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My 2025 AI Tech Stack for Architects (and 1,600+ ConTech Tools You Can Explore)
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Welcome to ADDDitive!
👋 Hi there,
The AEC & ConTech space just doesn’t slow down, does it? New tools, new startups, new roles popping up every week, and it can feel overwhelming to keep track of it all. That’s why I started building resources like this newsletter: so you don’t have to sift through the noise, you just get what’s useful.
This week I’ve pulled together a few things I think you’ll find valuable:
🚀 The ConTech database I’ve been building for years is finally live: 1,600+ tools you can actually search and explore.
🧠 If I were starting an architecture practice today, here’s the AI tech stack (version 2.0) I’d use.
🎯 A new free resource to help you (or your colleagues) move into ConTech careers.
💼 Plus, a roundup of the latest ConTech jobs from across the industry.
I’d love your feedback too - especially around the database and whether charging a small fee makes sense or not. Let me know!
Alright, let’s jump in 👇
1. Access to my ConTech Database
I have been collecting new software into a database which I have always wanted to enable access for architects, engineers and construction professionals to search and find the right solutions for them. I have now built front end for this and you can access this below! Access the World’s Largest AEC ConTech Software Database - ADDD
This structured database of 1,600+ AEC & ConTech solutions is searchable by:
🔎 Tag
🔎 Category
🔎 Keyword
Each entry includes:
✔️ Software name
✔️ Intro text
✔️ Website link
✔️ Careers page (if available)
✔️ Company logo and product images
Whether you’re an architect, AEC consultant, or startup, you can finally cut through the noise and find the tools that actually fit. It will save you so much time.
To charge or not to charge!
There is a fee to access this database but I am in two minds about this - due to the amount of data enclosed, making this open for free is tricky. However charging - even the small amount I am for this - has appeared to put people off. I would love your feedback on this!
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2. If I started an Architecture practice today, here’s the AI Tech Stack I would use … Version 2.0
After researching hundreds of tools and workflows, here’s my 2025 version 2.0 Early Stage Design AI Tech Stack:
1. Generative Site Planning: Spacio.ai
2. Concept Massing and Area Schedules: Arcol.io
3. Layout Optimisation: PlanFinder.xyz
4. 3D Modelling + Facade Design Exploration: Rhino
5. 2D Diagrams + Presentation Plans: Synaps.at
6. AI Model to Render: Fenestra.app
7. Low-Carbon & Energy Analysis: Vitras by cove.tool
8. AI Bidding RFP Response: Cogram.com
9. Knowledge Management & Reuse: Howie.systems
10. Workflow + Connections: Speckle.systems
These tools are beginning to break into the industry and make a difference to your workflows.
👉 Want the full breakdown? See full post here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7373381113500811264/

3. How to move into ConTech FREE resource - helping you move into a new career
Did you see this from last week? Over the past couple of years one of the key things that people ask me is how they move into the construction technology software field. So I thought I would create a resource which helps people to understand what they need to know, training and Resources required, and case studies to show how other people have completed this move. I’ll be sharing this unique resource next week!
Contents include:
1.Understand the opportunity
2.Why consider the move?
3.Key skills to develop
4.Roadmap steps
5.Strategic mindset shifts
6.Resources
7.Conclusion
We have over 400 roles on the AEC Tech Jobs and this is updated every week. Here is the highlights from last week.
25 ConTech startups #hiring
1. Satori - Digital Collaboration Software to Manage Construction Standards
2. Transcend - The future of critical infrastructure design is here.
3. RD Studio - a creative studio directed to BIM users from the AEC industry offering Dynamo scripts & Revit Families
4. Tech soft 3d - Empowering development teams with SDKs for engineering workflows
5. Eque2 - Helping 3,000 construction, contracting & house building companies protect margins, ensure compliance & reduce risk.
6. Mission zero technologies- Low-cost direct air capture | Affordable at any scale | Bridging CO2 demand and supply
7. Bobyard - AI Landscaping Takeoffs & Estimates
8. Studio Arturo tedeschi - Seeking Beauty Through Technology
9. Nplan - AI for project controls and delivery teams: plan, assure, de-risk, deliver.
10. Evercam - Your Site with Effective Construction Visibility
11. Greenlite - makes getting a construction permit fast, predictable, and transparent.
12. ATG USA - Powering Productivity. Delivering Results.
13. Kestrix - The 'Google Maps of heat loss' to scale energy retrofits of existing buildings.
14. Temelion - Bottleneck-free pre-construction workflows
15. Cityweft - from world to workspace
16. Kinship - Where building information comes together.
17. Glider - Powering the digitalisation of the built environment, through data-driven software solutions and information management
18. Higharc - The connected homebuilding cloud platform to design, sell, and build homes and communities.
19. Dataform lab - Automating offsite construction
20. Automated architecture - Building a global, automated construction ecosystem for sustainable, affordable and beautiful housing
21. Revizto - Radically improving efficiency in construction
22. Tribe ai - Building AI products for leading enterprises.
23. Kahua - Build smarter with collaborative construction program and project management software.
24. Autodesk - Designers, engineers, builders, and creators trust Autodesk to help them design and make a better world.
25. Ai Clearing - Full AI powered construction progress tracking and quality control. Decreasing re-work cost and litigation risk.
Don't waste time using anything other than AEC Tech Jobs for info like this.
PS: We Build Brands in AEC Tech. You’re BUSY building the product. We’ll make sure the right people hear about it.
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