the tribal knowledge, the spreadsheet logic nobody ever wrote down.

02

AI builds

AI does the actual engineering and development work, building on top of the systems and workflows you already use instead of replacing them. That's how we move at a fraction of the time a dev team would take, and we pass that time straight back to you.

03

We own it

We embed AI into how your team works day to day, and stay accountable for what it does. The goal isn't to keep you dependent on us. It's that eventually, you won't need us.

We didn't parachute into this industry.

Fifteen years building and integrating software across construction, structural engineering, and architecture: a 3D viewer embedded in a 3D-takeoff app, a DXF viewer built for a structural design firm, tools running inside real design & construction firms today.

15 years in design & construction software

Built for structural engineers, architects, and construction firms, including time working directly inside a general contractor.

Forge, Tekla, Revit APIs

Deep integration with the platforms this industry actually runs on, not a surface-level wrapper.

Multiple AI tools shipped

We've built AI-driven software repeatedly before this. Handing AI real engineering work isn't new territory.

Proven inside real firms

Tools we've built are running in production at design & construction companies today, not sitting in a pitch deck.

Any construction, architecture, or engineering company drowning in workarounds.

We work across the building industry: architecture, engineering, and construction firms. Period.

Structural consultancies EPC contractors Real estate developers Steel & precast fabricators MEP contractors

One painful, repeated job. We'll automate it first.

Point us at the task your team dreads every week. We build the fix, and we stay accountable for what ships.

or email us directly at hi@kiso.works